Education
She was among the founders of the pluralistic Beit Midrash Kolot (Voices), where she studied and taught Jewish Texts for over 12 years.
She was among the founders of the pluralistic Beit Midrash Kolot (Voices), where she studied and taught Jewish Texts for over 12 years.
She is a senior lecturer at Beit Berl Academic College and Ben-Gurion University. Walden specializes in child language, literacy and computer applications in language and literacy acquisition. She is the creator and presenter of popular television series about language instruction and language acquisition.
Recently she was among the creators of a five episode series London corner of Ben Yehuda.
In 2010 Walden was conferred an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew Union College. In addition to her professional work, she is involved in promoting active listening and dialogue through social issues such as promoting human rights, the Middle East peace process and feminist action.
Walden earned her doctoral degree in Psycholinguistics at Harvard University in 1981 and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, as well as a teaching certificate in French, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where she also taught Hebrew as a second language. Walden is married to Professor Raphael Walden, Vascular Surgeon and deputy director of the Sheba Medical Center, Company-Chair of Physicians for Human Rights.
Walden was among the promoters of Whole Language, advocating the use of books rather than textbooks for reading instruction.
She founded the publication Written Thoughts, established the Child Language Center at Beit Berl College in 1984 and the Institute for Whole Language and Computers in 1996.