Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details
Higher Education
Academic Ranks
Offices in University Academic Administarion
Scholary Positions
Active Participation in Scholary Conferences
Colloquium Talks
Scholarships, Awards, Research Grants
Teaching
Publications

Ph.d. Dissertation
Books
Articles in Refereed Journals
Articles and Chapters in Books which are not Confernce Proceedings
Articles in Conference Proceedings
Other Scientific Publications
Entries in Encyclopedia or Dictionary
Other Publications (a selection)
Other Works and Activities Connected with my Scholary Field
Articles, Books, or Other Works Submitted for Publication
Additional Comments and Information on my Scientific Activity and Research Plans

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I. CURRICULUM VITAE
 

1. Personal Details

Name: Ilan Gur-Ze’ev
Place and Date of Birth: Haifa, February 27.2.1955
Marital Status: Married to Alona, father to Hadas, Nimrod and Keyla.
Office Address and Phone: Faculty of Education, University of Haifa,
Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel 31905
Phone 04-8240863
Electronic Address: Ilangz@construct.haifa.ac.il
Website: http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~ilangz/new/

 

2. Higher Education

Date                        Institution                                                                                             Degree

1981-1983               University of Haifa, Faculty of History                                            B.A

1984-1988               Tel Aviv University, School of History                                           M.A

1989-1993               Tel Aviv University, School of History                                           Ph.D.

3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education

DATES      INSTITUTION                                            RANK

1984-1985 Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Philosophy     Assistant

1990-1991 Tel Aviv University, School of History            Assistant

1991-1992 Ben-Gurion University, Faculty of Philosophy Adjunct

1993-1994 Ben-Gurion University, Faculty of Education   Adjunct

1993-1994 University of Haifa, School of Education         Proposed Lecturer

1995-2000 University of Haifa, School of Education         Lecturer

 2000-       University of Haifa, School of Educatin           Senior Lecturer

2006-         University of Haifa, Faculty of Education,      Professor Haver

 

4. Offices in University Academic Administration

1996-1999   Member - editorial board of Studies in Education, University of Haifa.

1996-1999   Member - academic committee of The Extension Studies Division of

                       the University of Haifa.

1998-2000   Member - faculty teaching committee in the University of Haifa.

1999-            Member - academic committee for Ethics of the University of Haifa.

2000-2003   Member of the committee for reforming the BA studies in the Faculty of

                       Education.

 2000-           Member of the Senate of the University of Haifa.

 2000-           Chair of the local inter-senate committee for the protection of academic

                       independence in the Israeli universities.

 2003-           Representative of the academic staff in the committee for the election of

                       the university's most excellent employee.

 2003-           Senior editor of Studies in Education, University of Haifa.

2004-            Member – the university's disciplinary committee.

2004-            Member –  the committee for the election of the most excellent University 

                       of Haifa employee.

2004-            Member – the committee for the selection of a recommended candidate for 

                      rectorship.

*2006-2008           Head of the Division of Educational Systems Development

*2008-         Member – the ethics committee, university of Haifa.

*2009-         Member – the Standing Committee of the Senate.

 

 
5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University

1990-1998 Editor and founder of the Philosophical journal Metaphora.

1994-1995 Member of research team, dealing with the production of educational
programs on the subject of “education and politics”.

1996-1997 Initiator and menagerie of a voluntary forum for social and cultural
critique, School of Education, Haifa University.

1998-1999 Member of the program committee, International Network of
Philosophers of Education (INPE).

1999- Co-editor of the international Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education.

2000- Co-chairperson and co-founder of the Israeli Philosophy of Education Society.

2002- Member of the Inter Senate Committee for the defense of academic 
freedom in the Israeli universities (ISC).

2002-  Adviser of the distance learning  program of the University of Brasilia.

2002-  Leading the ongoing International Critical Pedagogy Workshop (Oslo 2002,
Miami 2003, Madrid 2004) and its publications.

2002- Adviser of an international research group on "The Tragedy of Modernity"
(with Peter McLaren, Douglas Kellner, Axel Honneth and Rainer Funk).  

*2006- Member – advisory board of the journal Critical Education Policy Studies.

*2006-  Member – advisory board of the journal Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny (main educational journal in Polish academia).

*2007-  Member – advisory board of The Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies.

*2009-  Member – advisory board of the International Journal of Illich Studies.

*2009-  Member – editorial board of Tabur – Yearbook for Central European History, Culture, Society and Thought.

*2010- Member – Visiting fellow, University of Cambridge, CRASSH research
group in Higher Education (selected in an international competition by the University of Cambridge).

