{"id":338,"date":"2025-04-07T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/?p=338"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:09:15","slug":"alexandra-zaslav-ma-student-2012-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/2025\/04\/07\/alexandra-zaslav-ma-student-2012-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Zaslav \u2013 MA Student (2012-13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Description:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexandra\u2019s research investigates conflict resolution capabilities within the field of dance, focusing especially on the effect of dance encounter work in conflict settings.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-11.13.25-PM-1-224x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286\" style=\"width:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-11.13.25-PM-1-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-11.13.25-PM-1.png 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 85vw, 224px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Research focus: Specifically, her thesis aims to determine if dance can be employed in an encounter program format to transform perception of \u201cthe other\u201d, in the context of Jewish-Arab relations within Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using an experimental research design, the study draws quantitative data from a series of questionnaires administered to an experimental and control group, either participating or not-participating, in an organized dance encounter workshop. The workshop partners Jewish students from the Menashe region and Arab students from Qalansuwa, in a two-week dance encounter. In total, the data will be drawn from a pool of approximately 240 students, one-week pre-encounter, one-week post-encounter, and three months post encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/05\/MIM-4-300x208.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/05\/MIM-4-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/05\/MIM-4.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra\u2019s research investigates conflict resolution capabilities within the field of dance, focusing especially on the effect of dance encounter work in conflict settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ma-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}