Liat
Ariel

Liat Ariel is a PhD student in the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Tal Gilead.

Liat’s field is the philosophy of education, and she focuses on the characteristics of the post-truth era and the challenges they bring to education for democratic citizenship in post-truth societies.

She is particularly interested in the extent to which existing democratic theories and pedagogies remain relevant to the education of future citizens who will need to become the gatekeepers of democracy in a post-truth world. Liat hopes that her findings will provide practical implications for education for democracy and serve as a starting point for constructing a new pedagogy for citizenship and democratic education that will protect and promote the democratic values of freedom, justice, peace, and equality in light of the threats posed by the post-truth era.

Liat was born and raised and currently lives in Nahariya. Throughout her life, she has worked and volunteered in diverse educational settings with children and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. She completed her BA in special education and English language and literature at the University of Haifa. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and studied for an MA in cultural and educational policy studies at Loyola University Chicago. As an English teacher, Liat is eager to generate a change in the Israeli educational system; she dreams of bringing philosophical educational theories into practice and thus reduce the gaps between the academic and practical fields of education. Liat is also an educational entrepreneur and initiated Fly High, a program which encourages disadvantaged youth to achieve a full matriculation certificate in English and aims to make English literacy accessible for underprivileged youth in the periphery. In her free time, Liat enjoys writing, exercising, and travelling with her family.