Sara Smilansky, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Sara Smilansky

Israeli psychologist

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1922

Date of Death: 05-Dec-2006

Profession: psychologist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Sara Smilansky (Hebrew ??? ????????, January 28, 1922, Jerusalem, Israel – December 5, 2006) was a professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel and was a senior researcher for The Henrietta Szold Institute: The National Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for the Ruth Bressler Center for Research in Education.
She has been a visiting professor for many well known universities such as the University of Maryland, College Park.
She focused her research on play training and its effects on children.
Her research included studying both Israeli and American, as well as advantaged and disadvantaged, children.
She wrote multiple books on children's play and its relation to learning, the effect of divorce and death on children, and the development of twins.
Her research on children’s play included working with Jean Piaget.