CURICULUM VITAE

Education

Ph.D.    -    The University of Chicago, Human Development - 1968
M.A.     -    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Psychology - 1965
B.A.     -    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Psychology, Literature)-1964


Academic Positions

1999-2005    -    Academic Director, Mandel Leadership Institute
2000-2001    -    Visiting scholar, Carnegie Institute of Education, Palo Alto. CA
2000            -    Visiting scholar, University of Melbourne
1996-1999    -    Chairman of academic board, Melton Center for Jewish Education
1996-1997    -    Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford University
1994-1995    -    Academic director. School For Educational Leadership, Jerusalem
1993-1994    -    Research associate. Center For Philosophy of Education,  School of Education, Harvard University
1990            -    Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1989-1992    -    Head of the School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1985            -    The Melton Chair, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1983            -    Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1982            -    Research Associate, The Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin
1981            -    Research Associate, School of Education, Harvard University
1978-1980    -    Head, Department of Education, The Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem
1977            -    Research Associate, Center for Moral Development and Education, Harvard University
1976            -    Senior Lecturer, School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1974-1976    -    Head of  Program of  Educational  Psychology, The Hebrew  University of Jerusalem
1972            -    Lecturer, School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


List of Publications

Books  (edited)

1.     Psychology in Education. Tel Aviv: Ozar Hamore, 1978.
     (Edited by U. Last and M. Nisan, Hebrew).

2.    Between Psychology and Education. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1983.
     (Edited by M. Nisan and U. Last, Hebrew).

3.    Practice in Education. Jerusalem: Mossad Bialick. 2005
     (Edited by M. Nisan and O. Schremer, Hebrew)

4.    Deliberation in Education. Jerusalem: Keter. 2005.
     (Edited by M. Nisan and O. Schremer, English)

Refereed articles
  
1.    Programmed Instruction in Arithmetic for Disadvantaged Children. Megamot, 1972, 18, 78-88 (Hebrew).

2.    The Dimension of Time in Relation to Choice Behavior and Achievement Orientation. Journal of Persoanltiy and Social Psychology,1972,21, 175-182.

3.    A Survey of the Perceptions and Behavior of Undergraduate Humanities Students. Yedion Hafaculta, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem,1972,2,2-31 (Hebrew).

4.    The Effect of Expected Temporal Distance on Risk-Taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1973, 25, 375-380.

5.    Evaluation of Temporally Distant Reinforcements. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1973, 26, 295-300.

6.    Perception of Time in Lower-Class Black Students. International Journal of Psychology, 1973, 8, 159-166.

7.    Preparatory Course for University Students from Culturally Deprived Background, Jerusalem, NCJW Center for Research in Education, 1974, 1-140.

8.    Exposure to Reward and the Delay of Gratification. Developmental Psychology, 1974, 10, 376-380.

9.    Structure and Content in Moral Development. In Education for Values, proceedings of a conference held at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, 1974 (Hebrew).

10.    Imposed Inhibition and Delay of Gratification.Child Development, 1974, 45, 1089-1092.

11.    Children's Evaluations of Temporally Distant Outcomes. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1975, 126, 53-60.

12.    Who is Afraid of Success? And Why? Journal of Youth and Adolescence,1975, 4, 259-270 (By R. Butler and M. Nisan).

13.    The Effect of Group Discussion on Moral Judgment. Eyunim Bechinuch,1975, 2, 39-46 (Hebrew).

14.    Delay of gratification in children: Personal vs. group choices. Child Development, 1976, 47, 195-200.

15.    The nature of the conflict in delay of gratification. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1977, 131, 195-205.

16.    The effect of expected temporal distance to a grade on level of  performance in a test. International Review of Applied Psychology,
1977, 25, 85-90.

17.    Educational Psychology and the act of instruction. In Last, U. and Nisan, M. (Eds.), Psychology in Education. pp. 11-17, Tel-Aviv: Ozar Hamoreh, 1978, (By U. Last and M. Nisan, Hebrew).

18.    Effects of evaluation on intrinsic motivation.In Last, U. and Nisan, M. (Eds.), Psychology in Education. pp. 56-64, Tel-Aviv:Ozar  Hamoreh,1978, (By M. Nisan and R. Butler, Hebrew).

