Laura I Sigad
Biographic Data
| ID | 631336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura I Sigad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura I |
| FAMILY NAME | Sigad |
| SIGNATURE | SIGAD L I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oranim Academic College of Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1092-3672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Supporting Those Who Support Others
Aim. This study examines how educators working with children of forced migrants navigate their professional roles within a context of chronic precarity, legal uncertainty, and socio-political exclusion. Concept. Drawing on a phenomenological design and in-depth interviews with 11 educators in southern Tel Aviv, Israel, the analysis traces educators’ lived experiences as they contend with unfamiliar cultural norms, emotional exposure, and institut…
Seeing the invisible
Background : Although educators are arguably in the best position to recognize signs of child neglect in its earliest stages, there is a notable gap in research examining their role in this context. This study examines the perspectives of educators in Israeli schools and explores how they experience, define and attribute meaning to childhood neglect among their students. I n-depth interviews were conducted with 31 Jewish female educators, includi…
From exclusion to inclusive multicultural education
The Role of Relationships in Resilience
Despite extensive research on resilience, little information exists on the resilience of teachers who faced adversity in childhood and the meanings they attribute to their current work with at-risk students. Thus, this study aimed to address this knowledge gap by examining the narratives of teachers who were at-risk children. Based on 30 semi-structured life-narrative interviews, the findings revealed the significant meaning that the participants…
“The Good World You Thought Existed does not”
It’s a Phenomenon in Our Community, a Phenomenon That Is Silenced”
This study focused on Jewish national religious educators in Israel by exploring their narratives surrounding coping with the CSA of their students, including the perceived silencing of the phenomena within the community and the desire to provide their students with the care they require. In-depth interviews were conducted with 34 national religious educators, including teachers (n = 20), counselors (n = 4), and principals (n = 10), which were an…
You can really be hurt by someone just like you”
Close up and distant perspectives of educational visions
Growing up on the sidelines
By examining the experiences of the children of Palestinian collaborators whose families have relocated to Israel, this study explores how youth negotiate self within the context of marginalisation and cultural dislocation. Due to the actions of their parents, the research participants have become outsiders and outcasts in their Palestinian communities of origin, outsiders in Israel, and outsiders among Israeli-Arabs. Based on qualitative, in-dep…
I felt like I was thrown into a deep well”
Alone with our interpretations”
The meaning of work among immigrants living in poverty in Israel
The global financial crisis has increased the number of working immigrants living in poverty around the world. This article presents and analyses the interaction of work, immigration and poverty among working immigrants in Israel. Methodologically, this study has combined hermeneutic phenomenological and social constructivist approaches and in so doing has aimed to describe the realities of immigrants living and working in poverty. Presenting bot…
Working Men Views of Poverty
Despite the alarming numbers of workers living in poverty in developed countries, work is still commonly seen as a way out of poverty. From a social constructivist perspective and based on qualitative research of the working poor in Israel, the article explores low-income Arab and Jewish working men's views of poverty. It addresses research topics such as the meaning of work, the perception of the workplace, and the experience of poverty and copi…
The Experiences of Israeli Early Childhood Educators Working With Children of Ethiopian Background
This study offers an in-depth examination of the experiences of early childhood educators, focusing on their work with Ethiopian immigrant children and their families. We aim to describe and analyze the teachers’ insider views vis-à-vis the challenges faced by these children and their parents in the Israeli preschool system. Using narrative methodology, the analysis of findings is based upon 20 stories written by 10 early childhood educators. It …
Working Poor Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women and Men
The present article focuses on the interface between religion, work, and poverty as reflected in 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with ultra-Orthodox working-poor women and men in Israel. Based on a social constructivist theoretical framework, findings uncover the complex role of religion in the construction of the working poor. Religion demands a set of behaviors and belief systems that hinder the individual’s ability to break out of poverty, …
Living on the Edges
The Transnational Lives of American-Israeli Mothers
Pathways to Resilience Among Israeli Child Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Masculinity, Poverty and Work
