Sivan Zakai, Ph.D.
Sivan Zakai is a scholar, teacher educator, and educational consultant. She serves as the Sara S. Lee Professor of Jewish Education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In addition to directing the Children’s Learning About Israel Project and co-directing both Project ORLIE: Research and Leadership in Israel Education and the Learning and Teaching about What Matters Project, Sivan serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Jewish Education and as a member of the faculty at the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute. Her books include My Second-Favorite Country: How American Jewish Children Think about Israel and Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field.
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