Shlomo Sharan Author

SHLOMO SHARAN is Professor of Educational Psychology, Tel-Aviv University-Israel, where he has been involved in school improvement by applying systems theory and small group dynamics to staff organization and classroom instruction. He has been a visiting professor and/or research fellow at Stanford, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Helsinki (Finland) University. He has authored and edited numerous research studies and books, including Expanding Cooperative Learning through Group Investigation (1992) and Handbook of Cooperative Learning Methods (Greenwood 1994).

HANNA SHACHAR is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. For many years she chaired the division of consultation to secondary schools in the Institute for the Promotion of Social Integration in the Schools, also at Bar-Ilan University, where she directed city-wide intervention projects to introduce participative management in school organization and cooperative learning in classroom instruction. She is co-author, with Shlomo Sharan, of Organization and Team Management in Schools (1990) and Language and Learning in the Cooperative Classroom (1988).

TAMAR LEVINE is Associate Professor of Education and Chair, Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, Tel-Aviv University. She teaches graduate courses on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary curriculum development and evaluation. Her major fields of interest and research include the design of effective and constructivist-based instructional strategies, students' and teachers' thinking, the uses of computers to enhance school learning, and gender differences in science and mathematics.