Ruth Firer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6487602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Firer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Firer |
| SIGNATURE | FIRER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To Obey or Disobey? This is the question’ NDE
‘To Obey or Disobey’ should be a life question for all free people, but for the Israelis, who are in intractable war with their neighbors while facing constant rifts among themselves, it is a concrete problem they have to face every day. Therefore, the research question posed by this article is: How is obedience of laws or military orders presented in Israeli and US Civics textbooks, and why? It examines the discussions of the issue referring to …
Education of minorities and peace education in plural societies
Virtual peace education
This article is based on the convictions that peace education is the basis for any sustainable non‐violent relations between parties in a conflict, and that virtual peace education is almost the only feasible way to practise peace education in an open violent conflict as is the current Israeli/Palestinians one. Moreover, virtual peace education has an independent rationale that justifies its merits as an additional model of peace education, in a …
Human Rights in History and Civics Textbooks
Human rights education, as reflected in the presentation of “the others” and relations with them in forty-four history textbooks, twenty-three civics texts, and five “peace education” manuals, published in Israel from the 1950s on, are analyzed and evaluated. Attitudes toward Gentiles, Arabs, Oriental Israelis, and newcomers have improved immensely during the past half century, but nevertheless the “hidden” textbooks portray the cultural loftines…
Human Rights in History and Civics Textbooks
Human rights education, as reflected in the presentation of “the others” and relations with them in forty-four history textbooks, twenty-three civics texts, and five “peace education” manuals, published in Israel from the 1950s on, are analyzed and evaluated. Attitudes toward Gentiles, Arabs, Oriental Israelis, and newcomers have improved immensely during the past half century, but nevertheless the “hidden” textbooks portray the cultural loftines…
Virtual peace education
This article is based on the convictions that peace education is the basis for any sustainable non‐violent relations between parties in a conflict, and that virtual peace education is almost the only feasible way to practise peace education in an open violent conflict as is the current Israeli/Palestinians one. Moreover, virtual peace education has an independent rationale that justifies its merits as an additional model of peace education, in a …
Human Rights in History and Civics Textbooks
Human rights education, as reflected in the presentation of “the others” and relations with them in forty-four history textbooks, twenty-three civics texts, and five “peace education” manuals, published in Israel from the 1950s on, are analyzed and evaluated. Attitudes toward Gentiles, Arabs, Oriental Israelis, and newcomers have improved immensely during the past half century, but nevertheless the “hidden” textbooks portray the cultural loftines…
Virtual peace education
This article is based on the convictions that peace education is the basis for any sustainable non‐violent relations between parties in a conflict, and that virtual peace education is almost the only feasible way to practise peace education in an open violent conflict as is the current Israeli/Palestinians one. Moreover, virtual peace education has an independent rationale that justifies its merits as an additional model of peace education, in a …
Education of minorities and peace education in plural societies
To Obey or Disobey? This is the question’ NDE
‘To Obey or Disobey’ should be a life question for all free people, but for the Israelis, who are in intractable war with their neighbors while facing constant rifts among themselves, it is a concrete problem they have to face every day. Therefore, the research question posed by this article is: How is obedience of laws or military orders presented in Israeli and US Civics textbooks, and why? It examines the discussions of the issue referring to …
Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Peace and Human Rights Education (3 works) · Civics (2 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)