Dina Feitelson Profile

Dina Feitelson Profile - Dina Feitelson, also known as Dina Feitelson - Schur (born 1926, died 1992), was an Israeli educator and scholar in the field of reading acquisition.

Biography Dina Feitelson

Dina Feitelson was born in 1926 in Vienna, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1934. He studied at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in grade 32, who graduated in 1944. After graduation he studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His studies were interrupted by Israel's War of Independence. During the war he suffered a severe head injury.

After graduation he worked as an elementary school teacher and then as an inspector for the Department of Education. In parallel he also embarked on an academic career, first at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Then, in 1973, he accepted a post at the University of Haifa, where he became professor of Education. He continued to work there until his death in 1992.

Awards and Honors Dina Feitelson

In 1953, awarded the Israel Prize Feitelson, in its first year, in the field of education for his work on the causes of failure in first grade children. She is the first woman to receive this prize, and also the youngest recipient ( he was 27 ). Shortly before his death, Feitelson inducted into the International Reading Association Reading Hall of Fame.

In 1997, the International Reading Association Dina Feitelson Research Award establish, to honor the memory of Dina Feitelson by recognizing outstanding empirical studies published in English in the journal in question. The work must be reported on one or more aspects of literacy acquisition, such as phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, bilingualism, or cross-cultural studies of early reading.

Publication Dina Feitelson

Feitelson, Dina (1988 ). Facts and Fads in Beginning Reading : A Cross - Language Perspective. Norwood, New Jersey, USA : Ablex. ISBN 0-89391-507-6.

Further Reading

Joseph Shimron, ed. ( 1996). Literacy and Education : Essays in memory of Dina Feitelson. Kresskill, New Jersey, USA : Hampton Press Inc. ISBN 1-57273-033-1. Dina Feitelson Profile