Fields of Instruction and Research Topics.
Retired Academic Staff.
Office Hours of the Academic Staff. (in Hebrew)

Fields of Instruction and Research Topics

Dr. Audrey Addi-Rakcah

Fields of Instruction: Research methods, Leadership and Sociology of teaching.

Research Topics: Social stratification in teaching occupation, women in school leadership and stratification in higher education.

Prof. Yaira Amit

Fields of Instruction: Bible studies instruction.

Research Topics: Biblical historiography; Biblical poetics; Biblical theology; instructional program development for Bible studies.

 Dr. Dorit Aram 

Fields of instructions: Educational Administration, Law and Policy, adjunct Lecturer and Educational Leadership.

Research topics: trends in educational leadership and law-based policy and reform.

Prof. Mordechai Arieli

Fields of Instruction: Educational administration and organization; social science instruction.

Research Topics: Residential and nonresidential schools: organization, functions and interrelations; sociology of teaching.

 

Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal

Fields of Instruction: Educational counseling.

Research Topics: Social psychology of knowledge; stereotypes and prejudice; political psychology; class interaction.

Dr. Avner Ben-Amos

Fields of Instruction: History of education.

Research Topics: History of education in Western Europe; the role of ceremony and symbol in political education; historical methodology.

Prof. Menucha Birenbaum

Fields of instruction: Research, measurement and assessment.
Research topics: Alternatives in achievement assessment; biasing factors in assessment, assessing self-regulated learning.

Dr. Rachel Cinamon Gali 

Fields of Instruction: Work and family roles across the life span Work and Family Roles: Practicum for Master student in Counseling Research Methods in Counseling and Special Education Consultation: workshop for Master student in school counseling.
Research Topics: Career development: work-family conflict, work-family conflict expectation and role management self-efficacy, career and professional development of adolescents and young adults, counselors professional development, women career development.

 

Prof. David Chen

Fields of Instruction: Science teaching; curriculum development

Research Topics: Science teaching; communication and computers in education.

 Dr. Uri Cohen 

Fields of Instruction:

Research Topics:

Prof. Tommy Dreyfus

Fields of instruction and Research topics: Mathematics as a domain of knowledge, of teaching and of learning: Epistemological, cognitive and didactic aspects, including the use of computers.

Prof. Esther Dromi 

Fields of instruction: Language and cognition: a developmental account; communication and language: the child, the family and the educational framework; early stages in language development; language: culture, grammar, and modality; normal language development.
Research topics: "Kesher" – language intervention with hearing-impaired children and their families; morphological abilities of Hebrew; specific language impaired young children; early lexical development.

Prof. Yuval Dror

Fields of Instruction: History of education.

Research Topics: History of education in Israel; combining historical research with currect educational policy making.

Dr. Rachel Erhard

Fields of instruction: Introduction to school counseling; school counseling in the Israeli education system; organizational counseling; the school counselor as a "gate-keeper".

Research topics: School counseling; substance abuse prevention programs; perceived effectiveness of peer counseling programs.

 

Tamar Feuerstein

Fields of Instruction: English teaching.

Research Topics: Reading comprehension of foreign language; cognitive processes; computers in foreign language teaching.

Dr. Naama Friedmann

Fields of Instruction: Neuropsychology of language, reading and reading disorders, linguistics, cognitive psychology.

Research Topics: Aphasia, language and syntax disorders, dyslexia, cognitive neuropsychology.

Dr. Dan Gibton 

Fields of instructions: Educational Administration, Law and Policy, adjunct Lecturer and Educational Leadership.
Research topics: trends in educational leadership and law-based policy and reform.

 

Dr. David Ginat

Fields of Instruction: Computer science and Mathematics Education:
Didactics of algorithm modularity, correctness, and efficiency; Scientific contents as didactic tools; Learning from student mistakes; Computer science Olympiad challenges.

Research Topics: Development of mathematical and algorithmic thinking. Methods for encapsulation of games and colorful challenges in teaching. Creativity and intuition in algorithm design.

Dr. David Hanaor

Fields of Instruction: Language teaching.

Research Topics: Literacy; reading and writing studies; literary and empirical research.

Prof. Nira Hativa

Fields of Instruction: Teaching process ; Teaching effectiveness; Teaching in higher education.

Research Topics: Computer application for teaching learning; Computer assisted development of mathematical learning ability.; Teaching effectiveness.

