Aviv
Orner

Aviv Orner is a PhD student in the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Adam Lefstein and Dr. Hadar Netz from Tel Aviv University.

She is interested in the connections between language, gender, and sexuality as expressed in public spaces, traditional and social media, and, especially, educational contexts.

Her research focuses on gender equity in classroom discourse in Israeli primary schools. She examines how gender equity can be promoted by developing criteria for interpreting and measuring gender bias in classroom discourse, designing new practices to reduce gender bias (together with teachers in the field), and examining the outcomes and implications of these interventions. She believes her research will contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms of gender inequality in the crucial arena of education and help rectify these inequalities both in the classroom and on the societal level.

Aviv completed her BA in Hebrew linguistics and communication at Oranim College of Education, where she was the head of the student union and a board member of the National Union of Israeli Students. She also worked as a Hebrew teacher in middle school. She completed an MA in the Program for Multilingual Education at Tel Aviv University, where she began researching language and gender in classroom discourse. For as long as she can recall, Aviv has been involved in social and educational activism. She was the president of the student council in high school and a youth movement counsellor, completed a year of community service before her military service, and served in the IDF Education Corps. In her free time, Aviv enjoys travelling, learning about new places, cultures, and people, and attending concerts, theatre, and art exhibitions.