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Teacher Involvement in Decision Making in the Israeli School System

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This chapter is organized in four sections. The first section describes the Israeli educational system and reviews recent literature on teacher participation and involvement in decision-making – particularly with respect to change and development projects. The second section describes the nature of the Israeli study: its purpose, data gathering methods, and analytic procedures.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel

    Zehava Rosenblatt

  2. Ort Braude Academic College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Israel

    Hilla Peretz

  3. Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel

    Lya Kremer-Hayon

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  1. Zehava Rosenblatt
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Consortium for Cross-Cultural Research in Education, UK

    Allen Menlo

  2. Consortium for Cross-Cultural Research in Education, UK

    LeVerne Collet

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Rosenblatt, Z., Peretz, H., Kremer-Hayon, L. (2015). Teacher Involvement in Decision Making in the Israeli School System. In: Menlo, A., Collet, L. (eds) Do Teachers Wish to be Agents of Change?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-959-3_8

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