Sivan Zakai, Ph.D.
Sara S. Lee Professor of Jewish Education
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school/program: School of Education
academic field: Contemporary Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Jewish Education
campus: Los Angeles
Sivan Zakai, Ph.D., is the Sara S. Lee Professor of Jewish Education at Hebrew Union College/Los Angeles. A thought leader in Jewish and Israel education, Dr. Zakai is the director of the Children’s Learning About Israel Project and co-director of both the Learning and Teaching about What Matters Project and Project ORLIE: Research and Leadership in Israel Education. She also serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Jewish Education and as a member of the faculty at the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute.
- Israel in American Jewish Education
- Creating a Healthy Culture for Teaching and Learning about Israel in Jewish Schools
- Learning about Israel: A Developmental Trajectory of Student Understanding
- Jewish Children’s Thinking about October 7th and its Aftermath
- Jewish Children’s Thinking about Antisemitism
- Jewish Children’s Thinking about Politics in and about Israel
- Introduction to Pedagogy
- Designing Educative Learning
- Supervised Leadership
- Teaching Hebrew
- Teaching the Jewish Past
- Israel Education in North America
Ph.D. in Curriculum & Teacher Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2009
M.A. in History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2006
B.A. with high honors, College of Letters (history, philosophy, and literature) and Government, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2000
Phi Beta Kappa