Prof. Sara Zamir

Presentation Title: Peace Education Through Bilingual Children’s Literature Written in Arabic and In Hebrew

Achva Academic College, Israel

Past Speaker

Prof. Sara Zamir is an associate professor and a senior researcher at Achva Academic College & Orot Academic College Israel. Currently, she serves as the  Head of the Measurement & Evaluation Specialization, at Orot Israel Academic College. President’s advisor for gender equity and the Head of the M.A degree in Management & Administration in Education at Achva college.

She obtained her PhD in Educational Policy and Administration from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and since them won many awards and grants.

She teaches courses based upon her expertise, present her studies at many prestigious conferences around the world as well as publishes many articles in the fields of sociology, political socialization, communication, and educational evaluation.

In 2022, she was invited to conduct her studies in in Georg Eckert Institute, Germany.‏ and in 2023 she was invited to teach about modern Israel, during the spring semester at Krakow University of Economics.

She edited the book “The voice of Peace in the Process of Education” in 2008.  Her second book “Literary school textbooks as peace agents – Changes and diversity of peace education perspectives” was published in 2012 by Ben-Gurion University publishing house. Her third book “Education and communication” was published in 2014 by Henrietta Szold at Jerusalem Institute publishing house.