Miriam
Hirsch
Associate Professor of Education; Chair, Department of Education at Stern College for Women, Director, Anita Zucker Program for Jewish Early Childhood Education
Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room#1001 - 10th floor
Dr. Miriam Hirsch is an associate professor in the Department of Education at Stern College, èapp. Dr. Hirsch also serves as Director of the Anita Zucker Program in Jewish Early Childhood Education. She holds a BA in psychology from Barnard College, two MAs from Teachers College, Columbia University, one in curriculum and teaching and another in arts education, and a PhD from New York University in educational administration. She maintains a K–6 elementary school teacher license in both New York and New Jersey, and has taught in both private and public schools in the New York metropolitan area. She also served as the assistant principal of a large Jewish girls’ elementary school prior to her move to higher education. She recently published her first book, "Teach Like a Human: Essays for Parents & Teachers " (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). She has published in Educational Leadership,Teacher Education Quarterly, The Educational Forum, Teaching Education, The Teacher Educator, Schools: Studies in Education, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, Jewish Action, and Jewish Educational Leadership. Her research often examines how narrative experiences of teaching, learning, and schooling can provoke more professional dispositions and disrupt inequities in Jewish education. She is a fierce advocate for the arts in teacher education, is launching a new Journal of Jewish Early Childhood Education in collaboration with the YU library.
Phi Beta Kappa
SCW Class of 2020 General Studies Professor of the Year
Provost Faculty Research Grant 2020
Hirsch, M. (2024). Early Career Teacher as Extremophile: Insights for Adaptive Expertise. TEQ, 51(2), 52-77.
Hirsch, M. (2023). Portraits of preservice candidate complaint patterns. In C. L. Cho & J. K. Corkett (Eds.) Global Perspectives on Microaggressions in Higher Education: Understanding and Combating Covert Violence in Universities (pp. 64-82). Routledge.
Hirsch, M. (Fall, 2021) Guest Editor. Special Symposium Issue: Vivian Gussin Paley. Schools: Studies in Education.
Hirsch, M. (June 1, 2021). “What am I missing?” Social Information Processing in Remote Learning. Jewish Educational Leadership 19(3).
Hirsch, M. (2020). Teach Like a Human: Essays for Parents and Teachers. Rowman & Littlefield.
Hirsch, M. (Fall, 2019). Why Good Teachers Matter: Raising the bar in Jewish education. Jewish Action 80(1), 78-80.
Hirsch, M. (2018). Emotions in charter school teaching: Three stories from year one. LEARNing Landscapes Journal, 11(2), 167-178.
Hirsch, M. (2017). Jewish day school wounds and what we can do about them. Journal of Jewish Education, 83(4), 367-392.
Hirsch, M. (2016). Teach like a human: The reality gap in educator preparation. Schools: Studies in Education, 13(2), 339-348.
Hirsch, M. (2014). In pursuit of a wild patience, The Educational Forum, 78(4), 402-408.
Hirsch, M. (2014). Teaching Teacha! Culturally relevant pedagogy in Jewish Education. Journal of Jewish Education, 80(2), 82-98.
Hirsch, M. (2013). LCI or VTS? Art integration in pre-service teacher education. In L. Chen-Haftek & M. N. Yildiz (Eds.), Educating the Creative Mind: Developing Capacities for the Future. Union, NJ: Kean University.
Hirsch, M. (2012). Pre-service teacher school stories & how they matter. The Teacher Educator, 47(2), 144-167.
Hirsch, M. (2012). Co-constructing imaginative spaces: Public art pedagogy in Pre-service teacher education. Teaching Education, 23(1), 9-24.
Hirsch, M. (2011, Summer). “But I don’t have time!” The dynamics of resistance to arts education. Jewish Educational Leadership, 9(3), 19-23.
Hirsch, M. (2010, October). Embracing asymmetry and resistance in pre-service teacher aesthetic education. Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, 9(3), 323-328.
Hirsch, M. (2010). “But I can’t draw:” Supporting teachers with aesthetic inquiry and arts integration. In L. Chen-Hafteck (Ed.), Educating the Creative Mind: Developing Capacities for the Future. Union, NJ: Kean University.
Hirsch, M. (2010, February). Keep a question in your ‘kup.’ Educational Leadership, 67(5), 62-65.
Hirsch, M. (2009). Women in Educational Leadership: Agency & Communion. Germany: VDM Publishing. [published doctoral dissertation]
Hirsch, M. (2008). Frostbite: A dramatic tale of research in aesthetic education. Schools: Studies in Education, 5(1/2), 205-220.
Hirsch, M., & Astuto, T. (2008, Spring). Martyr, mommy, & matriarch: Gender scripts for women in Jewish educational leadership. Jewish Educational Leadership, 6(3), 26-32.
Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room#1001 - 10th floor