Sara Zamir
Biographic Data
| ID | 4419828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Zamir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Zamir |
| SIGNATURE | ZAMIR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Achva Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7417-4201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Political tolerance among civic education teachers in Israel
Political tolerance is a core element of democratic culture and a central objective of civic education. This study examines political tolerance among 160 civic education teachers in Israel’s state (secular) and state-religious school systems following the events of October 7, 2023. Five dimensions were analyzed: Jewish-Arab relations, religion and state, classroom discourse, socio-economic issues, and liberal values. The findings revealed signifi…
Coping with a New School Principal
This study examined the perspectives of elementary school teachers regarding new school principals. Some of the principals were promoted within the school system – often considered as "home-grown principals" – while others were "parachuted" or "dropped" into their management position, often considered as "outsider principals." The Results of this research show that most teachers are concerned about new principals, yet they hope for a better era. …
The hostages’ release by Hamas
Conformism vs. Independent Opinions
Israel is defined as a Jewish and a democratic state. Yet, in recent years, the government of Israel has attempted to change the balance of power between the judiciary and the legislative and executive authorities. Many perceived this change as a fatal blow to democracy, while others supported the change. These political conflicts cannot be ignored inside schools. The purpose of this study was to examine how education administration M.A students …
Quality Assurance of a "Booster Program" for Gender Equity in the Academia
Even as the 21st century unfolds, it is well recognized that women in the academic world struggle more to secure research funding and are still largely underrepresented at the level of full professorship, the highest post possible within universities and colleges. To rectify this gender-based inequality, a mid-sized academic college initiated an original program named "Booster" aiming for it to provide the optimal framework for creating a nurturi…
The characteristics of community practice in a professional development unit for teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic
The research field selected for this study has been a professional development (PD) unit, for science teachers, during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a well-established educational institution that promotes science education. The goal of this research was to diagnose the function of the three dimensions of community of practice: mutual engagement, joint enterprise, and shared repertoire during the COVID-19 period. The findings show that the features o…
Democratic Civics Education and Patriotism
The goal of the study has been to see whether patriotic representations can be found in Israeli high school civics studies, based on the new civics' curriculum. A content analysis of the second edition of the Being Citizens in Israel textbook, which is based on the new curriculum, shows that there were eight instances of patriotic representations. The abovementioned findings show that the book contains a relatively small number of patriotism-rela…
“Exemplary” teachers
This study examined the characteristics of “exemplary” teachers according to Israeli–Arab prospective teachers, and the influence of those perceptions on their professional identity. The study is based on the qualitative paradigm using in-depth semi-structured interviews with 33 students studying education in an academic college located in the center of Israel. Findings show that their professional educational identity begins to form while still …
Peace and war themes in canonical poems included in literature anthologies for junior high schools in Israel
Purpose The purpose of this research was to study the manifestation of peace and war in the poems included in the new literature curriculum for the junior high school students in Israel. Design/methodology/approach Content analysis. Findings The results of the research, comprised by the content analysis methodology, showed that only three poems could be attributed to the category of war theme. Most of the poems fit to the category of didactic war…
The home-leaving experience of Gaza Envelope residents following the May 2021 Gaza War
Since Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and the consequent seizure of power by Hamas, there has been an ongoing military confrontation between Israel and the Islamist terror organisation. Evacuation of civilians from Israeli border localities (known as the Gaza Envelope) during such confrontations has become a bone of contention between the local residents and the government as the security situation deteriorated and t…
‘It’s not hard, only challenging’
The countenance of the value of patriotism among young and mature pre-service teachers during their apprenticeship at school
This articles examines the countenance of patriotism and its tendencies among young and mature pre-service teachers during their apprenticeship at school. In order to answer the research questions, we applied mixed methods, both qualitative and quantitative. Our findings show that both the younger and the older students believe that patriotic content should be included in the curriculum. Yet younger students defined patriotism as mere ‘connection…
The portrayal of the Oriental Jew in literary school anthologies
The aim of this research was to examine the narrative featuring oriental characters in the Sheaves school anthologies (1958–1966) in contrast to the Roots and Wings anthologies (2009). The findings show that in the Sheaves anthologies there are only three stories representing oriental characters. All three deal with the Zionist narrative of immigration to Israel. Two stories extol the ‘melting pot’ immigration policy forcing immigrants to experie…
