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Research and Development in the Field of the Environment in Israel and its Commercialization – Barriers and their Removal | Ecology & Environment
Adi Wolfson, Ofira Ayalon, Orna Raviv, Daniel Madar
The Academic Boycott Strategy That Can Significantly Impact Israel
Professors Boaz Golany and Rivka Carmi emphasize that combating the academic boycott doesn’t demand substantial investments. Instead, it requires mobilizing the right entities within Israel, meticulous planning informed by knowledge and an understanding of essential actions. This includes proactively establishing and maintaining collaborations with relevant international parties, a dedicated foreign relations and lobbying system, and most importantly, a sustained commitment to the struggle over the years. All these efforts can be achieved with relatively modest budgets, given timely implementation.
What’s happening in statistical practice since the “abandon statistical significance” call
Prof. Ron Kenett has published a new post offering a retrospective view on the application of statistical methods across a wide range of problems. This insightful piece, grounded in years of experience, highlights significant developments and methodologies in the field, with a particular emphasis on the past few years.
Engineering and the Public Sector: Do They Go Hand in Hand? The Public Sector Needs Engineering Managers
Prof. Orit Hazzan urges higher education institutions, especially universities that train engineers, to emphasize the potential for engineering students to integrate into the public sector. She highlights the importance of exposing students to employment opportunities in this field, discussing the significance of engineering thinking in state management, promoting social involvement, addressing public sector problems during their degree programs, and offering diverse professional development paths that bridge the business and public sectors
Communities of practice and the elevation of urban elementary teacher discourse about critical pedagogy of place
A new critical ethnographic study co-authored by prof. Tali Tal examines how urban elementary teachers, through a professional development (PD) program, shifted from viewing outdoor teaching spaces with a deficit perspective to an asset-focused one. Utilizing frameworks of communities of practice (CoP) and critical pedagogy of place (CPP), the study reveals how CoP supports discourse on social justice issues linked to local school neighborhoods. The findings underscore the importance of connecting social justice to science teaching to address educational inequities in under-resourced urban communities.
Authors: Gail Richmond, Roberta Hunter, Tali Tal & Grace Tukurah
Published in: Cultural Studies of Science Education
Effective Rehabilitation of the Border Settlements
‘A genuine rehabilitation of the border settlements necessitates comparing the land ownership rights of moshavim and kibbutzim with those of city residents. This comparison forms the basis for the “protection, strengthening, and compensation of the settlements” and must be a core element of any effective rehabilitation plan for settlements along the conflict lines in the north, south, east, and elsewhere.’ > Dr. Guy Kagan, in an article published in KAV LAMOSHAV.
A new study recently initiated at the Samuel Neaman Institute, led by Prof. Rachelle Alterman, explores the public rationale behind continuing the national land and housing ownership policy for kibbutzim and moshavim.
