International Handbook of Jewish Education

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-10
Analytic Philosophy of Education and Jewish Education: The Road Not Taken....Pages 11-27
Community Engagement: The Challenge of Connecting Jewish Schools to the Wider Community....Pages 29-45
Culture: Restoring Culture to Jewish Cultural Education....Pages 47-62
Curriculum Development: What We Can Learn from International Curricula....Pages 63-81
Curriculum Integration in Jewish Day Schools: The Search for Coherence....Pages 83-97
Gender and Jewish Education: “Why Doesn’t This Feel So Good?”....Pages 99-116
Historiography of American Jewish Education: A Case for Guarded Optimism....Pages 117-141
Janush Korczak’s Life and Legacy for Jewish Education....Pages 143-161
Jewish Identities: Educating for Multiple and Moving Targets....Pages 163-181
Jewish Identity and Jewish Education: The Jewish Identity Space and Its Contribution to Research and Practice....Pages 183-201
Jewish Identity: Who You Knew Affects How You Jew—The Impact of Jewish Networks in Childhood upon Adult Jewish Identity....Pages 203-218
Jewish Thought for Jewish Education: Sources and Resources....Pages 219-235
Philosophy of Jewish Education: Some Thoughts....Pages 237-246
Planning for Jewish Education in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Praxis....Pages 247-265
Pluralism in Jewish Education....Pages 267-284
Post Modernism Paradoxes: After Enlightenment – Jewish Education and the Paradoxes of Post Modernism....Pages 285-300
Spirituality: The Spiritual Child and Jewish Childhood....Pages 301-318
Visions in Jewish Education....Pages 319-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-338
Art: Educating with Art Without Ruining It....Pages 339-354
Front Matter....Pages 335-338
Arts and Jewish Day School Education in North America....Pages 355-372
Bible: Teaching the Bible in Our Times....Pages 373-388
Environment: Jewish Education as if the Planet Mattered....Pages 389-406
Havruta: What Do We Know and What Can We Hope to Learn from Studying in Havruta?....Pages 407-417
Hebrew Language in Israel and the Diaspora....Pages 419-440
History: Issues in the Teaching and Learning of Jewish History....Pages 441-460
Holocaust Education....Pages 461-478
Israel Education: Purposes and Practices....Pages 479-496
Israel Travel Education....Pages 497-513
Jewish Peoplehood Education....Pages 515-539
Life Cycle Education: The Power of Tradition, Ritual, and Transition....Pages 541-559
Other Religions in Jewish Education....Pages 561-579
Talmud: Making a Case for Talmud Pedagogy—The Talmud as an Educational Model....Pages 581-596
Technology: The Digital Revolution That Is Shaping Twenty-First-Century Jewish Education—A Fleeting Snapshot from the First Decade....Pages 597-614
Travel as a Jewish Educational Tool....Pages 615-631
Travel: ‘Location Location Location’ – A Practitioner’s Perspectives on Diaspora Jewish Travel....Pages 633-649
Front Matter....Pages 651-655
Academic Jewish Studies in North America....Pages 657-668
Adult Jewish Learning: The Landscape....Pages 669-689
Congregational Schools....Pages 691-712
Day Schools in the Liberal Sector: Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersection of Two Traditions of Jewish Schooling....Pages 713-728
Front Matter....Pages 651-655
Day Schools in the Orthodox Sector – A Shifting Landscape....Pages 729-747
Early Childhood Education....Pages 749-765
Experiential Jewish Education: Reaching the Tipping Point....Pages 767-784
Gender: Shifting from “Evading” to “Engaging”––Gender Issues and Jewish Adolescents....Pages 785-803
Informal Education: The Decisive Decade – How Informal Jewish Education Was Transformed in Its Relationship with Jewish Philanthropy....Pages 805-823
Intermarriage: Connection, Commitment, and Community....Pages 825-841
Learning Organisations: Learning to Learn – The Learning Organisation in Theory and Practice....Pages 843-860
Limmud: A Unique Model of Transformative Jewish Learning....Pages 861-877
Mentoring: Ideological Encounters – Mentoring Teachers in Jewish Education....Pages 879-899
Parents and Jewish Educational Settings....Pages 901-915
Practitioner Enquiry and Its Role in Jewish Education....Pages 917-936
Preparing Teachers for Jewish Schools: Enduring Issues in Changing Contexts....Pages 937-958
Professional Development of Teachers in Jewish Education....Pages 959-980
Professional Development: Vini, Vidi, Vici ? Short-Term Jewish Educators Trips to Israel as Professional-Development Programs....Pages 981-1000
Rabbis as Educators: Their Professional Training and Identity Formation....Pages 1001-1020
Special Education: “And You Shall Do That Which Is Right and Good …” Jewish Special Education in North America: From Exclusion to Inclusion....Pages 1021-1040
Teacher Education: Ensuring a Cadre of Well-Qualified Educational Personnel for Jewish Schools....Pages 1041-1062
Ultra-Orthodox/Haredi Education....Pages 1063-1080
Front Matter....Pages 1081-1085
American-Jewish Education in an Age of Choice and Pluralism....Pages 1087-1104
Anglo-Jewish Education: Day Schools, State Funding and Religious Education in State Schools....Pages 1105-1123
Front Matter....Pages 1081-1085
Australia: The Jewel in the Crown of Jewish Education....Pages 1125-1140
Canada: Jewish Education in Canada....Pages 1141-1153
Europe: Education of Adult Jewish Leaders in a Pan-European Perspective....Pages 1155-1166
Europe: Something from (Almost) Nothing – The Challenges of Education in European Communities – A Personal Perspective....Pages 1167-1182
Former Soviet Union: Jewish Education....Pages 1183-1202
France: Jewish Education in France....Pages 1203-1218
Israel: State Religious Education in Israel....Pages 1219-1233
Israel: Innovations in Secular Schooling in Israel....Pages 1235-1252
Latin America – Jewish Education in Latin America: Challenges, Trends and Processes....Pages 1253-1270
Netherlands – Social Integration and Religious Identity....Pages 1271-1287
Back Matter....Pages 1289-1308