Ruth Amir
Biographic Data
| ID | 5016168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Amir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Amir |
| SIGNATURE | AMIR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0659-5626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel
This book deals comprehensively with different aspects of collective victimhood in contemporary Israel, but also with the wider implications of this important concept for many other societies, including the Palestinian one. The eight highly-diverse, scholarly chapters included in this volume offer analysis of the politics of victimhood (viewing it as increasingly dominant within contemporary Israel), assess victimhood as a focal point of the Jewi…
Cultural Genocide in Canada? It Did Happen Here
This article explores the significance of the TRC’s assertion that the establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of Canada’s Aboriginal policy that can be described as cultural genocide, against the backdrop of Canada’s historical position on cultural genocide and in view of residential schools litigation. It analyzes the deliberations over the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide …
Killing Them Softly
The forcible transfer of indigenous children in North America and Australia are part of a global phenomenon that consisted of the kidnapping, trafficking, removal, and identity changes of children of particular groups. Article II(e) of the United Nation Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide prohibits the forcible transfer of children of a group to another group (FTC). The FTC echoes domestic and international legal norms and pol…
Constructing National Identity
This study is part of a wider research, which examines different strategies of exclusion and inclusion in public discourse and in the construction of collective memory in Israel. At the beginning of the 1930s, following the great economic crisis and the rise of National Socialism in Germany, a plan was conceived to send Jewish German youth to Palestine. Thus began the Project of Youth Aliyah, and with it the debate within the Zionist Movement and…
The Construction of Illusion
Executive Governance in Israel
Designing the Executive Branch Executive Governance and Democracy Prime Ministerial Power: Resources and Constraints Powersharing with Nonelected Authorities Elections, Coalitions, and Governance Policymaking: Case Studies in Leadership Transition of Government Power Balancing Executive Power
The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967Michael Dumper New York
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High school science as viewed by college students in Israel
Retrospective Curriculum Evaluation
Curriculum evaluation may be defined as systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data that bear on the effectiveness, sufficiency, and efficiency of the program in meeting its goals or otherwise providing a public good in the absence of public harm (Jaeger 1978, p. 302). One of the major goals of the science curricula of the 1960s was to teach the structure of the disciplines. Thus, for example, the major aim of the BSCS (Biological…
The Construction of Illusion
Retrospective Curriculum Evaluation
Curriculum evaluation may be defined as systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data that bear on the effectiveness, sufficiency, and efficiency of the program in meeting its goals or otherwise providing a public good in the absence of public harm (Jaeger 1978, p. 302). One of the major goals of the science curricula of the 1960s was to teach the structure of the disciplines. Thus, for example, the major aim of the BSCS (Biological…
High school science as viewed by college students in Israel
Retrospective Curriculum Evaluation
Curriculum evaluation may be defined as systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data that bear on the effectiveness, sufficiency, and efficiency of the program in meeting its goals or otherwise providing a public good in the absence of public harm (Jaeger 1978, p. 302). One of the major goals of the science curricula of the 1960s was to teach the structure of the disciplines. Thus, for example, the major aim of the BSCS (Biological…
The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967Michael Dumper New York
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Executive Governance in Israel
Designing the Executive Branch Executive Governance and Democracy Prime Ministerial Power: Resources and Constraints Powersharing with Nonelected Authorities Elections, Coalitions, and Governance Policymaking: Case Studies in Leadership Transition of Government Power Balancing Executive Power
The Construction of Illusion
Constructing National Identity
This study is part of a wider research, which examines different strategies of exclusion and inclusion in public discourse and in the construction of collective memory in Israel. At the beginning of the 1930s, following the great economic crisis and the rise of National Socialism in Germany, a plan was conceived to send Jewish German youth to Palestine. Thus began the Project of Youth Aliyah, and with it the debate within the Zionist Movement and…
Killing Them Softly
The forcible transfer of indigenous children in North America and Australia are part of a global phenomenon that consisted of the kidnapping, trafficking, removal, and identity changes of children of particular groups. Article II(e) of the United Nation Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide prohibits the forcible transfer of children of a group to another group (FTC). The FTC echoes domestic and international legal norms and pol…
Cultural Genocide in Canada? It Did Happen Here
This article explores the significance of the TRC’s assertion that the establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of Canada’s Aboriginal policy that can be described as cultural genocide, against the backdrop of Canada’s historical position on cultural genocide and in view of residential schools litigation. It analyzes the deliberations over the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide …
Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel
This book deals comprehensively with different aspects of collective victimhood in contemporary Israel, but also with the wider implications of this important concept for many other societies, including the Palestinian one. The eight highly-diverse, scholarly chapters included in this volume offer analysis of the politics of victimhood (viewing it as increasingly dominant within contemporary Israel), assess victimhood as a focal point of the Jewi…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Genocide (2 works)