Yoram Harpaz

Professor Yoram Harpaz is a lecturer in education at the Al Qasemi College of Education and Beit Berl In the 1970s, he studied General History and Philosophy (BA) at the Hebrew University and thought of education (Master). In the 1980s, he was a history and philosophy teacher and an educator at Boyer School. After seven years of teaching and educating, he was a reporter in the Jerusalem newspaper "Kol Ha’ir," and in 1992 was admitted into the first cycle of the Mandel School of Educational Leadership. After graduating from Mandel he worked at the Branco Weiss Institute. As part of his work there, he managed the project "Teaching and learning in the thinking community" and conducted the Institute's publications. During his work at the Institute, he traveled to Harvard University where he wrote a Ph.D. in the field of thinking education under the guidance of David Perkins and Zvi Lam. The PhD was submitted to the Hebrew University. After nine years at the Branco Weiss Institute, he joined the Mandel School of Educational Leadership faculty, and managed it from 2004 to 2006. In 2007-2015 he edited the "Echo Hahinuch" newspaper. Harpaz has published four books and articles on teaching, learning and thinking.