Oren Pizmony-Levy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4270956 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Oren Pizmony-Levy |
| PRENOMES | Oren |
| SOBRENOME | Pizmony-Levy |
| ASSINATURA | PIZMONY-LEVY O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4095-6571 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Don’t Look Up
Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change (CC), the response in the education sector has been limited. This article works to identify reasons why by examining how teachers perceive CC. Specifically, we explore how teachers in Israel respond to climate change education (CCE), a global educational movement seeking to empower all people to participate in climate action. Drawing on social movement theory, we consid…
Confucian Ideals, Western Concepts, or Both
Fundraising from and engaging with alumni, once synonymous with American higher education, has gained momentum worldwide. However, we know little about how potential donors receive this practice. This article investigates how Chinese students—or future alumni—think about their responsibility to support their alma mater. We analyzed a survey of students in a large public research university in Beijing , estimating the role of Confucian moral ideal…
Rigid Culture and Social Change
This article investigates the educative practices of African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTI) activists who contest claims that homosexuality is un- African and imported from the West. We situate this work within a theoretical framework about cultural contestation and how NGOs influence cultural change. Using data from interviews with nine NGO activists from eight African countries and a survey of 31 African NGOs, we explore …
Motives for and predictors of teachers’ adoption of pro-environmental behaviours
Introduction to special issue
The aim of this special issue, “Learning Assessments for Sustainability?”, is to examine the interaction between the environmental and sustainability education (ESE) movement and the international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) movement. Both global educational movements emerged in the 1960s and their simultaneous work have affected each other since then. While the articles in this special issue highlight the potential benefits of ILSAs as a sou…
The Opt-Out Movement and the Reform Agenda in U.S. Schools
In this editorial, the authors situate the opt-out movement in the broader context of resistance to the global educational reform movement and its specific playing out in the USA in relation to the opt-out movement. The editors review the 11 articles and commentary and discuss the contributions of the collection as a whole to the literature. They note the contribution of the special issue to the literature on the application of social movement th…
Why Did They Protest? Stability and Change in the Opt-Out Movement, 2016–2018
Background/context One of the most prominent educational social movements in the United States during the past two decades has been the opt-out movement, in which parents and caregivers refuse to have their school-aged children sit for federally mandated tests. Although early responses by government officials framed the movement in terms of race, class, and gender, in truth we know little about the actual motivations that drive opt-out activists.…
Out of the Closet and into the Classroom
Previous articleNext article FreeCall for PapersOut of the Closet and into the Classroom: Reassessing the Boundaries of Gender and Sexual Minorities in Comparative and International EducationOren Pizmony-Levy, Wenli Liu, Carla Moleiro, Thabo Msibi, Marcos Nascimento, and Jacqueline UllmanOren Pizmony-Levy Search for more articles by this author , Wenli Liu Search for more articles by this author , Carla Moleiro Search for more articles by this au…
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships
Although interest in ESE policy studies is on the rise, we argue there is a gap in scholarship about the nature and extent of interactions between policymakers and researchers in the ESE field. This paper addresses this gap by discussing one example of such interaction – an ongoing research-practice partnership (RPP) between the New York City Department of Education Office of Sustainability and Teachers College, Columbia University. Using qualita…
From policy networks to policy preferences
Organizational networks shape education policy by influencing power holders and elites, but do they have similar effects on grassroots activists? We use data from the National Survey on Opting Out (2016 and 2018; n = 2,909) to examine the role of organizational networks in mobilizing activists in the opt-out movement (a movement in which parents and caregivers refuse to have their children sit for standardized tests). Despite characterizations of…
In “Alma Mater” We Trust? Exploring Attitudes toward Institutions and Alumni Giving
Background/Context Government support for higher education has decreased over the past few decades. In turn, institutions are seeking alternative sources of funding and increasing reliance on alumni giving. Although trust is important to social institutions and nonprofits, we know little about the role of trust in alumni engagement. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study We empirically assess the association between trust and philanth…
