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Motivation to Teach: The Case of Arab Teachers in Israel
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Husny Arar, Khalid; Massry-Herzllah, Asmahan – Educational Studies, 2016
This paper describes an attempt to identify factors influencing teachers' motivation in the Arab education system. In-depth interviews with 10 school principals, 15 teachers and 3 counsellors, yielded three themes influencing Arab teachers' motivation: (1) Arab culture, (2) the school climate and (3) government policies. Arab teachers try to meet…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Arabs, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
One Country, Two Cultures--A Multi-Perspective View on Israeli Chemistry Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching and Learning
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Markic, Silvija; Eilks, Ingo; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; Hugerat, Muhamad; Kortam, Naji; Dkeidek, Iyad; Hofstein, Avi – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This paper presents a study focusing on differences in Israeli Jewish and Arab chemistry teachers' beliefs regarding teaching and learning of chemistry in the upper secondary schools. Israel is a country experiencing the problems of diverse cultural orientation of its inhabitants but applying the same educational system to its diverse cultural…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Qualitative Research, Teacher Attitudes
Contextual and Pedagogical Considerations in Teaching for Forgiveness in the Arab World
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Nasser, Ilham; Abu-Nimer, Mohammed; Mahmoud, Ola – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This study was conducted among Arab teachers in four countries in the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine) to examine their views and methods on teaching for forgiveness in their classrooms. A total of 87 teachers in K-12 classrooms participated in semi-structured interviews as part of a larger study on teaching for forgiveness in…
Descriptors: Arabs, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Altruism
Education Reform for the Knowledge Economy in the State of Sangon
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Lightfoot, Michael – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
This paper aims to highlight the issues associated with the implementation of education reform policies relating to "future schools" in a small state in the Middle East and North Africa region. The study points to the consistency with which global corporations and the supranational organisations, such as UNESCO and the World Bank,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Knowledge Economy, Organizational Culture, Focus Groups
School Principals' Perceptions of Teacher Evaluation in the Arab Education System in Israel
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Abu-Hussain, Jamal; Essawi, Mohammad – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
The objective of this research is to examine how principals of Arab schools view the evaluation of teachers and to determine whether and to what extent their perceptions of teacher evaluation differ. The Arab educational system in Israel is an integral part of the general educational system. For the most part it is run by Jewish administrators.…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Principals
Arab American High School Teachers' Perceptions of Developing Cultural Awareness of First-Level Arabic Language Learners
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Barada-Hammami, Nabila – ProQuest LLC, 2012
National standards for learning foreign languages describe five area goals which are intertwined and interconnected in the K-12 learning environment; yet, absent from the literature are investigations on how K-12 teachers are able to implement and incorporate the "practices, products, and perspectives" of culture into world language…
Descriptors: Arabs, Semitic Languages, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers