Tzipora Jochsberger (1920-) educator, composer, and musicologist, dreamed of using the arts to introduce Jews to the richness of their heritage. The founder and director of the Hebrew Arts School in New York (1952-1986), Jochsberger's contributions deserve the attention of Jewish educators and artists who are looking to the arts to address the…

A core course entitled "Career and Life Management 20" was developed and field tested in Alberta, Canada, and is now required of all Alberta high school students. The Alberta Catholic high schools recognized many similarities between this course and their own Religious Studies Program. An in-depth curriculum analysis was undertaken which…

Education should aim at developing a kind of person who knows how to live well. School instruction fails to accomplish this. Customarily, learning is acquired through example and emulation, rather than through teaching of rules and precepts. Implications for teaching science, mathematics, history, and religion are discussed. (PP)

Describes a workshop that utilized group interaction techniques to engage school teachers and administrators in a dialogue and activity to increase their sensitivity to conflicts that might arise concerning the observance of religious holidays in the classroom and to enable them to share ideas for appropriate programs for the holiday season.…

Maintains that all teachers possess instructional objectives despite claims to the contrary. Defines instructional objectives as the understanding, attitudes, and skills that a teacher wants a learner to acquire. Discusses the instructional objectives of catechetical education. Examines the debate over catechetical education and instructional…

Discusses the increasingly multicultural nature of California's population. Questions whether multiculturalism can be incorporated into Christian education. Provides a checklist of multicultural religious education programs divided into knowledge, skill, and attitude components. (CFR)

The feasibility of Christian colleges will depend of their ability to achieve new levels of excellence in piety, learning, and educational service. The key to such excellence will be a strong faculty sense of vocation in educational and scholarly ministry and redefinition of educational objectives and curriculum design. (MSE)

Explores some of the conflicts in Jewish religious culture related to choosing literature to enhance or reflect literacy and to ensure continuity. Outlines questions that have stimulated postmodern skepticism about the stability of canons, and offers guidelines for selecting new materials into the canon and, hence, curriculum. (DSK)

Suggests that contemporary films can be used by educators to engage people in religious exploration. Argues that viewers should engage in a conversation with film at the levels of content and cinematography. Discusses four types of film study and examples of films that can be used in each. (DSK)

This study was commissioned to identify specific characteristics typical of successful teachers and schools in the greater Dayton area Catholic elementary and secondary schools. It also sought to determine the attitudes and behaviors of teachers who used those characteristics most. Also of interest was the appropriate recognition and/or rewards…

In this book the president of Notre Dame University responds to the critics who see the teaching of religion and values as a hindrance to institutions of higher learning, suggesting that no university is truly a university unless it is universal and moves every scholar to look to the total universe. The significance of values in education is…

The first practical problem of a Christian educator in reaching inadequately committed adults is motivation. Although educational psychology shows very little that goes beyond self-realization or self-actualization as the basic motive of man, the Christian view of man makes it clear that God's own motivation, agape (self-giving love), is also…

Encourages integrating the church's social tradition into the mainstream teachings of Catholic education. Advocates teaching human dignity to children and to society at large. (YKH)

Discusses three major factors involved in the development of advancement programs in Catholic schools: strong leadership, financial goals and strategies, and the recruitment of dedicated teams of volunteers. Suggests that the best school leaders proclaim Catholic identity as integral to mission. (JDI)

This article finds Michael's Hand's argument for the abolition of faith schools to be deficient because key premises of his argument seem false. I argue that the concept of knowledge that Hand employs in arguing that no religious proposition is known to be true is overly strict. I reject Siegel's attempt to amend Hand's argument to make it…