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Self-Efficacy for Promoting EfS among Pre-Service Teachers in Israel
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Gan, Dafna; Gal, Adiv – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Self-efficacy is a parameter capable of predicting change in teacher behavior. We designed a questionnaire to investigate self-efficacy for promoting Education for Sustainability (EfS), which includes pro-environmental behaviors and environmental attitudes, to answer the question: "What characteristics of self-efficacy for promoting EfS among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Self Efficacy
Preschool Teachers' Perspectives on Teaching as a Profession and Pedagogical Change
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Maskit, Ditza; Firstater, Esther – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
This study examines the associations between preschool teachers' (PTs) perceptions of teaching as a profession and attitudes toward pedagogical changes, in relation to their seniority and their work setting--public sector or private sector. Participants were 105 preschool teachers, who filled out three measures: (1) PTs' perceptions of teaching as…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Innovation, Correlation
Reflections on Developments in School Governance: International Perspectives on School Governing under Pressure
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Connolly, Michael; James, Chris – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
Debates about governance, across the public sector, including education, continue to generate a substantial literature. The intention of this article is to engage with these debates by reviewing the articles in this special edition. In this review article, we first consider the wider context of the articles by revisiting some of the central…
Descriptors: Governance, Public Sector, Public Education, State Government
Organizational Politics, Job Attitudes, and Work Outcomes: Exploration and Implications for the Public Sector.
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Vigoda, Eran – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2000
A study of the effect of organizational politics on 303 Israeli public employees found that public sector workers are more likely to react to organizational politics with negligent behavior than quitting. Women, highly educated employees, and those with higher incomes showed fewer intentions of neglect. (Contains 66 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Employees, Job Performance, Labor Turnover
Gender Gap in Returns to Schooling in Palestine
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Daoud, Yousef – Economics of Education Review, 2005
This study provides estimates of the private returns to schooling in Palestine utilizing eight quarterly labor force surveys for 1999 and 2001. This period was chosen to investigate the differential impact of the Israeli closure policy on Palestinian male and female workers. Although gross enrollment ratios for males and females reveal little to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Surveys, Wages, Private Sector
Sex and the Leuthold Free Rider Experiment; Some Results from an Israeli Sample.
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Kleiman, Ephraim; Rubenstein, Yona – Journal of Economic Education, 1996
Reports on the replication of Jane Leuthold's experiment concerning consumer choice, investments, and free riding indexes. This experiment, conducted in an Israeli undergraduate economics class, broadened the subjects' characteristics questionnaire to include issues of social consciousness and altruism. Includes four tables of statistical data.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Consumer Economics, Decision Making, Economic Factors