Out of the Closet and into the Classroom
Previous articleNext article FreeCall for PapersOut of the Closet and into the Classroom: Reassessing the Boundaries of Gender and Sexual Minorities in Comparative and International EducationOren Pizmony-Levy, Wenli Liu, Carla Moleiro, Thabo Msibi, Marcos Nascimento, and Jacqueline UllmanOren Pizmony-Levy Search for more articles by this author , Wenli Liu Search for more articles by this author , Carla Moleiro Search for more articles by this au…
Pride and the True Colors of the Holy Land
Compare globally, interpret locally
Israel is one of the early adopters of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) and it has participated in all but one assessment since the mid-1990s. However, we know very little about the reception of ILSAs in the Israeli context. To address this gap, I use a sample of news stories from two daily newspapers: Yedioth Ahronoth and Ha’aretz (n = 173). Taken together, these newspapers provide a ‘window’ to the public discourse about ILSAs in I…
Out on the bookshelves and in the files
School climate and the experience of LGBT students
This article examines the school experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in the United States and Israel. Through comparison of the sociocultural and edu-cational contexts, the authors assess whether school experience of LGBT students differs or operates similarly across countries. The authors use data from the National School Climate Survey conducted in 2007 in the United States and the Israeli School Climate Survey…
International perspectives on homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools
There has been increasing international attention to the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in schools, and a growing concern regarding anti-LGBT violence and bias directed at youth as a serious human rights issue and barrier to global development goals. This special issue highlights research that has been done with and/or by nongovernmental organizations and provides a global perspective on the experiences of …
Beyond Access
We explore how social safety nets shape the utilization of services in a free health care clinic. Sociological research demonstrates that social interactions greatly influence decision making and help-seeking behaviors. However, little is known about the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in this process and whether the effect of social safety nets varies across different types of services. Using original survey data from 1,044 patients…
Going Public, Gaining Credibility
Calls for university and college professors to engage with public issues-for example, by collaborating with community organizations, participating in popular media outreach, and in other ways-are on the rise. However, engaged scholarship blurs conventional boundaries between producers of academic knowledge and the public. To what extent does participation in engaged scholarship affect professors' credibility as sources of knowledge? We investigat…
Public Opinion, the Courts, and Same-sex Marriage
Social scientists often have been called upon to weigh in on social issues, and same-sex marriage is no exception. We draw on quantitative and qualitative data from a national survey to evaluate four of the most prominent arguments raised by opponents of same-sex marriage in court cases. Our data undermine these claims, leading to four lessons about same-sex marriage that we can surmise from public opinion: (1) opposition to same-sex marriage is …
Framing Strategies and Public Support for the Legalization of Marriage between Two People of the Same Sex
Over the past few decades, public debate about the legalization of marriage between people of the same sex has changed and intensified. Participants in the current debate have introduced new terms such as 'same-sex couples' instead of 'homosexual couples' to describe the subjects of this issue. Recently, this contentious issue has also been framed as a matter of 'civil rights' rather than another case of 'gay rights.' To date, however, scholars h…
Health-Care Provision for Local Disadvantaged Populations
In recent decades, the United States saw substantial growth in the number of free health-care clinics that provide access to health care for economically disadvantaged populations. For many individuals, these clinics serve as the only available source of non-emergency, primary medical care. However, we know relatively little about the populations who rely most heavily on these free clinics. This paper presents a community-based research project c…
Is There a New Israeli Gay Teenager
Over the past decade Israel has experienced dramatic change in the legitimization of same-sex relationships. In recent years the LGBT social movement has succeeded in mobilizing public support not only for the rights and well-being of adults, but also for the younger generation–LGBT youth. Using a large-scale survey of the Israeli LGBT community (N = 2,853), we explore two theoretical theses that are commonly used in research on LGBT youth. The f…
Do My Teachers Care I'm Gay? Israeli Lesbigay School Students' Experiences at their Schools
