Experience & Jewish Education

Experience & Jewish Education
Author: Molly Wernick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781934527757

John Dewy wrote Experience and Education in 1938. It created the foundations of Experiential Education. Now, David Bryfman has edited Experience and Jewish Education and thereby founded the field of Jewish Experiential Education.

Principles and Pedagogies in Jewish Education

Principles and Pedagogies in Jewish Education
Author: Barry Chazan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2022
Genre: Alternative education
ISBN: 3030839257

This book is aimed at Improving contemporary educational practice by rooting it in clear analytical thinking. The book utilizes the analytic approach to philosophy of education to elucidate the meaning of the terms: ‘education’; ‘moral education; ‘indoctrination?; ;’‘contemporary American Jewish education’’; ‘informal Jewish education?; ’‘the Israel experience’; and? Israel education?. The final chapter of the book presents an educator’s credo for 21st-century Jewish education and general education. Barry Chazan is Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Research Professor at the George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

The Jewish Experience

The Jewish Experience
Author: Steven Leonard Jacobs
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 242
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451418590

Explores the richness and meaning of Jewish life through history, introducing the basics of Jewish history, the tradition of texts, key philosophical and theological issues and thinkers, the Judaic calendar, contemporary global concerns and what the future may portend for Judaism. Original.

Succeeding at Jewish Education

Succeeding at Jewish Education
Author: Joseph Reimer
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780827606234

Joseph Reimer uses his experience and talent as an ethnographer to bring to life the drama of one synagogue’s struggle to make Jewish education work. Reimer spent more than two years as an observer within the synagogue, studying the afternoon religious education programs for children, families, and adults. As a result of his observations and discussions with rabbis, teachers, and parents, Reimer came away with the important insights into what makes Jewish education succeed, which form the basis for this book.

Visions of Jewish Education

Visions of Jewish Education
Author: Seymour Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003-07-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521528993

This book looks at the philosophical consideration of Jewish existence in our time, as reflected in Jewish education, its alternative visions, its purposes and instrumentalities, the values it should serve, and the personal and social character it ought to foster. Prevalent conceptions and practices of Jewish education are neither sufficiently reflective nor thoroughgoing enough to meet the multiple challenges that the world now poses to Jewish existence and continuity. New efforts are needed to develop an education of the future that will honor the riches of the Jewish past and grasp the opportunities of fruitful interactions with the general culture of the present. To promote such efforts, six leading scholars in this book formulate their variant visions of an ideal Jewish education for the contemporary world. This book also translates these visions into educational practice and, finally, articulates a vision abstracted from a case study of a school's ongoing practice.

On Jewish Learning

On Jewish Learning
Author: Franz Rosenzweig
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780299182342

Seeking how to be an observant Jew in the modern world, Rosenzweig refused to reduce the traditions of Jewish law to mere rituals, customs, and folkways. His aim for himself and for others was to find Judaism by living it, and to live it by knowing it more deeply."--BOOK JACKET.

"How Goodly are Thy Tents"

Author: Amy L. Sales
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781584653479

An entertaining ethnographic study of how Jewish summer camps foster Jewish sensibilities and education.

The Arc of the Covenant

The Arc of the Covenant
Author: Earl Schwartz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498596673

The Arc of the Covenant studies the social, cultural, and political factors that contributed to exceptional Jewish educational success in St. Paul, Minnesota in the latter half of the twentieth century. The book draws on archival sources, interviews with principal figures, and wide-ranging research on Jewish education and community dynamics to elucidate the story’s intriguing improbabilities. Why such success in a midsize, midcentury, midwestern river town with a relatively small Jewish population of limited resources? How did it happen, and how have circumstances changed in recent years? The answers are to be found at the intersection of broad historical forces and local circumstances. Though focused on a particular place and time, the implications reach far beyond St. Paul, then and now, making Arc of the Covenant a timely resource for current Jewish educational planners, along with educators in other communities dedicated to the transmission of a sacred heritage.

Not at Risk

Not at Risk
Author: Menachem Gottesman
Publisher: Menorah Books
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781940516745

Jerusalem's Mercaz L'Mida Dati Learning Center (¿Meled¿) has been transforming lives of youths and restoring families for over twenty years. Not At Risk tells its story in the words of its founders, and details groundbreaking educational work, sharing not only experiences and insights of faculty members and parents, but heartwarming, and at times deeply painful, personal stories of former students. In addition to his professional experience in child development, Dr. Menachem Gottesman drew upon three main sources to create a healing educational environment for youth labelled ¿at risk¿: A.S. Neill's philosophy of education, the therapeutic method developed by Dr. Milton H. Erickson, and the spiritual outlook of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik.Not At Risk shares the secret of Meled's success. Open-minded educators, professionals working with adolescents, and concerned parents will find this book an invaluable resource.