Izhak Berkovich
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 346848 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Izhak Berkovich |
| NOMBRES | Izhak |
| APELLIDO | Berkovich |
| FIRMA | BERKOVICH I |
| AFILIACIONES | Open University of Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5710-3666 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Centralized Disciplinary Policy Implementation Gap
This study examines disciplinary policy in Israeli schools and the relationship between the Ministry of Education’s formal directives and their implementation. Interviews with 30 principals and teachers revealed that the Ministry’s discipline circulars are seen as impenetrable, irrelevant texts that create an “implementation gap” and a sense of disconnection from official policy. Educators treat the policy as a “dead letter” and rely mainly on th…
Leading in Public
This study examines how school leaders use Facebook as a leadership practice within contexts of public visibility, accountability, and governance. Drawing on dialogic public relations theory, it explores how policy demands and institutional expectations shape communication strategies. Using qualitative interviews with 20 Israeli school leaders who manage school Facebook pages, the study identifies key themes through thematic analysis. Four main a…
Innovation Culture in Schools, School Leaders’ Openness to Experience, and the Integration of Generative AI in School Leadership Work
With the growing interest in using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for work tasks, empirical research is needed to understand the conditions facilitating and hindering such use. Drawing on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), this study examines the moderating effect of innovation culture in schools on the relationship between school leaders’ openness to experience and the integration of GenAI in school leade…
A systematic review of the empirical literature on school leaders and school discipline
School discipline is a key part of school leaders’ roles, but scholarly knowledge on this important domain is limited and scattered. This study aimed to conduct a systematic review of the peer-reviewed empirical literature on school leaders and school discipline. Data sources were Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. In total, 40 empirical studies were identified. Thematic analysis was used to reveal the scholarly knowledge and identify key…
The dual increasing-reducing effects of principals' digital instructional leadership on teacher burnout in online teaching mediated by teacher self-efficacy and collective efficacy
Purpose Digital instructional leadership is an emerging concept gaining importance in practice and research. As online education becomes mainstream and is expected to be increasingly integrated into instruction in the 21st century, it is essential to expand our understanding of how this leadership model influences teaching attitudes and experiences. The present study focused on the relationship between digital instructional leadership and teacher…
The Role of Responsible Leadership in Teacher Resilience and Wellbeing in Earthquake-Affected and Non-Affected Regions
Purpose: Due to the significant global crises over the past decade, understanding leadership's role in reducing the pernicious impact of crises has recently garnered substantial attention. This study examines the role of school leaders in enhancing teachers’ psychosocial capacity following a devastating earthquake that struck the southern regions of Türkiye in 2023. It compares the earthquake-affected and non-affected regions in terms of the role…
Principal–Teacher Relationship Profiles Moderating the Effects of Transformational Leadership on Teacher Innovation and Resistance to Change
Purpose: The present study sought to investigate how principal-teacher relationship patterns interact with transformational leadership to influence teachers’ innovativeness and resistance to change, drawing on the leader-member exchange theory. Method: Data were collected from 1005 teachers across 92 schools in Türkiye. Multilevel latent profile moderation analysis was conducted to reveal teacher-principal relationship profiles and how each profi…
Distributed leadership and teacher job satisfaction over time
This study investigates international trends in distributed leadership and teacher job satisfaction, using data from the 2013 and 2018 cycles of the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey. Focusing on countries that participated in both waves, the study addresses two key aims: (1) to examine cross-national changes in mean levels of teacher job satisfaction, both with the profession and the workplace, between 2013 and 2018, and to assess …
A qualitative exploration of principals’ transformational leadership and transactional leadership behaviors during the Covid-19 crisis
Purpose The study seeks to provide insights into the specific leadership behaviors employed by school leaders to navigate the complex challenges posed by the pandemic. Methods A qualitative research approach was adopted, involving in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of 20 school principals. Thematic analysis was employed to identify recurring patterns in their narratives addressing leadership styles and behaviors. Findings The findings vivi…
Support for generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of middle leaders’ generative artificial intelligence self-efficacy, valuing, and integration in school leadership work
The research explored the role of organisational support for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in predicting middle leaders’ GenAI integration in school leadership work, with a focus on GenAI self-efficacy and valuing as mediators of that effect. The study was based on social cognition theory and a sample of 277 Israeli middle leaders from public elementary and secondary schools. The data were analysed using SPSS and the PROCESS macro. T…
A qualitative study of male school leaders’ work–family conflict
