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| Dorit Kershner and Marlen Abdala with Camilia Wolner, Prof. Hanan Alexander, Prof. Dani Ben Zvi and Dr. Arie Kizel |
Two graduate students in the Department of
Learning, Instruction and Teacher Training at the
University of Haifa, have won
the Dan Volner Award for Outstanding Research Papers in the field of Philosophy
with Children. On May 2018 the award was
granted for the first time on behalf of the Israeli Academic Forum for
Philosophy with Children aiming at the pedagogical development of educational
systems.
The award was donated by the family of Dan Volner, who
attended the event. His widow, Camila Volner said: “Our beloved Dani passed
away two years ago. Wanting to commemorate him and create a continuity to his
professional work, we chose to award humble scholarships to students who will
present outstanding papers in the fields that promote democratic values of
equality, human rights and coexistence – values that constituted Danny’s world
view. A world view that is quite a rare amalgamation of a deep commitment to
the faith of the Jewish people and the State of Israel alongside a commitment
to justice and high sensibility to the suffering of other humans and peoples.
Danny’s professional work was can be divided into two periods – first he dealt
with managerial and marketing aspects in the industry, where he was highly
accomplished; the second – he reached following a health crisis that led him to
make a decision he was going to work directly in activities that “will make the
world a better place.”
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| Dan Wolner |
Camila Volner added: “Danny founded ‘Minorities in
Israel’, a company that acted alongside the EU and other factors to hold
activities that promote coexistence, human rights and the empowering of disadvantaged
populations. As part of “Minorities in Israel” he was both a partner and leader
of many and diverse projects in Israel and the Mediterranean countries.
Teenagers and youths from various parts of society participated in most of
them. For us, the awarding of scholarships to young people who chose to deal
with these subjects creates a continuity to Danny’s work to fulfilling his
dream of “making the world a better place”.
The Dean of the Faculty of Education, Prof. Hanan
Alexander, said at the ceremony that he sees the reward as particularly
significant because it is awarded to two students who combine in depth academic
research with multidisciplinary work in the field of education. The head of the
Department of Learning, Instruction and Teacher Training, Professor Dani
Ben-Zvi, thanked the Volner family for its willingness to award the
scholarships in order to commemorate Dan Volner’s unique spirit, and
congratulated the recipients of the award for their academic and educational
work.
The Head of the Pedagogical Development of
Educational Systems Program, Dr. Arie Kizel, congratulated the recipients of the
award: Marlen Abdullah who investigated the alternative pedagogy and teacher
perception in the Girls Elementary School in Isawiya, East Jerusalem using the
Philosophy with Children Program. Her article in the field has been published
at the Journal of Philosophy in Schools, and Dorit Kirshner, who write her
research paper about the notion of meaning in Mathew Lipman’s philosophy, the founder
of Philosophy with Children. Kirshner Presented her research in the European
Convention for Philosophy with Children in Gertz, Austria in October 2017, and
will present it this August in the INPE International conference that will be
held in the University of Haifa in August 2018.
The recipients presented their works in front of
family members, staff and fellow graduate students in the program of
Pedagogical Development of Educational Systems.
The site of the Pedagogical
Development of Educational Systems Program: https://sites.google.com/edu.haifa.ac.il/edu-sys-devel/
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