List of School of Education Researchers and their Fields of Interest
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Social inequality in education; Parent involvement in education; School improvement |
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Socioemotional and behavioral functioning of individuals with disabilities and vulnerability and protective models in examining socioemotional and behavioral adjustment of children, adolescents and young adults with and without disabilities, especially SLD and ADHD. These topics also include resilience to variety of risk factors such as ongoing violent border attacks |
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Adult-child interactions and their implications for early development; Adult-child literacy interactions (joint writing and shared book reading) and children’s early literacy and socioemotional development; Adaptive parenting skills and parents’ and children’s well-being |
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Cognitive neuroscience and science education; Intuitive reasoning in science and mathematics; Students' cognitive levels and academic achievements, cognitive acceleration, accelerating reasoning patterns |
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Social psychology; Study of ethnic bloody and lasting conflicts: their eruption, escalation and peacemaking- their psychological foundations and dynamics |
(Prof. Emeritus) |
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History of education in Israel and France; The teaching of history and civics; Shaping the collective memory through rituals, monuments and museums |
Prof. Avner Ben-Amos (retired(
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The knowledge structure of educational science ; New relationships between learners and knowledge ; Education and human diversity |
(Prof. Emeritus) |
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Career development; Work-family relations; Career interventions; Career education |
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Internet Implementation in Higher Education; Technology and ICT Implementation in Education; Social learning and learning communities; Educational Data Mining/ Learning analytics; Ubiquitous Learning, Mobile learning ; Open Educational Resources |
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History and Sociology of Education |
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Value developmental across the lifespan and especially during childhood; Value-behavior associations; Family value socialization |
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| Mathematical learning disorders (Dyscalculia); Neoropsychology of number processing; Mathematical Thinking, its development and its relation to executive functions and memory | Dr. Dror Dotan |
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Concepts and processes in secondary and tertiary mathematics, in particular meanings in differential and integral calculus |
(Prof. Emeritus) |
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Early language development; Communication, language and speech disorders; Autism: the child, his family and the educational environment |
(Prof. Emerita) |
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History of Education in Eretz Israel and the State of Israel; Combining historical research with planning educational policy; Kibbutz education; Non-formal education |
(Prof. Emeritus) |
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Neuropsychology of language; Aphasia; Syntactic impairments; Lexical retrieval impairments; Dyslexias; Dysgraphias; Syntax acquisition; Language impairments in Israeli Sign Language |
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Mathematical problem solving; Algorithmic problem solving; Declarative specifications vs Operational specifications; Creativity in problem solving; Learning from errors |
Dr. David Ginat |
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Technology and learning; Data use in education; Learning analytics; Computational thinking |
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Intergroup relations; Group-based identities; The development of social categorization and intergroup biases; Stereotyping and prejudice; Political socialization in young children; Socio-psychological development in conflict contexts; The development of intergroup social cognition; Educational interventions aimed at improving intergroup attitudes. |
Dr. Meytal Horkin Nasie |
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Adjustment and maladjustment to life-course transitions; Prevention and inoculation programs |
(Prof. Emeritus) |
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Philosophy of Education; The Education Thought of A.D. Gordon; Religion and Education in Contemporary Society |
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Learning technology for people with special needs; Learning or rehabilitation based on virtual environments ; Online teaching and learning for people with special needs |
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Philosophy of Technology in Education; Culture of Digital Society; Technology Education in Digital Age |
Prof. Ilya Levin |
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Mathematics education; Classroom mathematical creativity; Early childhood mathematics education; Professional development for mathematics teachers |
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Children with special needs and their families; Students with learning disorders and/or ADHD and their families: their social emotional aspects, loneliness and hope |
(Prof. Emerita) |
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Technology and learning; Cognitive and learning aspects in technology education; Learning complexity concepts; Technological thinking |
(Prof. Emeritus) |
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Speech perception and production by deaf and hard of hearing individuals ; Auditory and communication rehabilitation; The effect of communication functioning of deaf and hard of hearing individuals on their everyday functioning in the family, in school and at work |
(Prof. Emerita) |
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Web-Mining of on-line learning ; Internet and Higher Education ; Personal Information Management (PIM) and Education ; Web-Based Learning and Instruction ; ICT in Science Education ; ICT implementation in Education; Science Education in elementary schools |
Prof. Rafi Nachmias
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Measurement and evaluation, research methods and statistics; Factors influencing achievement in mathematics, science and statistics; Teacher training and professional development of teacher educators; Teaching and teaching evaluation in higher education; Achievement and leadership in educational organizations |
Prof. Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija |
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Classroom discourse and learning opportunities; Inequality in classroom discourse; Standard language and language corrections; Language and gender |
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Educational administration as a field of study; The career of teachers and school leaders; Emotion in schools; Gender and Educational leadership |
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Linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, structure of Modern Hebrew ;Acquisition of Hebrew as a mother tongue from infancy to adulthood; Development of linguistic literacy (spelling and writing); Teaching Hebrew as a mother tongue |
(Prof. Emerita) |
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Neuropsychology of attention and attention deficits (ADHD, ASD, Reading difficulties); Development and investigation of cognitive training programs for various populations (ADHD, ASD, Reading difficulties, preschoolers); Cultural factors in cognitive development; Cognitive factors in remote learning; Risk behaviors and well-being in adolescents in the COVID-19 era |
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Multilingual in education and society; Critical theories of testing; Multilingual testing; Language policy; Language rights ; Linguistic landscape; Academic achievements of immigrants and minority Groups |
(Prof. Emerita) |
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Developmental psychology; Teachers cognition, attempting to describe the cognitive, emotional and interpersonal foundations of teaching |
(Prof. Emeritus) |
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Mathematics education for various grade levels, including teacher education, with the following focus: Teaching and learning process in digital environments; Knowledge construction in the mathematics lessons; Discourse analysis in the mathematics classroom |
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Educational policy and sociology of education; Politics of education; Privatization of public education; Teacher careers; Sociology of the teaching profession; Teacher education policy; Democratic financial education |
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Multilingual Education ; Emotional and familial aspects of bi/multilingualism; Language maintenance and loss among minority members and immigrants; Multilingual education policy; Meeting points between arts, languages and identities |
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Mathematics learning and teaching, Intuitive rules and mathematical thinking |
Prof. Dina Tirosh
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Mathematics education ; Intuition and mathematical reasoning ; Mathematical common errors in learning and in instruction ; Mathematics teacher education |
(Prof. Emerita) |
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Stress, coping resources, sleep, and well-being among children with disabilities and their families (i.e., autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and hearing impairments); The determinants of parenting; Moderating and mediating mechanisms underlying the relations between family contextual factors and adjustment, including both parents and children bioregulatory risk and protective factors (e.g., sleep, executive functions, and temperament) |
