Prof. Ilan Gur-Ze'ev
ilangz@construct.haifa.ac.il  

-Co-chairperson of the Israeli Philosophy of Education Society 
- Formerly Editor of Studies in Education (Iyyunim Bechinuch) 
  Address: Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, 31905, Haifa, Israel     
Prof. Ilan Gur-Ze'ev will be presenting a lecture entitled Toward rearticulating the aims of sport in an anti-humanistic era



CURRICULUM VITAE
 

 Personal Details

Name: Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

Place and Date of Birth: Haifa, February 27.2.1955

Marital Status: Married to Alona, father to Hadas, Nimrod and Keyla

Citizenship and Identity Card Number: Israeli, 053417408

Permanent Home Address: 10 Nachmias Yoseph St., Haifa

Home Telephone Number: 04: 8121411 + 04: 8100901

Office Address and Phone: Faculty of Education, University of Haifa,

Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel 31905

Phone 04-8240863

Electronic Address: Ilangz@construct.haifa.ac.il

Website: http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~ilangz/new/

2. Higher Education

Date                        Institution                                                                                             Degree

1981-1983               University of Haifa, Faculty of History                                            B.A

1984-1988               Tel Aviv University, School of History                                           M.A

1989-1993               Tel Aviv University, School of History                                           Ph.D.

3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education

DATES      INSTITUTION                                            RANK

1984-1985 Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Philosophy     Assistant

1990-1991 Tel Aviv University, School of History            Assistant

1991-1992 Ben-Gurion University, Faculty of Philosophy Adjunct

1993-1994 Ben-Gurion University, Faculty of Education   Adjunct

1993-1994 University of Haifa, School of Education         Proposed Lecturer

1995-2000 University of Haifa, School of Education         Lecturer

 2000-       University of Haifa, School of Educatin           Senior Lecturer
 

4. Offices in University Academic Administration

1996-1999   Member - editorial board of Studies in Education, University of Haifa.

1996-1999   Member - academic committee of The Extension Studies Division of

                       the University of Haifa.

1998-2000   Member - faculty teaching committee in the University of Haifa.

1999-            Member - academic committee for Ethics of the University of Haifa.

2000-2003   Member of the committee for reforming the BA studies in the Faculty of

                       Education.

 2000-           Member of the Senate of the University of Haifa.

 2000-           Chair of the local inter-senate committee for the protection of academic

                       independence in the Israeli universities.

 2003-           Representative of the academic staff in the committee for the election of

                       the university's most excellent employee.

 2003-           Senior editor of Studies in Education, University of Haifa.

2004-            Member – the university's disciplinary committee.

2004-            Member –  the committee for the election of the most excellent University 

                       of Haifa employee.

2004-            Member – the committee for the selection of a recommended candidate for 

                      rectorship.

2006- Head of the Division of Educational Systems Development

 
5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University

1990-1998 Editor and founder of the Philosophical journal Metaphora.

1994-1995 Member of research team, dealing with the production of educational
programs on the subject of “education and politics”.

1996-1997 Initiator and menagerie of a voluntary forum for social and cultural
critique, School of Education, Haifa University.

1998-1999 Member of the program committee, International Network of
Philosophers of Education (INPE).

1999- Co-editor of the international Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education.

2000- Co-chairperson and co-founder of the Israeli Philosophy of Education Society.

2002- Member of the Inter Senate Committee for the defense of academic 
freedom in the Israeli universities (ISC).

2002-  Adviser of the distance learning  program of the University of Brasilia.

2002-  Leading the ongoing International Critical Pedagogy Workshop (Oslo 2002,
Miami 2003, Madrid 2004) and its publications.

2002- Adviser of an international research group on "The Tragedy of Modernity"
(with Peter McLaren, Douglas Kellner, Axel Honneth and Rainer Funk).  

Reviewer for the following journals and publishing houses:

State University of New York Press                  

 Haifa University Press (Hebrew).

