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Iftach, Geva; Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
The purpose of the study is to examine the ethical dilemmas among mid-level school leaders in the social-ecological context through role-play simulations. We examined simulations involving role-played ethical scenarios and group debriefings among 30 mid-level school leaders from different Israeli high schools and districts during the MA course in…
Descriptors: Ethics, Middle Management, Role Playing, Simulation
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Iftach, Geva; Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: The study's main goal is to investigate different leadership styles that characterize middle-level leaders, the intermediate leadership tier of role holders in school, as they practice leadership scenarios through active participation in a professional learning process of role-play simulation, using a social-ecological approach.…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Leadership Styles, Role Playing, Simulation
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Tsemach, Ehud; Schwarz, Baruch; Israeli, Mirit; Keynan, Omer – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2023
The present paper inquires whether a meticulous program designed to resolve Interdisciplinary Societal Dilemmas through dialogic argumentation advances epistemic practices. To delineate how epistemic practices are manifested in classroom discussions, we adopted the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), which explores the interactions and agencies of human…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Dialogs (Language), Persuasive Discourse, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Kirschner, Shanna A. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
Protracted conflict presents students with an unfamiliar and often puzzling context. Why do negotiations sometimes succeed, while at other points, actors are unable to reach agreement on key issues, even in the face of deadly costs? In this article, I introduce an extended role-playing simulation designed to enhance student understanding of…
Descriptors: Conflict, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Political Science
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Brady, Monica – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
Michael Young's notion of powerful knowledge is attractive to many: to teachers wishing the best for disadvantaged students, to neoliberal governments that continually stress the need for teachers and students to improve their performance. This essay takes issue with this understanding of education. Firstly, it shows how classrooms are mediated by…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Social Problems, Foreign Countries, Social Influences
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Brooks, Orren – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2017
This study explores the experiences of homosexual teenagers who are members of the Israeli lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth organization called Israel Gay Youth. Through an interview-based study with members and counselors, this study reveals how although various therapeutic practices take place during the weekly meetings, all…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Adolescents
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Kampf, Ronit – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Two cross-national experimental studies examined the effects of PeaceMaker and Global Conflicts on knowledge acquisition and attitude change regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. PeaceMaker and Global Conflicts are role-playing computerized simulations of this conflict. 248 undergraduate students from Turkey, Israel, Palestine and the US…
Descriptors: Conflict, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Educational Technology
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Caplan, Neil; Pearlman, Wendy; Sasley, Brent E.; Sucharov, Mira – Journal of Political Science Education, 2012
The Arab-Israeli conflict can be a difficult topic to teach, for a variety of reasons. As such, this article represents a conversation by four scholar-teachers of the Middle East and the conflict about our approaches to teaching it. We discuss our motivations for the manner in which we teach the conflict and some of the specific tools we use to do…
Descriptors: Conflict, Arabs, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
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Kuperman, Ranan D. – Simulation & Gaming, 2010
This article presents findings from a research project that uses an interactive simulator of an imaginary fishing dispute. Subjects operating the simulator play the role of a state leader, while the computer program controls the behavior of a contending state as well as provides all the environmental data associated with the conflict. The…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Conflict, Role Playing, Decision Making
Naveh, Nissan – Online Submission, 2010
This article presents a method for teaching the theory of symbolic interactionism in a high-school course--Introduction to Sociology. The role-playing game used as a method for teaching the theory is grounded on a philosophy of education whose principles call for meaningful and relevant learning, based on experiential activity and investigation of…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Foreign Countries, Sociology, Educational Philosophy
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Aram, Dorit; Shlak, Maya – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: The study evaluated the "safe kindergarten" program designed to promote kindergartners' communication and social skills based on principles of Imago marital and family counseling (H. Hendrix, 1990). Participants were 92 kindergartners from 4 kindergartens (intervention = 46; comparison = 46). Teachers in intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Conflict, Kindergarten, Family Counseling
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Stephen, Alison – Teaching History, 2005
How often do our students long for black and white rather than the shades of grey that history generally presents us with? Understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about understanding diversity and complexity in all their shades of grey. Alison Stephen, teaching in an immensely diverse school herself, is determined not to over-simplify the…
Descriptors: Conflict, Arabs, Jews, Foreign Countries
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Rossi, John Allen – Social Studies, 2003
In this article, the author relates the changing nature of international conflict and peacemaking since the end of the cold war to the development of a school curriculum that focuses on pressing international issues that are shared by people around the world. He also analyzes the implications of the changing world for curriculum development and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Young Adults, Conflict, Citizenship
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Raz, Hana – System, 1985
Describes practical conclusion of a study carried out in Israel which investigated the potential effects of role play on communicative competence, motivation and underachieving foreign language learners. The discussion focuses on a suggested procedure, prerequisites and limitations, the positive effects of role play, and its educational value and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries
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Kipper, David A.; Har-Even, Dov – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1984
Investigated the differential effect of two kinds of behavior simulation (role-playing) interventions: spontaneous and mimetic-pretend, on the readiness and the responsibility attributions associated with delivering electric shocks to others (N=25). Results showed that the spontaneous subjects were more ego-oriented and inhibited in administering…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Electrical Stimuli
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