Dr. Michael Weinstock is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. After a few years as a high school history teacher, he studied for his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. His primary area of research concerns people’s understandings about the nature of knowledge and knowing with a particular focus on cross-cultural differences and variations within cultures. He has conducted research on Israeli army service and cultural values as factors in development of such conceptions of knowledge. His current research concerns the impact of social change on the development of values and conceptions of knowledge in communities in transition, including Arabs living in northern Israel, Bedouins, and Ethiopian Jews. As the chair of his university’s school psychology program, he has also directed special programs in school psychology for Arab, Bedouin, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish students.
Dr. Weinstock will be teaching in the UCLA Psychology Department.