Studies in Philosophy and Education.

 The Open University (in Hebrew).                

Religious Education.

Megamot (in Hebrew).

Theory and Critique (in Hebrew).

Studies in Education (in Hebrew).

Journal of Moral Education.

Anthropology & Education Quarterly.

Culture, Theory & Society.

Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny (in English and Polish).

Dapim (in Hebrew).

Script (in Hebrew) (1996).

Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (2005-).

Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory (2005-).

Zemanim (in Hebrew) (2004-).

The Open University (in Hebrew) (2003-).

The Open University (in English – in Britain) (2000-).

6. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences
 

7. Colloquium Talks and other Invited Addresses

   1991  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of “Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt
            Institute for Social Research”. Departmental colloquium, Ben-Gurion 
           University, Department of Philosophy.

    1992  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of “Walter Benjamin - between utopia
             and redemption. Van Leer Institute, Walter Benjamin Colloquium.

   1993  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of  “Critical Pedagogy”. Departmental
             colloquium, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Education.

    1993  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of  “Max Horkheimer and Critical
             Theory”. Departmental colloquium, University of Haifa, Department of 
             Philosophy.

  1993  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of “eros and education” in Plato’s 
             symposium”. Departmental colloquium, University of Haifa, School of 
            Education.

   1994  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of  “philosophies of history in the
             Frankfurt School”. International colloquium of the Institute for German 
             History, Tel Aviv University.

  1995  Gur-Ze’ev,  Lecture on the subject of “revolution in the educational
             Philosophy of the I.D.F”. Departmental colloquium, Hebrew University, 
             Department of Education.

   1995  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of “the holocaust as a philosophical
             issue and as an educational problem”. Colloquium at the Kibbutzim College, 
             Tel Aviv.

   1995  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of “higher education in Israel”.
             The Interdisciplinary Academic Forum, University of Haifa, Haifa.

   1996  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of “educational implication of
             Richard Rorty’s Philosophy”. The Interdisciplinary Academic Forum, 
             University of Haifa, Haifa.

   1996  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject “postmodernism and education in Israel”. 
             Colloquium of the School of Education at the Tel Aviv University.

   1996  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of “Metaphysics of road accidents”.
              National Teachers’ Association, Jerusalem.

   1996  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of "the possibility of civil humanist 
             education in a Zionist state. Annual National Teachers’ Association
             conference, Jerusalem.

  1997  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of “the historical narrative, national
             education and education for multiculturalism”. Ministry of Education,
             Pedagogical Secretariat, Zichron Ya’akov.

   1997  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of  “various concepts of a democratic
             state”. University of Haifa, School of Education, Department of Teachers’
             Training.

   1997  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture  on the subject of  “education and multiculturalism in 
             Israel”. The Hebrew University, School of Education, Departmental
             colloquium, Jerusalem.

  1998  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of “education for excellence - who really
             needs it?”. The Haifa Educational Forum, Haifa.

   1998  Gur-Ze’ev, I. (1998). Symposium on the profesionalization and training of
              teachers, Beit-Berl College.

   1998  Gur-Ze’ev, I. (1998). Lecture on the subject of “the teacher and the 
             counter-education”. The International Conference of Teachers and Educators,  
             Haifa.

   1998  Gur-Ze’ev, I. (1998). Lecture on the subject of “the philosophy and politics of
             multicultural education”. The International Conference of Teachers and 
             Educators, Haifa.

   1998  Gur-Ze’ev, I. (1998). Lecture on the issue of “postmodernism and education”. 
             Clark University Branch in Israel, Education and Media Colloquium, Tel Aviv.

   1998  Gur-Ze’ev, I. Lecture on the subject of  “postmodernism and multiculturalism
              in Israel”. Oranim College, Tiveon.

     1988  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Invited address for the Faculty of Education general meeting.
               Lecture on the subject of "the academic as an intellectual in the Faculty of
               Education", University of Haifa, Haifa.

