I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Education at Tel-Hai Academic College. I teach in both undergraduate and graduate programs. My research interests include gender and ethnicity in the teaching profession and in educational administration; parental involvement at home and at school including patterns of help giving and help seeking; and social aspects of periphery/center localities and rural education.
Dr. Yael Grinshtain

Teaching
- Academic Skills (undergraduate program)
- School and its Environment in an Era of Changes and Reforms (undergraduate program)
- Management and Leadership – Theory and Practice (undergraduate program)
- Education and Society in Israel (undergraduate program)
- Gender and Education (graduate program)
- Qualitative Methods (graduate program)
Publications
M.A.: Responsibility and Accountability: how female elementary-school principals at different levels of school-based-management perceive their spheres of authority and responsibility, their affinity to an accountability system, and their coping patterns. Supervisor: Prof. Dan Gibton, Tel-Aviv University. January, 2008 (Magna Cum Laude).
Ph.D.: Forms of capital and teachers' formal and informal status in schools: A comparison of female and male teachers in Arab and Jewish education. Supervisor: Prof. Audrey Addi-Raccah, Tel-Aviv University. July, 2015.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Grinshtain, Y., & Gibton, D. (2011). Divides between authority, responsibility, and their impact on the accountability system in the school-based management model. Studies in educational Administration & Organization, Haifa University, 32, 13-49 (in Hebrew).
Addi-Raccah, A., & Grinshtain, Y. (2016). Forms of Capital and Teachers’ Views of Collaboration and Threat Relations with Parents in Israeli Schools. Education and Urban Society. DOI: 10.1177/0013124516644052.
Addi-Raccah, A., & Grinshtain, Y. (2016). Teachers' capital and relations with parents: A comparison between Jewish and Arab teachers in Israel. Teaching and Teacher Education, 60, 44-53.
Grinshtain, Y., & Gibton, D. (2017). Responsibility, authority, and accountability in school-based and non-school-based management: Principals’ coping strategies". Journal of Educational Administration. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEA-01-2017-0005.
Addi-Raccah. A., & Grinshtain, Y. (2017). Teachers' capital in view of intensive parental involvement in school: The case of teachers in high socio-economic status schools in Israel. Research Papers in Education. DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2017.1329339.
Berkovich, I., & Grinshtain, Y. (2018). Typology of "Tough Love" Leadership in Schools Facing Challenging Circumstances. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085918801883.
Grinshtain, Y., & Addi-Raccah, A. (2019). Forms of Capital and their Contribution to Levels of Participation in Decision-making at School. Studies in educational Administration & Organization, 36, 141-170, University of Haifa (in Hebrew).
Zilka, A., Grinshtain, Y., Bogler, R. (2019). Fixed or Growth: Teacher Perceptions of Factors that Shape Mindset. Professional Development in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2019.1689524.
Grinshtain, Y., & Addi-Raccah, A. (2020). Domains of decision-making and forms of capital among men and women teachers. International Journal of Educational Management. Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.
Harpaz, G., & Grinshtain, Y. (2020) Parent-Teacher Relations, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Parents' Help Seeking from Teachers about Children's Learning and Socio-Emotional Problems. Education and Urban Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013124520915597.
Weisberger, M., Grinshtain, Y., & Blau, I. (2021). How do Technological Changes in Formal Education Shape the Social Roles of Teachers Who Are Mothers? Teaching and Teacher Education. (SJR Q1; 2019 JCR Impact Factor: 2.686).
Addi-Raccah, A., & Grinshtain, Y. (2021). Teachers’ professionalism and relations with parents: Teachers and parents' views. Research Papers in Education. DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2021.1931949 (SJR Q1; 2019 Impact Factor 1.30).
Berkovich, I., & Grinshtain, Y. (2021) A Review of Rigor and Ethics in Qualitative Educational Administration, Management and Leadership Research Articles Published in 2009-2018. Leadership and Policy in Schools. (SJR Q1; Impact Factor 1.553).
Harpaz, G., Grinshtain, Y., & Yaffe, Y. (2021). Parental Self-Efficacy Predicted by Parents’ Subjective Well-being and Their Parenting Styles with Possible Role of Help-Seeking Orientation from Teachers. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied.
Goldberg, A., Grinshtain, Y., & Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2021). Caregiving strategies, parental practices, and the use of Facebook groups among Israeli mothers of adolescents. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 15(3), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2021-3-9 (SJR Q1; SCI 4-year Impact Factor 1.354).
Grinshtain, Y., & Harpaz, G. (2021) 'Whose Homework is It?' Different Types of Parents' Dependent Help-Giving in Homework. The Elementary School Journal, 122(2). (SJR Q1; 2019 JCR Impact Factor: 1.339).
Weisberger, M., Grinshtain, Y., & Blau, I. (Accepted) Change processes in teaching and motherhood as shaping the social roles of teachers who are mothers. Education Time. Ohalo. (Hebrew)
Grinshtain, Y. (Accepted). “The way it looks from here ...": The teaching experience of teachers who relocated from the center of Israel to its northern periphery. Social issues in Israel. (Hebrew).