Reviewer for the following journals and publishing houses:

State University of New York Press                  

 Haifa University Press (Hebrew).

Studies in Philosophy and Education.

 The Open University (in Hebrew).                

Religious Education.

Megamot (in Hebrew).

Theory and Critique (in Hebrew).

Studies in Education (in Hebrew).

Journal of Moral Education.

Anthropology & Education Quarterly.

Culture, Theory & Society.

Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny (in English and Polish).

Dapim (in Hebrew).

Script (in Hebrew) (1996).

Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (2005-).

Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory (2005-).

Zemanim (in Hebrew) (2004-).

The Open University (in Hebrew) (2003-).

The Open University (in English – in Britain) (2000-).

*The Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies (2007-).

*International Journal of Critical Pedagogy (2008-).

*Hamerchav Hazibury (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv University (2008-).

*Comparative Education Review (2009).

*Iyyunim Bitekumat Israel (2009).

6. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences
a. Active Participation In Other than Israel

Conference	Place and Dates	Title of my Presentation
Higher Education International Society for the Study of Higher Education	Cape Town University June 1994	The vocation of Higher Education
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain	Oxford University March 1995	Postmodern and modern rhetoric in Israeli academia
Philosophy of Education =Society of Great Britain	Oxford University March 1996	Aporia of emancipatory education: the case of multicultural education
Morals for the Millennium	University of St. Martin, Lancaster July 1996	Acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment of the other’s Holocaust/Genocide.
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain	Oxford University April 1997	Feminist Critical Theory
The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain	Oxford University March 1998	Reflection
Critical Pedagogy at the turn of the century Seminar	A special address for the Oslo University August 1998	Critical Pedagogy today
International Network of Philosophy of Education	University of Ankara  August 1998	The holocaust in Israeli and Palestinian Education and the acknowledgment of “the other”
The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain	Oxford University April 1999	Cyberfeminism in the Era of the Exile of Spirit
Philosophy of Education Society (INPE) conference	Toronto April 2000	Conflicting philosophies of education in Israel
International workshop on the issue of homeland	The University of Florence April 2000	Israeli and Palestinian concepts of homeland in light of the dialectics of the Holocaust and Nakbah memories
Bildung at the turn of the Millennium	The University of Copenhagen, May 2000	Keynote address: Critical Theory and Bildung in a post-modern era.
6th International conference on grief and bereavement in contemporary society	Jerusalem June 2000	Keynote address: The dialectic of suffering in the Holocaust and Nakbah memories
International Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE) biennial conference	Sydney, August 2000	Keynote address(opening the conference): philosophy of peace education in a post-modern era
International Conversation in Education	Brandeis University, July 2001	Critical cultural criticism
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain	Oxford, April 2002	The end of academe after 11th September
8th INPE Biennial Conference: The many faces of philosophy of education	University of Oslo, August 2002	Beyond the optimism of multicultural education
International Critical Pedagogy Workshop (Pre-conference of the INPE)	The University of Oslo, August 2002	Toward a new critical language in education
Philosophy of Education Society (PES) 59th Annual Meeting	Miami, March 2003	Toward a new critical language in education
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain GBPES) annual conference	Oxford, April 2003	Diasporic philosophy and counter-education Cybersex as the solution to Western philosophical challenges
Aimless Education Conference	La Batie, France, September 2003	Homelessness and counter-education
Critical Theory and Education	Piracicaba University, Brazil, September 2004	Keynote address: Conflicting trends in Critical Theory and its relevance to conflicting trends in Critical Pedagogy in face of the exile of Spirit
*Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain	Oxford, New College March 2006	The boycott of Israeli universities as a Philosophical challenge
*Critical Theory International Workshop	Oxford, New College April 2006	Toward a new critical language in education
* AERA: Critical Theory Today	Chicago, August 2006	Invited lecture: Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy today
*International Critical Pedagogy Workshop	Oxford, New College, March 2007	Keynote address: Critical Pedagogy facing globalizing capitalism
*International Critical Pedagogy Workshop	Oxford, New College, March 2008	Keynote address: Revisiting the concept of "critique"

