A senior
lecturer in the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
where she heads the specialization in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Tabak served, together with Joshua Radisinsky, as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Learning
Sciences, and is a former president of the International Society of the
Learning Sciences (ISLS). Her research concerns conceptual knowledge, reasoning skills and professional identity.
Specifically, she constructs models of professional vision on whose basis she
develops teaching methods and learning technologies. This is the framework
within which Dr. Tabak developed the “teacher as partner” approach and the
concept of “synergistic scaffolding.” With the objective of making science
accessible, Dr. Tabak examines how it is possible to enhance the use of online
information in order to make evidence-based health-related decisions. These
studies take place within a broad methodological framework of design-based
research and laboratory research.
Dr. Tabak holds a PhD degree from Northwestern University (US), received in
1999.
Served
as member of “Language and Literacy” expert team.
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