This article explores the impact of poverty on working men in light of the great diversity of the working poor population. Grounded upon a social constructivist theoretical framework and a comparative qualitative study of the working poor in Israel, this article examines the construction of 'waged work' among low income, Israeli working men. To illuminate the complex intersection of masculinity, poverty and waged work with ethnic and cultural cat…
Grandparenting across borders
You Can't Exactly Act American Here In Israel
An increasing number of migrant families around the world maintain strong, simultaneous connections in their country of residence and their country of origin. North Americans in Israel are one migrant group representing this worldwide phenomenon. This study employs child- and youth-oriented ethnographic research methods with children of North American–Israeli transnational families. We present a phenomenological look at their identity negotiation…
Migration, Motherhood, Marriage
This study probes the cross‐cultural adaptation patterns of North American women who immigrated to Israel with their Israeli‐born husbands (or married there) and are mothers in their new country. In order to undertake a cultural analysis of the interplay between immigration, motherhood and bicultural marriage, we examine: the effects of motherhood and North American culture of origin on cross‐cultural adaptation; the effects of immigration to Isr…
Grandparenting across borders
Working Poor Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women and Men
The present article focuses on the interface between religion, work, and poverty as reflected in 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with ultra-Orthodox working-poor women and men in Israel. Based on a social constructivist theoretical framework, findings uncover the complex role of religion in the construction of the working poor. Religion demands a set of behaviors and belief systems that hinder the individual’s ability to break out of poverty, …
Migration, Motherhood, Marriage
This study probes the cross‐cultural adaptation patterns of North American women who immigrated to Israel with their Israeli‐born husbands (or married there) and are mothers in their new country. In order to undertake a cultural analysis of the interplay between immigration, motherhood and bicultural marriage, we examine: the effects of motherhood and North American culture of origin on cross‐cultural adaptation; the effects of immigration to Isr…
You Can't Exactly Act American Here In Israel
An increasing number of migrant families around the world maintain strong, simultaneous connections in their country of residence and their country of origin. North Americans in Israel are one migrant group representing this worldwide phenomenon. This study employs child- and youth-oriented ethnographic research methods with children of North American–Israeli transnational families. We present a phenomenological look at their identity negotiation…
Masculinity, Poverty and Work
This article explores the impact of poverty on working men in light of the great diversity of the working poor population. Grounded upon a social constructivist theoretical framework and a comparative qualitative study of the working poor in Israel, this article examines the construction of 'waged work' among low income, Israeli working men. To illuminate the complex intersection of masculinity, poverty and waged work with ethnic and cultural cat…
Pathways to Resilience Among Israeli Child Victims of Abuse and Neglect
I felt like I was thrown into a deep well”
The meaning of work among immigrants living in poverty in Israel
The global financial crisis has increased the number of working immigrants living in poverty around the world. This article presents and analyses the interaction of work, immigration and poverty among working immigrants in Israel. Methodologically, this study has combined hermeneutic phenomenological and social constructivist approaches and in so doing has aimed to describe the realities of immigrants living and working in poverty. Presenting bot…
Working Men Views of Poverty
Despite the alarming numbers of workers living in poverty in developed countries, work is still commonly seen as a way out of poverty. From a social constructivist perspective and based on qualitative research of the working poor in Israel, the article explores low-income Arab and Jewish working men's views of poverty. It addresses research topics such as the meaning of work, the perception of the workplace, and the experience of poverty and copi…
Migration, Motherhood, Marriage
This study probes the cross‐cultural adaptation patterns of North American women who immigrated to Israel with their Israeli‐born husbands (or married there) and are mothers in their new country. In order to undertake a cultural analysis of the interplay between immigration, motherhood and bicultural marriage, we examine: the effects of motherhood and North American culture of origin on cross‐cultural adaptation; the effects of immigration to Isr…
You Can't Exactly Act American Here In Israel
An increasing number of migrant families around the world maintain strong, simultaneous connections in their country of residence and their country of origin. North Americans in Israel are one migrant group representing this worldwide phenomenon. This study employs child- and youth-oriented ethnographic research methods with children of North American–Israeli transnational families. We present a phenomenological look at their identity negotiation…
Grandparenting across borders