Presentations
Addi-Raccah, A & Grinshtain, Y. Forms of capital and teachers' views of Parental involvement. Paper presented in BERA Annual Conference, September 2012, University of Manchester, Manchester.
Addi-Raccah, A. & Grinshtain, Y. Human, Social, Cultural capital and parents-teachers relations. Paper presented in the Annual Convention of the Israeli Sociological Association, Rupin College, February 2013, Israel.
Addi-Raccah, A & Grinshtain, Y. The Role of Capital Forms in Assisting Teacher's Relations with Parents: The Case of Israeli Teachers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 2013, San Francisco.
Addi-Raccah, A & Grinshtain, Y. Forms of Capital and Parental-Involvement: A Comparison between Low and High SES Schools in Israel. Paper presented in the Annual Convention of Educational Administration Studies, May 2013, Gordon College, Israel.
Grinshtain, Y & Addi-Raccah, A. The Contribution of Social Capital to the Formal and Informal Status of Male and Female Teachers at School as a Gender-biased Organization. Paper presented in the Annual Convention of the Israeli Sociological Association, February 2014, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Grinshtain, Y & Addi-Raccah, A. Teachers-Parents Relations in a comparative view: Periphery and Center. Paper presented in the Annual Convention of the Israeli Sociological Association, February 2015, Kinneret College, Israel.
Grinshtain, Y & Addi-Raccah, A. Cultural, Social, and Feminine Capital as Predictors for Participation in Decision-making at School: A comparison between men and women schoolteachers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, April 2015.
Dalyot, K & Grinshtain, Y. Education students' Perceptions of gender in/equality in the Education System -A comparative view: USA and Israel. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Budapest, 2015.
Addi-Raccah, A & Grinshtain, Y. Teachers' capital and relations with parents: a comparison between Jewish and Arab schools. Paper presented at ERNAPE-ARTIC Conference, Tromso, Norway, August 2015.
Grinshtain, Y & Gibton, D. "Responsible for the Responsibility": School Principals' Strategies for Coping with Responsibility, Authority, and Accountability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, April 2016.
Grinshtain, Y., & Addi-Raccah, A. Parents' and Teachers' Roles and Resources in School: The Residential Dimension. Paper presented at ECER European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Dublin, August 2016.
Grinshtain, Y., & Addi-Raccah, A. Parents’ Resources in Low and High Socioeconomic Schools. Paper presented at ERNAPE-ARTIC Conference, University of Roehampton, London, July 2017.
Berkovich, I., & Grinshtain, Y. Typology of "Tough Love" Leadership in Schools Facing Challenging Circumstances. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 2018, New York City.
Harpaz, G., & Grinshtain, Y. Parent-Teacher Relations, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Parents' Help Seeking from Teachers about Children's Learning and Socio-Emotional Problems. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 2018, New York City.
Harpaz, G., & Grinshtain, Y. Parent-Teacher Relations, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Parents' Help Seeking from Teachers. Paper presented at MAHUT conference, October, 2018, Lewinsky College.
Grinshtain, Y., & Harpaz, G. Israeli Parents’ Involvement in Homework: Goals, Parental Motivations for Engaging and Assisting with Homework. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 2019, Canada: Toronto.
Grinshtain, Y., & Sasson, I. Implementing an Extended School Day Program at a Rural School: The Parents' Perspective. A paper accepted for presentation at the Biennial Conference of European Research Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE). September 2019, Gdansk, Poland.
Addi-Raccah, A., & Grinshtain, Y. Teachers' professionalism and relations with parents: tearcers' and perents' views. A paper accepted for presentation at the Biennial Conference of European Research Network about Parents in Education (ERNAPE). September 2019, Gdansk, Poland.
Zilka, A., Grinshtain, Y., & Bogler, R. Fixed or Growth: Teacher Perceptions of Factors that Shape Mindset. A paper accepted for presentation at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), September 2019, Hamburg, Germany.
Weisberger, M., Grinshtain, Y., & Blau. I. Teachers-Mothers Perceptions of the Changes in the Teaching Profession as Shaping Teaching, Motherhood and Work-Family Conflict. A paper accepted for presentation at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), September 2019, Hamburg, Germany.
Grinshtain, Y., & Sasson, I. Implementing an Extended School Day Program at a Rural School: The Parents' Perspective. The Galilee Conference, Tel-Hai College, March, 2020.
Grinshtain, Y., & Salman, H. Pre-Service Teachers' Intensive Training at an Israeli Druze school. The Galilee Conference, Tel Hai College, March, 2020.
Weisberger, M., Grinshtain, Y., & Blau. I. Technological Changes in the Teaching Profession as Shaping the Social Roles of Mothers – Teachers. The 16th Chais Conference on the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Digital Era. The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, Israel (Via ZOOM). February, 2021.
Ben-Zaken, S., Dahan, N., Grinshtain, Y. The place of parents in shaping the activities of social and community centers during the coronavirus crisis: Two case studies in local authorities in israel's northern periphery. Paper presented at MAHUT conference, October, 2021, Lewinsky College.