Dr. Shira Iluz

BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Shira Iluz

PERSONAL DATA

        

Address:	: 48 Moriyah Street, Nof-Ayalon, 997850
E-mail:	eluzsh@mail.biu.ac.il
Place of Birth:	Jerusalem, Israel
Date of Birth:	23.04.70
Marital Status:	Married, 5 children

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Year	Degree	Institution
1990 - 1993	B.A.	Bar-Ilan University
1994 - 1997	M.A	Bar-Ilan University
1999 - 2004	Ph.D.	Bar-Ilan University
THESIS:	Pedagogical Beliefs of Tanach and Tushba Teachers of Girls in Religious High Schools
SUPERVISOR:	Prof. Yisrael Rich

 

 

ACADEMIC AFFILATIONS/APPOINTMENTS

        

Year	Appointment	(Work Percentage)
1994-2000	Assistant, School of Education, Bar-Ilan university
2000-	Lecturer, School of Education, Bar-Ilan university	60
2005-	Lecturer, Giv'at Wasington Academic College of Education	50
2009-2010	Lecturer,  coordinator for pedagogic instruction, Efrata Teachers College	50

 

 

        

PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONS: (Memberships/Editorial Activities)

Year
2009-	Member, Editorial Board of REJA:  Religious Education Journal of Australia
	Member, International Seminar on Religious Education and Values
2010	Educational Counseling M. A. academic coordinator at Bar-Ilan Haredi college, Jerusalem.

 

 

AWARDS/GRANT/HONORS

Year
2000	Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence, Bar-Ilan University
2005, 2008	Mofet Institute: Research, Curriculum and Program Development for Teacher Education (2 grants)

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT/TEACING EXPERIENCE 

Undergraduate:

B.A: Religious Education, Educational Measurement, Introduction to curriculum studies

Graduate:

M.A. Quantitative Research, Qualitative Research

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Religious Education

2. Teachers attitudes

3.Civil religion

 

   

 

                         

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS/PERIODICALS

Vakil, E. Jaffe, R. & Iluz, S. (1996). Word recall versus reading speed: Evidence of preserved priming in head-injured patients. Brain and Cognition, 31, 75-89.

 

Rich, Y., & Iluz, S. (2003). Perceptions of the purposes of education among Jewish religious teachers education students in Israel, Religious Education, 98, 180-196.

 

Iluz, S. and Rich, Y. (2009). Internal and External Factors Shaping Educational Beliefs of High School Teachers of "Sacred" Subjects to Girls. Teaching and Teacher Education, 25, 42-51.

 

Iluz, S., Michalsky, T., & Kramarski, B.  (2012). Developing and Assessing the Life Challenges Teacher Inventory for Teachers' Professional Growth. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 38, 44-54.

 

 

Iluz, S. (2012). Teaching Bible in State Religious High Schools in Israel: Expectations and Disappointments. Religious Education Journal of Australia,  28, 3-9.

 

Iluz, S. & Rich, Y. (2015).  Civil Sanctity and National Remembrance Days: An Analysis of Israeli Teachers' Educational Beliefs. Curriculum and Teaching.29, 2.

         PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

Learning Standards in a Non-Standard System: Mapping Students' Knowledge and Comprehension in Ultra-Orthodox Talmud Torahs.  (2014). International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, York, UK. (with y. Katz). 

 

Teachers' Attitudes towards Curriculum Change: The Bible Studies Curriculum in Israeli Religious State Schools. (2014). Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece.

 

Evaluation of Remedial Teaching in Ultra-orthodox Talmud Torah Schools: A First Look into a Closed World (2012). International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, Turku, Finland. (with y. Katz). 

 

Religious Sanctity and Civil Sanctity: A Comparative Study of National Commemoration Days in the Israeli Junior High School. (2010) International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, Ottawa, Canada.  (with Y. Rich).

 

How does teaching Bible for the matriculation examination in the Israeli State Religious school system correspond to teacher instructional goals?. (2008).International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, Ankara, Turkey (with D. Resnick).

 

Educational beliefs of teachers of religious subjects to female students in  Jewish religious high schools. (2005). European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction, Nicosia, Cyprus (with Y. Rich).

 

 

Educational beliefs of Bible and Oral law teachers of female students in Jewish religious high schools, 2005) ) Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal Canada. (with Y. Rich).

 

Educational beliefs of Teachers of Bible and Rabbinic Literature in religious women's high schools. (2004) Educating women in times of change.  Efrata Teachers College. Jerusalem.

 

 

Pedagogical beliefs of Bible and Oral Law teachers of girls in religious high schools.  (2002) International Conference on Jewish Education, Haifa (with Y. Rich),.

 

Perceptions of the purpose of education among religious teacher education students in Israel. (2000 ) International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, Israel (with Y. Rich).

