The qualitative research employed semi-structured interviews with 28 elementary school teachers to examine the types of knowledge they use to integrate digital game-based learning (DGBL) into their classrooms and the nature of their integration planning. The findings revealed that teachers use four types of knowledge: game knowledge, game…

Background In an Individual Educational Program (IEP), the objectives of children with special needs are defined, to help educators pinpoint these children's educational goals. Noting the importance of teacher-parent collaboration, the current research was designed to deepen our understanding regarding the way teachers experience working with…

This manuscript focuses on ethics in educational policy planning. Specifically, it raises the question of how policy plan analysis may indicate for planners' ethics in considering that educational planners operate in an environment characterized by a variety of contradicting interests making compromises essential. The manuscript, which offers…

This report on the funding of school education constitutes the first in a series of thematic comparative reports bringing together findings from the OECD School Resources Review. School systems have limited financial resources with which to pursue their objectives and the design of school funding policies plays a key role in ensuring that…

This paper seeks to improve our understanding of the challenges faced by teachers and student-teachers in the process of implementing small group work (SGW) in early childhood education (ECE). In light of the discrepancy between the clear benefits of SGW in education--its solid theoretical foundation--and its sparse and poor implementation, we…

Inclusion policy refers to a reform where diversity among all learners, including those with disabilities, is supported. In order to implement this policy, schools have to undergo a process of transformation toward inclusive education where children receive equal education with learning opportunities for all. In an ideal school, where inclusive…

This article presents a way in which the innovative Nature Therapy conceptual framework coupled with creative therapeutic methods can help children develop resilience and support their coping with uncertainty and stress. It refers to the Safe Place programme that took place in 110 Israeli kindergartens, helping over 6000 children after the Second…

Establishing an innovative school requires a great deal of planning effort, human power and resources. Nevertheless, many innovative schools suffer a process of regression toward the mean and lose their innovative zeal. Based on the life cycle approach, which claims that part of this trend of regression is embodied in the planning phase, and on…

Uses Israel as an example to examine three variables--size, organizational mode, and political value system--and their effects on educational policy making and planning at a national level. Argues that in Israel's case small size, centralization, and democracy interact to create a new type of planning behavior termed the enlightenment approach.…

Analysis of questionnaires completed by 228 Israeli high school students reveals that, for Jewish adolescents, the future is less salient than it is for Arab adolescents; Jewish adolescents express fewer concerns about their education, career, and collective issues than do their Arab counterparts. (BJV)

This annual report of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Israeli Council for Higher Education reviews: (1) the status of the Planning and Budgeting Committee, its composition, its work, and its relationship with the Council for Higher Education; (2) Israel's higher education system and a statistical review of developments; (3) planning…

Explores the perceived complexity and urgency defined by school principals for planning processes and plans for policy issues that form the Israeli educational agenda. Advances proposition that the higher the urgency attributed to a specific issue, the lower the probability that educators will adequately address its complexity and create plans…

This article describes Israel's latest conflict--plummeting government spending and strikes by faculty members and students which are threatening the stability of the country's universities. The founders of the modern state of Israel considered higher education to be so important that they established the country's first two universities long…

This report was produced by a committee appointed by the Council for Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Israel) to perform the following three major tasks: (1) review all facets of post-secondary education excluding university activities; (2) suggest principles on which to base the development of post-secondary education;…

Basic trends and developments of educational planning activities are reviewed. Using a cross-analysis of various classifications of educational planning activities and some basic theoretical assumptions about the inherent aspects of the educational process, a conceptual frame of reference is developed. (Author/RL)