TAMAR GROVES is a senior lecturer in the Department of Education Sciences, and the Associate Dean for International Relations of the Teacher Training College at Extremadura University, Spain.
She obtained her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University and the UNED, Madrid in 2010, and won the award for best dissertation that academic year. A research, which was later on published by Palgrave Macmillan as: Teachers and the Struggle for Democracy in Spain (2014). She has co-authored books on the history of educational innovation (Aracne, 2018) and Citizenship and Social movements (Palgrave, 2017), and co-edited books such as Performing Citizenship: Social Movements Across the Globe (Routledge, 2015) and Women and Knowledge (Aracne, 2018). In addition, she has published in leading international journals such as European Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Social History, European History Quarterly, Paedagogica Historica, International Journal of the History of Education, War and Society and History of Education. Her main fields of interest are history of education, international education, educational social movements, citizen education and women and higher education.
Currently she is collaborating with the Peach Research Institute Oslo in a project on Societal Transformation in Conflict Contexts (TRANSFORM) working on educational grassroots initiatives in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.