CULTURAL CAPITAL AND THE RICHES OF MANNA: INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANT SCIENTISTS IN ISRAELI ACADEMIA
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2010, Vol 20, Issue 4
Abstract
The article deals with transnationalism – the flow of cultural capital across borders. Around 16,000 scientists entered Israel during the 1990s. Some of them joined the academic staff. This case study is the frst to compare between achievement measures of new immigrant and native Israeli senior academic faculty. It is based on the analysis of performance records of 206 senior faculty members from the Ariel University Centre, out of whom 77 were born overseas. The study analyzes staff who received fnancial rewards for excellence for the three years 2006–2008, based on their activities, as measured by several criteria: excellence in research, teaching, academic administration, and contributions to the community. On the whole, the study revealed that a larger percentage of immigrant faculty members vs. native Israelis scored on excellence criteria. A discriminant analysis was performed in order to examine to what degree scoring on various excellence criteria distinguishes between immigrants and native Israelis faculty. All in all, the research reveals that immigrant scientists have become well integrated in the analyzed institution; their academic contribution was a major one.
Authors and Affiliations
Nitza Davidovitch, Dan Soen, Zila Sinuany-Stern
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP34817
- DOI -
- Views 290
- Downloads 0
The usage of a simulaTion To sTudy inTermolecular forces: some findings
The purpose of this research was to discuss and reflect about the use of a computer simulation in the learning of intermolecular forces. Simulations are dynamic representations of chemical processes or systems, and allo...
TEACHING INFORMATICS AT UPPER SECONDARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION (ISCED 3A) IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC: EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT STATE
A key aspect for evaluation of a school subject teaching, which is applied in the majority of EU countries, is filling the school curricula with the content subject mater, the extent of their connection with practice a...
VIEWS OF A GROUP OF PRE-SERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS ON THE USE OF EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN SCIENCE TEACHING
Teachers often consider experimental activities to be fundamental to the teaching of scientifc concepts. However, there are different views about their purpose in science classes; these views are linked to teachers' diff...
INCOME INEQUALITY CONTROVERSIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN KENYA
Income differentials are a phenomenon that is manifest among individuals, regions and nations. The magnitude of the inequality has diverse effects on education which is itself a key determinant of individual as well as...
UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AS A FACTOR OF THE EU MEMBER STATES COMPETITIVENESS
Human capital as one determinant of a long term economic growth is often identified with school education. In this paper, the dependency of the total percentage of population in all types of education on the GDP, in all...