Notes on Contributors
Nimrod Aloni
is a professor of Philosophy of Education at Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel. He holds the UNESCO Chair in Humanistic Education and authored ten books and many articles and book chapters in the area of humanistic education. In 2004 he was awarded “Knight of Quality Government” by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel and in 2021 he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Teachers College – Columbia University.
Muhammad Amara
is a full professor of Linguistics at the Academic College of Beit Berl, Israel. His academic interests include language education, language policy, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, language and politics, linguistic landscape, and collective identities. His recent publications include: Language, identity and conflict (Routledge, 2018); My language is my identity: Towards a comprehensive language policy to meet the challenges of Arabic in Israel (Dar-Al-Huda and Dar Al-Fiker, 2020).
Muzna Awayed-Bishara
has a PhD in Linguistics from the Department of English Language and Literature at Haifa University. She is a senior faculty member in the Program for Multilingual Education at Tel Aviv University. She studies the intersection between English teacher and intercultural communication in conflict-ridden contexts. She is the author of the book EFL pedagogy as cultural discourse: Textbooks, practice, and policy for Arabs and Jews in Israel.
Daniel Bar-Tal
is a professor emeritus at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University. His research interest is in political and social psychology studying socio-psychological foundations of intractable conflicts and peace building, as well as development of political understanding among children and peace education. He has published over twenty-five books and over two hundred and fifty articles and chapters in major social and political psychological journals, books and encyclopaedias. He served as a president of the International Society of Political Psychology and received various awards for his academic achievements.
Galiya Bar-Tal
graduated cum laude from a high school in 2020. She spent a year in the pre-military leadership academy of Givat Haviva and is currently doing her mandatory military service in the Israeli Defense Force.
Myriam Darmoni-Charbit
served as the Director of Civic and Shared Society Education at the Center for Educational technology (2006–2020). With her team, she led the design and implementation efforts of Shared Education in Israel and, in particular, in Jerusalem.
Smadar Donitsa-Schmidt
is an associate professor at the Kibbutzim College of Education in Israel. Her PhD in Educational Linguistics is from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at Toronto University. At KCE she serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is also the chief editor of Dapim, the main refereed journal of teacher education in Israel. Her publications focus on initial teacher education, teacher professional development, policy in higher education, and learning in multicultural societies.
Gavin Duffy
is a lecturer in Educational Leadership at Queen’s University Belfast. His academic interests include education in divided society contexts, shared education, the social and educational impact of school collaboration, educational leadership and the various forms of school exclusion. His recent work has appeared in the Journal of Educational Change and Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties.
Tony Gallagher
is a professor of Education at Queen’s University Belfast, and former Head of the School of Education and Pro Vice Chancellor. His main research interests lie in the role of education in divided societies, collaborative school networks, and the civic and democratic role of higher education. He has authored ten books and over 100 book chapters or academic journal articles and attracted over £10m in external research grants.
Jaime Grinberg
is a full professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University. His PhD is from Michigan State University. At Montclair, he served as Chairperson, Director of the Educational Foundations for Elementary Teachers program, acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Director of the New Jersey Network for Educational Renewal, a school-university partnership involving 23 school districts. His books and essays focus on philosophical, socio-historical, cultural, and political foundations of education.
Zehavit Gross
is a full professor of Education. She holds the UNESCO Chair in Education for Human Values, Tolerance Democracy and Peace, Faculty of Education, Bar Ilan University, Israel. She is the former president of the Israeli Society for Comparative Education (ICES) and currently participating in four international research projects.
Abed Al-Rahman Mar’i
is a senior lecturer at Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. His academic interests include medieval Hebrew literature, language education, the teaching of Hebrew as a second language among Arab schools in Israel, the linguistic influences between Arabic and Hebrew in Israel. His books include Walla Bseder: A linguistic profile of Israeli-Arabs (2013); A great language: Integration of Arabic into Israeli Hebrew (2020).
Assaf Meshulam
is a senior lecturer in the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University. His main research interest is the relation between education and power, focusing on education for democracy and social justice. His recent work has appeared in British Journal of Sociology of Education, Comparative Education Review, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
Shula Mola
is a postdoctoral fellow at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. She worked at the Centre for Educational Technology (CET) as on-line and off-line content developer, as well as leading teacher training workshops on the topics of racism, human rights, and Shared Learning in Israel.
Lilach Naishtat-Bornstein
is a scholar, artist, and educator. She teaches at the Kibbutzim College of Education and was a visiting scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University (2019–2020). Her recent books are The song of songs and the poetics of romantic fragment (Resling, 2019), and Contemplative pedagogy in training teachers (co-edited with N. Bar-Yosef Paz), forthcoming in 2022.
