 Dr. Zvi Bekerman, Ph.D. teaches anthropology of education at the School of Education and The Melton Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a Research Fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University. His main interests are in the study of cultural, ethnic and national identity, including identity processes and negotiation during intercultural encounters and in formal/informal learning contexts. Since 1999 he has been conducting a long term ethnographic research project in the integrated/bilingual Palestinian-Jewish schools in Israel. He has published numerous papers in these fields of study and is the Editor (with Seonaigh MacPherson) of the refereed journal “Diaspora, Indigenous, ad Minority Education: An International Journal (LEA, 2007). Among his recently published books: With Nicholas Burbules and Diana Keller Silverman an edited volume entitled : Learning in Places: The Informal Education Reader (Peter Lang, 2006) and with Claire McGlynn a volume entitled “Addressing Ethnic Conflict through Peace Education: International Perspectives” (Palgrave McMillan, 2007)
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