Nurit Cohen Evron received her PhD from the Art Education Department at the Ohio State University (2001). Since 1982 she has been a senior lecturer in art education at The School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel, where she served as head of art teachers' preparation program and as head of an MEd program in Art Education she established. Her areas of research include: Art educators' positions on violent conflict in Israel, social issues and curriculum integration, visual art education and critical pedagogy. Her work has been published in several international handbooks of research on arts education and leading magazines such as Studies in Art Education.