This empirical study explores the subjective experiences of Israeli lesbigay school students and their perceptions of the school climate. It provides descriptive data on different socio-demographic characteristics of Israeli lesbigay youth and presents the participants' experiences of school climate in the context of lesbigay issues. Further, it explores how students' characteristics, school environment, and school resources affect students' sens…
Public Opinion, the Courts, and Same-sex Marriage
Social scientists often have been called upon to weigh in on social issues, and same-sex marriage is no exception. We draw on quantitative and qualitative data from a national survey to evaluate four of the most prominent arguments raised by opponents of same-sex marriage in court cases. Our data undermine these claims, leading to four lessons about same-sex marriage that we can surmise from public opinion: (1) opposition to same-sex marriage is …
Pride and the True Colors of the Holy Land
Framing Strategies and Public Support for the Legalization of Marriage between Two People of the Same Sex
Over the past few decades, public debate about the legalization of marriage between people of the same sex has changed and intensified. Participants in the current debate have introduced new terms such as 'same-sex couples' instead of 'homosexual couples' to describe the subjects of this issue. Recently, this contentious issue has also been framed as a matter of 'civil rights' rather than another case of 'gay rights.' To date, however, scholars h…
Do My Teachers Care I'm Gay? Israeli Lesbigay School Students' Experiences at their Schools
This empirical study explores the subjective experiences of Israeli lesbigay school students and their perceptions of the school climate. It provides descriptive data on different socio-demographic characteristics of Israeli lesbigay youth and presents the participants' experiences of school climate in the context of lesbigay issues. Further, it explores how students' characteristics, school environment, and school resources affect students' sens…
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships
Although interest in ESE policy studies is on the rise, we argue there is a gap in scholarship about the nature and extent of interactions between policymakers and researchers in the ESE field. This paper addresses this gap by discussing one example of such interaction – an ongoing research-practice partnership (RPP) between the New York City Department of Education Office of Sustainability and Teachers College, Columbia University. Using qualita…
School climate and the experience of LGBT students
This article examines the school experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in the United States and Israel. Through comparison of the sociocultural and edu-cational contexts, the authors assess whether school experience of LGBT students differs or operates similarly across countries. The authors use data from the National School Climate Survey conducted in 2007 in the United States and the Israeli School Climate Survey…
Is There a New Israeli Gay Teenager
Over the past decade Israel has experienced dramatic change in the legitimization of same-sex relationships. In recent years the LGBT social movement has succeeded in mobilizing public support not only for the rights and well-being of adults, but also for the younger generation–LGBT youth. Using a large-scale survey of the Israeli LGBT community (N = 2,853), we explore two theoretical theses that are commonly used in research on LGBT youth. The f…
Compare globally, interpret locally
Israel is one of the early adopters of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) and it has participated in all but one assessment since the mid-1990s. However, we know very little about the reception of ILSAs in the Israeli context. To address this gap, I use a sample of news stories from two daily newspapers: Yedioth Ahronoth and Ha’aretz (n = 173). Taken together, these newspapers provide a ‘window’ to the public discourse about ILSAs in I…
International perspectives on homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools
There has been increasing international attention to the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in schools, and a growing concern regarding anti-LGBT violence and bias directed at youth as a serious human rights issue and barrier to global development goals. This special issue highlights research that has been done with and/or by nongovernmental organizations and provides a global perspective on the experiences of …
Going Public, Gaining Credibility
Calls for university and college professors to engage with public issues-for example, by collaborating with community organizations, participating in popular media outreach, and in other ways-are on the rise. However, engaged scholarship blurs conventional boundaries between producers of academic knowledge and the public. To what extent does participation in engaged scholarship affect professors' credibility as sources of knowledge? We investigat…
Do My Teachers Care I'm Gay? Israeli Lesbigay School Students' Experiences at their Schools
