International Handbook of Jewish Education

International Handbook of Jewish Education

Author: Helena Miller

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-04-02

Total Pages: 1299

ISBN-13: 9400703546

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The International Handbook of Jewish Education, a two volume publication, brings together scholars and practitioners engaged in the field of Jewish Education and its cognate fields world-wide. Their submissions make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the field of Jewish Education as we start the second decade of the 21st century. The Handbook is divided broadly into four main sections: Vision and Practice: focusing on issues of philosophy, identity and planning –the big issues of Jewish Education. Teaching and Learning: focusing on areas of curriculum and engagement Applications, focusing on the ways that Jewish Education is transmitted in particular contexts, both formal and informal, for children and adults. Geographical, focusing on historical, demographic, social and other issues that are specific to a region or where an issue or range of issues can be compared and contrasted between two or more locations. This comprehensive collection of articles providing high quality content, constitutes a difinitive statement on the state of Jewish Education world wide, as well as through a wide variety of lenses and contexts. It is written in a style that is accessible to a global community of academics and professionals.


Teaching Israel Studies

Teaching Israel Studies

Author: Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-12-13

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 3031169158

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This book presents pedagogical strategies for today’s diverse Israel Studies classrooms. It offers Israel-specific innovations for online teaching, tested methods for organizing global virtual exchanges that uplift marginalized voices in Israel, including Palestinian voices, and an intellectual and political overview of the field. Informed by the author’s experiences in the classroom and principles shared with her by fellow instructors, the book provides a guide to developing an Israel Studies syllabus or integrating Israel Studies units into an existing curriculum


Palestine in Israeli School Books

Palestine in Israeli School Books

Author: Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 085773069X

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Each year, Israel's young men and women are drafted into compulsory military service and are required to engage directly in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is by its nature intensely complex and is played out under the full glare of international security. So, how does Israel's education system prepare its young people for this? How is Palestine, and the Palestinians against whom these young Israelis will potentially be required to use force, portrayed in the school system? Nurit Peled-Elhanan argues that the textbooks used in the school system are laced with a pro-Israel ideology, and that they play a part in priming Israeli children for military service. She analyzes the presentation of images, maps, layouts and use of language in History, Geography and Civic Studies textbooks, and reveals how the books might be seen to marginalize Palestinians, legitimize Israeli military action and reinforce Jewish-Israeli territorial identity. This book provides a fresh scholarly contribution to the Israeli-Palestinian debate, and will be relevant to the fields of Middle East Studies and Politics more widely.


Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Author: Rachel S. Harris

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2019-04-22

Total Pages: 739

ISBN-13: 0814346782

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Whether planning a new course or searching for new teaching ideas, this collection is an indispensable compendium for anyone teaching the Arab-Israeli conflict.


Israel

Israel

Author: Anita Shapira

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 161168353X

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A history of Israel in the context of the modern Jewish experience and the history of the Middle East


Teaching Israel

Teaching Israel

Author: Sivan Zakai

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Published: 2024-03-28

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1684581176

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"This book resituates teaching-the questions, dilemmas, and decision-making that teachers face-as central to both Israel Studies and Israel education. It illuminates how teachers from differing pedagogical orientations and who teach in a range of educational settings learn, understand, do, and ultimately improve the work of teaching Israel"--


A Philosophy of Israel Education

A Philosophy of Israel Education

Author: Barry Chazan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-20

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 3319307797

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This book develops a new philosophy of Israel education. “Person-centered” Israel education is concerned with developing in individual learners the ability to understand and make rational, emotional, and ethical decisions about Israel, and about the challenges Israel regularly faces, whether they be existential, spiritual, democratic, humanitarian, national, etc. Chazan begins by laying out the terms of the conversation then examines the six-pronged theory of “person-centered” Israel education to outline the aims, content, pedagogy, and educators needed to implement this program. Finally, the author meditates on what a transformation from ethnic to ethical education might look like in this context and others. This book is Open Access under a CC-BY license.


Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Carsten Schapkow

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-08-21

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1793605106

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Jewish studies has been a vibrant academic discipline for many decades, and since the establishment of the Association for Israel Studies in 1985 to engage in research on the history, politics, society, and culture of the modern state of Israel, the two disciplines have worked along parallel tracks in universities. This book focuses on the vibrant academic field of Israel studies and its complex and dynamic relations and intersections with its “older sibling” Jewish studies. Scholarly contributions from around the globe illustrate that the ongoing and growing interest in Israel studies, in particular since the early 2000s, must be analyzed and understood in its relationship to Jewish studies. Only this will allow scholarship to reflect on not only the intersections between the two fields but also on the prospects of cross-pollination between the disciplines for research and teaching. This will become ever more vital in an increasingly globalized world with shifting concepts, borders, and identity concepts.


Inside Jewish Day Schools

Inside Jewish Day Schools

Author: Alex Pomson

Publisher: Mandel-Brandeis Jewish Educati

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781684580699

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A perfect guide to those wishing to understand the contemporary Jewish day school. This book takes readers inside Jewish day schools to observe what happens day to day, as well as what the schools mean to their studenets, families, and communities. Many different types of Jewish day schools exist, and the variations are not well understood, nor is much information available about how day schools function. Inside Jewish Day Schools proves a vital guide to understanding both these distinctions and the everyday operations of these contemporary schools.


Visions of Jewish Education

Visions of Jewish Education

Author: Seymour Fox

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-07

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521528993

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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.