The Center for Jewish and Democratic Education

Center Members

Nimrod Smilanski-Fridman

I am a PhD student at the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education. In my PhD dissertation I explore the philosophical relations between the Bildung educational tradition and the American progressive educational tradition through a comparison of the concept of progress as it appears in Hegel and Dewey.

In the last five years I have been a part of a R&D group at the "Branco Wiess Institute", as a part of a national reform in teacher's professional development. I also teach "philosophy of education" in Israel Open University and this last year I'm a fellow in the "Initiative of practical research in education".

Publications:

Articles

Smilanski Fridman, Nimrod. 2018. Between pedagogy and: Taking the concept of "meaningful learning" to the edge of imagination, Iunim behinoch. Haifa Univ. press.

Conferences:

Spoke in the 7th international conference on teacher education in "Mofet institute" on the topic of Professional or Community? Two Essential Sets of Characteristics in Teachers' PLC Work

Spoke in the second Conference of the School of Education in "Beit-Berl" collage on the topic of "The Transcendental Imagination In Education".