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Does God Want Me to Be a Teacher? Motives behind Occupational Choice of Israeli Ultraorthodox Women
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Goldfarb, Yael – Journal of Career Development, 2018
Motives behind occupational choice of graduates in two tertiary training programs for Israeli ultraorthodox (Haredi) women, practical engineering (PE) and teaching (T), are explored. Five hundred and twelve participants (278 PEs and 234 Ts) answered a questionnaire referring to 13 potential work motives. The main findings are as follows: (a)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Jews, Religious Cultural Groups
Israel Engagement in Practice: An Empirical Look at the Impact of "The Year of Service" Emissaries
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Hameiri, Lior – Journal of Jewish Education, 2018
The current field of Israel engagement has been significantly challenged by young North American Jews' reported alienation from contemporary Israel. Literature in the last decade has addressed this challenge in depth, offering a wide variety of theoretical analyses and recommendations for program development. The present study is the first to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Nationalism, Advocacy
Trajectories of Victimization in Ethnic Diaspora Immigrant and Native Adolescents: Separating Acculturation from Development
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Jugert, Philipp; Titzmann, Peter F. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This longitudinal study aimed to differentiate between acculturative and developmental processes by (a) comparing levels and change rates in victimization among ethnic German immigrants and native German adolescents in Germany and Russian Jewish immigrants in Israel, and (b) testing whether interindividual differences in victimization among…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Victims, Immigrants, Adolescents
Adolescents' Goal Orientations for Science in Single-Gender Israeli Religious Schools
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Fortus, David; Daphna, Limor – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Israeli students and their families can choose between state-funded secular, religious, orthodox, and other alternative schools (e.g., Waldorf, Montessori, democratic). Earlier studies showed that the motivation to engage with science differs greatly between Israeli students in secular schools and democratic schools, with these differences being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, Single Sex Schools, Religious Education
Parental Belief and Parental Engagement in Children's Learning
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Goodall, J.; Ghent, K. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2014
This article reports on a small scale study, examining the influence of parental faith belief on parental engagement with children's learning. The literature surrounding parental engagement and the impact of familial belief on children's outcomes is examined. It is clear from work in the US that familial faith belief has an impact; however, the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Beliefs, Religion, Religious Factors
Jewish Day-Schooled Adolescents' Perceptions of Parental and Environmental Support of Physical Activity
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Kahan, David – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
Few studies of religiosity and physical activity (PA) correlates have been conducted; thus, a cross-sectional survey of 367 more and less religious Jewish adolescents' (M age = 12.8 years, SD = 0.9) perceptions of parental and environmental support of PA was conducted at religious day schools in two large American cities. Maternal Support,…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Jews, Factor Analysis, Comparative Analysis