Sharon Feiman-Nemser Editor & Author

Miriam Ben-Peretz is professor Emerita of Education at the University of Haifa, former Dean of the School of Education, and recipient of the Israel Prize for Research in Education 2006, the AERA, Division K Legacy Award, the AERA Divison B Lifetime Achievement Award and the EMET Israel Prime Minister Prize for Educational Research. She is also an Elected fellow of the AERA since 2014. Sharon Feiman-Nemser is the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor of Jewish Education at Brandeis University where she founded the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education and the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program. She also served on the education faculties at the University of Chicago and Michigan State University. A pioneer in research on teacher learning, she has written extensively on teacher education, learning to teach, mentoring and new teacher induction. Teachers as Learners, a collection of her seminal writings, was published by Harvard Education Press (2012). She was the first recipient of the Margaret Lindsey Award for Outstanding Research from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (1996).