“Us and them”: towards intercultural competence among Jewish and Arab graduate students at Israeli colleges of education     

Lilach Lev Ari  Walid Mula 《Higher Education》2017,74(6):979-996

The present study aims to examine the impact of encounter between two different ethnic groups, Jews and Arabs, of Israeli first-year graduate students who study in four colleges of education, on the development of their intercultural competence: (1) knowledge regarding the “other,” (2) change in attitudes and behavior towards the other, and (3) multicultural educational practice. The findings point to two clear factors affecting the development of intercultural competence: the formal and informal college experience as reported by respondents, particularly the contents and tools that both Jews and Arabs acquired at the college in addition to personal characteristics and off-campus encounters. The second factor is the difference between the experiences of Jewish and Arab students: while Arab students are more knowledgeable regarding the Jewish culture and are more willing to change attitudes and educational practices in light of multiculturalism, Jewish students are less prone to make such changes. Thus, according to our findings, intercultural encounters among educators during their graduate studies could create a unique opportunity to turn the college experience transformational in terms of intercultural competence, particularly in the segregated structure of Israeli society.  相似文献   

Students’ Perceptions of Terrascope, A Project-Based Freshman Learning Community   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Alberta Lipson  Ari W. Epstein  Rafael Bras  Kip Hodges 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2007,16(4):349-364

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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the National Council for Jewish Education     

Ari Y. Kelman  Marva Shalev Marom  Benjamin Keep 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(3):240-244

ABSTRACT

Citations are one of the ways that scholars engage one another in dialogue, debate, and discussion. As such, they represent a powerful way in which practitioners constitute themselves and others within a scholarly field. This article studies the citational practices of articles published in the Journal of Jewish Education over a 10-year period in order to discover how scholars have constituted the field of research in Jewish Education. Using social network analysis and qualitative examination, this article presents an unprecedented portrait of the field of knowledge including its strengths and new directions for scholarly investigation and analysis of how the field of research in Jewish education has been formed, and how citational references have shaped how scholars and practitioners understand what we know about Jewish education.  相似文献   

Notes: Physical Fitness of 7th Grade Children     

Omer John Rupiper 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(3)

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Challenging the myths about madaris in Pakistan: A national household survey of enrolment and reasons for choosing religious schools     

Anne Cockcroft  Neil Andersson  Deborah Milne  Khalid Omer  Noor Ansari  Amir Khan  Ubaid Ullah Chaudhry 《International Journal of Educational Development》2009

There is speculation about madaris in Pakistan as sources of terrorists and about levels and reasons for enrolment, but a dearth of empirical data. We studied madarsah enrolment among 53,960 representative households; 853 focus groups of parents discussed enrolment choices. In 2004, 2.6% of all children (3.8% of school-going children) aged 5–9 years attended a madarsah. Children from urban and less educated households were more likely to attend a madarsah, but there was no difference by sex of the child or household vulnerability. Parents chose madaris because they offered an Islamic education. Our findings challenge misconceptions about madaris in Pakistan.  相似文献   

The Effects of Conjunction, Facet Structure, and Dictionary Combinations in Concept-Based Cross-Language Retrieval   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Ari Pirkola  Heikki Keskustalo  Kalervo Järvelin 《Information Retrieval》1999,1(3):217-250

The paper studies concept-based cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). The document collection was a subset of the TREC collection. The test requests were formed from TREC's health related topics. As translation dictionaries the study used a general dictionary and a domain-specific (=medical) dictionary. The effects of translation method, conjunction, and facet order on the effectiveness of concept-based cross-language queries were studied, and concept-based structuring of cross-language queries was compared to mechanical structuring based on the output of dictionaries. The performance of translated Finnish queries against English documents was compared to the performance of original English queries against the English documents, and the performance of different CLIR query types was compared with one another. No major difference was found between concept-based and mechanical structuring. The best translation method was a simultaneous look-up in the medical dictionary and the general dictionary, in which case cross-language queries performed as well as the original English queries. The results showed that especially at high exhaustivity (the number of mutually restrictive concepts in a request) levels cross-language queries perform well in relation to monolingual queries. This suggests that conjunction disambiguates cross-language queries. An extensive study was made of the relative importance of the concepts of requests. On the basis of the classification data of request concepts it was shown how the order of facets in a query affects cross-language as well as monolingual queries.  相似文献   

How Much Cueing Is Needed in Instructional Animations? The Role of Prior Knowledge     

Arslan-Ari  Ismahan  Crooks  Steven M.  Ari  Fatih 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2020,29(5):666-676

Journal of Science Education and Technology - This study explored the effects of prior knowledge and cueing on the learning (retention, transfer, and matching) and mental effort of learners who...  相似文献   

Knowledge for sale – the benefits and effects of off-shoring knowledge-based jobs in engineering,design, and R&D – a case study     

Sameer?KumarEmail author  Arun J?Deivasigamani  Wesley W?Omer 《知识管理研究与实践》2010,8(4):351-368

A framework consisting of a conceptual model and a closed-loop knowledge work outsourcing decision model is developed. A process flow model of a medical device company's product development function is analysed, where this framework is applied to understand various outsourcing options for the company. The conceptual framework describes major attributes related to outsourcing decisions, parameters associated with various attributes and the relationship intensity of parameters with three knowledge work outsourcing options – in-house, near-shoring, and off-shoring. The proposed model is closed loop, emphasizing the importance of regular re-evaluation needed for an off-shored function. The modeling framework contributes to a company's decision whether or not a particular knowledge-based function should either be kept in-house, near-sourced or off-shored. The general perception of off-shoring is to reduce costs but, the proposed model takes into account additional factors such as, market accessibility, strategic partnership, reduced time to regional market, access to overseas talent pool, and governmental incentives, etc. These factors play a vital role in determining an outsourced function. The paper discusses various options and makes recommendations for tapping into technological advancements around the world, their effects on supply chain management and other competitive advantages presented by off-shoring.  相似文献   

Artistic interchange between Nasrid Granada and Castile     

Rachel Arié 《Al-Masaq: Islam & the Medieval Mediterranean》1993,6(1):1-7

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Poor performance on serial visual tasks in persons with reading disabilities: impaired working memory?     

Ram-Tsur R  Faust M  Zivotofsky AZ 《Journal of learning disabilities》2008,41(5):437-450

The present study investigates the performance of persons with reading disabilities (PRD) on a variety of sequential visual-comparison tasks that have different working-memory requirements. In addition, mediating relationships between the sequential comparison process and attention and memory skills were looked for. Our findings suggest that PRD perform worse than normally achieving readers (NAR) when the task requires more than a minimal amount of working memory, unrelated to presentation rate. We also demonstrate high correlations between performance on the task with the most working-memory demands and reading-related skills, suggesting that poor working-memory abilities may be one of the underlying mechanisms of dyslexia. The mediating model analysis indicates that order judgment tasks are mediating to verbal working memory, suggesting that visual sequence memory precedes auditory sequence memory. We further suggest that visual tasks involving sequential comparisons could probe for poor working memory in PRD.  相似文献