קבוצת מחקר נוף הגליל

Nof Ha-Galil research Group

milasch@bgu.ac.il

Mila Schwartz is a professor of language and education and the Head of Research Authority at Oranim Academic College of Education (Israel). Her current research focuses on theorizing the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teacher agency, and parents' agency in early language education. She has edited seven books, recently completed editing the First Handbook of Early Language Education, and published a monography entitled Ecological Perspectives in Early Language Education: Parent, teacher, peer, and child agency in Interaction.

Dr. Kaplan Toren Nurit

She received her Ph.D. in Education and Human Development from the University of Haifa, Israel (2005). She started her career as a high school educational counselor and teacher and currently she is the head of Graduate Program Director of Management and Organization of Education Systems at Oranim College of Education, Israel.

Her research examines the structure of parents’ educational involvement and its effect on students’ school functioning, with particular focus on antecedents of parents’ educational involvement in the context of culture and age.

She is a member of the executive committee of Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling (SBFC) and the editor of the proceedings of the Oxford Symposium in SBFC. She edited the book "Parental involvement practices, improvement strategies and challenges".

Eden Mazareeb – research assistant

Research group: The Early Childhood Research Group: Nof Ha-Galil research project

Research aims:

1. Studying family language policy in multilingual families

2. Exploring factors affecting teachers’ professional development within the multilingual and multicultural context

3. Policy makers’ professional development

4. Investigating strategies of teacher-children interaction within the multilingual and multicultural context

5. Investigating factors promoting teachers'-parents’ communication

6. Exploring child’s language-based agency and agentic behavior

Projects:

2024-2025 - Children's Perceptions of Multilingual Curriculum: A case Study of children's Agency in early exposure to four Languages from Grades 1 to 2.

2024-2025 – School principles characteristics

Publications:

1. Schwartz, M., Kaplan Toren, N., Dror, O., & Levi, S. (2024). Towards inclusive leadership in meeting linguistic and cultural diversity in language education policy: “Not giving up on parents and children”. International Journal of Leadership in Education. Impact Factor – 3.0.

2. Kaplan Toren, N., Dror, O., & Schwartz, M. (2024). Professional development of preschool teachers' assistants in multilingual and multicultural contexts. Early Childhood Education Journal. Impact Factor – 2.70.

3. Schwartz, M., Ragnarsdóttir, H., Kaplan Toren, N., & Dror, O. (2022). Towards a better understanding of preschool teachers’ agency in multilingual, multicultural classrooms: A cross-national comparison between teachers in Iceland and Israel. Linguistics and Education. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2022.101125. Impact Factor – 1.60.

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