Local Conferences

Conference	Place and Dates	Title of my Presentation
The Israeli Society for Educational Research	The Hebrew University February 1995	Critical Pedagogy in the era of peace
Models of Critique in the Sciences, Society and the Arts	The Van Leer Institute May 1996	A pessimist Critical Theory?
Israeli Sociological Association annual conference	Tel Aviv University February 1996	The Critical Theory and today's postmodern discourse
Developments in research of the Israeli Society	Tel Aviv University December 1996	A revolution in the IDF’s philosophy of education
Power/Knowledge; Critical Theory and education in the era of the postmodern discourse	University of Haifa, School of Education May 1997	Keynote address: The possibilities for a Critical Pedagogy in a Zionist State
Political Theology workshop	The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem October 1997	Political Theology and counter-education: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer today
International Society for the Study of European Ideas	University of Haifa May 1998	Rival Philosophies of History in the Frankfurt School.
The Institute for German History: Critical Theory Today	Tel Aviv University June 1998	Comment on the papers of the second session
Interethnic coexistence	Haifa University, November 1999	The violence of postmodern educational alternatives
Aesthetics and education in the year 2000	The University of Haifa, January 2000	Aesthetic, politics and education in Israel: an historical reconstruction
Meaning and its meanings in life and in the various fields of knowledge	The University of Haifa April 2000	The struggle over the possibility of meaning in a post-modern world: educational, philosophical and political implications
Identity, modernity and violence in the Israeli philosophy of education (The first Israeli PES conference)	The University of Haifa May 2000	Transcending the violence of normalizing education
6th International conference on grief and bereavement in contemporary society	Jerusalem, June 2000	Plenary address: The dialectic of suffering in the Holocaust and Nakbah memories
Solidarity and involvement Van Leer Institute	Jerusalem, July 2000	Value education?
Telecomputerizing education in Israel in the wake of the third millennium	Tel-Aviv, July 2000	A response to the keynote address of Jim Dator
The AYALA conference	The university of Tel Aviv, October 2000	Israeli Multiculturalism and current educational policies
The Historiography of Zionism	Tel Aviv University, January 2001	A critical overview of Zionist historiography
The Possibility of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace	The University of Haifa, The Center for Multiculturalism and Educational Research, January 2001	The various futures of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace
International Colloquium: Inclusion and Exclusion	The University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanities, March 2001	Revisiting the Frankfurt School and Enlightenment's attitude towards Jews, anti-Semitism and Judaism
Youth Movements in the 21th Century	The University of Haifa, Faculty of Education, May 2001	Youth movements and ideology in a post-modern era
The Second InternationalConference on Children's Spirituality	University of Haifa, August 2001	Against spirituality
Israeli Philosophy of Education Society	Levinsky College, Tel Aviv, December 2001	Keynote address: An alternative philosophy of peace education
The Rector's Conference in the MALTZ Report	University of Haifa, the rector's office, December 2001	A critical evaluation of the ideological and philosophical foundations of the MALTZ report
Critical Pedagogy Here and Now	The Tel Aviv University, School of Education, January 2002	Critical Pedagogy here and now
The Israeli Philosophy of Education Society	The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 2002	A response to Ronnie Aviram's critical reconstruction of my philosophical work
Multiculturalism Vision and Reality	University of Haifa, The Center for Multiculturalism and Educational Research, February 2002	A response to Arnon's Sopher's Theory
Center and Periphery: The MALOT conference	Ma'a lot, March 2002	Multiculturalism vs. the hegemonic culture
Rating in Academe? conference	University of Haifa, Faculty of Education, December 2002	Is it still possible to offer resistance to the rating culture in the Israeli academe?
Ort Brauda Higher Education Conference	Ort Brauda College, Carmiel, February 2003	Current challenges of Higher Education
The end of distance?	Oranim College and the University of Haifa, May 2003	In favor of distance: cybersex, cyberfeminism, cyberdemocracy and the new heavenly kingdom
Dialog - Multiculturalism	The University of Haifa, May 2003	Multiculturalism and the prospects of dialogue in Israel/Palestine
Meaning and its Meanings in Life and in Various Disciplines	University of Haifa, Department of English and Department of Hebrew, May 2003	Rebuilding the Tower of Babel
International Conference Theodor Adorno: A Philosopher of Damaged Life	The Tel Aviv University, November 2003	Theodor Adorno as an Educator
Morality in war	University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanities, December 2003	Morality in war: A philosophical perspective
Sport: Philosophy, Politics and Education	University of Haifa, January 2004	Keynote address: Sport - philosophy, politics and education
The idea of Olympic Games Throughout History	University of Haifa June 2004	The perversion of the Olympic idea
Education	The Muslim College "ALKADSIMI", April 2004	Critical education today
Israeli Philosophy of Education Society	Sapir College January 2005	Diasporic philosophy and counter-education
Present day Capitalism	January 2005 Department of Sociology, Ben Gurion University	Globalizing capitalism and sport education
Ecological Maintenance	University of Haifa June 2005	Ecological Education – the ideological struggle
*International Globalization and Education Conference	Hebrew University June 2006	Humanist education in face of globalizing capitalism?
*Israeli Phenomenological Forum	Bar Ilan University August 2006	Postcolonialism and the new Antisemitism
*Israeli Higher Education	Ariel College January 2006	Alternative path to Israeli Higher Education
*New Trends in Studying       Israeli Society	Tel Aviv University, December 2006	Modernity, Postmodernity and the educational revolution in the Israeli army
*Toward a Catastrophe in Israeli Higher Education	University of Haifa December 2006	Keynote address: Toward a Catastrophe in Israeli Higher Education
*Art Education	Tel Aviv University December 2007	Art education and politics
*Will Israel Survive	The University of Haifa January 2007	Degeneration as a gate for a new Jewish renaissance
*Israeli Higher Education	Yehuda Veshomron College January, January 2007	Alternative agenda for Israeli Higher Education
*Quantifying everything (Akol Madid)	Israeli  Center for Qalitative Research, Ben Gurion University, April 2007	The ideology of evaluation and quantifying and inflicting the logic of the market on academia
Pedagogies of Exile*	The University of Haifa, March 2007	Diasporic philosophy and my first Arabic book
*Israeli Sociology of Education	Tel Aviv University, June 2007	Israeli universities today
*Visual Culture and Education	Wizo College, Haifa	Critical education facing visual culture
*Researching New Spiritualism	The University of Haifa, March 2009	Keynote address: The new spiritualism in the era of the exile of spirit
*International Critical Pedagogy Workshop	Oxford, New College, March 2008	Keynote address: Revisiting the concept of "critique"
*The First International Conference on The New Anti-Semitism: Educational Challenges	Faculty of Education, The University of Haifa June 2009	Keynote address: New Anti-Semitism – Educational Challenges

