Gila Amitay
Biographic Data
| ID | 934303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gila Amitay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gila |
| FAMILY NAME | Amitay |
| SIGNATURE | AMITAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4896-7101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Feminist community social work during Covid-19
Young women who experience distress and social exclusion have little access to social resources. During emergencies such as pandemics, their suffering from poverty, emotional distress, and lack of aid increases. “The Women’s Courtyard” is a social service operating in three Israeli cities: Jaffa, Netanya, and Haifa, specifically designed for young women and girls, mainly Arab Muslims and Ethiopian Jews, who experience extreme distress and social …
Freedom of expression in Israeli campuses and social media during the war with Hamas
Girls Leaving Care
This study offers the concepts of relational agency that place the development of agency and self‐efficacy beliefs in the context of interpersonal relationships. Twenty‐two semi‐structured interviews with care‐leavers were analysed through a six‐stage thematic analysis process. The following four themes emerged: (1) the perception of the placement as a successful turning point, (2) relationships formed during the stay as opportunities to practice…
Home sweet-and-sour home
The Practice of Spiritual Criminology
Spiritual criminology (SC) is an umbrella term for various criminological theories, models and practices that share reference to the spiritual dimension of human existence. Informed by a growing body of research that applies spiritual approaches to various aspects of criminology, SC attempts to provide a common thread shared by most approaches to spirituality: a voluntary self-journey that begins with an elevated level of self-centeredness and is…
Community Agency as Infrastructure for Cultural Responsiveness
Criminalization of Asylum Seekers in Israel
From Helpless Rage to Loving Resistance
Immanent pedagogy with young women in extreme social exclusion
Immanent pedagogy reveals the structure of knowledge and also studies the structure of discipline. Immanent pedagogy is possible when we succeed in becoming and in becoming-other as a process of encountering and conjoining with others and with diverse ideas. Minority is one practice of becoming-other. It involves the ability to conceive the viewpoint of a real or imagined social standpoint, thus, minority is a political act that seeks to undermin…
Capoeira clubs as inclusive and therapeutic communities for youth and young adults experiencing social exclusion
Capoeira is an effective rehabilitative practice for marginal populations. There is a need to define the essential elements of the trainee’s experience, and to conceptualize and define the processes of inclusion and rehabilitation associated with Capoeira training. This study aimed to explore the therapeutic rehabilitative elements of Capoeira pedagogy as perceived by Capoeira instructors who work with youths and young adults who experience socia…
Sufi Non-Doing Offender Rehabilitation
Offender rehabilitation is a challenging goal that calls for ongoing creative innovations. Amongst is a non-doing rehabilitative initiation that is inspired by spiritual traditions. The aim of this paper is to present an application of non-doing offender rehabilitation that has no declared intention to rehabilitate, carried by a peacemaking Islamic Sufi route. Based on the positive criminology approach, we conducted a qualitative phenomenological…
The map and the territory
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between a school’s design and architecture and its educational practices, in light of critical theories regarding place, space and education. The study was based on 63 observations during the school daily activities and 75 semi-structured interviews with students, teachers and other staff, as well as two focus-groups consisting of school graduates.We identified two major elements that are…
Volunteers' practices in mentoring youth in distress
Academic self-efficacy as a resilience factor among adjudicated girls
This study focuses on understanding learning disabilities (LDs) as a non-specific risk factor for delinquency among adolescent at-risk girls and investigates academic, social and emotional self-efficacy of adolescent girls with and without LDs in three educational settings: youth protection authority facilities (YPA), special education (SE) and general education (GE). In addition to self-efficacy variables, the study also gathered emotional-behav…
Home sweet-and-sour home
The map and the territory
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between a school’s design and architecture and its educational practices, in light of critical theories regarding place, space and education. The study was based on 63 observations during the school daily activities and 75 semi-structured interviews with students, teachers and other staff, as well as two focus-groups consisting of school graduates.We identified two major elements that are…
Volunteers' practices in mentoring youth in distress
Academic self-efficacy as a resilience factor among adjudicated girls
This study focuses on understanding learning disabilities (LDs) as a non-specific risk factor for delinquency among adolescent at-risk girls and investigates academic, social and emotional self-efficacy of adolescent girls with and without LDs in three educational settings: youth protection authority facilities (YPA), special education (SE) and general education (GE). In addition to self-efficacy variables, the study also gathered emotional-behav…
Volunteers' practices in mentoring youth in distress
The map and the territory
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between a school’s design and architecture and its educational practices, in light of critical theories regarding place, space and education. The study was based on 63 observations during the school daily activities and 75 semi-structured interviews with students, teachers and other staff, as well as two focus-groups consisting of school graduates.We identified two major elements that are…
Sufi Non-Doing Offender Rehabilitation
Offender rehabilitation is a challenging goal that calls for ongoing creative innovations. Amongst is a non-doing rehabilitative initiation that is inspired by spiritual traditions. The aim of this paper is to present an application of non-doing offender rehabilitation that has no declared intention to rehabilitate, carried by a peacemaking Islamic Sufi route. Based on the positive criminology approach, we conducted a qualitative phenomenological…
From Helpless Rage to Loving Resistance
Immanent pedagogy with young women in extreme social exclusion
Immanent pedagogy reveals the structure of knowledge and also studies the structure of discipline. Immanent pedagogy is possible when we succeed in becoming and in becoming-other as a process of encountering and conjoining with others and with diverse ideas. Minority is one practice of becoming-other. It involves the ability to conceive the viewpoint of a real or imagined social standpoint, thus, minority is a political act that seeks to undermin…
Capoeira clubs as inclusive and therapeutic communities for youth and young adults experiencing social exclusion
Capoeira is an effective rehabilitative practice for marginal populations. There is a need to define the essential elements of the trainee’s experience, and to conceptualize and define the processes of inclusion and rehabilitation associated with Capoeira training. This study aimed to explore the therapeutic rehabilitative elements of Capoeira pedagogy as perceived by Capoeira instructors who work with youths and young adults who experience socia…
The Practice of Spiritual Criminology
Spiritual criminology (SC) is an umbrella term for various criminological theories, models and practices that share reference to the spiritual dimension of human existence. Informed by a growing body of research that applies spiritual approaches to various aspects of criminology, SC attempts to provide a common thread shared by most approaches to spirituality: a voluntary self-journey that begins with an elevated level of self-centeredness and is…
Community Agency as Infrastructure for Cultural Responsiveness
Criminalization of Asylum Seekers in Israel
Home sweet-and-sour home
Feminist community social work during Covid-19
Young women who experience distress and social exclusion have little access to social resources. During emergencies such as pandemics, their suffering from poverty, emotional distress, and lack of aid increases. “The Women’s Courtyard” is a social service operating in three Israeli cities: Jaffa, Netanya, and Haifa, specifically designed for young women and girls, mainly Arab Muslims and Ethiopian Jews, who experience extreme distress and social …
Freedom of expression in Israeli campuses and social media during the war with Hamas
Girls Leaving Care
This study offers the concepts of relational agency that place the development of agency and self‐efficacy beliefs in the context of interpersonal relationships. Twenty‐two semi‐structured interviews with care‐leavers were analysed through a six‐stage thematic analysis process. The following four themes emerged: (1) the perception of the placement as a successful turning point, (2) relationships formed during the stay as opportunities to practice…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social science (4 works)