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Menahem, Gila – Urban Education, 2011
The study examines two issues of the relationship between social capital and educational performance: the different effects of bridging and bonding social capital on urban educational performance and the contextual effects of social capital. The main argument states that bonding and bridging social capital are differently related to educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Academic Achievement, Context Effect
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Avi-Itzhak, Tamara E. – Urban Education, 1987
Among Arab students in Israel, alienation is more closely related to their perceptions than to objective measures. Arab students, teachers, and principals from 36 schools were interviewed. The following four factors were used to measure alienation: (1) powerlessness, (2) meaninglessness, (3) misfeasance, and (4) self-estrangement. (LHW)
Descriptors: Alienation, Arabs, Cultural Isolation, Ethnicity
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Schmida, Mirjam; And Others – Urban Education, 1987
In Israel, there are statistical relationships between students' social orientations and the ability group to which they are assigned. However, the direction of effect between the two variables is as yet undetermined. (LHW)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Social Development
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Yogev, Abraham; Ilan, Yochi – Urban Education, 1987
Although self-esteem is generally not related to educational aspirations, the relationship is important among students in segregated communities. Here ethnic homogeneity makes adolescents rely heavily on their self-image for the formation of educational plans. This case study of Oriental Jews in Israel is applicable to minority communities in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Educational Attainment, Homogeneous Grouping