19.    Children's actual choices and their conception of the wise choice in a delay of gratification situation. Child Development, 1977,48, 488-   494 (By M. Nisan and A Koriat). 
 
20.    Delay of gratifiction as a function of exchange values and appetitive values of the rewards. Motivation and Emotion, 1978, 2, 380-395 (By A.Koriat and M. Nisan).

21.    The effects of the Yom Kippur war on values of Israeli female students. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, pp. 161-169, 8, 1979 (By  R. Hoz and M. Nisan).

22.    Latent messages of evaluation in school. In Nevo, B. (Ed.), Bechinot Habagrut,    pp. 139-156, Tel Aviv: Am oved, 1980 (Hebrew).

23.     The two faces of the effect of evaluation on disadvantaged children. In Adiel, S. (Ed.), Fostering Deprived Youth and Residential Education, pp. 92-110, Tel Aviv: Gome, 1980 (Hebrew).

24.    Motivational aspects of evaluation in school. In Levy, A. Evaluation Roles, pp. 131-148, London: Gordon and Breach, 1981.

25.    Universality and cross-cultural variation in moral development: A longitudinal and cross-sectional study in Turkey. Child Development,
1982, 53, 865-876 (By M. Nisan and L. Kohlberg).

26.     Two approaches to moral development. In Nisan, M. and Last, U. (Eds.), Between Education and Psychology, pp. 383-405, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1983 (Hebrew).

27.     Content and structure in moral judgment: An integrative view. In Kurtines, W. and Gewirtz, J. (Eds.), Morality and Moral Development, pp. 208-224, New York: Wiley, 1984.

28.    Distributive justice and social norms. Child Development, 1984, 55,1020-1029.

29.    The effect of cognitive structuring on delay of gratification. Child Development, 1984, 55, 492-503 (By M. Nisan and A. Koriat).

30.     Limited morality - A concept and its educational implications. In
Berkowitz, M. and Oser, F., (Eds.), Moral Education: Theory and Practice, pp. 403-420, Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1985.

30a.    Also in German, Begrenzte Moralitat: Ein Konzept und seine erzicherischen Implikationen. In Oser, F.; Fatke, R. and Hoffe, O. (Eds.), Transformation und Entwicklung, pp. 192-214, Frankfurt am Mein: Suhrkamp, 1986.

31.    Academic motivation.In Husen, T. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education, Vol. 6, pp. 3430-3434. London: Pergamon Press, 1985.

32.    Justice in the classroom: Equity in grades. In Lamm, Z. (Ed.), School and Education, pp. 141-157, Jerusalem: Magnes, 1985 (Hebrew).

33.    Die moralische Bilanz: ein Modell moralischen Entscheidens, in    Edelstein, W. and Nunner-Winkler, G. (Eds.), Zur Bestimmunder Moral, pp. 347-386, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1986.

34.    Effects of no feedback, task-related comments, and grades on intrinsic motivation and performance, Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986, 78, 210-216 (By R. Butler and M. Nisan).

35.    Sense of obligation as a motivational factor in school, In Last, U. (Ed.), Psychological Work in the School, pp. 321-351, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1987 (Hebrew).

36.    Moral norms and social conventions: a cross-cultural comparison, Developmental Psychology, 1987, 23, 719-725.

37.    The Measurment of Moral Judgment: Theoretical Foundations and Research Validation. By Colby, A., and Kohlberg, L., and collaborators (M.Nisan is one of ten mentioned collaborators). Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1987 (2 Volumes).

38.    A story of a pot, or a cross-cultural comparison of basic moral evaluations: A response to the critique by Turiel, Nucci and Smetana (1987). Developmental Psychology, 1988, 24, 144-146.

39.    Development of norms: Implications for cultural change. In Gottesman,M. (Ed.), Cultural Transition - The Case of Immigrant Youth, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1988.

40.    A study of cultural differences in moral judgment: Norms, orientations and stages. In Moral Education East and West: Tradition and innovation. The Institute of Moralogy, Reitaku University, Japan,1988 (Japanese).

41.    The child as a philosopher of values: Development of a distinct perception of values in childhood. Journal of Moral Education, 1988,
17, 8-18.

42.    Sense of obligation as a motivational factor. In Nenniger, P. (Ed.),Motivation by Contents. Basel: Karger. In Press.

43.     Moral balance - A model of how people arrive at moral decisions. In
Wren, T. (Ed.), The moral domain. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1989 (An extended version of Die Moralische Bilanze, 1986). 283-314.

44.    The motivation underlying "Second Chance" programs - analysis and suggestions. In Inbar, D. (Ed.), Second chance in education. London
and New York: Falmer Press, 1990. 89-104.

45.    Moral justification of acts judged to be morally right and acts judged to be morally wrong, British Journal of Social Psychology, 1989, 28, 213-225. (By M. Nisan and A. Koriat).

46.    Sense of obligation in school learning. In Mandle, H., De Corte, E.,Bennet, N., Friedrich, H.F. (Eds.), Learning and instruction. Vol. 2.1, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989, 533-546.

47.    Moral balance: The effect of prior behavior on decision in moral conflict. British Journal of Social Psychology. 1990, 29, 29-42. (By M. Nisan and G. Horenczyk).

48.    Children's perceptions of effort and productivity as granting a right for reward. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 1989, 7, 307-319.

49.    The moral balance model: Theory and research extenting our understanding of moral choice and deviation. In Kurtines, W. and Gewirtz, J. (Eds.), Handbook of moral behavior and development. Vol. 3, Hillsdule, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1991. 213-249.

50.     Beyond intrinsic motivation: Cultivating a sense of the desirable. In: F.K. Oser, A. Dick & J.L. Patry (Eds.), Effective and responsible teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 1992. 126-138.

51.     Balanced identity: Morality and other identity values. In Noam, G. and Wren, T. (Eds.), The moral self. Cambridge, MA.: M.I.T. Press. 1993.

52.    Maintaining a balanced and respected identity: Moral choice in late adulthood. In: G. Ben-Shakhar & A. Lieblich (Eds.), Studies in Psychology. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. 1995. 139-152.

53.    Development of the distinction among the "desirable", morality and personal preference. Social Development. 1996. 219-229.

54.    Moral balance - A model for moral choice. In: W.M. Kurtines & J.L. Gewirtz,(Eds.), Moral Development. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

55.     Instilling a value orientation in schools. In: L. Lo & S.W. Man,  (Eds.), Civic and moral Education. Hong-Kong: Chinese University Press.  1996. 99-119.

56.    Personal identity and education for the desirable. Journal of Moral Education. 1996. 25, 75-83.

57.    The actualization balance of ethnic identity. (1996). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 836-843.

58.    Manifestations of Relativism and individualism in moral judgment of individuals: Implicatins for moral education. In: M. Leicester, C. Modgil & S. Modgil (Eds.), Values Education. London: Falmer. 1999.

59.    "Identity model" for developing leadership in education. Monographs from the Mandel Institute. Jerusalem, 1997.

60.    Parteilichkeit und Identitat. Psychologische Forschung zur Bevorzugung von Gruppenmitgliedern. In: W. Edelstein & G. Nunner-Winkler (Eds.), Moral in socialen Kontext (pp. 409-441), Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2000.

61.    Sense of the desirable as a motivational basis in school. Education for Thinking. Jerusaem: Branco-Weiss, 2000 (Hebrew).

62.     Moral functioning - new directions in psychology of morality. In: Y. Cohen et al (Eds.), Education for Values. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2000 (Hebrew).

63.    In praise of pluralism in educational identity. In: H. Amit (Ed.), Leaders and leadership. Tel-Aviv: Maarachot, 2000(hebrwe).

64.    Judgment and choice in moral functioning. In D. K. Lapsley & D. Narvaez (Eds.), (2006), Moral development, self, and identity. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum.

65.     Commitment and uncertainty – a psychological study. In J. Cohen (Ed.), Languages and literatures in Jewish education. (pp. 347-383). Jerusalem: Magnes.

66.     Teachers' cultural ideology: Patterns of curriculum and teaching culturally valued texts. Teachers College Review, (2006). (By A. Shkedi & M. Nisan).

67.    The sense of the worthy as a motivation for studying: the case of the yeshiva. (2006). Interchange, 37/4, 363-394. (By M. Nisan and Y. Shalif).

68.    Partiality and identity – psychological research on preferential behavior toward group members. In W. Edelstein & G. Nunner-Winkler (Eds.), (2005),  Morality in context. Oxford: Elsevier.


Invited lectures in symposia (Partial list)

-    Development of ideology - the case of distributive justice. Symposium on Approaches to the Development of Ideology. Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, 1986.

-    Ideology - Behavior discrepaney: A cognitive approach. Symposium on the Relationship between Judgment and Behavior. Annual meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Amsterdam, 1986.

-    Sense of obligation as a motivational factor in school. Invited paper
for a symposium on Motivation by Contents, organized by the Swiss Society for Research in Education, Freiburg, Switzerland, 1986.
-    Teachers' behavior and the child's sense of obligation and learning orientation. Symposium on Personality Influences on Teaching Skills. European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Tubingen, Germany, 1987.

-    Children's perception of values. Invited paper for a symposium: From Moral Action to Judgment and Back. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, U.S.A., 1987 (lecture read in absentia due to the author's illness).

-    A study of cultural differneces in moral judgment: norms, orientations and stages. Invited lecture for the conference "Moral Education East and West: Tradition and Innovation". The Institute of Moralogy, Chiba- Ken, Japan, 1987.

-    Balanced identity - some hypotheses about moral choice in late adulthood. Invited paper for an international symposium on The Individual and the Society: Perspectives on the Life Course, organizaed by the Schwartz Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988.

-    Motivation to be educated. Paper presented at the AERA (American Educational Research Association) convention, San Francisco, March 1989.

-    Moral choice in late adulthood. Paper presented at the ISSBD (International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development) conference, Jyvaskyla, Finland, July 1989.

-    Balanced identity - Morality and other identity values. Invited paper For the third Ringberg Conference on Self and Morality (Organized by the Max Plank Institute). Ringberg Castle, Germany, July, 1990.

-    Beyond instrinsic motivation: Sense of the desirable in the school. Invited paper for the International Symposium on Effective and Responsible Teaching. Fribourg, Switzerland, September 1990.

-    Education for value orientation. Invited paper for An International Symposium on Values, Rights and Responsibilites in the International Community: Moral Education for the New Millenium. The Univiersity of Notre-Dame, Notre-Dame, U.S.A. November, 1990.

-    The child's distinction between value, morality and personal preference. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Human Development and Education. Universidad Compude Madriad. Madrid, October, 1991.

-    Morality and other identity values. Invited paper for the International Conference on Moral and Civic Education. The Chinese University of Hong-Kong. Hong Kong, November, 1993.

-    The Development of specific moral obligations. Symposium of the Development of Moral Reciprocity. Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society. Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Quebec, May 1992.

-    Sense of ought in the study of Torah. Invited lecture for the 7th annual meeting of the Network For Research in Jewish Education. Chicago, April 1993.

-    Relativism and individualism in moral judgments of individuals: Educational implications. Ivited lecture for the Second International Conference on Moral Education, Japan, August 1995.

-    Partiality and identity.Symposium on Morality and Justice International conference on Social Jastice, The International Center for Social Justice Research. Trier, Germany, June 1993.

-    Must partiality imply unabashed particularism-studies of reasons, evaluations and limits of partiality. Invited lecture for Morals for the millenium - Educational challenges in a cheaging world. Journal of Moral Education 25th anniversary conference, July 1996.

-    From protecting the individual against society to advancing the individual through society. Invited paper for a symposium on development in moral eduction. Lancaster University, July 1996.

-    On the relation between Jewish Studies on higher education and students' Jewish identity. Invited lecture for a conference on Jewish Studies in higher education. London March 1997.

-    Relativism and individualism in moral judgment of individuals: Educational implications. Invited lecture for the Second International Conference on Moral Education. The Institute of Moralogy. Kashiwa Japan 1995.

-    Morality as conceived and morality as revealed in behavior. Invited Lecture for the VIth Biennial Meeting of the Network of the Social Justice Research. University of Potsdam July 1997. 

-    Partiality and identity: Psychological research on preferential behavior toward group members. Invited paper for the Ringberg Conference (Max Plank Institute), July 1997.

-    Property rights - A developmental and cross-cultural study. The VIth Biennial Meeting of the Network of the Social Justice Research. University of Potsdam, July 1997.

-    Values as second order motivation. Invited lecture For An International Research Workshop on Values: Psychological Structure, Behavioral Outcomes, and Inter-Generational Transmission. Maale-Hachamisha,   January 1998.

-    Identity model for educational leadership. Invited lecture For Research International Workshop for School Transformation. Berlin, February 1998