Eyal Naveh
is professor emeritus of history at Tel Aviv University and at the Kibbutzim College of Education. Currently he is the head of the Academic Council at the Kibbutzim College of Education. Naveh is the founder and the chairperson of the Israeli Institute of History Education. He was the coordinator and adviser of the Israeli-Palestinian two narratives history project.
Shany Payes
is co-director of Shared Learning at CET, the Centre for Educational Technology, Israel. Shany is a graduate of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, where she received her PhD in Middle Eastern Studies, and a graduate of Mandel School of Educational Leadership. Her book, Palestinian NGOs in Israel: The politics of civil society, was published by IB Tauris in 2006.
Lee Perlman
is a Tel Aviv-based associate of Brandeis University’s International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life. His PhD is from Tel Aviv University. He researches arts, politics and cultural policy and co-leads IMPACT, a global initiative building the Arts, Culture and Conflict Transformation (ACCT) field. He is the author of But Abu Ibrahim, we’re family! (Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University, 2017), a critical study on Jewish and Palestinian theatre cooperation in Israel.
Sinai Peter
graduated from the Theater Department of Tel Aviv University. He acted in several repertory and fringe theaters as well as in films and TV. He directed in some of the main and fringe theaters in Israel and in Theater J and Mosaic Theater in Washington DC. He was the artistic director of Haifa Municipal Theater (2000–2005). He teaches theater in colleges in Tel Aviv and in Acre.
Reyes L. Quezada
is a professor at the University of San Diego in California in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences. His doctorate is from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. His research focus is on cultural proficiency, family-school and community engagement, and international education. He is the editor for Teacher Education Quarterly (TEQ) and serves on the Association for Advancing Quality Educator Programs (AAQEP).
Gareth Robinson
is a research fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. His academic interests include transformative potential of education in divided societies; school networks and interschool collaboration; systemic and organizational change; and school improvement. His recent publication appeared in the Journal of Professional Capital and Community.
Jürgen Scheffler
studied history and German literature. Until 2019 he was the director of Lemgo museum with three departments: Hexenbürgermeisterhaus (History), Junkerhaus (Art) and Frenkel-Haus (Memorial). In 2019 he curated “The German-Jewish Dilemma: The Story of the Hochfeld Family from the 18th Century until Today”, a cooperation with Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
Philipp Schmidt-Rhaesa
is teacher for music, drama and German language and literature at Karla-Raveh-Gesamtschule in Lemgo, Germany. He is the school’s manager for cultural education and cooperation.
Jaap Schuitema
is an assistant professor in the Research Institute of Child Development and Education at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include the moral development of students and citizenship education. He has studied the effectiveness of teaching strategies on students’ critical thinking, science skills, and moral reasoning.
Noa Shapira
is a lecturer at the Department of Education and Community at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel. She is also the leader of the Education for Shared Society team at CET, the Centre for Educational Technology, Israel.
Beverley Topaz
is currently a lecturer in the English Department at Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel. Her research interests are initial teacher education, intercultural competencies, shared education, professional development, and educational leadership.
Wiel Veugelers
is emeritus professor of education at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is associate editor of the Journal of Moral Education, editor of the book series Moral Development and Citizenship Education, and member of the Program Advisory Committee of the International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS).
Yusef Waghid
is a distinguished professor of philosophy of education at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is the author of Education, crisis, and philosophy (Routledge, 2022).
Tina Waldman
is a senior lecturer in the English Teacher Training department at Kibbutzim College of Education, where she teaches courses in language didactics. Her PhD in Applied Linguistics is from Haifa University, Israel. She is the prime compiler of the Israeli learner corpus of written English (ILCoWE), which is an internationally used resource. Her current research interests include social-cultural approaches to foreign language teaching involving intercultural, online collaborative learning.
Lori Weintrob
is the founding director of the Wagner College Holocaust Center and professor of History, in Staten Island, New York. She is co-editor of Beyond bystanders: Educational leadership for a human culture in a globalizing reality (2017) and co-chair of the international symposium Heroines of the Holocaust: New Frameworks of Resistance, among other scholarly writing and projects. She received her BA from Princeton University and her MA and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Dafna Yitzhaki
is a lecturer at Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel-Aviv, Israel. She holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics. Her research interests include multilingualism in education and teaching languages in the context of conflict. Her current research focuses on the implementation of the Northern Ireland Shared Education model in the Israeli context. Her recent book is Education and the Jewish-Palestinian conflict in Israel (co-edited with A. Yuval), forthcoming in 2022.