Pathways to Resilience Among Israeli Child Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Masculinity, Poverty and Work
This article explores the impact of poverty on working men in light of the great diversity of the working poor population. Grounded upon a social constructivist theoretical framework and a comparative qualitative study of the working poor in Israel, this article examines the construction of 'waged work' among low income, Israeli working men. To illuminate the complex intersection of masculinity, poverty and waged work with ethnic and cultural cat…
The Experiences of Israeli Early Childhood Educators Working With Children of Ethiopian Background
This study offers an in-depth examination of the experiences of early childhood educators, focusing on their work with Ethiopian immigrant children and their families. We aim to describe and analyze the teachers’ insider views vis-à-vis the challenges faced by these children and their parents in the Israeli preschool system. Using narrative methodology, the analysis of findings is based upon 20 stories written by 10 early childhood educators. It …
Working Poor Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women and Men
The present article focuses on the interface between religion, work, and poverty as reflected in 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with ultra-Orthodox working-poor women and men in Israel. Based on a social constructivist theoretical framework, findings uncover the complex role of religion in the construction of the working poor. Religion demands a set of behaviors and belief systems that hinder the individual’s ability to break out of poverty, …
Living on the Edges
The Transnational Lives of American-Israeli Mothers
Working Men Views of Poverty
Despite the alarming numbers of workers living in poverty in developed countries, work is still commonly seen as a way out of poverty. From a social constructivist perspective and based on qualitative research of the working poor in Israel, the article explores low-income Arab and Jewish working men's views of poverty. It addresses research topics such as the meaning of work, the perception of the workplace, and the experience of poverty and copi…
The meaning of work among immigrants living in poverty in Israel
The global financial crisis has increased the number of working immigrants living in poverty around the world. This article presents and analyses the interaction of work, immigration and poverty among working immigrants in Israel. Methodologically, this study has combined hermeneutic phenomenological and social constructivist approaches and in so doing has aimed to describe the realities of immigrants living and working in poverty. Presenting bot…
Growing up on the sidelines
By examining the experiences of the children of Palestinian collaborators whose families have relocated to Israel, this study explores how youth negotiate self within the context of marginalisation and cultural dislocation. Due to the actions of their parents, the research participants have become outsiders and outcasts in their Palestinian communities of origin, outsiders in Israel, and outsiders among Israeli-Arabs. Based on qualitative, in-dep…
I felt like I was thrown into a deep well”
Alone with our interpretations”
Close up and distant perspectives of educational visions
You can really be hurt by someone just like you”
The Role of Relationships in Resilience
Despite extensive research on resilience, little information exists on the resilience of teachers who faced adversity in childhood and the meanings they attribute to their current work with at-risk students. Thus, this study aimed to address this knowledge gap by examining the narratives of teachers who were at-risk children. Based on 30 semi-structured life-narrative interviews, the findings revealed the significant meaning that the participants…
“The Good World You Thought Existed does not”
It’s a Phenomenon in Our Community, a Phenomenon That Is Silenced”
This study focused on Jewish national religious educators in Israel by exploring their narratives surrounding coping with the CSA of their students, including the perceived silencing of the phenomena within the community and the desire to provide their students with the care they require. In-depth interviews were conducted with 34 national religious educators, including teachers (n = 20), counselors (n = 4), and principals (n = 10), which were an…
From exclusion to inclusive multicultural education
Supporting Those Who Support Others
Aim. This study examines how educators working with children of forced migrants navigate their professional roles within a context of chronic precarity, legal uncertainty, and socio-political exclusion. Concept. Drawing on a phenomenological design and in-depth interviews with 11 educators in southern Tel Aviv, Israel, the analysis traces educators’ lived experiences as they contend with unfamiliar cultural norms, emotional exposure, and institut…
Seeing the invisible
Background : Although educators are arguably in the best position to recognize signs of child neglect in its earliest stages, there is a notable gap in research examining their role in this context. This study examines the perspectives of educators in Israeli schools and explores how they experience, define and attribute meaning to childhood neglect among their students. I n-depth interviews were conducted with 31 Jewish female educators, includi…
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)