Sigal R Ben-Porath
Assistant Professor
Contact information
Graduate School of Education
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215)898-3288
Email:
sigalbp@gse.upenn.edu
sigalbp@gse.upenn.edu
Education:
B.A. (Education and Humanities)
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1993.
M.A. (Philosophy of Education)
Tel-Aviv University, 1994.
Ph.D. (Philosophy (Social and Political Thought))
Tel Aviv University, 2000.
Permanent linkB.A. (Education and Humanities)
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1993.
M.A. (Philosophy of Education)
Tel-Aviv University, 1994.
Ph.D. (Philosophy (Social and Political Thought))
Tel Aviv University, 2000.
Description of Research Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Civic education
Gender studies
Philosophy of education
Political philosophy
Professional Experience
Dr. Ben-Porath received her doctorate in philosophy, with an emphasis on social and political thought, from Tel Aviv University. She was awarded a Posis Grant for her doctoral dissertation as well as two successive Tel Aviv University President’s grants for postdoctoral fellows abroad. She served as an assistant professor at Tel Aviv University and as a faculty member at the Israeli branch of Manchester University. In 2001, she accepted a position as a postdoctoral research associate at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
In Israel, she served on a joint Palestinian-Israeli committee, sponsored by the Peres Peace Center, working toward educational reform to support mutual recognition and peace education, toward the implementation of the road map. She was a member of the Young Scholars Forum at the Rabin Center for the Study of Israel, participated in the Women Faculty Forum at Tel Aviv University, and established the Israeli Association for Post-Secondary Education for Students with Learning Disabilities.
Research Interests and Current Projects
Dr. Ben-Porath’s research focuses on civic education, social effects of war, and normative aspects of educational and social policy. Her areas of expertise include philosophy of education, political philosophy, and gender studies. She has published a book on civic education in wartime as well as articles on related topics and on the rights of weak groups in a just society and on government regulation of intimate life. Her current research focuses on choice as a democratic value and its role in democratic policy-making.
Selected Publications
Ben-Porath, S.R.: Using gender to consider post-conflict forgiveness. Gender, War and Militarism. L. Sjoberg (eds.). (in press).Ben-Porath, S. R. : School choice as a bounded ideal. Journal of Philosophy of Education (in press).
Sigal Ben-Porath: “Care Ethics and Dependence – Rethinking Jus Post Bellum” Hypatia 23(2), Spring 2008
Sigal Ben-Porath: “Civic Virtue Out of Necessity: Patriotism and Democratic Education” Theory and Research in Education March 2007.
Sigal R Ben-Porath and Alex Zakaras: “Why Attack Iraq?” Ethics and Politics 4th edition Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson (eds.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.
Sigal R. Ben-Porath: Citizenship under Fire: Democratic Education in Times of Conflict. Princeton University Press 2006.
Sigal Ben-Porath: “Feminism under Fire” Identities and Differences Deborah Orr and Dianna Taylor (eds.). Rowman and Littlefield 2006.
Sigal R. Ben-Porath: “Multiculturalism, Peace and Democracy: Considerations of Civic Education in Wartime.” Philosophy of Education Yearbook 2005 2005.
Sigal R Ben-Porath: “Against the Law: On Government Regulation of Intimate Life.” Constellations 11(4), 2004.
Sigal R Ben-Porath: “Radicalizing Democratic Education: Unity and Dissent in Wartime.” Philosophy of Education Yearbook 2003 2003.
Sigal R Ben-Porath: “Autonomy and Vulnerability: On Just Relations Between Adults and Children.” Journal of Philosophy of Education 37(1), 2003.
Sigal R Ben-Porath: “War and Peace Education.” Journal of Philosophy of Education 37(3), 2003.
Sigal R Ben-Porath: “Don’t say ‘A Day will Come’, Bring on the Day: The Education System in the Morning After.” The Morning After: The Israeli Society in Peacetime. Meron Benvenisti (eds.). Tel-Aviv: Carmel Publishers, 2002 Notes: (in Hebrew).
Sigal R Ben-Porath: “The Veil and the Gun: Women’s Rights and the War on Terror.” Women’s Policy Journal of Harvard Summer 2002.
Sigal R Ben-Porath and Yael Tamir: “Feminist Moral Education.” Panim November 2002 Notes: (in Hebrew).
Sigal R Ben-Porath: “By Right and not by Virtue: Rights of Retarded People in a Just Society” Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture. Yolanda Estes, Arnold Lorenzo Farr, Patricia Smith, Clelia Smyth (eds.). The University Press of Kansas, 2000.