Remah Haj

Short Biography

Remah Haj is a Ph.D. student in the direct Ph.D. track at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. She earned a B.Ed. in Science Education, specializing in Biology, from the Technion in 2011, and an M.Ed. (with honours) in Secondary School Science Education from Oranim College in 2016. Remah has extensive experience in science education, including work in teacher professional development communities. From 2017 to 2019, she worked at the Centre for Educational Technology in Israel, designing instructional materials for PISA simulation science assessments for middle schools. Between 2020 and 2022, she guided graduate students in the M.Teach teaching certification program at Oranim College. She has over a decade of experience teaching biology and science at the high school level and has served as a jury member in various science competitions in Arab high schools. Her doctoral research focuses on the use of digital curation to support students’ learning, understanding, and engagement in high school biology.

Email: remah.haj@campus.technion.ac.il

Fellowships, awards, and honors

  • 2016 Certificate of Excellence, Oranim College.2025 ESERA Doctoral School 2025, Almería, Spain.
  • 2025 “Bedarkech HaAkademit,” a prestigious academic career program for outstanding Arab women doctoral students, initiated by Afik in Academia – Israeli Women University Professors’ Forum, Tel-Aviv University.
  • 2025 “Tamkeen,” a selective, unique program, supports Arab students pursuing
    advanced degrees in science and technology, offering tools and workshops to enhance their personal and professional development, initiated by Alrowad for Science and Technology.

Publications

Theses

  1. Haj, R. (In progress). Activating Positive and Negative Epistemic Emotions to Enhance Student Engagement in SSI-DC Pathway Learning. Ph.D. thesis in science education. Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Supervision: Tsybulsky, D.
  2. Haj, R.  (2015). Impact of Teaching and Active Learning Integrated with STS on Correcting High School Students’ Erroneous Perceptions regarding Microorganisms and on Improving their Achievements and Motivation. M.Ed. thesis in Biology Education. Faculty of Education in Science, Oranim Academic College of Education. Supervision: Welicker-Pollak, M [In Hebrew with abstract in English].

Referred papers in professional journals

  1. Haj, R., & Tsybulsky, D. (2026). Epistemic emotions as markers and mechanisms in socio-scientific issue learning through digital curation. Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research, 8(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43031-026-00157-z
  2. Haj, R., Tsybulsky, D. (Accepted). Curating to know: developing epistemic agency in science education.”Dapim” Journal for Studies and Research in Education [In Hebrew].
  3. Dayan, E., Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. (Under review). From participation to agency: digital curation as a teaching and learning practice for multidimensional student engagement in socio-scientific issues. Science Education.

Refereed papers in conference proceeding

  1. Haj, R., Dayan, E. & Tsybulsky, D. (2025). Digital curation in science education: A new learning pathway to enhance student engagement with socio-scientific issues. Chais2025 Annual Conference Proceedings, pp. 37E- 40E, Raanana, Israel.

Contributed talks and posters 

  1. Dayan, E., Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. Expanding horizons: Utilizing digital curation to foster student engagement with socio-scientific issues. ERIDOB2024. Lyon, France, July 2024. Oral presentation. PPT.
  2.  Haj, R., Dayan, E., & Tsybulsky, D. Digital curation in science education: A new learning pathway to enhance student engagement with socio-scientific issues. Chais2025 Annual Conference. Raanana, Israel, February 2025. Oral presentation. PPT.
  3. Haj, R., Tsybulsky, D. From curation to engagement: Implementing a digital learning pathway for socio-scientific issues. Annual International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Education 2025. Western Galilee College, Israel, June 2025. Oral presentation.
  4. Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. Activating epistemic emotions to enhance student engagement in socio-scientific issues through digital curation. ESERA 2025. Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2025. Oral presentation. Abstract.
  5. Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. Epistemic emotions in action: Understanding learning dynamics in the SSI-DC pathway. CHAIS 2026. Ranana, Israel, February 2026. Poster.
  6. Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. Epistemic emotions as markers and mechanisms in SSI learning through digital curation. ERIDOB2026. Slovenia, August 2026. Oral presentation.
  7. Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. From confusion to curiosity: Epistemic emotions across the SSI-DC learning pathway. Student Forum 2026. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. April 2026. Oral presentation.