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Yariv, Eliezer – World Journal of Education, 2011
Why do teachers become poor performers? In semi-structured interviews, forty elementary school principals in Israel described the personal story of one poor-performing staff member. Half of the problematic teachers were veteran teachers who faced a marked internal and external shift in mid-career. The seeds of their problems were probably planted…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Job Performance, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Oplatka, Izhar – Journal of Career Development, 2001
The life stories of seven female midcareer elementary principals in Israel who transferred to new schools depicted a process of self-renewal, including coping with lack of fulfillment, setting new goals, reframing perspectives, and seeking new challenges. Interorganizational transition appeared either to evoke the process or to be stimulated by…
Descriptors: Career Change, Females, Foreign Countries, Midlife Transitions
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Lieblich, Amia – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1986
Investigated life history of American career women (N=24) at midlife. The transitions experienced by these women during their lifetimes were categorized into "masculine" or "feminine" types. It was found that they were distributed about equally between the two types of transitions, thus excluding a simple biological approach.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Employed Women, Foreign Countries, Middle Aged Adults
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Cohen-Shalev, Amir; Rapoport, Aviva – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1993
Considers question of shifts in artistic and literary style from lifespan developmental perspective, focusing on change during midlife. Using Samuel Beckett as example, demonstrates relationship between his abrupt shift to playwriting and his entrance into midlife. Notes that theories of lifespan personality development suggest parallels between…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Developmental Stages, Dramatics, Foreign Countries
Datan, Nancy; And Others – 1982
A study of middle-aged women in five Israeli sub-cultures--immigrant Jews from central Europe, Turkey, Persia, and North Africa and Israeli-born Muslim Arabs--reflects the expectation that culture may shape the response to biological change. The study was carried out in four phases. First, psychiatric interviews were conducted with 55 women. In…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Attitudes, Behavior Change, Biological Influences
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Lebel, Udi; Dahan-Caleb, Henriette – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2004
This article discusses a phenomenon that gained prominence in the 1990s, namely the entry of retired senior Israeli army officers as managers into the educational system. This development will be analyzed through an exposure of the socio-educational mechanisms contributing to this process and an examination of the motivations underlying it. These…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Political Socialization, Social Change, Foreign Countries