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... בולטות ברורה למאפייני הארגון הבלתי פורמלי.‬ ‫אולם ראייה זו נעשית אנכרוניסטית למדי עם היחלשות ... more ... בולטות ברורה למאפייני הארגון הבלתי פורמלי.‬ ‫אולם ראייה זו נעשית אנכרוניסטית למדי עם היחלשות תנועות הנוער כגורם חינוכי‬ ‫)איכילוב 6791 ... "החינוך הבלתי פורמלי בישראל: מסגרות מקריות או מערכות‬ ‫הממלאות תפקידים חברתיים חינוכיים ייחודיים", בתוך: א' אקרמן, ד' כרמון וד'‬ ‫צוקר )עורכים(, חינוך בחברה מתהווה ... ‎

1. investigated socioeconomic and ethnic gaps in academic achievement in Israel in the mid-1980s,... more 1. investigated socioeconomic and ethnic gaps in academic achievement in Israel in the mid-1980s, 30-35 years after the massive immigration in the 1950s that substantially changed the ethnic and socio-cultural composition of the Jewish population in Israel

Youth & Society, 1998

Analyses of perceptions of social cleavages and inequality among junior high school students indi... more Analyses of perceptions of social cleavages and inequality among junior high school students indicated the ability of young adolescents to accurately apprehend a multifaceted social structure. A perception of a fairly conflictual social map of a considerable level of inequality was revealed, but within a conception of a well-differentiated social structure. Ethnic cleavage and inequality appeared least prominent among the cleavages and inequalities that were studied. Likewise, students' personal and social traits explained only a minor part of the variance in perceptions. Among these traits, cognitive ability exerted the strongest effect on perceptions whereas the effects of socioeconomic background and ethnic extraction were minuscule. Considering the centrality of discourse on ethnic disparities in Israeli media and politics, these findings suggest that among the younger generation, a construction of social reality is evolving in which ethnicity plays a lesser role.

Social Psychology Quarterly, 1994

This study examines the structure of social justice judgments (SJJ) on the basis of a conceptual ... more This study examines the structure of social justice judgments (SJJ) on the basis of a conceptual mapping of two major facets of SJJ: distributive rules and social resources. We distinguish irreducible classes of rules (eg, arithmetic equality, effort) and resources (eg, money, prestige) and ...

School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1992

ABSTRACT Implementation of educational integration policy in Israel creates heterogeneous student... more ABSTRACT Implementation of educational integration policy in Israel creates heterogeneous student compositions in the schools. Principals and teachers who, as a result, confront instructional difficulties, and who are ambiguous about this policy and its ...

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1993

Social Justice Research, 2003

In this study we explored “objective” and attributed explanations of perceived injustice (PI) wit... more In this study we explored “objective” and attributed explanations of perceived injustice (PI) with respect to instrumental and relational rewards among junior high school students. Despite the socially heterogeneous school and classroom setting, PI found was relatively modest and differentiated by domain. It was more effectively accounted for by cognitive ability than by socioeconomic status, while the effect of ethnic

Higher Education, 2006

Abstract Choice of institution and field of study for a bachelor's degree in Israel was foun... more Abstract Choice of institution and field of study for a bachelor's degree in Israel was found essentially meritocratic although influenced by socioeconomic status (SES) as well. As expected, students of higher ability attend universities and those of lower apply to academic colleges. ...

Armed Forces & Society, 2000

Israel Army veterans of kibbutz background who had served in the occupied territories during the ... more Israel Army veterans of kibbutz background who had served in the occupied territories during the Intifada were retrospectively asked how this service affected them. Some common themes were disclosed. Service in the territories deepened understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but increased fear and hate of Arabs. These feelings did not lead to a national extremism, but rather to a rationalistic position demanding a peaceful, political solution. The majority of respondents became firmer in their original "leftist" position, and the justification for their position was utilitarian, considering the needs of the Israeli side; only a few based their position on support for the Palestinians' rights or suffering. To cope with the conflict between their military duty and their moral values, soldiers either sought shelter in military orders or compartmentalized their humanistic values and military duty. Few criticized the army. The major criticism, that soldiers had no...

American Educational Research Journal, 1986

Assuming that the intellectual level of the classroom affects the quality of learning environment... more Assuming that the intellectual level of the classroom affects the quality of learning environments, it is argued that separating students into homogeneous educational frameworks enriches the environment for high-resource students and impoverishes it for low-resource students, whereas the converse occurs under heterogeneous mixing. Academic achievement consequently will be affected. This argument was subjected to an empirical analysis in two Israeli samples, one ethnically and socioeconomically heterogeneous, the other socially homogeneous. First, presuppositions concerning the impact of three dimensions of student-body composition on academic achievement were probed. It was found that (a) the intellectual component of student-body composition outweighs both ethnic and socioeconomic components; (b) classroom composition is more effective than school composition; and (c) classroom intellectual level is more effective than its variance. Subsequently, two hypotheses were supported: clas...

Abstract Organizational manipulations of student compositions are conceptualized as an enrichment... more Abstract Organizational manipulations of student compositions are conceptualized as an enrichment or impoverishment of socoio-learning environments which are conceived as a set of educational and psycho-social processes which link student composition to learning and achievement. Among the processes discussed are differential formation by classroom ability level of allocation of school resources, quality of learning interaction, and commitment to learning. This discussion is followed by an exposition of the concept of intensity of separation, an outline of the various definitions of the independent variable in research on the effect of student composition, and a brief review of recent research on the scholastic outcomes of ability grouping, curriculum tracking and clustering, and ethnic and racial segregation. Lastly, several implications for educational policy are considered.

Abstract: Effects of student grouping on academic achievement were examined in research among hig... more Abstract: Effects of student grouping on academic achievement were examined in research among high school students in Israeli kibbutz schools, and in a nationwide sample of middle school students in Israel. Data analysis was based on a model developed from research ...

Interchange, 1985

... Furthermore, both teacher and school have been continually criticized for their failure to br... more ... Furthermore, both teacher and school have been continually criticized for their failure to bridge the gap between academic achievement and knowledge accumulation and to ... Under the pressure for academic achievement, teachers and schools resort to ability grouping as a ...

British Educational Research Journal, 2012

Abstract School integration (desegregation) was introduced in Israeli junior high schools in 1968... more Abstract School integration (desegregation) was introduced in Israeli junior high schools in 1968 with the aim of increasing educational equality and decreasing (Jewish) ethnic divides. While never officially abandoned, a de facto retreat from this policy has been observed ...

International sociology, 2002

Analysing the changing evaluation of work in a utopian endeavour like the kibbutz may highlight t... more Analysing the changing evaluation of work in a utopian endeavour like the kibbutz may highlight the difficulties small egalitarian communities, quite integrated into the outside free-market society, have in sustaining the communal system in face of internal and external changes. ...