This empirical study explores the subjective experiences of Israeli lesbigay school students and their perceptions of the school climate. It provides descriptive data on different socio-demographic characteristics of Israeli lesbigay youth and presents the participants' experiences of school climate in the context of lesbigay issues. Further, it explores how students' characteristics, school environment, and school resources affect students' sens…
Is There a New Israeli Gay Teenager
Over the past decade Israel has experienced dramatic change in the legitimization of same-sex relationships. In recent years the LGBT social movement has succeeded in mobilizing public support not only for the rights and well-being of adults, but also for the younger generation–LGBT youth. Using a large-scale survey of the Israeli LGBT community (N = 2,853), we explore two theoretical theses that are commonly used in research on LGBT youth. The f…
Health-Care Provision for Local Disadvantaged Populations
In recent decades, the United States saw substantial growth in the number of free health-care clinics that provide access to health care for economically disadvantaged populations. For many individuals, these clinics serve as the only available source of non-emergency, primary medical care. However, we know relatively little about the populations who rely most heavily on these free clinics. This paper presents a community-based research project c…
Framing Strategies and Public Support for the Legalization of Marriage between Two People of the Same Sex
Over the past few decades, public debate about the legalization of marriage between people of the same sex has changed and intensified. Participants in the current debate have introduced new terms such as 'same-sex couples' instead of 'homosexual couples' to describe the subjects of this issue. Recently, this contentious issue has also been framed as a matter of 'civil rights' rather than another case of 'gay rights.' To date, however, scholars h…
Public Opinion, the Courts, and Same-sex Marriage
Social scientists often have been called upon to weigh in on social issues, and same-sex marriage is no exception. We draw on quantitative and qualitative data from a national survey to evaluate four of the most prominent arguments raised by opponents of same-sex marriage in court cases. Our data undermine these claims, leading to four lessons about same-sex marriage that we can surmise from public opinion: (1) opposition to same-sex marriage is …
Out on the bookshelves and in the files
School climate and the experience of LGBT students
This article examines the school experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in the United States and Israel. Through comparison of the sociocultural and edu-cational contexts, the authors assess whether school experience of LGBT students differs or operates similarly across countries. The authors use data from the National School Climate Survey conducted in 2007 in the United States and the Israeli School Climate Survey…
International perspectives on homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools
There has been increasing international attention to the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in schools, and a growing concern regarding anti-LGBT violence and bias directed at youth as a serious human rights issue and barrier to global development goals. This special issue highlights research that has been done with and/or by nongovernmental organizations and provides a global perspective on the experiences of …
Beyond Access
We explore how social safety nets shape the utilization of services in a free health care clinic. Sociological research demonstrates that social interactions greatly influence decision making and help-seeking behaviors. However, little is known about the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in this process and whether the effect of social safety nets varies across different types of services. Using original survey data from 1,044 patients…
Going Public, Gaining Credibility
Calls for university and college professors to engage with public issues-for example, by collaborating with community organizations, participating in popular media outreach, and in other ways-are on the rise. However, engaged scholarship blurs conventional boundaries between producers of academic knowledge and the public. To what extent does participation in engaged scholarship affect professors' credibility as sources of knowledge? We investigat…
Compare globally, interpret locally
Israel is one of the early adopters of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) and it has participated in all but one assessment since the mid-1990s. However, we know very little about the reception of ILSAs in the Israeli context. To address this gap, I use a sample of news stories from two daily newspapers: Yedioth Ahronoth and Ha’aretz (n = 173). Taken together, these newspapers provide a ‘window’ to the public discourse about ILSAs in I…
Pride and the True Colors of the Holy Land
From policy networks to policy preferences
Organizational networks shape education policy by influencing power holders and elites, but do they have similar effects on grassroots activists? We use data from the National Survey on Opting Out (2016 and 2018; n = 2,909) to examine the role of organizational networks in mobilizing activists in the opt-out movement (a movement in which parents and caregivers refuse to have their children sit for standardized tests). Despite characterizations of…
In “Alma Mater” We Trust? Exploring Attitudes toward Institutions and Alumni Giving
Background/Context Government support for higher education has decreased over the past few decades. In turn, institutions are seeking alternative sources of funding and increasing reliance on alumni giving. Although trust is important to social institutions and nonprofits, we know little about the role of trust in alumni engagement. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study We empirically assess the association between trust and philanth…
Out of the Closet and into the Classroom
Previous articleNext article FreeCall for PapersOut of the Closet and into the Classroom: Reassessing the Boundaries of Gender and Sexual Minorities in Comparative and International EducationOren Pizmony-Levy, Wenli Liu, Carla Moleiro, Thabo Msibi, Marcos Nascimento, and Jacqueline UllmanOren Pizmony-Levy Search for more articles by this author , Wenli Liu Search for more articles by this author , Carla Moleiro Search for more articles by this au…
Introduction to special issue
The aim of this special issue, “Learning Assessments for Sustainability?”, is to examine the interaction between the environmental and sustainability education (ESE) movement and the international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) movement. Both global educational movements emerged in the 1960s and their simultaneous work have affected each other since then. While the articles in this special issue highlight the potential benefits of ILSAs as a sou…
The Opt-Out Movement and the Reform Agenda in U.S. Schools
In this editorial, the authors situate the opt-out movement in the broader context of resistance to the global educational reform movement and its specific playing out in the USA in relation to the opt-out movement. The editors review the 11 articles and commentary and discuss the contributions of the collection as a whole to the literature. They note the contribution of the special issue to the literature on the application of social movement th…
Why Did They Protest? Stability and Change in the Opt-Out Movement, 2016–2018
Background/context One of the most prominent educational social movements in the United States during the past two decades has been the opt-out movement, in which parents and caregivers refuse to have their school-aged children sit for federally mandated tests. Although early responses by government officials framed the movement in terms of race, class, and gender, in truth we know little about the actual motivations that drive opt-out activists.…
Out of the Closet and into the Classroom
Previous articleNext article FreeCall for PapersOut of the Closet and into the Classroom: Reassessing the Boundaries of Gender and Sexual Minorities in Comparative and International EducationOren Pizmony-Levy, Wenli Liu, Carla Moleiro, Thabo Msibi, Marcos Nascimento, and Jacqueline UllmanOren Pizmony-Levy Search for more articles by this author , Wenli Liu Search for more articles by this author , Carla Moleiro Search for more articles by this au…
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships
Although interest in ESE policy studies is on the rise, we argue there is a gap in scholarship about the nature and extent of interactions between policymakers and researchers in the ESE field. This paper addresses this gap by discussing one example of such interaction – an ongoing research-practice partnership (RPP) between the New York City Department of Education Office of Sustainability and Teachers College, Columbia University. Using qualita…
Rigid Culture and Social Change
This article investigates the educative practices of African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTI) activists who contest claims that homosexuality is un- African and imported from the West. We situate this work within a theoretical framework about cultural contestation and how NGOs influence cultural change. Using data from interviews with nine NGO activists from eight African countries and a survey of 31 African NGOs, we explore …
Motives for and predictors of teachers’ adoption of pro-environmental behaviours
Don’t Look Up
Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change (CC), the response in the education sector has been limited. This article works to identify reasons why by examining how teachers perceive CC. Specifically, we explore how teachers in Israel respond to climate change education (CCE), a global educational movement seeking to empower all people to participate in climate action. Drawing on social movement theory, we consid…
Confucian Ideals, Western Concepts, or Both
Fundraising from and engaging with alumni, once synonymous with American higher education, has gained momentum worldwide. However, we know little about how potential donors receive this practice. This article investigates how Chinese students—or future alumni—think about their responsibility to support their alma mater. We analyzed a survey of students in a large public research university in Beijing , estimating the role of Confucian moral ideal…
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