 

Purposes of religious education in the eyes of teacher education students and their teachers (2000). Jewish Education and Jewish Identity in Diverse Settings, Ramat-Gan, Israel (with Y. Rich).

 

Educational goals among religious teacher education students in Israel (2000).  International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, Jerusalem (with Y. Rich).

 

Attitudes of students in religious teacher education colleges toward social and national issues (1998). Scientific Conference on Judaism, Jewish Identity & Religious Jewish Education, Bar-Ilan University (with Y. Rich).

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Non Refereed Publications

Rich, Y., & Iluz, S. (1999a). Educational and pedagogical among students in religious teachers education institutes .Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Education, The School of Education, Bar Ilan University. (Hebrew).

 

Rich, Y., & Iluz, S. (1999b). Educational and pedagogical attitudes among teacher educators in religious teacher's education institutes .Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Education, The School of Education, Bar Ilan University. (Hebrew).

 

 

Rich, Y., & Iluz, S. (2004). Educational and pedagogical goals of students in religious teacher education institutions.  Mehkarei Morashtenu, 2-3, 343-357 (Hebrew).

 

Cohen, E. H. and Iluz, S. (2005). Religious State Schools: Towards an Evaluation of the Educational Initiatives in Jewish Issues. Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Education, The School of Education, Bar Ilan University. (Hebrew).

Ungar, M., & Iluz, S. (2006). Sense of knowledge mastery and pedagogical beliefs of Tanach pre-service and in-service teachers in religious schools. Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan: Talpiot College and Bar Ilan University (Hebrew).

 

Rich, Y., & Iluz,   S. (2006). Education instead of knowledge?? In S. Raz (Ed.), 100 Years of religious Zionist education (pp. 275-281). Jerusalem: World Zionist Organization-Mizrahi HaPoel Mizrahi (Hebrew).

 

Iluz, S. & Resnick, D. (2006). Religious High School Bible Teachers' Attitudes Toward Their Teaching. Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Education, The School of Education, Bar Ilan University. (Hebrew).

 

 

Iluz, S., Rich, Y., & waisbord, C. (2010). Religious sanctity and Civil sanctity: A comparative  view of national memorial days in Israeli junior high schools. In S. Rosmarin, Y. Spanier & M. Ben Ya'akov (Eds.). Derech Efrata: Aspects of Memory  (pp. 225-234). Jerusalem: Efrata Teachers College. (Hebrew).

 

 

Iluz, S., Rich, Y., & weisbord, C. (2010). Religious sanctity and Civil sanctity: A comparative view of national memorial days in Israeli junior high schools. In S. Rosmarin, Y. Spanier & M. Ben Ya'akov (Eds.). Derech Efrata: Aspects of Memory (pp. 225-234). Jerusalem: Efrata Teachers College. (Hebrew).

 

Iluz, S., Rich, Y., & weisbord, C. (2010). Religious sanctity and Civil sanctity: A comparative view of national memorial days in Israeli junior high schools. Research Report. Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Education, The School of Education, Bar Ilan University. (Hebrew). (52 p.)

 

Iluz, S., & Katz, Y. (2012). Evaluation of Corrective Teaching in Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Talmud Torah Schools: Preliminary Glimpses into a Closed Society. School of Education, Bar Ilan University. (Hebrew). (24 p.)

 

 

 

Academic Profile

 

I received my bachelor’s degree from Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan in Psychology and Education. My master’s  degree from Bar Ilan University School of Education was on the ways of new immigrant students, and my doctoral thesis was on the educational beliefs of Bible Studies and Jewish Oral Law (Torah she-be-’al peh) teachers in the religious school system.

My main area of interest is religious education in Israel. Over the years, as part of my work, and in order to advance it, I have worked on different research projects at the Institute of Religious Education Research. These projects have investigated aspects of different groups in religious education: pupils, education students, teacher instructors in academic teacher training colleges, teachers and principals in different schools. In the past year, I have been involved in intensive research on religious and civil sanctity in junior high schools. For the first time this research, for the includes a comparative element, which compares religious state education and secular state education and how teachers from the various sectors create the special atmosphere of sanctity that exists on national memorial days.

My research focuses on teacher thinking and attitudes. To analyze teacher attitudes I use quantitative tools that offer a broad and comprehensive perspective. This includes questionnaires that I developed over the years and qualitative tools that allow me to probe and investigate the processes experienced by teachers.

My teaching areas—Religious Education, Introduction to Curriculum Planning and Quantitative Research—interface with my research areas and complement the theoretical facets of my work. I feel that contact with students contributes greatly to my work and encourages me to keep up to date.

I plan to expand my research in the near future mainly by studying new populations and working with Jewish schools outside Israel and ultra-orthodox education in Israel. No systematic study of these groups has been undertaken yet that describes and analyzes religious education from the differing perspectives of pupils, teachers, and school principals.