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Resources

Enhancing Civic Engagement of Students

Mar 28, 2024

Professor Rhonda Sofer shares her experience from two CBHEs with Israel and Georgia on enhancing students' civic engagement.

Educational Leadership in Higher Education lecturer

Oct 24, 2016

This presentation, from Educon 2016, features Dr. Janina Kahn Horwitz and Dr. Rhonda Sofer discussing the impact of Erasmus+ and Tempus programs on higher education, focusing on social responsibility, teaching excellence, and institutional sustainability.

A strategic plan for internationalization

Nov 21, 2024

The vision and the steps for more internationalization of Gordon College of Education follow IMPACT: ERASMUS Virtual Exchange project: Inter-Mediterranean Peace And CollaboraTion

Developing and implementing successful international projects

Apr 19, 2024

"Tips for developing and implementing successful international projects" by Rhonda Sofer

Lectures and presentations 

CURE’s Special Mobility Strand Faculty Training Program to Promote Civic Education through Innovative Pedagogy

Edited by: Rhonda Sofer, Coordinator of CURE and Stan Sofer, Gordon Academic College of Education

The purpose of this handbook is to describe CURE’s faculty training program that occurred through the Special Mobility Strand programme (SMS) which supplemented CURE’s major program and was accepted for this project. 

Project Handbooks

Childrenʼs Rights in and through Education Learning to Live Together

Written by: Dr. Laura Sigad | Dr. Rhonda Sofer  |  Dr. Manal Yazbak Abu Ahmad

DOIT is a TEMPUS joint curriculum reform programme aimed to promote multi-culturalism, diversity and childrenʼs rights in Israel and in Georgia. The programme was officially launched on October 15, 2012 and ends on August 15, 2015.

Children’s Rights in and Through Education: Learning to Live Together is one of DOITʼs central courses piloted in DOITʼs HEIs in Israel and in Georgia. There have been 25 pilots of this course in ten of DOITʼs HEIs in Israel and in Georgia.

DOIT's Major Achievements practices

By: Rhonda Sofer, Coordinator of DOIT

This handbook describes the achievements of our consortium and is a good example of what an international project can achieve when the members are committed to the programme and empowered to be leaders.

Tips for Coordinating an International Curriculum Reform Program for Higher Educational Institutions

By: Rhonda Sofer

This handbook presents tips for managing international projects, particularly those that aim to implement curriculum reform for higher educational institutions (HEI). These tips are based on our experiences in managing a TEMPUS IV Fifth Call European Commission selected programme called Development of an International Model for Curriculum Reform in Multicultural Education and Diversity Training (DOIT).

My Publications

By: Rhonda Sofer

My scholarship spans more than four decades and reflects an evolving research agenda bridging anthropology, multicultural education, teacher education, internationalization of higher education, educational leadership, civic engagement, and institutional transformation. Rather than presenting these works chronologically, they are organized according to the major themes that have shaped my academic career.

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