In this study that draws from the fields of social psychology and multicultural education, 45 Arab and Jewish pre-service and 108 Arab and Jewish in-service teachers were presented with a program designed to foster intergroup empathy and inclusive views. The two groups went through a similar process: choosing their outgroup, finding media that…

This paper shows some mechanisms as well as the paralysing implications of the perpetrator-victim positioning in the context of inservice education with Jewish- and Palestinian-Israeli teachers who teach in Palestinian-Jewish integrated schools. It examines how these teachers remain rooted in the hegemonic historical narratives of their own…

Surveys the participation of secondary school mathematics and science teachers in inservice training activities in Israel. Results indicate the majority of inservice training participation occurs during summer months with little involvement, other than reading, occurring during the school year. (SL)

Describes an inservice education program designed to help principals translate the general aims of new curricula and innovation into specific objectives that can be implemented and whose implementation can be evaluated. (IRT)

Paraprofessional staff in six Israeli institutions for the elderly received training in psychological and social aspects of aging, loneliness and loss, communication, multiprofessional staff work, and elders with disabilities. They expressed a need for additional training in following up on physiotherapy. (Contains 18 references.) (SK)

This paper reports on the implementation and informal evaluation of Project HEVRA--a cross-cultural inservice education program provided to supervisor/advisers of kindergarten teachers in Israel. Through inservice seminars initiated by an American consultant in conjunction with Israeli counterparts and through a series of monthly meetings,…

The impact of a continuing teacher guidance system was studied. The system provided to teachers consisted of in-school guidance, written guidance, and in-service teacher training. The guidance system was developed in connection with the more comprehensive project of developing a new mathematics curriculum for junior high schools in Israel. (DWH)

In Israel difficulties training social workers in family therapy arise from inherent resistance to change in social and other professional agencies and from insufficient experience in training methodology. The family in Israel is undergoing social and cultural changes. Paper presented at the First International Congress of Family Therapy, February…

Israeli researcher at an environmental field school created a different kind of research report, turning an evaluation report into a textbook of didactics and adapting it for use in personnel training and inservice education without impairing its essential nature as an evaluation study. (SM)

This study attempts to solve the problem of Israel's shortage of qualified teachers for vocational and technical schools by analyzing the problems contained in their preparation, and by suggesting an appropriate program of studies for them, along with recommendations for its effective use. Analysis of the general as well as the vocational and…