The lab, the People & Planet Lab (PPL), explores the human aspect of education in the contexts of mobility, identity, and agency. It also examines the environmental aspect of education, including place-based education and global citizenship education. By conducting innovative and interdisciplinary research, the lab aims to contribute valuable insights that will shape the future of education.
One of the lab’s core projects, Students’ Understanding & Appropriation of Activism (STUDACT), explores and contextualizes how high schoolers of different backgrounds understand activism – and how their understandings differ within and among countries, curricula, contexts, student characteristics, and education systems. STUDACT, which is collecting data in Poland, the United States, Italy, Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdon, will provide its student research subjects with tools to develop an activist voice in areas ranging from climate change to human rights, leverage documentary filmmaking and social media, and collaborate with activist peers. This research will support the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal for Global Citizenship Education, whose promise is to transform educational systems, empowering learners to build more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, and secure societies.
Prof. Yemini completed her undergraduate work at Ben-Gurion University and her doctoral work at Tel Aviv University.