{"id":21,"date":"2026-06-09T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/hyalon\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:29:25","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/hyalon\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n    \n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-palette-5-light-2 u-valign-middle-lg u-valign-middle-sm u-section-2\" id=\"sec-3edc\">\n      <div class=\"u-expanded-width u-shape u-shape-rectangle u-white u-shape-1\"><\/div>\n      <div class=\"custom-expanded data-layout-selected u-clearfix u-layout-wrap u-layout-wrap-1\">\n        <div class=\"u-layout\" style=\"\">\n          <div class=\"u-layout-row\" style=\"\">\n            <div class=\"u-container-align-left u-container-style u-layout-cell u-size-32 u-layout-cell-1\">\n              <div class=\"u-container-layout u-container-layout-1\">\n                <h1 class=\"u-align-left u-text u-text-1\"> Prof. Hanna Ayalon<\/h1>\n                <h3 class=\"u-align-left u-text u-text-palette-1-base u-text-2\">\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/en-social-sciences.tau.ac.il\/soc-ant\" class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-1\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Sociology and Anthropology<\/a>\n                <\/h3>\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"u-container-style u-layout-cell u-size-28 u-layout-cell-2\">\n              <div class=\"u-container-layout u-valign-middle u-container-layout-2\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-expanded u-image u-image-default u-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/hyalon\/files\/2010\/11\/hanna.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-image-width=\"150\" data-image-height=\"150\">\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-3\" id=\"sec-268d\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-lg u-valign-middle-md u-valign-middle-sm u-valign-middle-xs u-sheet-1\">\n        <p class=\"u-align-left u-large-text u-text u-text-variant u-text-1\"> Hanna Ayalon is Professor Emerita of  Sociology of Education. She served as chair of the Department of Educational Policy (1995-1999), and of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (2005-2007). She completed her Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University. Her areas of interest include educational inequality, educational reforms, comparative research in education, and quantitative research methods. Her recent journal publications address a variety of educational topics including social consequences of the expansion of higher education in Israel (European Sociological Review); a comparison of the diversification of higher education in Israel and the United States (Sociology of Education); Curriculum differentiation and educational inequality (Teacher College Records); the effect of educational reforms on social inequality (Sociology of Education); for-profit mid-career programs as a second chance (Higher Education Policy). 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