Adam Lefstein

Biography

I am the Morton L. Mandel Director of the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research and teaching focus on pedagogy, classroom interaction, teacher learning and educational change. I am particularly interested in the intersection between research and professional practice, and how to conduct research that is meaningful, rigorous and helpful for educators. Between 2010-2022 I was a faculty member in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. There I established the Center for the Study of Pedagogy - Research-Practice Partnerships, an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to collaborating with practitioners and policy-makers to design and conduct research and development projects that expand and strengthen Israeli educators' professional knowledge infrastructures. My recent research includes a study of Israeli culture and primary pedagogy, an investigation of video-based dialogic debrief conversations, a design-based implementation study of teacher leadership and professional discourse, an experimental study of academically productive talk in primary language classrooms and an ethnographic investigation of language, class and classroom participation.