b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions

Conference	Place and Dates	Title of the Session
Power/Knowledge; Critical Theory and education in the era of the postmodern discourse	University of Haifa, School of Education May 1997
International Network of Philosophy of Education	University of Ankara August 1998	Holocaust Eduction
Identity, modernity and violence in the Israeli philosophy of education (The first Israeli PES conference)	The University of Haifa May 2000
Israeli Philosophy of Education Society	Levinsky College, Tel Aviv, December 2001	With Prof. Hanan Alexander
The Israeli Philosophy of Education Society	The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 2002	With Prof. Hanan Alexander
International Critical Pedagogy Workshop	The University of Oslo, Oslo, August 2002
International Critical Pedagogy Workshop	Miami, March 2003
Sport: Philosophy, Politics and Education	University of Haifa, January 2004	With Prof. Roni Lidor
Israeli Philosophy of Education Society	Sapir College January 2005	With Prof. Hanan lexnder
*Toward a Catastrophe in Israeli Higher Education	University of Haifa December 2006
*International CriticalPedagogy Workshop	Oxford, New College April 2006
*International Critical Pedagogy Workshop	Oxford, New College, March 2007
*Pedagogies of Exile	The University of Haifa, March 2007
*International Critical Pedagogy Workshop	Oxford, New College, March 2008
*The First International Conference on The New Anti-Semitism: Educational Challenges	Faculty of Education, The University of Haifa June 2009

 

7. Colloquium Talks and other Invited Addresses

a. Colloquium Talks - Local
  

    1991  Lecture on the subject of “Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt         
              Institute for Social Research”. Departmental colloquium, Ben-Gurion 
              University, Department of Philosophy.

   1993  Lecture on the subject of  “Critical Pedagogy”. Departmental
             colloquium, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Education.

   1993  Lecture on the subject of  “Max Horkheimer and Critical
             Theory”. Departmental colloquium, University of Haifa, Department of 
             Philosophy.

  1993  Lecture on the subject of “Eros and education” in Plato’s 
            symposium”. Departmental colloquium, University of Haifa, School of 
            Education.

  1994   Lecture on the subject of  “philosophies of history in the
             Frankfurt School”. International colloquium of the Institute for German 
             History, Tel Aviv University.

  1995   Lecture on the subject of “revolution in the educational
             Philosophy of the I.D.F”. Departmental colloquium, Hebrew University,  
             Department of Education.

  1995  Lecture on the subject of “the holocaust as a philosophical
             issue and as an educational problem”. Colloquium at the Kibbutzim College,  
            Tel Aviv.

  1996  Lecture on the subject “postmodernism and education in Israel”. 
             Colloquium of the School of Education at the Tel Aviv University.