     1999  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Lecture on the subject of "leadership in a democratic
              consumption society". The annual conference of The Department of Value
              Education, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem.

     1999  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Lecture on the subject of "postmodernism and education".
              Department of law. The University of Haifa.

     1999  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Lecture on the subject of "postmodern education - implication
              for various groups in the Israeli society". The annual conference of "Shahar",  
              Ministry of Education, Naharia.

     1999  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Lecture on the subject of "the possibility of multicultural
               education in a Zionist state". The Center for Multiculturalism and Education,
               University of Haifa.

  1999  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Lecture on the subject of "critical education in the cyberspace?".
             The Israeli school curriculum and educational knowledge group, University of 
             Haifa.

  1999  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Lecture on the subject of "the dialectics of the Holocaust and the
             Nakbah memories". The colloquium of the Faculty of Education, The  
             University of Haifa.

  1999  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Lecture on the subject of "the dialectics of the Holocaust and the
             Nakbah memories". The colloquium of the School of Education, Tel-Aviv
             University.

   2000  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Invited special lectures in the Department of Philosophy, METU,  
            Ankara. Turkey on the following topics:
            1. Postmodern multicultural education: emancipation or ethnocentrism.
            2. Critical Theory and non-repressive education in a post-modern era.
            3. Education, counter-education and reflection.

   2000  Gur-Ze'ev, I. Invited special lecture for the concluding ceremony of the
               School of Educational Leadership (Mandel School) on the subject of "the  
               possibilities of emancipatory education in a post-modern era", Jerusalem, "Beit  
               Aumot".

   2000  Gur-Ze'ev, Lecture on "The Palestinian instrumentalization of the Holocaust
             and Nakbah memories". Bridges vs. Abyss in Philosophy, Politics and Education
             in Israel. A Hanan Bar-Netzer Colloquium, held at the University of Haifa.

   2000  Gur-Ze'ev, Lecture on "Value education – a social worthy aim or deeper
             opretion of the individual?". The Annual conference of The Center for Tolerance  
             Education", Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.

   2000  Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecturer on "multiculturalism in Israel" for the cultural center, Kiriat Bialik.

   2000  Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "the privatization of education and the needs of
              a society struggling for its very survival". Lecture held in SHORASHIM, Misgav.

   2000 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "the possibilities for education for equality in
              Israel". The faculty of Education, University of Haifa.

   2000 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture for the HEVRA LEMANASIM, on "Education in a second thought",
             Tel Aviv University.

   2000 Gur-Ze'ev, A series of four invited lectures on "educating today", Tel Hai College.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited special lecture on "Multicultural education" in the opening
             of  the annual ZOFIM conference.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "Multicultural education in Israel" for the 
             teachers of the Hertzog" school, Holon.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture for the Faculty of Education, Tel Aviv University,  
             on "Education as violence".

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "the quality of the educational work in a post-
             modern era". The annual conference of the ORT managers, Tel Aviv.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "humanist-oriented education in face of a 
             fragmented society". The conference of counseling educators, Zichron a'akov.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "a critical retreat to Jewish thought", Hanan Bar
             Netzer Colloquim, Faculty of Education, The University of Haifa.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "feminisms and critical reconstruction of text
             books", Faculty of Education, Teachers Training Center, University of Haifa.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "postmodernism and insanity", Psychological
             Coloquium, Tirat Acarmel.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "postmodernism and new educational trends",
             Regional School, Megido.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "postmodernism and violence", The Philosophical
            Discussion Group", Geva.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "value education in the post-modern turn",
            Jerusalem's Headmasters conference, Jerusalem.

   2001 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture for the MATKAL, IDF, on "postmodern learning
             strategies". MISRAD ABITACHON, Tel Aviv.

   2002 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "The aims of the educator in the informal
             education". The annual conference of the Communal Youth  Movements, HAKFAR  
             HAYAROK.

