Discusses problems of socially integrating low income Jewish ethnic groups in Israel boarding schools into mainstream Israeli culture. Presents a participant observation review of one boarding school. Uses study of three boarding schools to explore discipline and control tactics as obstructions to the attainment of instrumental and expressive…

This qualitative study focuses on the classroom interactions of a high school science teacher and a resistant learner in a Grade 10 science class in Australia. Data are presented in the context of a creative nonfiction story based on experiences in a rural Australian high school. In the story, a science teacher lives up to the expectations of…