Prof. Orit Ichilov 

Fields of instruction and research topics: Sociology of education; political socialization and citizenship education.

Dr. Moshe Israelashvili

Fields of Instruction: Educational counseling.

Research Topics: Adjustment to new systems; prevention or inoculation program and interpersonal justice.

Prof. Rachel Karniol

Fields of Instruction: Educational counseling.

Research Topics: Social development.

Prof. Ilya Levin

Fields of Instruction: Computer systems in education; Design in technology education; Fundamentals of technological systems.

Research Topics: Intelligent control in education; Design of intelligent systems as a learning activity.

Prof. Iris Levin

Fields of Instruction: Educational counseling.

Research Topics: Intuitive and school-developed concepts; influence of schooling and Learning on thinking; mother-child interaction and cognitive development.

Prof. Tamar Levin

Fields of Instruction: Research methods; evaluation and measurement.

Research Topics: Study achievement: measurement and significant factors.

 Dr. Gili Marbach-Ad

Fields of Instruction: Students’ conceptions in science education. Active learning in science education. Cooperative learning in science education
Research Topics: Active learning in science education. Improving science teaching in higher education. Using models and innovative technologies in order to improve students’ conceptions.

Prof. Malka Margalit

Fields of Instruction: Special education; educational counseling.

Research Topics: Learning disabilities and hyperactivity; families of special education children; technological applications for special education and rehabilitation; communication and computer in education.

Dr. Nili Mark

Fields of Instruction: Educational administration and organization; social science teaching.

Research Topics: Labor economics; Israeli economics; educational economics; welfare state economics.

Dr. Jehoshua Mattias

Fields of Instruction: History teaching and curriculum planning; Education and multi-culturalism.

Research Topics: Political, cultural and social aspects of history curriculum planning ; Teachers and textbooks; Cultural history.

Prof. Meir Meidav

Fields of Instruction: Exact science teaching; physics teaching.

Research Topics: Problem in physics teaching; teaching astrophysics as part of the physics curriculum.

Prof. David Mioduser

Fields of Instruction: Curriculum development.

Research Topics: Computers in teaching and learning.

 

Dr. Tova Most

Fields of Instruction: Hearing impairments; special education.

Research Topics: Speech production and perception; speech acoustics; speech production and perception among the hearing impaired.

Prof. Rafi Nachmias

Fields of instruction: Computer-based environments for mathematics and science education.

Research topics: Learning of instruction with computer-based environment; web-based learning; virtual schools; teaching scientific and technological literacy.

Dr. Fadia Naser

Fields of instruction: Measurement, Research Methods, Research and Statistics
Research topics: Validity studies, Achievement in Math and Science in relation to culture, gender and associated characteristics, and environmental education (literacy).

Prof. David Nevo 

Fields of Instruction: Research, measurement and evaluation methods; educational administration.

Research Topics: Educational projects and curriculum evaluation; school-based evaluation; evaluation and decision making; student achievement evaluation.

Dr. Dorit Ravid

Fields of Instruction: Linguistics; Hebrew language.

Research Topics: Stucture of modern Hebrew; first and second language acquisition; literacy acquistion; linguistic difference.

Prof. Naama Sabar-Ben Yehoshua

Fields of Instruction: Curriculum development; research, evaluation and measurement methods.

Research Topics: School-based curriculum planning; education for Zionism in the kibbutz movement.

 

Prof. Ilana Shohamy

Fields of Instruction: Language testing and assessment, language
policy and planning, languages of Israel, research methods,
second/foreign language acquisition, language in public life at
the work place. Language and identity in the nation state, languages
of immigrants and minorities.

Research topics:
In language policy:
- Policy, ideology and practice of languages of Israel.
- Language choice, identities and stereotypes in multilingual
societies (comparative studies in a number of countries
and number of languages.
- Academic achievement of immigrant children in schools.
- Language proficiency of immigrants at the work place.
- Linguistic landscape

In language testing:
- Alternative/complementary methods for assessing languages.
- Uses and consequences of language tests
(political and social aspects, tests’ impact, rights,
responsibilities and ethicality).

Prof. Ruth Stavy

Fields of Instruction: Exact science teaching; life science teaching.

Research Topics: Science teaching; understanding and teaching scientific concepts.

Prof. Sidney Strauss

Fields of Instruction: Educational counseling; curriculum development.

