Abstract
The Israeli education system is currently going through a period of change as a result of measures that are being introduced by the Tomorrow 98 Report (1992). Among the reforms proposed by the Report there is the revision of curricula and “the implementation of a comprehensive program for the pre-service and in-service training” of elementary school teachers.
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Trumper, R. (1995). The Need of Changes in Elementary School Teachers’ Training. In: Bernardini, C., Tarsitani, C., Vicentini, M. (eds) Thinking Physics for Teaching. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1921-8_19
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