  1997  Lecture  on the subject of  “education and multiculturalism in 
            Israel”. The Hebrew University, School of Education, Departmental
             colloquium, Jerusalem.

  1999   Lecture on the subject of "the dialectics of the Holocaust and the
             Nakbah memories". The colloquium of the Faculty of Education, The     
             University of Haifa.

  1999  Lecture on the subject of "the dialectics of the Holocaust and the
            Nakbah memories". The colloquium of the School of Education, Tel-Aviv
            University.

  2000 Invited lecture on "the possibilities for education for equality in 
           Israel". The faculty of Education, University of Haifa.

  2001 Invited lecture for the Faculty of Education, Tel Aviv University,  
           on "Education as violence".

  2002  Invited lecture on "Postcolonialism and Diasporic philosophy",
            Hampry Institute, Ben Gurion University.

  2004   Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and counter-education", School of
             Education Colloquium, University of Tel Aviv.

   2004 Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and Judaism", Philosophy
            Department, Bar-Ilan University.

  2004 Invited lecture on "Diasporic education", Department of Education Colloquium,
           Michlelet Yeuda Veshomron, Ariel.

  2004 Invited lecture on "Diasporic education", Department of Education Colloquium, 
           The Open University, Ra'anana.

  2005  Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and education", Colloquium of the 
            Department of Education, Ben Gurion University.

  2005  Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and Judaism", Department of
            Philosophy Colloquium, Bar-Ilan University.

  2005  Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and counter-education", Department
            of Education Colloquium, The Open University.

  *2006 Invited lecture on "Exile as a Jewish ideal", Department of ME Studies, The
           University of Haifa.

  *2006 Invited lecture on "Diaspora as an ideal and the Zionist project today".
            Department of ME studies Colloquium, The University of Haifa.

  *2006 Invited lecture on "Diaspora as an ideal and the Zionist project today".
            Department of ME studies, The University of Haifa.

  *2007 Invited lecture on "The present stance of the Israeli universities". Department
            of Education Colloquium, Ben Gurion University.

  *2007 Invited lecture on "The ethics of representation", Department of
            Communication, University of Haifa.

  *2007 Invited lecture on "The challenges of Israeli Higher Education". The
            Education Committee, Knesset Israel.

  *2007 Invited lecture on "Education today", Principals preparation course, Faculty of
            Education, The University of Haifa.

  *2008 Invited lecture on "the 'Y' generation". Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv
            University.

  *2009 Invited lecture on "Autonomy and humanist education today", School of
            Education, The Hebrew University.

  *2009 Invited lecture on "on the misery of critical education the troubling rumors
             concerning its recovery". Department of Education Colloquium, Ben Gurion
             University.

  *2009 Invited lecture on "Autonomy and humanist education today", School of
            Education Colloquium, The Hebrew University.

 

Colloquium Talks in non-Israeli Universities

2000 Invited special lectures in the Department of Philosophy, 
          METU, Ankara, Turkey on the following topics:
          1. Postmodern multicultural education: emancipation or ethnocentrism.
          2. Critical Theory and non-repressive education in a post-modern era.
          3. Education, counter-education and reflection.

*2007 Invited lecture on "Critical Pedagogy today". Department of Education, UCLA,
          California.

*2009 Invited lecture on "the new anti-Semitism". Department of Education 
          Colloquium, University of Oslo.

*2009 Invited lecture on "The clash between the new anti-Semitism and Jewish
          Diasporic hilosophy". Department of education colloquium, University of
         Agder, Norway.

*2009 Invited lecture on "Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy". Department of
          Education, University of Oslo.

*2009 Invited lecture on "Counter-Education and Improvisation - New Gates for
          Hope?". Diasporic Philosophy". Department of education, University of Agder,
          Norway.

*2010 (January) Invited lecture on "humanist Higher Education in face of
          postmodern culture industry. University of Brighton, UK.

* 2010 (February) Invited lecture on "the new anti-Semitism as the new meta-
            narrative of progressive thinking". University of London.

*2010 (March) Invited lecture on "new anti-Semitism as the new meta-narrative of 
           progressive thinking". University of Stirling, Scotland.

*2010 (March) Invited lecture on "the future university". University of Cambridge.

*2010 (March) Invited lecture on "the new anti-Semitism as the meta-narrative of
           current progressive thinking". University of Winchester.

*2010 Invited lecture on "New anti-Semitism as an educational challenge".
           Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences, New York University 
          (Invited for September 2010).

b. Other Talks

  1992    Lecture on the subject of “Walter Benjamin - between utopia
             and redemption. Van Leer Institute, Walter Benjamin Colloquium.

