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Grant, Lisa D. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2023
This paper provides a response to B. Davis' and H. Alexander's article "Israel Education: A Philosophical Analysis," (EJ1384540) published in this same issue of the Journal of Jewish Education. The authors provide a valuable conceptual map of six distinctive, sometimes intersecting and sometimes conflicting ideologies and purposes that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Judaism, Educational Strategies
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Levisohn, Jon A. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2023
In their new study, Benji Davis and Hanan Alexander propose a conceptual taxonomy of six types of Israel education. But it is not at all clear that the different types of Israel education are associated with different pedagogies, or indeed, whether they are significantly distinct from each other. Davis and Alexander also propose their own version…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Jews
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Veal, William R.; Morrell, Patricia D.; Rogers, Meredith Park; Roehrig, Gillian H.; Pyle, Eric J. – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the professional identities of the academic staff of the faculties of education in Turkey. The study employed the Q methodology, in which both quantitative and qualitative data can be used. The qualitative data were collected and analysed by interviewing seven academics working in the faculty of education in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Science Teachers, College Faculty
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Ledderer, Loni; Kjaer, Marianne; Madsen, Emilie Kirstine; Busch, Jacob; Fage-Butler, Antoinette – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Nudging is increasingly used in public health interventions in Western societies to produced health-promoting behavior changes; however, there is lack of clarity as to what constitutes a nudge, scant knowledge of the effectiveness of nudging techniques in public health lifestyle interventions and a number of ethical and value-based concerns. The…
Descriptors: Public Health, Intervention, Health Behavior, Behavior Change
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Eshet, Yovav; Peled, Yehuda; Grinautski, Keren; Barczyk, Casimir – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
Many researchers have dwelled on the phenomenon of academic dishonesty (AD) or unethical behaviors within the academic environment. While this phenomenon can be explained by various factors, the current study investigates and presents a new structural model for determinants of AD. The predictors of AD that were found in the context of traditional…
Descriptors: Cheating, Ethics, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes
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Huston, Simon; Huston, Elena; Kozlowski, Marek – Education Sciences, 2019
This research investigated the significance of learning dispositif (LD) and emotional attachment (EA) on perceived learning success (LS) across a diaspora of Western, Russian, Asian, Middle Eastern and Chinese student cohorts. Foucault's LD captures the disparate socio-cultural contexts, institutional milieus and more or less didactic teaching…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Success, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
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Frantz, Roger S.; McClarty, Katie Larsen – Gifted and Talented International, 2016
Educational policies and practices are influenced by cultural, political, and economic factors, and this is also true of specialized educational approaches such as gifted education. Factors such as a country's cultural tendency toward egalitarianism or meritocracy, whether the political system is centralized or decentralized, and the degree to…
Descriptors: Gifted, Special Education, Cultural Influences, Economic Factors
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Mesman, Judi; van IJzendoorn, Marinus; Behrens, Kazuko; Carbonell, Olga Alicia; Cárcamo, Rodrigo; Cohen-Paraira, Inbar; de la Harpe, Christian; Ekmekçi, Hatice; Emmen, Rosanneke; Heidar, Jailan; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Mels, Cindy; Mooya, Haatembo; Murtisari, Sylvia; Nóblega, Magaly; Ortiz, Jenny Amanda; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham; Sichimba, Francis; Soares, Isabel; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Pape, Marloes; van Ginkel, Joost; van der Veer, René; Wang, Lamei; Selcuk, Bilge; Yavuz, Melis; Zreik, Ghadir – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
In this article, we test the hypothesis that beliefs about the ideal mother are convergent across cultures and that these beliefs overlap considerably with attachment theory's notion of the sensitive mother. In a sample including 26 cultural groups from 15 countries around the globe, 751 mothers sorted the Maternal Behavior Q-Set to reflect their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Young Children
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Robinson, Sally; Howatson-Jones, Lioba – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
Worldwide demographic change means that the responsibility for an aging population will fall to younger generations. This narrative literature review comprises an international examination of what has been published about children's views of older people between 1980 and 2011. Sixty-nine academic articles were inductively analyzed, and the…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Older Adults, Literature Reviews, History
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Gibton, Dan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
This article analyses patterns of post 2000 governance in Israel's education system. Drawing upon literature on educational regimes, governance in neo-liberal societies (for example, the UK and the USA), law-based educational reform and policy analysis, this study sets out to inquire how Israel's system was governed with minimal legislation for 60…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, School Restructuring, Cultural Influences
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Schwarz, Beate; Mayer, Boris; Trommsdorff, Gisela; Ben-Arieh, Asher; Friedlmeier, Mihaela; Lubiewska, Katarzyna; Mishra, Ramesh; Peltzer, Karl – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2012
This study investigated whether the associations between (a) the quality of the parent-child relationship and peer acceptance and (b) early adolescents' life satisfaction differed depending on the importance of family values in the respective culture. As part of the Value of Children Study, data from a subsample of N = 1,034 adolescents (58%…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Life Satisfaction, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
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Niyubahwe, Aline; Mukamurera, Joséphine; Jutras, France – McGill Journal of Education, 2013
This literature review article investigates the professional integration of teachers recently immigrated to Canada and other western countries. Its findings reveal a number of obstacles to the integration of immigrant teachers into the teaching profession. The review summarizes different initiatives facilitating or hampering immigrant teachers'…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Teacher Characteristics
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Pines, Ayala Malach; Neal, Margaret B.; Hammer, Leslie B.; Icekson, Tamar – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2011
We use existential theory as a framework to explore the levels of and relationship between job and couple burnout reported by dual-earner couples in the "sandwich generation" (i.e., couples caring both for children and aging parents) in a sample of such couples in Israel and the United States. This comparison enables an examination of…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Burnout, Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Arum, Richard; Ford, Karly – Educational Leadership, 2012
It's a challenge for schools in every country: How to provide the right kind of discipline and create a climate that nurtures learning. This challenge may look different in different countries. A school's disciplinary climate not only is the product of educators' beliefs and actions, students' beliefs and actions, and the interaction of these, but…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Environment, Social Scientists, Foreign Countries
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NORDSCI, 2020
This volume includes four sections of the 2020 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Education and Educational Research; (2) Language and Linguistics; (3) Philosophy; and (4) Sociology and Healthcare. Education and Educational Research includes 15 papers covering the full spectrum of education, including history, sociology and economy…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teacher Education, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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