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Ruth Zuzovsky; Ainat Guberman; Marcel Amasha – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2024
This study explores how teacher educators promoted Israeli Arab student teachers' civic engagement through a multifaceted service-learning program. They worked on a project named 'Challenges' that supported service-learning, and provided knowledge about societal issues and Palestinian heritage. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 17 teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Student Teachers, Citizen Participation
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Portman, Michelle E.; Teff-Seker, Yael – Environmental Education Research, 2017
Despite the potential environmental impact of urban planning, there is little research on Environmental Education (EE) in the context of urban planning curricula. This study follows graduate planning students' learning experience during group projects assigned as part of a planning course at the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology. These…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Graduate Students, Environmental Education, Service Learning
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Schuster, Michal – Education and Society, 2014
Service Learning (SL) is a pedagogy aimed at combining academic studies and volunteer community action. The advantages of SL are numerous and are discussed elsewhere. The article points to some of the less studied aspects of service learning programs: the price that students pay for their volunteer service in the community. The discussion will be…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning
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Reuveni, Yehudit; Werner, Perla – Educational Gerontology, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors associated with teenagers' willingness to volunteer with elderly persons using an expanded model of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Participants consisted of 258 ninth-grade students at a large high school in the northern part of Israel. Participants completed a structured…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Older Adults, Volunteers, Intergenerational Programs
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Velliaris, Donna M., Ed.; Coleman-George, Deb, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
Millions of students seek short- and long-term study abroad options every year, and this trend is a key illustration of the internationalization of higher education. Because a global perspective has become mandatory in the largely globalized workforce, many institutions look to study abroad programs to prepare their students. This outbound…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Higher Education, Global Approach, Student Mobility
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Chill, Abigail S. – Social Education, 2009
Is the anticipated move of a school to a new location a source of curious excitement and optimism or an occasion for trepidation, recrimination, and anxiety? As plans to relocate the Walworth Barbour American International School in Israel from Kfar Shmaryahu (its location for over 40 years) to Even Yehuda became more immediate, teachers and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, International Schools