Keren Dagan

Short Biography

Ms. Keren Dagan is a Ph.D student at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion [direct Ph.D. track]. She graduated from Tel-Aviv University in 2018 with an M.A. degree in Science and Technology Education. Keren is a lecturer and pedagogical instructor at the science department in the Kibbutzim College of Education. In addition, she is a content developer at the Center of Educational Technology (CET). Keren has worked at the National Center of Science and Technology Teachers where she developed learning-teaching-assessment materials for teachers. Keren has taught science and technology for many years and has been an elementary school principal for the past 3 years. Her research focuses on experiences and  attitudes of science student-teachers towards leading remote teaching in the emergency.

Email: keren.dagan@campus.technion.ac.il

Publications

Thesis

Dagan, K.  (In progress). Novice science teachers’ professional identity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Tragedy or opportunity. Ph.D. thesis in science education. Technion, Israel. Supervision: Tsybulsky, D.

Chapters in books

Dagan, K. & Tsybulsky, D. (In press). Teacher education during the Covid-19 crisis: Experiences and attitudes of student-teachers towards leading remote teaching in the emergency. In A. Bronshtein and A. Cohen (Eds.),  From crisis to opportunity – learning and teaching in Israeli higher education during the Covid-19 crisis [In Hebrew].

Contributed talks and posters

Dagan, K. & Tsybulsky, D. Student teachers’ attitudes, experiences and pedagogical practices during Covid-19 crisis. Virality 2020: Disruptive Innovation in Teacher Education. Tel Aviv, Israel, September 2020. Oral presentation [In Hebrew, via ZOOM]. PPT

Dagan, K. & Tsybulsky, D. Teaching from afar or far from teaching? preservice teachers’ experiences and attitudes during Covid-19 pandemic. ESERA2021 Online conference. Braga, Portugal, August-September 2021. Oral presentation. Abstract. Recorded presentation.