  1996  Lecture on the subject of “Metaphysics of road accidents”.            
            National Teachers’ Association, Jerusalem.

  1996   Lecture on the subject of "the possibility of civil humanist 
             education in a Zionist state. Annual National Teachers’ Association
             conference, Jerusalem.
  1997   Lecture on the subject of “the historical narrative, national
             education and education for multiculturalism”. Ministry of Education,
             Pedagogical Secretariat, Zichron Ya’akov.

  1997   Lecture on the subject of  “various concepts of a democratic
             state”. University of Haifa, School of Education, Department of Teachers’
             Training.

  1998   Lecture on the subject of “education for excellence - who really 
             needs it?”. The Haifa Educational Forum, Haifa.

  1998   Symposium on the profesionalization and training of
              teachers, Beit-Berl College.

  1998   Lecture on the subject of “the teacher and the counter-education”. The  
             International Conference of Teachers and Educators,     
             Haifa.

  1998   Lecture on the subject of “the philosophy and politics of
             multicultural education”. The International Conference of Teachers and 
             Educators, Haifa.

  1998    Lecture on the subject of  “postmodernism and multiculturalism
              in Israel”. Oranim College, Tiveon.

    1988   Invited address for the Faculty of Education general meeting.
               Lecture on the subject of "the academic as an intellectual in the Faculty of
               Education", University of Haifa.

    1999  Lecture on the subject of "leadership in a democratic
              consumption society". The annual conference of The Department of Value
              Education, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem.

   1999   Lecture on the subject of "postmodern education - implication
              for various groups in the Israeli society". The annual conference of "Shahar",  
              Ministry of Education, Naharia.

   1999  Lecture on the subject of "the possibility of multicultural
              education in a Zionist state". The Center for Multiculturalism and Education,
              University of Haifa.

  1999   Lecture on the subject of "critical education in the cyberspace?".
             The Israeli school curriculum and educational knowledge group, University of 
             Haifa.

 2000    Invited special lecture for the concluding ceremony of the
             School of Educational Leadership (Mandel School) on the subject of "the 
             possibilities of emancipatory education in a post-modern era", Jerusalem,
            "Beit Aumot".

2000    Lecture on "The Palestinian instrumentalization of the Holocaust 
            and Nakbah memories". Bridges vs. Abyss in Philosophy, Politics and 
            Education  in Israel. A Hanan Bar-Netzer Colloquium, held at the University
            of Haifa.

2000 Lecture on "Value education – a social worthy aim or deeper
         oppression of the individual?". The Annual conference of The Center for 
         Tolerance Education", Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.

2000 Invited lecturer on "multiculturalism in Israel" for the cultural
         center, Kiriat Bialik.

2000 Lecture on "The cyberspace as the new Garen of Eden", The Internet and
         suicides. Paper presented in Eshnav Third Annual Conference, Kfar   
         Hamaccabia, Israel.

2000 Invited lecture on "the privatization of education and the needs of  
         a society struggling for its very survival". Lecture held in SHORASHIM, 
         Misgav.

2000 Invited lecture on "the possibilities for education for equality in 
         Israel". The faculty of Education, University of Haifa.

2000 Invited lecture for the HEVRA LEMANASIM, on "Education in a 
         second thought", Tel Aviv University.

2000 A series of four invited lectures on "educating today", Tel Hai 
         College.

2001 Invited special lecture on "Multicultural education" in the opening
         of the annual ZOFIM conference.

2001 Invited lecture on "Multicultural education in Israel" for the  
         teachers of the Hertzog school, Holon.

2001 Invited lecture for the Faculty of Education, Tel Aviv University,  
         on "Education as violence".

2001 Invited lecture on "the quality of the educational work in a post-
         modern era". The annual conference of the ORT managers, Tel Aviv.

2001 Invited lecture on "humanist-oriented education in face of a 
         fragmented society". The conference of counseling educators, Zichron a'akov.

2001 Invited lecture on "a critical retreat to Jewish thought", Hanan Bar
         Netzer Colloquim, Faculty of Education, The University of Haifa.

2001 Invited lecture on "feminisms and critical reconstruction of text
         books", Faculty of Education, Teachers Training Center, University of Haifa.

2001 Invited lecture on "postmodernism and insanity", Psychological  
         Coloquium, Tirat Acarmel.

2001 Invited lecture on "postmodernism and new educational trends",
         Regional School, Megido.

2001 Invited lecture on "postmodernism and violence", The
         Philosophical Discussion Group", Geva.

2001 Invited lecture on "value education in the post-modern turn",
         Jerusalem's Headmasters conference, Jerusalem.

