IES Fellows

Ayshi
Sindiani-Bsoul (Alumni)

Prof. Ron Blonder’s lab, Department of Science Teaching

Ayshi Sindiani-Bsoul is a PhD student researching data-based pedagogy for science learning in the context of sustainable development goals, as well as the attitudes, argumentation skills, and agency of science teachers and 9th grade students. She conducts her research under the supervision of Prof. Ron Blonder in the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute. She has a BEd in Teaching Biology-Chemistry and MEd in Science Education Material Sciences - Chemistry-Physics from the Arab Academic College of Education in Israel, and an MSc in Science Teaching from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

To develop student agency related to sustainability issues, Ayshi is working on a model based on environmental citizenship. The model links three pedagogical processes and illustrates how each process supports the other. If students have relevant knowledge about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and can also develop data-based arguments and activism, while they change or build their pro-environmental attitudes, this can lead to developing and nurturing their agency regarding sustainability issues. 

As a science teacher, Ayshi strives to include sustainability and energy topics in lessons and discussions with students to raise awareness and foster interest in these issues, with the aim  to cultivate an activist mindset and encourage students to be a change agent in making positive changes in society and their environment.