    2002 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "false consciousness", Kibbutz Ravid.

    2002 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "Postcolonialism and Diasporic philosophy",
             Hampry Institute, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva.

    2002 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "diasporic education today", The center for 
            Multiculturalism and Educational Research, University of Haifa.

    2003 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture by "The Philosophical Club", Western Galilee
            College, on "the postmodern worldview".

    2003 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited series of four lectures on "education in a multicultural
            society". SHATIL, Tel Aviv.

    2003  Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "critical pedagogy today", Western Galilee College.

    2003 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "postmodernism and education", Witzo College, Haifa.

    2004 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and counter-education", School of
             Education, University of Tel Aviv.

    2004 Gur-Ze'ev, Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and Judaism", Philosophy
             Department, Bar-Ilan University.

    2004 Invited lecture on "Diasporic education", Department of Education, Michlelet
             Yehuda Veshomron, Ariel.

    2004 Invited lecture on "Teachers' training – a critical perspective", Oranim College.

    2004 Invited lecture on "Diasporic education", Department of Education, The Open
             University, Ra'ana.

    2004  Invited lecture on "Diasporic education and multiculturalism", The Center for
            Multiculturalism and Educational Research, University of Haifa.

    2004  Invited lecture on "The future of Love in a Postmodern Era", West Galilee
              College, Acre.

    2005  Invited lecture on "Critical Education and its limitations", Oranim College, 
             Tiveon.

    2005 Invited lecture on "Peace Education in a Postmodern Era", The Academic Arab
            College, Haifa.

    2005  Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and education", Colloquium of the 
             Department of Education, Ben Gurion University.

    2005  Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and Judaism", Department of 
              Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University.

    2005  Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and counter-education", Department
              of Education, The Open University.

    2005  Invited lecture on "Art and Diasporic education", Art College, Beit-Berl.

    2005  Invited lecture on "Diasporic philosophy and counter-education", Department
             of Education, Michllelet Yeuda Veshomron.

    2005  Invited lecture on "Cultural critique in today's Israel", Department of 
             Education and Department of International Relations, University of Haifa.

    2005 Invited response to Philipp Wexler on "Conflicting trends in current Sociology
             of Education", Faculty of Education, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

* 2006 Invited lecture on "education in face of globalizing capitalism", in the "
             General Manager of the Ministry of Education Conference", Jerusalem .

8. Scholarships, Awards, Research Grants, etc.

1988  The “Zalman Aran Scholarship” for excellence in graduate studies, School of  
           History, Tel Aviv University.

 1990  Scholarship for German-Jewish research at the Herbert Marcuse Archive,
           Frankfurt, granted by the Institute of German History, Tel Aviv University.

 1990  Research Grant for participating in a research group on the subject of “Europe 
           in the end of war world II”, the Wiener Library Seminar, Tel Aviv University.

 1991  Research grant from the Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst, for research
           at the Frankfurt University.

 1993  Olga and William Lakritz Grant, in support of publishing The Frankfurt School
           and the History of Pessimism.

 1994  The Rothschild Foundation. Grant in support of the publication of The
          Frankfurt School and the History of Pessimism.

 1996  Grant from Haifa University” in support of a research on education as
          construction of collective identities.

 1998  A reward in the first national Bahat Foundation competition for the book
          Philosophy, Politics and Education in Israel, The Haifa University Press.

 1998  Grant from the head scientist of the Ministry of Education for a study on value
           education in Israel.

 1998  Grant from the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa in support of a
           research on Holocaust education in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

 1999 Grant from the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa in support of a research
          on the Israeli "student revolution".

2002 Grants from the Rector, the Research Authority and the Faculty support of Education
          in of organizing an international Critical Pedagogy Workshop in Oslo with cooperation with
          Oslo University.

 
9. Teaching

A. Courses taught in recent years:
 

          B. Supervision of graduate students in recent years: