Deborah Court
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 509793 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Deborah Court |
| PRENOMES | Deborah |
| SOBRENOME | Court |
| ASSINATURA | COURT D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6332-9637 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Insider-Outsider Research in Qualitative Inquiry
Insider-Outsider Research in Qualitative Inquiry: New Perspectives on Method and Meaning explores the history, practice and particular benefits of conducting cultural research through a partnership of two researchers: one who is an insider to the culture under study and one who is an outsider. This book unpacks terminology around this type of research that has become outdated or cumbersome, looks at ethical issues and suggests specific methodolog…
A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers
A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers outlines a history of knowledge from Ancient Greece to present day, in Europe and the Western world. This outline provides the basis for understanding where various research methods originate, and their epistemological, historical, political and social roots. This book provides social science researchers with an understanding of how research methods developed, and how their truth criteri…
Two Ethnographic Researchers Embark on a Narrative Journey
In this article two ethnographic researchers present a life story that emerged, almost against their will, as one of 120 in-depth interviews with Israeli Druze. The ethnographic study was designed to provide understanding of Israeli Druze society today through the discovery of thematic patterns. One interviewee, however, simply refused to follow the loosely structured interview format and told her story. Hana's story about the importance of her f…
Will “Education for Tradition” Be Enough in a Closing Circle of Secrets? The Case of the Israeli Druze
This article reports some of the results of interviews with 120 Israeli Druze, 60 middle-aged adults and 60 young adults, regarding values, views of the Druze community, and personal identity. All participants expressed commitment to and love for traditional Druze values of familial respect, respect for others, modesty in dress and behavior, and commitment to Druze beliefs about one, all-powerful God and the reincarnation of Druze souls within th…
Whose Interview Is It, Anyway? Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Insider-Outsider Research, Multiple Languages, and Dual-Researcher Cooperation
This article focuses on the methodological challenges in one interview of the 60 in-depth interviews that comprise a research study of Israeli Druze currently underway. The study is being conducted by a pair of researchers, one a Canadian living in Israel, an English and Hebrew speaker, and one an Israeli Druze woman, a Hebrew and Arabic speaker. The interview examined here involves two interviewers, two interviewees, three languages and at least…
Role of Druze high schools in Israel in shaping students’ identity and citizenship
This study investigated how two Israeli Druze high schools shape the identity and citizenship of adolescents through curriculum, teaching, discourse, social activities and national ceremonies. Data were collected through interviews with teachers, the two school principals, policymakers for Druze education in the Ministry of Education, and students, as well as through observations and document analysis. The research found that the Israeli Druze sc…
Coping strategies of high school students with learning disabilities
The authors interviewed 20 Israeli high school students with learning disabilities over a three‐year period to identify the students' core coping strategies. Four emotional–cognitive strategies were identified: 'Avoidance,' 'Rebellion,' 'Reconciliation,' and 'Determination.' These strategies appeared in hierarchical order, leading to students' integration of, acceptance of, and coming to terms with their difficulties. Interventions of early and a…
Foolish Dreams in a Fabled Land
This article presents the results of an ethnographic case study of an Israeli Arab middle school whose staff and students are Arab Israelis from the Moslem, Druze, and Christian population sectors. Against the Israeli backdrop of multiculturalism, political tensions, and terrorism, this school has created a multi‐faceted curriculum for teaching students the values of non‐violence and peaceful co‐existence, as well as creating a school culture tha…
Education in a Troubled Democracy
Democracy offers no automatic principles for a decent and civilized life. Its principles require interpretation and compromise, and must be balanced between the welfare of individuals, groups, and the state. In Israel, the situation is made even more complex by the fact that Israel defines itself as a Jewish state. Surrounded by hostile forces, Israel must attempt not only to maintain peace and security but to offer democratic rights to its Jewis…
Construction and Application of an Evaluative Tool to Assess Reflection in Teacher-Training Courses
In recent years, the ability to reflect has been considered an important competency that teachers should acquire during teacher training and implement in teaching throughout their professional lives. Thus there is the need during teacher training to assess student teachers' developing reflective abilities. This article describes a two-dimensional framework by which student teachers' written reflections may be assessed. One dimension is the object…
Unity and conflict in an Israeli village
Wheels Within Wheels
This article describes a one-semester course on qualitative research methods presented for faculty members in a university school of education. The course was one significant "cultural event" in an ongoing change process toward the inclusion of qualitative methods in a strongly positivistic setting. The inclusion of qualitative methods required a profound adjustment by participants in this culture. The change was eased by official sanction of the…
Teaching Critical Thinking
Personal and Professional Experiences in Academic Exchanges and Visits
This article reports on research in progress, the purpose of which is to examine the personal and professional experiences of faculty members from different universities and colleges in North America and abroad after they engage in academic visits and exchanges at other institutions of higher learning.The researchers are based at two United States and two Israeli institutions, but the visits and exchanges that flow into and out of these four inst…
Whose Interview Is It, Anyway? Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Insider-Outsider Research, Multiple Languages, and Dual-Researcher Cooperation
This article focuses on the methodological challenges in one interview of the 60 in-depth interviews that comprise a research study of Israeli Druze currently underway. The study is being conducted by a pair of researchers, one a Canadian living in Israel, an English and Hebrew speaker, and one an Israeli Druze woman, a Hebrew and Arabic speaker. The interview examined here involves two interviewers, two interviewees, three languages and at least…
Coping strategies of high school students with learning disabilities