2001 Invited lecture for the MATKAL, IDF, on "postmodern learning
         strategies". Ministry of Defense, Tel Aviv.

2002 Invited lecture on "The aims of the educator in the informal
         education". The annual conference of the Communal Youth  Movements,  
         AKFAR HAYAROK.

2002 Invited lecture on "false consciousness", Kibbutz Ravid.

2002  Invited lecture on "Postcolonialism and Diasporic philosophy",
          Hampry Institute, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva.

2002 Invited lecture on "diasporic education today", The center for  
         Multiculturalism and Educational Research, University of Haifa.

2003 Invited lecture by "The Philosophical Club", Western Galilee
         College, on "the postmodern worldview".

2003 Invited series of four lectures on "education in a multicultural
         society". SHATIL, Tel Aviv.

2003 Invited lecture on "Critical Pedagogy today", Western Galilee College.

2003 Invited lecture on "postmodernism and education", Witzo College, Haifa.

2004 Invited lecture on "Diasporic education", Department of Education, Michlelet
         Yeuda Veshomron, Ariel.

2004 Invited lecture on "Teachers' training – a critical perspective", Oranim College.

2004 Invited lecture on "Diasporic education", Department of Education, The Open
         University, Ra'ana.

2004  Invited lecture on "Diasporic education and multiculturalism", The Center for
          Multiculturalism and Educational Research, University of Haifa.

2004  Invited lecture on "The future of Love in a Postmodern Era", West Galilee        
          College, Acre.

2005  Invited lecture on "Critical Education and its limitations", Oranim College, 
          Tiveon.

2005 Invited lecture on "Peace Education in a Postmodern Era", The Academic
         Arab College, Haifa.

2005  Invited lecture on "Art and Diasporic education", Art College, Beit-Berl.

2005  Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and counter-education", Department
          of Education, Michllelet Yeuda Veshomron.

2005 Invited lecture on "education in a postmodern era", PISGA general meeting,   
         Safed.

2005 Invited response to Philipp Wexler on "Conflicting trends in current
        Sociology of Education", Faculty of Education, The Hebrew University,
        Jerusalem.

*2006 Invited lecture on "education in face of globalizing capitalism", in the
         "General Manager of the Ministry of Education Conference", Jerusalem.

*2006 Invited lecture on "Pluralism and multi-culturalism in Israel", The Liberal
         Forum, Ahuzat Ohalo.

*2006 Invited lecture on "Israeli education today", The high command forum of the
         Israeli police, Institution for Instruction, Hertzelia.

*2006 Invited lecture on "Diaspora and Exile for Palestinian and Israelis", Emil
         Tuma Institute for Israeli Studies, Haifa.

*2006 Invited lecture on "Alternative training for principals at Israeli schools",
        Teachers Training Department, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa.

*2006 Invited lecture on "Critical Pedagogy", Ofakim Seminar, The University of
          Haifa.

*2007 Invited lecture on "Walls, borders and limitations – a philosophical view in a
           postmodern era". Mondale Institute, Jerusalem.

*2007 Invited lecture on "Pluralism and multiculturalism in Israel". The Liberal
          Forum, Hachuzat Oalo.

*2007 Invited lecture on "Israeli educational system today". Police national education
          center, Netanya.

*2007 Invited lecture on "Conflicting trends in critical education", The Israeli Forum
        of Philosophy teachers, Ramat-Gan.

*2007 Invited lecture on "The stance of the students in Israeli academia". Beit Yad
          Avichay, Jerusalem.

*2008 Invited lecture on "Holocaust and education in a postmodern era". Yad
          Vashem Institute, Jerusalem.

*2010 Invited lecture on "Brecht, art and education". Department of theater,
          University of Haifa.

 

8. Scholarships, Awards, Research Grants, etc.

1988  The “Zalman Aran Scholarship” for excellence in graduate studies, School of  
           History, Tel Aviv University.

 1990  Scholarship for German-Jewish research at the Herbert Marcuse Archive,
           Frankfurt, granted by the Institute of German History, Tel Aviv University.

 1990  Research Grant for participating in a research group on the subject of “Europe 
           in the end of war world II”, the Wiener Library Seminar, Tel Aviv University.

 1991  Research grant from the Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst, for research
           at the Frankfurt University.

 1993  Olga and William Lakritz Grant, in support of publishing The Frankfurt School
           and the History of Pessimism.

 1994  The Rothschild Foundation. Grant in support of the publication of The
          Frankfurt School and the History of Pessimism.

 1996  Grant from Haifa University” in support of a research on education as
          construction of collective identities.

 1998  A reward in the first national Bahat Foundation competition for the book
          Philosophy, Politics and Education in Israel, The Haifa University Press.

 1998  Grant from the head scientist of the Ministry of Education for a study on value
           education in Israel.

 1998  Grant from the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa in support of a
           research on Holocaust education in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

 1999 Grant from the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa in support of a research
          on the Israeli "student revolution".

2002 Grants from the Rector, the Research Authority and the Faculty support of Education
          in of organizing an international Critical Pedagogy Workshop in Oslo with cooperation with
          Oslo University.

*2008 Grant from the Rector in support of a comparative study of the fruits of inflicting the logic of the
           market on academic life (published as a working paper "Against the Industrialization of Academia").

*2009 Grant from the University of Cambridge for a research in Cambridge on the topic of "the future university"
          (an international competition organized by the University of Cambridge).

 
9. Teaching

A. Courses taught in recent years:

Title	Year	Type	Level
Introduction to philosophy of education	1990-2005	Lesson	B.A
1Introduction to Greek philosophy	1991-1992	Lesson	B.A
Modern trends in education	1991-1992	Lesson	B.A
Aesthetics and education	1994-1995	Lesson	B.A
Moral dilemmas in education	1994-1995	Lesson	B.A
Critical Pedagogy	1995-1999	Seminar	M.A
New trends in Philosophy and their educational implications	1995-1999	Lesson	B.A
Textbooks Critique	1995-1996	Seminar	M.A
Ideological aspects of Curricula	1997-1998	Lesson	B.A
Education and politics in a post-modern arena	1999-2000	Seminar	MA
Education and multiculturalism in Israel	1999-2001	Seminar	MA
Critical Pedagogy	2000-2001	Seminar	MA
Feminism, postmodernism, and education	2001-2003	Lesson	BA
Body, Soul, thinking and education	2001-2003	Seminar	MA
Education in a post-modern era	2001-2009	Seminar	MA
Anti-racist education	2004-2005	Seminar	MA
Diasporic education	2004-2005	Seminar	MA
Challenges of education in the 21 century	2008-	lesson	BA+MA
New anti-Semitism	2009	Seminar	MA
Education and society	2009	lesson	BA

    B. Supervision of graduate students in recent years:

MA Students

Name	Title	Degree	Date
Chohen Avivit	Exploring the possibilities and limitations of the Critical Theory in the arenas of internet and virtual reality	M.A	Accomplished November 1999
Ilani Kitta	The image of the Israeli soldier in the Israeli art	MA	Accomplished November 2001
Tova Ya'akoby	Critical Pedagogy in Israel - a vision or an illusion?	M.A	Accomplished June 2002
Arie Kizel	Constructing collective memory trough general history teaching	MA	Accomplished August 2002
Gilad Goldstein	The possibilities for education in a post-modern era	MA	Accomplished March 2004
Oshrat Zerihan	Postmodern Ethics – Critical Reading of Adi Ofir's Writings	MA	Pre-proposal approved September 2005 About to return to work after postponement
Eyal Ram (studying in Tel Aviv University)	Philosophical Foundation of Democratic Education in Israel	MA	Accomplished August 2006
Nimrod Smilansky	Effective thinking	MA	About to submit his proposal
Ilanit Izretzki	Education in a postmodern era	MA	Preparing her proposal

PhD Students

Name	Title	Degree	Date
Choen Avivit	The Possibilities and limitations for the Realization of Critical Pedagogy in the Israeli Arena	PhD	Proposal approved September 2005 Still working
Yunis Abu-Al-Hija	The role of Higher Education institution in the promotion of Marginalized groups	PhD	Proposal approved August 2006 Still working
Ilana Rosen	Emancipatory possibilities in the cyberspace?	PhD	Proposal approved 2006 Still working
Arie Kizel	The construction of the Mizrahi narrative in Israel	PhD	Accomplished November 2009
Tova Ya'acoby	Teacher's training toward Critical Pedagogy in Israel	PhD	Accomplished December 2009
David Dunetz	Environmental education, Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy	PhD	Submitted December 2009
Roy Silberberg	The challenges of peace education	PhD	Proposal approved November 2009
Pini Luzon	Love and Education	PhD	Preparing his pre-proposal

C. Evaluation of PhD works and applications from other universities in recent years

Tel Aviv University: 4 (2001, 2003, 2004, 2008)
Ben Gurion University: 7 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009)
The Hebrew University: 2 (2004, 2009).
Bar-Ilan University: 2 (2009, 2010).