Building a reality of peace and reconciliation through school textbooks
This article shows that effective reconciliation and peace-building require teaching children a constructed narrative based on the opposing stories, especially with regard to an intractable conflict such as the one that characterizes the Israeli–Palestinian case. Textbooks play an important role in any country when it comes to creating collective memory and political consciousness. They change over time, according to political and social powers w…
Gendered Teacher–Student Interactions in English Language Classrooms
Being and becoming is the ultimate objective of any educational enterprise, including language teaching. However, research results indicate seemingly unjustified differences between how females and males are treated by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers. The overall aim of this study is to illustrate, analyze, and discuss aspects of gender bias and gender awareness in teacher–student interaction in the Iranian college context. To this e…
Peace education through bilingual children’s literature written in Arabic and in Hebrew
The aim of this research has been to evaluate the contribution of the emerging Israeli genre of bilingual literature, Arabic and Hebrew, to peace education. Since Israeli society is a multicultural one comprised of two nations, Arabs and Jews who live in an environment of conflict, one must regard those textbooks as political socialization agents. The content analysis procedure, based on Salomon’s typology about peace education, revealed that mos…
El principio del Eterno Femenino en La Italiana en Argel de Rossini
La expresión Eterno Femenino (Eternal-Feminine, o Das Ewig-Weibliche), apareció por primera vez en los últimos versos de la segunda parte del Fausto de Goethe (acabado en 1832). Posteriormente, se convirtió en tema de especulación, y en un enigma que los estudiosos han estado intentando resolver desde entonces. La expresión vino a identificar, con el paso del tiempo, un principio cultural relacionado con la imagen de la feminidad y alcanzó su ext…
Examining Hebrew-Amharic bilingual children's literature in Israel
This article examines the emerging Israeli phenomenon of bilingual literature for children with a particular focus on Hebrew-Amharic children's literature and its representation of themes in a cultural, aesthetic, and linguistic context
Examining Hebrew-Amharic bilingual children's literature in Israel
This article examines the emerging Israeli phenomenon of bilingual literature for children with a particular focus on Hebrew-Amharic children's literature and its representation of themes in a cultural, aesthetic, and linguistic context
Building a reality of peace and reconciliation through school textbooks
This article shows that effective reconciliation and peace-building require teaching children a constructed narrative based on the opposing stories, especially with regard to an intractable conflict such as the one that characterizes the Israeli–Palestinian case. Textbooks play an important role in any country when it comes to creating collective memory and political consciousness. They change over time, according to political and social powers w…
Peace education through bilingual children’s literature written in Arabic and in Hebrew
The aim of this research has been to evaluate the contribution of the emerging Israeli genre of bilingual literature, Arabic and Hebrew, to peace education. Since Israeli society is a multicultural one comprised of two nations, Arabs and Jews who live in an environment of conflict, one must regard those textbooks as political socialization agents. The content analysis procedure, based on Salomon’s typology about peace education, revealed that mos…
El principio del Eterno Femenino en La Italiana en Argel de Rossini
La expresión Eterno Femenino (Eternal-Feminine, o Das Ewig-Weibliche), apareció por primera vez en los últimos versos de la segunda parte del Fausto de Goethe (acabado en 1832). Posteriormente, se convirtió en tema de especulación, y en un enigma que los estudiosos han estado intentando resolver desde entonces. La expresión vino a identificar, con el paso del tiempo, un principio cultural relacionado con la imagen de la feminidad y alcanzó su ext…
Examining Hebrew-Amharic bilingual children's literature in Israel
This article examines the emerging Israeli phenomenon of bilingual literature for children with a particular focus on Hebrew-Amharic children's literature and its representation of themes in a cultural, aesthetic, and linguistic context
Peace education through bilingual children’s literature written in Arabic and in Hebrew
The aim of this research has been to evaluate the contribution of the emerging Israeli genre of bilingual literature, Arabic and Hebrew, to peace education. Since Israeli society is a multicultural one comprised of two nations, Arabs and Jews who live in an environment of conflict, one must regard those textbooks as political socialization agents. The content analysis procedure, based on Salomon’s typology about peace education, revealed that mos…
Gendered Teacher–Student Interactions in English Language Classrooms
Being and becoming is the ultimate objective of any educational enterprise, including language teaching. However, research results indicate seemingly unjustified differences between how females and males are treated by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers. The overall aim of this study is to illustrate, analyze, and discuss aspects of gender bias and gender awareness in teacher–student interaction in the Iranian college context. To this e…
Building a reality of peace and reconciliation through school textbooks
This article shows that effective reconciliation and peace-building require teaching children a constructed narrative based on the opposing stories, especially with regard to an intractable conflict such as the one that characterizes the Israeli–Palestinian case. Textbooks play an important role in any country when it comes to creating collective memory and political consciousness. They change over time, according to political and social powers w…