Research Topics: Cognitive development; science teaching; teacher education.

Prof. Yael Tamir

Fields of Instruction: History and philosophy of education.

Research Topics: Politics and philosophy of education.

Prof. Dina Tirosh

Fields of Instruction: Exact science teaching; mathematics teaching.

Research Topics: Understading mathematical concepts; indentifying and correcting misconceptions in mathematics.

Prof. Moshe Telem

Fields of Instruction: Educational administration.

Research Topics: Management information systems; decision support systems; computerized educational administration; communications and computers in education.

Dr. Michal Tannenbaum

Fields of Instruction: second language acquisition and teaching; language maintenance and family relations; minority groups in the Israeli context

Research Topics: language maintenance, immigration, family relations, multiculturalism.

Dr. Hanna Tur-Kaspa

Fields of Instruction: Hearing-impaired education; special education.

Research Topics: Social cognition of hearing-impaired children; causal thinking of hearing-impaired children; linguistic models and diagnostic models of hearing-impaired children.

Dr. Pessia Tsamir

Fields of Instruction: Mathematics Education.

Research Topics: Perception of mathematical concepts, teacher preparation and professional enhancement, intuitive rules pertaining to mathematics and science, the relationship between science and mathematics.

Dr. Amatzia Weisel

Fields of Instruction: Hearing-impaired education; special education.

Research Topics: The hearing-impaired in Israel; social skills of children with special needs; attitudes toward people with disabilities.

Prof. Abraham Yogev

Fields of Instruction: Social foundations of education; sociology of education.

Research Topics: Education and social-ethnic stratification; education and social changes; educational policy.

Prof. David Zisenwine

Fields of Instruction: Talmud and Jewish philosophy instruction; curriculum planning.

Research Topics: Jewish studies instruction; Jewish identity in Israel and outside it.

Retired Academic Staff

Prof. Amos Ehrlich Fields of Instruction: Mathematics instruction; computer studies. Research Topics: Computers in mathematics teaching.
Dr. Yehudit Eisen Fields of instruction: Science teaching; instruction methods. Research topics: Understanding of scientific concepts; teaching methods; improving teaching.
Prof. Ben-Ami Feingold Fields of Instruction: Literature instruction; Hebrew literature; Hebrew drama
Prof. Yitzhak Kashti Fields of Instruction: Educational administration and organization Research Topics: School microsociology and administration; social history of educational organizations and school systems, and comparative research.	Emeritus
Prof. Aharon Kleinberger Fields of Instruction: Philosophy of education	Emeritus
Prof. Arieh Lewy Fields of Instruction: Curriculum development; research methodology; evaluation and measurement. Research Topics: Evaluation and comparison of curricula; test development.	Emeritus
Prof. Zipora Magen Fields of Instruction: Educational counseling. Research Topics: Counseling for adolescents - the humanist approach; the roles of the counselor in counselingtor parents.	Emeritus
Prof. Mordechai Meron Fields of Instruction: Teaching and assessment methods; research, measurement and evauation methods. Research Topics: Highter education evaluation; universit teaching improvement; corriculum evaluation.
Prof. Noah Milgram Fields of Instruction: Educational counseling. Research Topics: Individual and group coping with stress; professional crisis intervention.	Emeritus
Prof. Roberta Milgram Fields of Instruction: Educational counseling. Research Topics: Giftedness and creativity.	Emeritus
Prof. Jerry Reichstein Fields of Instruction: Hearing-impaired education
Dr. Asher Rivlin Fields of Instruction:
Prof. Eliyahu Rosenow Fields of Instruction: Philosophical and historical aspects of education. Research Topics: Philosophy of education.
Prof. Rina Shapira Fields of Instruction: Social foundations of education; sociology of education. Research Topics: Sociology of adolescent and university education; sociology of educational organization and the community.	Emeritus
Prof. Shlomo Sharan Fields of Instruction: Educational administration and organization. Research Topics: Participatory learning in small groups; teamwork in school; school as social organization.	Emeritus
Bat-Sheva Shaviv Fields of Instruction: History instruction; Computers in history; teaching
Prof. Moshe Silberstein Fields of Instruction: Curriculum development; school-based curriculum planning; Ethics of educational research
Prof. Avner Ziv Fields of Instruction: Educational counseling. Research Topics: Psychology of humor; gifted children; adolescence; group processes.	Emeritus