Explores the national defense mechanisms used by the education system of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in pre-independence Israel, in response to the Holocaust, as well as the significance of these responses and their contemporary implications. Concludes with contemporary applications of national defense mechanisms and their possible…

Provides background information and considers a number of issues raised with reference to science education in Palestine. Presents survey results that show a need for more science laboratory rooms in all secondary schools, a reorganization of current rooms, improvements in the evaluation process in the laboratory class, and greater coverage of…

Investigates the extent to which a global dimension is communicated in classes teaching about the Ancient World. Content analysis of Greek primary textbooks reveals the Ancient World presentation serves to promote an ethnocentric/nationalistic orientation with an absence of references to other ancient civilizations. (GR)

Presents a conceptual framework illustrating intercultural attitudes between indigenous French and North African immigrant parents living in a suburban underprivileged neighborhood. Findings suggest positive attitudes are more likely to develop when parents gather together in a harmonious space where they are considered collectively by community…

Explores the historical development of education in modern Algeria, arguing that Algeria, despite interest in celebrating the national identity, is still characterized by the wholesale adoption of European educational theories, policies, and practices, even though these do not fit well with indigenous culture. (SLD)

Applies to the Spanish educational system, the theory of semiperipheral societies developed by B. de Souza Santos. Spanish schooling is described as semiperipheral in that it entails a significant gap between aspirations and provision. Implications for the analysis of other Mediterranean school systems are discussed. (SLD)

The crisis of mass schooling in a semiperipheral country is explored in the context of the Portuguese educational system in the 1970s and 1980s, following the installation of democracy. It is argued that studies of Mediterranean educational systems should be conducted using a model based on comparisons among similar nations. (SLD)

Evaluates the review of world education produced by the World Bank in 1995, "Priorities and Strategies of Education." This review is a document created by and for bankers and economists, and may not provide answers educators need. Time will determine whether its approaches are the best responses for educational improvement. (SLD)

Discusses teaching languages in Israeli schooling, exploring the difficulties that groups with different cultural origins encounter when they communicate in the same language. These obstacles make proficiency extremely important and place politics at the center of the problem of language teaching and learning. (SLD)

Studies the power and academic respectability that women have in Moroccan academia through a questionnaire completed by 49 college faculty and researchers, and interviews with 12 of these women. In spite of their scientific and cultural capital, many Moroccan women academics consider themselves as lacking status and recognition. (SLD)

Results from 60 Greek and 60 English primary-school teacher- education students who rated the educational aims of their childhood teachers, those of their current teachers, and their own intentions for teaching show that they have similar attitudes, far removed from the ideologies of their childhood educations. (SLD)

A group of students on a post-graduate teacher training course took part in a Reluctant Learner Project. On one afternoon a week for a term, each student took a small group of comprehensive school pupils from a low stream class out of school and engaged in mutually agreed activities. (Editor)

This study examined education and career plans of Scottish rural youth who entered post-secondary education in order to determine the extent to which the educational system offers rural youth not only specific training but only entry to the urban labour market. (Author/RK)

Article considered the effects of living in a one-parent family compared to the effects of associated conditions and the survey described was carried out with the aim of providing some information from Child Guidance records in Glasgow. (Author/RK)

25 nine year old children from the Outer Islands of Orkney were compared with a matched group of 25 children from Kirkwall in order to find out whether any differences existed in the development of geographical and spatial concepts as well as country and nationality. (Editor/RK)