Background/Context: Critical education studies tries to make sense of the relationship between education and differential power in an unequal society and to what degree schools impact the social order. A premise in this field is that a fundamental aim of critical education is exposing unequal social, cultural, and economic power relations and…

Examines the potential conflict between an explicit educational manifesto and the implicit, dominant cultural resources that may interfere with the actualization of the manifesto, illustrating, through the qualitative analysis of an educational activity involving Israeli high school students, the dynamics by which an educational manifesto can be…

This study sought to reveal teachers' personal cultural ideologies as reflected in their conceptions of the curriculum for, and in their actual teaching of, culturally valued texts. The concept "teachers' personal cultural ideologies" refers to their value orientation toward the curricular and teaching contents relating to, in this…

Unintentional imperialism may exist due to the effects and influence of personal contact with American professional literature which lead Israeli research efforts in the direction of whatever is currently popular in the United States. (JN)

Discusses the role of television in constructing social reality and teaching children to participate in society, examining Israeli research on the role of television fiction and news in parent-child interactions. The article notes how family cultures affect the way television is incorporated into the socialization process in all households. (SM)