Rachel Elboim-Dror

Background

Elboim-Dror, Rachel was born on July 28, 1931 in Poland and in 1936 moved to Israel. Daughter of Zvi and Bracha (Greenberg) Elboim.

Education

She recieved basic education in Israel. In 1949 Rachel entered Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel where she studied Hebrew literature, education and sociology. After graduation in 1954, she continued her studies at Harvard University, where she received Master and Doctorate degrees.

Career

Rachel Elboim-Dror worked as a Professor of Education and Culture Policy and History at the Hebrew University from 1965 till 1995. In 1977 she established the Division of Education Policy, Planning and Administration at this university and served as its director untill 1980.

Her main theoretic and applied interests include education and culture in periods of transformation, from a broad cultural, historical and political perspective.

She served as consultant to the Ministry of Education in Israel, as a member of national and international advisory committees, and on the editorial boards of professional journals. For two years she was editor of Elsevier's International Book Series in Education Policy. She lectured at universities in Europe, the United States, India, and Australia. In 1991 she was invited by the Soviet Academy of Sciences to Moscow. In 1993 she was invited by the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo for a series of lectures and seminars for Egyptian academics and writers.

Achievements

• Rachel Elboim-Dror has been listed as a noteworthy education educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Clean death in Tel Aviv

    (Clean Death in Tel Aviv recreates the repressed dramas of...)

    1999

  • Yesterday's Tomorrow: The Zionist Utopia

    (This publication examines education and culture, includin...)

    1993

  • Hebrew Education in Palestine

    (The dook consists of 2 volumes and describes the process ...)

    1986

• Journal Article

  • British Educational Policies in Palestine

    (The article analyses the case of British educational poli...)

    2000
  • Gender in Utopianism: the Zionist Case

    (Gender differences are frequently discussed in utopian no...)

    1994

Membership

She served as a member of national and international advisory committees, between 1992-1995 as Directorate member at Teacher College, since 1996 as member of the governing committee in Ben-Zvi Research Foundation and since 1998 as a member of the pedagogic committee at Kerem College.

Also worked as a volunteer with disadvantaged youth.

• National and international advisory committees , Israel

• Teacher College , Israel

  1992 - 1995

• Governing committee in Ben-Zvi Research Foundation , Israel

  1996

• Pedagogic committee at Kerem College , Israel

  1998

Connections

Married Yehezkel Dror. Children: Asael, Otniel, Itiel.

Father:

Zvi Elboim

Mother:

Bracha (Greenberg) Elboim

child:

Itiel Elboim-Dror

child:

Asael Elboim-Dror

child:

Otniel Elboim-Dror

husband:

Yehezkel Dror

References

• Professor Rachel Elboim-Dror Brief biography of Rachel Elboim-Dror.