Ainat Guberman
Ainat Guberman
Dr. Ainat Guberman is Head of the Research Authority at The MOFET Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel, and at David Yellin Academic College of Education, in Jerusalem, Israel. In the past, Dr. Guberman headed both the Inter-Collegiate Research Fund at The MOFET Institute and David Yellin College’s Department of Psychology. Her main fields of interest are teacher and teacher educators’ professional development, as well as cognitive development in early childhood.
Latest Publications
Guberman, A., Elias-Marcus, S., & Dahan, O. (2026). Professional identity formation among beginning teachers with significant physical or sensory disabilities. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 54(2), 156-170. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1359866X.2026.2633700
Guberman, A., Ben-Yehudah, G., & Arviv-Elyashiv, R. (2026). Policy influences on teacher educators’ enacted professionalism: Programme leaders’ dilemmas while devising retraining studies. European Journal of Teacher Education. 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2026.2622528
Guberman, A., Carmi, T., & Cohen Brandeis, R. (2025). Devising writing instruction methods for deaf students in a teachers’ Professional Learning Community. European Journal of Teacher Education, 1-19.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2025.2512951
Guberman, A., Ben-Yehudah, G., & Arviv-Elyashiv, R. (2025). Retraining professionals as STEM teachers: The potential and the challenges. European Journal of Teacher Education, 48(1), 113-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2024.2409372
Key Publications
Guberman, A., Avidov-Unger. O., Dahan, O., & Serlin, R. (2021). Expansive learning in inter-institutional communities of practice for teacher educators and policymakers. Frontiers in Education, 6. Article 533941.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2021.533941/full
Guberman, A., Ulvik, M., MacPhail, A., & Oolbekkink-Marchand, H. (2020). Teacher educators’ professional trajectories: evidence from Ireland, Israel, Norway and the Netherlands. European Journal of Teacher Education, 44(4), 468-485. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2020.1793948
Guberman, A. & Mcdossi, O. (2019). Israeli Teacher Educators’ Perceptions of their Professional Development Paths in Teaching, Research and Institutional Leadership. European Journal of Teacher Education, 42(4), 507-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2019.1628210
Teubal, E., & Guberman, A. (2014). Graphic texts: Literacy enhancing tools in early childhood. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense