Date and place of birth: March 6, 1947, Ramat-Gan.
Military service: 1965-1968
Marital status: Married
Education:
BA Education & Criminology, 1971 – 1974 Bar-Ilan University Israel
MA Criminology, 1974 – 1978, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
PhD Wolfson College 1988 – 1991 University of Oxford, UK
Visiting Fellow 1995 Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Visiting Fellow 1997 University of British Columbia, Canada
Visiting Fellow 2006 Centre for Institutional Research and Development, Hong Kong
Master’s thesis: The Work with Street Gangs – Needs, Means and System Functioning
Supervisors: Teichman Meir. and Fishman Gidon.
Doctoral dissertation: Order Out of Disorder: The ”Pendulum Syndrome” of Centralization and Decentralization Processes in Education – The Case of England and Wales.
Supervisor: Phillips David.
1970 – 1973 |
Prison Authority |
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Teacher and Youth Consultant
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1973 – 1975 |
Community Center |
Petach Tikva |
Head
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1975 – 1978 |
Ministry of Education & Culture |
High Risk Youth Department
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Regional Supervisor
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1978 – 1980 |
Ministry of Education & Culture |
High Risk Youth Department
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National Supervisor |
1980 – 1986 |
Ministry of Education & Culture |
High Risk Youth Department
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Head |
1986 – 1988 |
Ministry of Education & Culture |
Planning and Evaluation Division
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Head |
1992 – 1995 |
Ben Gurion University |
Department of Education |
Part-time Teacher (moreh min-ha’hutz)
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1991 - 2007 |
Tel-Aviv University |
School of Education |
Part-time Teacher (moreh min-ha’hutz)
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2008-present |
Tel-Aviv University |
School of Education |
Adjunct Associate Professor |
2008 - present |
Tel-Aviv University |
School of Education |
Head of Executive MA in Leadership & Management Program |
2011 - present |
Tel-Aviv University |
School of Education |
Head of Education Policy Program |
1992 – 2001 (excl. 1997-1998)
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Ministry of Education |
Advisor on higher education to four Ministers of Education |
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1991 – 1998 |
Ministry of Education |
Planning & Evaluation Division
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Head of Division |
1999-2003 |
Ministry of Education |
Planning & Evaluation Division |
Deputy Director General |
2005- 2007 |
Achva College |
Advanced education studies |
Part time lecturer |
2004- 2008 |
Mandel School, Jerusalem |
The senior officials program for civil servants |
Consultant |
2006 - |
Time to Know, Ramat-Gan |
ICT R&D Program in Education |
Head of Strategic Planning Committee |
2007-2008 |
Legacy Heritage Fund |
New York |
Consultant |
2010-present |
MLA |
School of Education |
Lecturer and from 2011 head of Management division studies |
Active Participation In Scientific Meetings
April 2000 “Globalization of Higher Education” Conference on Higher Education, Capetown
May 2000 “The Opening of the Gates in Israel: Democratization of Higher Education and Peace Education” – Paper presented at an International Conference on Peace Education, Tromso, Norway
April 2001 “From Experiment to Educational Policy: The Transition to School-Based Management in Israeli Schools” – Paper presented at an international conference, Israel
April 2001 Chairperson, “School-Based Management”, an International Conference, Israel
October 2004 "Education Leadership in Pluralistic Societies: The Case of Israel" – Paper presented at the CCEAM Conference, Hong Kong
June 2005 “Education Strategy for Inclusion Policy of Disadvantaged Youth -
A New Perspectives of the Israeli Case” – Paper presented at the Conference on Quality Education for Children from Socially Disadvantaged Settings, Bratislava
January 2007 "School autonomy for school improvement – The case of Israel" Annual World ICSEI Congress, Portoroz, Slovenia.
January 2008 "School Improvement and School Partnership:
Who Controls the Pedagogic Agenda? The Case of Israel" Annual World ICSEI Congress, Auckland, New Zealand.
May 2008 "Is there a Need for a New Paradigm of Tertiary Education in Israel?", A joint conference of School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Council of Higher Education, Neaman Institute and Sapir Forum.
October 2008 "Higher Education Challenges", Annual meeting of Scientific Research Forum, Van-leer, Jerusalem
February 2010 "International Conference on 1-to-1 in education – Current Practices, International Comparative Research Evidence and Policy Implications" Paper presented: The Case of Israel, Vienna.
June 2010 – Metal Conference, "The contradiction between academic instruction which encouraging use of ICT and open resources and the lack of a valid system to assess student knowledge thus acquired". Open University, Raanana
December 2010 – A visiting scholar at the Center of Higher Education, Berkely University
April 2011 – A visiting scholar to the Finish Education System, University of Jyvaskyla
January 2012 – ICSEI conference in Malmo, Sweden.
Chairperson of Committees and Working Groups:
1993 Steering Committee on the Transition to School-Based Management
1994 – 1996 Working group on Master Plan for the Establishment of New Academic Colleges
1999 Joint MOE and IDF Committee on Improving the Literacy of Youngsters in Israel
2001 National Committee on “Local Education District” – A Model for Greater Effectiveness and Equality in Education
2001 Ministry of Education and Universities Joint Committee on Psychometric Testing
2003: Steering Committee on Unemployment; the Structural Change of the Employment Market and Relevant Education to Face the Transition
2006 - 2011: Head of the Strategic Planning Committee for Implementation of "Time to Know" - A philanthropic initiative for ICT teaching and learning at schools.
July 2010 : OECD Reviews of Higher Education in Regional and City Development, Peer Review member – The Galilee in Israel. Submitted to the Council For Higher Education.
June 2012: Chair, The contradiction between two pedagogic approaches – What is the desired direction of the Israeli education system? A conference at Tel Aviv University, June 2012.
July 2012: International Conference on Knowledge and Education Technology, Paris (ICKET 2012)