The authors interviewed 20 Israeli high school students with learning disabilities over a three‐year period to identify the students' core coping strategies. Four emotional–cognitive strategies were identified: 'Avoidance,' 'Rebellion,' 'Reconciliation,' and 'Determination.' These strategies appeared in hierarchical order, leading to students' integration of, acceptance of, and coming to terms with their difficulties. Interventions of early and a…
Education in a Troubled Democracy
Democracy offers no automatic principles for a decent and civilized life. Its principles require interpretation and compromise, and must be balanced between the welfare of individuals, groups, and the state. In Israel, the situation is made even more complex by the fact that Israel defines itself as a Jewish state. Surrounded by hostile forces, Israel must attempt not only to maintain peace and security but to offer democratic rights to its Jewis…
Teaching Critical Thinking
Personal and Professional Experiences in Academic Exchanges and Visits
This article reports on research in progress, the purpose of which is to examine the personal and professional experiences of faculty members from different universities and colleges in North America and abroad after they engage in academic visits and exchanges at other institutions of higher learning.The researchers are based at two United States and two Israeli institutions, but the visits and exchanges that flow into and out of these four inst…
Teaching Critical Thinking
Unity and conflict in an Israeli village
Wheels Within Wheels
This article describes a one-semester course on qualitative research methods presented for faculty members in a university school of education. The course was one significant "cultural event" in an ongoing change process toward the inclusion of qualitative methods in a strongly positivistic setting. The inclusion of qualitative methods required a profound adjustment by participants in this culture. The change was eased by official sanction of the…
Construction and Application of an Evaluative Tool to Assess Reflection in Teacher-Training Courses
In recent years, the ability to reflect has been considered an important competency that teachers should acquire during teacher training and implement in teaching throughout their professional lives. Thus there is the need during teacher training to assess student teachers' developing reflective abilities. This article describes a two-dimensional framework by which student teachers' written reflections may be assessed. One dimension is the object…
Education in a Troubled Democracy
Democracy offers no automatic principles for a decent and civilized life. Its principles require interpretation and compromise, and must be balanced between the welfare of individuals, groups, and the state. In Israel, the situation is made even more complex by the fact that Israel defines itself as a Jewish state. Surrounded by hostile forces, Israel must attempt not only to maintain peace and security but to offer democratic rights to its Jewis…
Foolish Dreams in a Fabled Land
This article presents the results of an ethnographic case study of an Israeli Arab middle school whose staff and students are Arab Israelis from the Moslem, Druze, and Christian population sectors. Against the Israeli backdrop of multiculturalism, political tensions, and terrorism, this school has created a multi‐faceted curriculum for teaching students the values of non‐violence and peaceful co‐existence, as well as creating a school culture tha…
Coping strategies of high school students with learning disabilities
The authors interviewed 20 Israeli high school students with learning disabilities over a three‐year period to identify the students' core coping strategies. Four emotional–cognitive strategies were identified: 'Avoidance,' 'Rebellion,' 'Reconciliation,' and 'Determination.' These strategies appeared in hierarchical order, leading to students' integration of, acceptance of, and coming to terms with their difficulties. Interventions of early and a…
Role of Druze high schools in Israel in shaping students’ identity and citizenship
This study investigated how two Israeli Druze high schools shape the identity and citizenship of adolescents through curriculum, teaching, discourse, social activities and national ceremonies. Data were collected through interviews with teachers, the two school principals, policymakers for Druze education in the Ministry of Education, and students, as well as through observations and document analysis. The research found that the Israeli Druze sc…
Whose Interview Is It, Anyway? Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Insider-Outsider Research, Multiple Languages, and Dual-Researcher Cooperation
This article focuses on the methodological challenges in one interview of the 60 in-depth interviews that comprise a research study of Israeli Druze currently underway. The study is being conducted by a pair of researchers, one a Canadian living in Israel, an English and Hebrew speaker, and one an Israeli Druze woman, a Hebrew and Arabic speaker. The interview examined here involves two interviewers, two interviewees, three languages and at least…
Will “Education for Tradition” Be Enough in a Closing Circle of Secrets? The Case of the Israeli Druze
This article reports some of the results of interviews with 120 Israeli Druze, 60 middle-aged adults and 60 young adults, regarding values, views of the Druze community, and personal identity. All participants expressed commitment to and love for traditional Druze values of familial respect, respect for others, modesty in dress and behavior, and commitment to Druze beliefs about one, all-powerful God and the reincarnation of Druze souls within th…
Two Ethnographic Researchers Embark on a Narrative Journey
In this article two ethnographic researchers present a life story that emerged, almost against their will, as one of 120 in-depth interviews with Israeli Druze. The ethnographic study was designed to provide understanding of Israeli Druze society today through the discovery of thematic patterns. One interviewee, however, simply refused to follow the loosely structured interview format and told her story. Hana's story about the importance of her f…
A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers
A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers outlines a history of knowledge from Ancient Greece to present day, in Europe and the Western world. This outline provides the basis for understanding where various research methods originate, and their epistemological, historical, political and social roots. This book provides social science researchers with an understanding of how research methods developed, and how their truth criteri…
Insider-Outsider Research in Qualitative Inquiry
Insider-Outsider Research in Qualitative Inquiry: New Perspectives on Method and Meaning explores the history, practice and particular benefits of conducting cultural research through a partnership of two researchers: one who is an insider to the culture under study and one who is an outsider. This book unpacks terminology around this type of research that has become outdated or cumbersome, looks at ethical issues and suggests specific methodolog…
Sociology (12 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Pedagogy (6 obras) · Qualitative research (5 obras) · Anthropology (4 obras) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 obras) · Mathematics education (4 obras)