This article is based on an action-oriented study of 13 community-engaged courses at 11 institutions of higher education in Israel. These courses were not part of peace education programs but rather accredited academic courses in various disciplines, all of which included practice and theory. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how these…

Results are reported from a longitudinal study of teachers' (N=18) development in writing instruction. Two approaches to writing instruction are contrasted: technical rationality and reflection-in-action. The four-phase action research study was carried out in the context of a one-year in-service training program to prepare writing-teacher…

Describes a study on the extent to which different children hold animistic notions and the meaning of those notions. Explores the idea of preservice science teachers as researchers. (DDR)

Describes the Teacher-as-Ethnographer inservice training program, an anthropological model for training Israeli educators to diagnose and cater to the learning needs of culturally diverse students. Participants, including teachers of all levels and other school staff, learned and used ethnographic methods of data collection and analysis to conduct…

Explored mentor teachers' perceptions about the impact of mentoring on them, focusing on American and Israeli teacher-education programs and professional-development schools. Data from surveys, observations, and reflection sessions with mentors indicated that the mentors benefitted from their mentoring when they had access to serious training and…

This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Mathematics at the Centre." This volume features 60 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Abr…