The portrayal of the Oriental Jew in literary school anthologies
The aim of this research was to examine the narrative featuring oriental characters in the Sheaves school anthologies (1958–1966) in contrast to the Roots and Wings anthologies (2009). The findings show that in the Sheaves anthologies there are only three stories representing oriental characters. All three deal with the Zionist narrative of immigration to Israel. Two stories extol the ‘melting pot’ immigration policy forcing immigrants to experie…
‘It’s not hard, only challenging’
The countenance of the value of patriotism among young and mature pre-service teachers during their apprenticeship at school
This articles examines the countenance of patriotism and its tendencies among young and mature pre-service teachers during their apprenticeship at school. In order to answer the research questions, we applied mixed methods, both qualitative and quantitative. Our findings show that both the younger and the older students believe that patriotic content should be included in the curriculum. Yet younger students defined patriotism as mere ‘connection…
“Exemplary” teachers
This study examined the characteristics of “exemplary” teachers according to Israeli–Arab prospective teachers, and the influence of those perceptions on their professional identity. The study is based on the qualitative paradigm using in-depth semi-structured interviews with 33 students studying education in an academic college located in the center of Israel. Findings show that their professional educational identity begins to form while still …
Peace and war themes in canonical poems included in literature anthologies for junior high schools in Israel
Purpose The purpose of this research was to study the manifestation of peace and war in the poems included in the new literature curriculum for the junior high school students in Israel. Design/methodology/approach Content analysis. Findings The results of the research, comprised by the content analysis methodology, showed that only three poems could be attributed to the category of war theme. Most of the poems fit to the category of didactic war…
The home-leaving experience of Gaza Envelope residents following the May 2021 Gaza War
Since Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and the consequent seizure of power by Hamas, there has been an ongoing military confrontation between Israel and the Islamist terror organisation. Evacuation of civilians from Israeli border localities (known as the Gaza Envelope) during such confrontations has become a bone of contention between the local residents and the government as the security situation deteriorated and t…
Conformism vs. Independent Opinions
Israel is defined as a Jewish and a democratic state. Yet, in recent years, the government of Israel has attempted to change the balance of power between the judiciary and the legislative and executive authorities. Many perceived this change as a fatal blow to democracy, while others supported the change. These political conflicts cannot be ignored inside schools. The purpose of this study was to examine how education administration M.A students …
Quality Assurance of a "Booster Program" for Gender Equity in the Academia
Even as the 21st century unfolds, it is well recognized that women in the academic world struggle more to secure research funding and are still largely underrepresented at the level of full professorship, the highest post possible within universities and colleges. To rectify this gender-based inequality, a mid-sized academic college initiated an original program named "Booster" aiming for it to provide the optimal framework for creating a nurturi…
The characteristics of community practice in a professional development unit for teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic
The research field selected for this study has been a professional development (PD) unit, for science teachers, during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a well-established educational institution that promotes science education. The goal of this research was to diagnose the function of the three dimensions of community of practice: mutual engagement, joint enterprise, and shared repertoire during the COVID-19 period. The findings show that the features o…
Democratic Civics Education and Patriotism
The goal of the study has been to see whether patriotic representations can be found in Israeli high school civics studies, based on the new civics' curriculum. A content analysis of the second edition of the Being Citizens in Israel textbook, which is based on the new curriculum, shows that there were eight instances of patriotic representations. The abovementioned findings show that the book contains a relatively small number of patriotism-rela…
The hostages’ release by Hamas
Political tolerance among civic education teachers in Israel
Political tolerance is a core element of democratic culture and a central objective of civic education. This study examines political tolerance among 160 civic education teachers in Israel’s state (secular) and state-religious school systems following the events of October 7, 2023. Five dimensions were analyzed: Jewish-Arab relations, religion and state, classroom discourse, socio-economic issues, and liberal values. The findings revealed signifi…
Coping with a New School Principal
This study examined the perspectives of elementary school teachers regarding new school principals. Some of the principals were promoted within the school system – often considered as "home-grown principals" – while others were "parachuted" or "dropped" into their management position, often considered as "outsider principals." The Results of this research show that most teachers are concerned about new principals, yet they hope for a better era. …
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works)