ERIC Number: EJ982097
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 29
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 66
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1052-0147
"The Road Not Taken"--Israeli Teachers' Reactions to Top-Down Educational Reform
Reichman, Roxana G.; Artzi, Shlomit
Qualitative Report, v17 Article 64 2012
The authors have investigated teachers' reactions towards an imposed reform initiated by the Israeli Ministry of Education in collaboration with one of two teachers' unions based on the messages and letters sent by high school teachers to an internet forum during a teachers' strike which took place between October and December of 2007. This study is the result of collaborative work between a teacher educator and a veteran teacher studying towards her Master of Education degree in Learning and Instruction. The research question was: What were the teachers' attitudes regarding the "New Horizon" reform as conveyed on an internet forum during the strike? The article focuses on the teachers' opposition to the proposed reform. The authors explore the use of the internet for sustaining this strike while also discussing the methodological issues related to this type of analysis and relation to collaborative research. Recommendations are suggested for successful implementation of educational reforms. (Contains 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Unions, Internet, Educational Change, Teacher Educators, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Cooperation, Experienced Teachers, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Literature Reviews, Teaching (Occupation), Computer Mediated Communication
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Israel