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Dorit Aram, Ph.D., is a full professor at Tel Aviv University. She is the head of the Early Childhood Research Laboratory. Her research focuses on parenting, adult-child interactions, and their implications for early development. She studies adult-child literacy interactions and their impacts on literacy and socio-emotional development. She conducts interventions to improve preschool teachers’ and parents’ scaffolding, as well as children's early literacy and socio-emotional development. During the last ten years, she developed the ""Parenting Pentagon Model"" in collaboration with family therapists and child development specialists. She has studied the implications of beneficial parenting behavior on parents and children’s well-being across cultures. She is a board member of the Israeli OMEP (World Organization for Early Childhood Education). As an internationally leading literacy researcher, she is a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Rotem Schapira, Ph.D., is a lecturer and pedagogical counselor at the Department of Early Education at Levinsky-Wingate Academic College of Educationin Tel Aviv and the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University.  She received her Ph.D. from the School of Education at Tel Aviv University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mofet Institute, in collaboration with the Social Lab of the Hebrew University, as well as at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Lab-PSE)..  Her research focuses on young children's social–emotional development, with particular emphasis on emotion understanding, empathy, and social competence. She examines emotional socialization processes among parents and early childhood educators, including adult coaching, shared book-reading dialogue, emotional caregiving behavior, and the beliefs and perceptions that guide these practices. Additionally, she develops and evaluates intervention programs designed to enhance young children's social–emotional skills.

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