Aviv Cohen is an Associate Professor at the Seymour Fox School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He serves as the Co-Head of the Undergraduate Program in Educational and Social Leadership.
A former high school civics teacher, Aviv received his Ph.D. in Social Studies Education from Teachers College Columbia University, New York NY., USA (2013). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2013-2014). He taught at several teacher education programs, including at Tel Aviv University and the Kibbutzim College of Education (2010-2016).
Aviv’s research focuses on democratic civic education, multicultural education, teacher education, and the use of qualitative methods in educational research. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Teaching and Teacher Education, Oxford Review of Education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Citizenship Teaching and Learning, and International Journal of Educational Development. He has also published several chapters in edited books, including The Palgrave International Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice; Citizenship Education and Global Migration: Implications for Theory, Research, and Teaching; and The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education.
Aviv is engaged in a four-year participatory study funded by the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF), examining how marginalized youth conceptualize and practice citizenship, focusing on how formal and informal processes inform their conceptions. Also, together with an international group of scholars, he has received funding from the European Union's Erasmus Plus program, initiating a cross-national study focusing on how online interactions between student-teachers from different countries influence their conceptions of global citizenship education and their pedagogical considerations when teaching global issues.