Given the demanding nature of their managerial positions and obligations, school leaders frequently struggle with work–family conflict. This qualitative study investigates the lived experiences of work–family conflict and coping mechanisms used by male school leaders. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 60 male school leaders. The findings describe the perception of management as demanding; the degree of involvement in raising the chil…
Teachers’ self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism
This study examined the moderating influence of transformational leadership on the relationship between social justice leadership and teachers’ psychological capital to seek empirical evidence for transformative social justice leadership. The research was conducted with 991 teachers across 97 schools using multilevel structural equation modeling. The findings demonstrated significant positive associations between principals’ social justice leader…
Principal’s negative emotional manipulations, interpersonal suppression of teachers by the principal, and trust in the principal
Principals' negative emotional manipulation lowers teachers' trust in them. • Interpersonal suppression fully mediates this trust decline. • Affective trust is more impacted than cognitive trust. • Study analyzed 654 Israeli elementary school teachers. • Research expands knowledge on school workplace emotional dynamics. This study investigated the effect of principals' negative emotional manipulations on teachers' affective and cognitive trust in…
The centrality of care ethics in narratives of primary school homeroom teachers
This qualitative study explored ethical perceptions in primary school homeroom teaching, focusing on ethical caring. Forty semi-structured interviews were conducted with Israeli homeroom teachers (grades 1–2) in Arab (n = 20) and Jewish (n = 20) state primary schools (39 women). Thematic analysis identified four themes that represent various facets of emotional and instrumental caring of these educators in the professional context, encompassing b…
Historical changes in teacher training in Israel
This study explored the evolution of professional perceptions guiding teacher training in Israel, examining two alternative explanations for their dynamic development: the first one focuses on the modernisation of professional perceptions, drawing on Hargreaves’ theory of the four stages of teacher professionalism; the second delves into the cyclical nature of liberal and conservative trends in education, based on Cuban’s theory of cyclical chang…
A qualitative study of kindergarten teachers’ views on superintendents’ authority and power
Purpose The study aimed to explore the authority and power of kindergarten superintendents in public education to elucidate their leadership dynamics. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 Israeli kindergarten teachers about the authority and power of their superintendents. Thematic analysis was used to construct a description of two overarching authority categories: formal and informal. Findings Within the…
Principals’ influence tactics and turnover
Purpose This study aims to investigate the influence tactics used by school principals and their effect on teachers’ readiness for change and their intention to leave their positions. The research explored how different types of influence tactics affect teachers’ stability and adaptability within educational settings. Design/methodology/approach The study used cross-sectional data from a sample of 251 teachers from the Québec region. Three primar…
Gender stereotypes of feminine and masculine school management and leadership
Purpose This paper aims to explore the gender stereotypes associated with feminine and masculine management and leadership styles in schools. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a survey-based approach, using an inventory tool, to examine the traits and behaviours perceived by teachers as characterising feminine and masculine management and leadership styles. The study involved a gender-diverse sample of 398 Israeli teachers from variou…
Effective crisis leadership
Perceptions of Wicked Policy Problems and Anti‐Privatization Attitudes
Gendered constructions of good management by men school leaders
This qualitative study explored the gendered constructions of good management by men school leaders. The research participants were 30 men school leaders in Israel, selected through purposive sampling. The study aimed to identify the dominant discourses of masculinity and how they shaped ideal school leadership practices. The authors conducted semi-structured interviews with the participants and used thematic analysis to explore the data. The fin…
Self-determination theory and teachers’ motivations to perform emotional labor and emotion work
This qualitative study investigated teachers’ motivation to perform emotion management (i.e., emotional labor and emotion work) in coping with students’ discipline problems. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 Israeli teachers. Findings indicate that teachers experienced emotional distress when confronted with discipline problems. The study also found that teachers mentioned motivation to perform emotional management related to emot…
Social activism against the desecularization of non-religious state education in Israel
This qualitative research investigates the growing social activism against the trend of desecularization within non-religious state education in Israel, employing a social movement framework. By conducting in-depth interviews with individuals engaged in this activism, the study examined the ideological frameworks of the actors, their perceived organizational structures for mobilization, and their view of political opportunities used to uphold sec…
Principals’ digital instructional leadership during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic caused education systems to embrace remote schooling and online learning. In the context of this dramatic change, the principal's role has also changed. Instead of interacting face to face, school leaders had to become distant leaders operating digitally. The field has no knowledge of digital instructional leadership. The study used new and adapted measures to explore principals’ digital instructional leadership, its mechani…
Principal's abusive leadership and teachers' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations
Purpose This study investigated the relationship between principals' abusive leadership and teachers' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, exploring the potential moderating effects of the duration of the relationship and group size within educational settings. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a sample of teachers in Bahrain, using self-report measures. The data were analyzed using regression analyses. Findings The findings re…
Self-determination theory and teachers’ motivations to perform emotional labor and emotion work
This qualitative study investigated teachers’ motivation to perform emotion management (i.e., emotional labor and emotion work) in coping with students’ discipline problems. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 Israeli teachers. Findings indicate that teachers experienced emotional distress when confronted with discipline problems. The study also found that teachers mentioned motivation to perform emotional management related to emot…
Marketing teacher quality
This study uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) texts on teacher quality and the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) framework. Specifically, it explores the forewords of documents written by OECD leaders, which we believe are charged with meanings related to the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) discourse. We suggest that CDA of the texts sheds light o…
Understanding OECD representations of teachers and teaching
OECD dominance in the international educational policy discourse in the developed regions of the world, particularly in promoting teaching policy, has been long acknowledged. While many works have explored the organisation’s verbal discourse, no study has considered exploring its visual discourse. To close that gap, we employed a visual discourse analysis on the covers of OECD documents pertaining to teachers and teaching (i.e., TALIS and ISTP). …
Effects of Principal-Teacher Gender Similarity on Teacher’s Trust and Organizational Commitment
Principals’ digital transformational leadership, teachers’ commitment, and school effectiveness
The knowledge about principals’ digital transformational leadership in schools is scarce. This lacuna is problematic because recently many countries switched to remote schooling and online learning models during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new situation changed the principal’s role to one of distant digital leadership, working with teachers and students remotely. The present study aims to investigate principals’ digital transformational leadership…
Typology of “Tough Love” Leadership in Urban Schools Facing Challenging Circumstances
The myth of “tough love” leadership emerges in cultural narratives as a superior approach to improving students’ educational opportunities in urban schools facing challenging circumstances. This model, however, has not been conceptualized, and consequently, empirical research about it is lacking. We formulated a typology of tough love leadership as a mix of four behaviors that combine “tough” and “loving” approaches, with a focus on crisis manage…
Who ‘likes’ public education
This article focuses on middle-class parent activism in the Israeli policy-making arena. In recent decades, public education governance in Israel has been moving gradually from a quasi-social democratic mode to a neoliberal one. Two e-mobilizations of middle-class parents are studied: the ‘Strollers Protest’ of 2011 and the ‘Sardines Protest’ of 2014. First, we explore how these two protests used social media to promote changes in education polic…
A Cross-National Examination of the Effect of the Schwartz Cultural Dimensions on Pisa Performance Assessments
The Corrupted Industry and the “Wagon-Wheel Effect”
The present study addresses a topic neglected by the public administration literature: government corruption and its effects on public service systems. Specifically, the study focuses on the institutionalized form of government corruption and offers a framework to explain how corrupt industry operates. The results indicate that in countries with a high level of corruption, a higher ratio of public expenditure on education is associated with less …
A qualitative exploration of perceptions of masculinity and fatherhood of male school leaders
This qualitative study investigated the perceptions of masculinity and fatherhood of male school leaders and their perceptions associated with leadership practice. We used purposive sampling to recruit male Israeli school leaders for participation in the study. We collected the data by semi-structured interviews, which we then subjected to thematic analysis. The results indicate that the participants were divided between hegemonic and caring view…
Defensive Citizenship in Europe
In this article, I define and measure the new phenomenon of defensive citizenship in Europe. The literature suggests that defensive citizenship engagement is related to attempts by entitled citizens to preserve their threatened interests. It has been on the rise worldwide, especially in Europe. Based on studies and reports on the phenomenon, I argue that defensive citizenship can be assessed among entitled citizens (those born in the country, who…
Introducing managerialism into national educational contexts through pseudo-conflict
Process implementation perspective on neoliberal regulation
This comparative case study adopts a process implementation perspective on neoliberal regulation to explore developments in national curricula and standard-based reforms in the USA and Australia. Date sources include research reports, books, OECD data, and local survey data. The comparison of the dynamic of two countries reveals that whereas policymakers in the USA adopted a transforming regulatory strategy (targeting the ambiguity and conflict l…
The educational aims of the OECD in its Talis insight and lesson reports
The purpose of this study was to explore the societal orientations (individualist vs. collectivist) of educational aims, in constructions of teacher professionalism framed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) insight and lesson reports. The critical discourse analysis of OECD TALIS documents suggests that the OECD discourse on teacher professionalism attested to a …
Analysis of media reporting on desecularization in non-religious public education in Israel
This study investigated the coverage of desecularization in Israeli non-religious public education in national and local newspapers from 2016 to 2022. We conducted a content analysis and coded key elements for each article, such as the activists who carried out or opposed the desecularization activity and their narratives, arguments for and against desecularization, and resistance practices. The dominant media narratives depicted the process of d…
Teachers’ emotion regulation in coping with discipline issues
Teachers’ Big Five personality traits, emotion regulation patterns, and moods
Research knowledge about the role of teachers’ personality in shaping their mood is still limited. The present study explores the associations between teachers’ five broad personality traits (known as the ‘Big Five’), emotion regulation (suppression and reappraisal), and mood. Data collected from a sample of 113 Israeli teachers were analysed using structural equation modelling analysis and cluster analysis. Path model analysis indicated that sup…
When the going gets tough
The principal's leadership style is one of the most common ways of conceptualizing school leadership behaviours. We lack understanding, however, of how the effectiveness of school leadership styles varies across degrees of challenging circumstances. Data obtained from a quantitative survey of primary school teachers in Israel ( N = 570) and from the Ministry of Education database were used to account for principals' leadership styles and their ef…
A Multidimensional Approach in International Comparative Policy Analysis Based on Demographic Projections
Educational Leaders and Emotions
The aim of the present article is to review the international evidence about emotional aspects related to educational leaders. The review focuses on empirical studies published in peer-refereed educational journals between 1992 and 2012. First, we address the importance of researching emotions for understanding educational leaders. Next, we present the method used in the production of this narrative review. The bulk of the article presents empiri…
The Corrupted Industry and the “Wagon-Wheel Effect”
The present study addresses a topic neglected by the public administration literature: government corruption and its effects on public service systems. Specifically, the study focuses on the institutionalized form of government corruption and offers a framework to explain how corrupt industry operates. The results indicate that in countries with a high level of corruption, a higher ratio of public expenditure on education is associated with less …
The educational aims of the OECD in its Talis insight and lesson reports
The purpose of this study was to explore the societal orientations (individualist vs. collectivist) of educational aims, in constructions of teacher professionalism framed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) insight and lesson reports. The critical discourse analysis of OECD TALIS documents suggests that the OECD discourse on teacher professionalism attested to a …
Effects of Principal-Teacher Gender Similarity on Teacher’s Trust and Organizational Commitment
Marketing teacher quality
This study uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) texts on teacher quality and the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) framework. Specifically, it explores the forewords of documents written by OECD leaders, which we believe are charged with meanings related to the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) discourse. We suggest that CDA of the texts sheds light o…
Process implementation perspective on neoliberal regulation
This comparative case study adopts a process implementation perspective on neoliberal regulation to explore developments in national curricula and standard-based reforms in the USA and Australia. Date sources include research reports, books, OECD data, and local survey data. The comparison of the dynamic of two countries reveals that whereas policymakers in the USA adopted a transforming regulatory strategy (targeting the ambiguity and conflict l…
Understanding OECD representations of teachers and teaching
OECD dominance in the international educational policy discourse in the developed regions of the world, particularly in promoting teaching policy, has been long acknowledged. While many works have explored the organisation’s verbal discourse, no study has considered exploring its visual discourse. To close that gap, we employed a visual discourse analysis on the covers of OECD documents pertaining to teachers and teaching (i.e., TALIS and ISTP). …
When the going gets tough
The principal's leadership style is one of the most common ways of conceptualizing school leadership behaviours. We lack understanding, however, of how the effectiveness of school leadership styles varies across degrees of challenging circumstances. Data obtained from a quantitative survey of primary school teachers in Israel ( N = 570) and from the Ministry of Education database were used to account for principals' leadership styles and their ef…
Who ‘likes’ public education
This article focuses on middle-class parent activism in the Israeli policy-making arena. In recent decades, public education governance in Israel has been moving gradually from a quasi-social democratic mode to a neoliberal one. Two e-mobilizations of middle-class parents are studied: the ‘Strollers Protest’ of 2011 and the ‘Sardines Protest’ of 2014. First, we explore how these two protests used social media to promote changes in education polic…
DESCP factors
Policymakers often overestimate the power of agentic players in the system and their own as the causes for the successes and failures of reforms. These are but a small part of the powers in play. The article sheds light on contextual factors that are underestimated when planning and implementing reforms in education. The study utilises a case study method to explore three failed reforms in public education to identify the influence of DESCP (i.e.…
A Cross-National Examination of the Effect of the Schwartz Cultural Dimensions on Pisa Performance Assessments
Introducing managerialism into national educational contexts through pseudo-conflict
Exploring narratives of non-faculty professionals in neoliberal higher education
The purpose of this study is to explore how the rise of the new public management (NPM) culture in higher education affected librarians. Librarians are a central part of the traditional intellectual model of academia, whose professional ethos is challenged and threatened by the new market-oriented culture. Using a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews with managers and professional staff of academic libraries at a public uni…
Framing the role of the school leader in OECD documents
This paper explores the OECD framing of the role of the school leader in a series of its publications, drawing on role theory, using critical analysis of how school leaders’ roles are represented in a body of OECD texts. The research findings provide insight into the multi-faceted portrayal of the ‘ideal’ role of school leadership as framed by the OECD. The findings also show the dominance of classic scientific management ideas in the framing of …
Organisational perspectives on globalisation in education
This special issue showcases the Gordian knot between organisations and globalisation in education and exposes the organisational infrastructure of globalisation in education. Overarching themes include education serving the globalisation of organisational models, globalisation as re-organising educational organisations, the organising of international bodies operating in education, and global-oriented organisations and organising in education. T…
Ethical considerations of Bedouin Arab school leaders
Ethical considerations have been examined in American and European school management research, but indigenous and comparative aspects have largely been understudied. To better understand the ethical decision-making of indigenous school leaders, the present research aims to examine the ethical considerations of one such minority group – Bedouin Arab educators in Israel – and to compare their ethical decision-making with that of their counterparts …
Conceptualising the mediating paths linking effective school leadership to teachers’ organisational commitment
The present study is a developmental review that aims to conceptualise, using empirical data, the mediating paths connecting effective school leadership (i.e. transformational leadership and distributed leadership) to teachers’ affective and normative organisational commitment. The review is based on empirical studies on teachers’ organisational commitment published in peer-review journals during two decades. Data analysis resulted in an integrat…
Ideal teachers according to Talis
This article explores the link between the OECD TALIS 2013 survey’s framework for defining the ideal teacher and national educational goals by focusing on the teacher self-efficacy items, using cross-country comparisons. Surprisingly, cross-country analysis of the TALIS 2013 data combined with World Value Survey data about Desired Child Qualities demonstrates that the OECD TALIS teacher self-efficacy items are aligned with traditional collectivis…
Associations between novice teachers’ perceptions of their relationship to their mentor and professional commitment
This first years of teaching constitute entry stage to the profession and are considered a period of critical importance for determining the new teacher’s professional identity. This study explores the associations between novice teachers’ perspectives of their relationship with their mentors and their professional commitment. This qualitative study utilises data from semi-structured interviews conducted with 35 second-year Israeli teachers (subs…
Influence tactics and “second-order” change in schools
Purpose Principals are considered central in initiating and mobilizing changes in schools; however, their political behaviors in the course of school changes are underexplored. The present research investigated the influence tactics used by school principals to induce teachers to join a process of second-order (deep and wide) change in the school teaching and culture. In specific, the authors were interested to know which influence tactics, princ…
Psychological ownership of a team of change agents during second-order change in schools and its implications for school culture
Purpose Taking ownership is considered vital for sustaining change in organizations, particularly when second-order changes are the goal. Yet, few studies explored psychological ownership of change agents in educational organizations. Moreover, no knowledge exists on how agents' individual psychological ownership augments psychological ownership in schools and on how collective psychological ownership of change relates to school culture. The pres…
Teachers’ Big Five personality traits, emotion regulation patterns, and moods
Research knowledge about the role of teachers’ personality in shaping their mood is still limited. The present study explores the associations between teachers’ five broad personality traits (known as the ‘Big Five’), emotion regulation (suppression and reappraisal), and mood. Data collected from a sample of 113 Israeli teachers were analysed using structural equation modelling analysis and cluster analysis. Path model analysis indicated that sup…
Defensive Citizenship in Europe
In this article, I define and measure the new phenomenon of defensive citizenship in Europe. The literature suggests that defensive citizenship engagement is related to attempts by entitled citizens to preserve their threatened interests. It has been on the rise worldwide, especially in Europe. Based on studies and reports on the phenomenon, I argue that defensive citizenship can be assessed among entitled citizens (those born in the country, who…
Teachers’ authentic leadership and psychological need satisfaction climate in second chance programmes
The present study explores the effect of teachers’ authentic leadership in second chance programmes on students’ psychological need satisfaction climate (according to self-determination theory), and the manner in which teachers’ gender moderates this effect. Data collected from 60 teachers and 183 students in second chance programmes in Israel were analysed at the group level. The study found that for male teachers, authentic leadership negativel…
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