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Afdal, Geir – British Journal of Religious Education, 2015
This article is a contribution to the discussion of learning processes in religious education (RE) classrooms. Sociocultural theories of learning, understood here as tool-mediated processes, are used in an analysis of three RE classroom conversations. The analysis focuses on the language tools that are used in conversations; how the tools mediate;…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Educational Practices, Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories
Parker-Jenkins, Marie; Glenn, Meli; Janmaat, Jan Germen – UCL IOE Press, 2014
In what ways do Jewish and Muslim faith schools in Britain play a role in promoting and contributing to community cohesion? What 21st-century skills around intercultural understanding do they foster? This book examines the nuances of faith in school settings and draws on a case study of Jewish and Muslim faith schools. The authors show how these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parochial Schools, Jews, Judaism
Levisohn, Jon A. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2012
We are sometimes told that practitioners have a hard time with theory. But those who are committed to nurturing a certain kind of intellectual capacity among Jewish educational practitioners--the capacity to identify and critically engage with vision in Jewish education, a capacity that we can call a "philosophical disposition"--must accept the…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
Greninger, Nicole Michelle – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
Tefillah is a central component of the curriculum at many congregational schools. Yet despite the time and resources that congregational schools dedicate for "tefillah education," large numbers of Jews (both children and adults) continue to feel uncomfortable and incompetent in Jewish worship. This research begins to answer the question, "How…
Descriptors: Jews, Religious Education, Judaism, Religious Factors
Fagen, Ruth S. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
This article presents the author's response to Jon A. Levisohn's article entitled "A Menu of Orientations in the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature." In the last section of his article, Levisohn claims that when considering the field of teaching rabbinic literature, "the menu of orientations holds the potential to raise the level of pedagogic…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Judaism
Lehman, Marjorie – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
This paper presents the author's response to Jon A. Levisohn's article entitled "A Menu of Orientations in the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature." Levisohn has made a significant contribution to the scholarship of teaching in his article proposing that the teaching of rabbinic literature is most successfully accomplished when teachers think about…
Descriptors: Jews, Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Religious Education
Zisenwine, David – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
In this article, the author talks about Jon A. Levisohn's article that develops a menu of orientations for the teaching of rabbinic literature. The author suggests that Jon A. Levisohn's article should be required reading for all Jewish educators who are interested in curriculum and teaching. The essay is a vehicle for introducing a way of looking…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Religious Education, Teaching Methods
Moghadam, Yaara Shteinhart – ProQuest LLC, 2011
As Jewish museums are witnessing a rapid numerical rise in the United States and beyond, the professional and academic literature on Jewish museum education lags behind. This dissertation is aimed to help narrow this gap by examining how the education departments of Jewish museums in the United States conceptualize, promote, and conduct programs…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Museums, Religious Education
Moulin, Dan – British Journal of Religious Education, 2011
This paper explores the experiences of secondary school students from religious backgrounds in Religious Education (RE). A total of 16 loosely structured, group, pair and individual interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 34 school-age members of four religious communities: one Jewish and three Christian. The findings make a useful…
Descriptors: Jews, Student Attitudes, Religious Education, Secondary School Students
Krakowski, Moshe – Journal of Jewish Education, 2011
This essay reviews the Applications section of the "International Handbook of Jewish Education" published in 2011. Because of the variety of contexts in which Jewish education research can be applied, this section comprises a large number of diverse chapters that are not all explicitly theoretically or thematically linked. The scope of this…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Religious Education, Day Schools
Sales, Amy L.; Samuel, Nicole; Koren, Annette; Shain, Michelle – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
The Re-Imagine Project (of the Experiment in Congregational Education) is an attempt to engender innovation in congregational schools. A long-term study of 24 participating congregations in Greater New York examined the extent to which the effort yielded new models of education (radical change). The study included surveys of task force members and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Jews, Judaism, Religious Education
Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
This article presents the author's response to Jon A. Levisohn's article entitled "A Menu of Orientations in the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature." As someone who is experimenting not only with how to teach rabbinic texts but with which texts to select in virtually every course the author teaches for American undergraduate as well as graduate…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Religious Education, Literature
Gutoff, Joshua – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
This article presents the author's response to Jon A. Levisohn's article entitled "A Menu of Orientations in the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature." While the "menu" Levisohn describes in his groundbreaking work on orientations to the teaching of rabbinic texts will almost certainly be refined over time, even as it stands this article should be of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Jews, Judaism, Teaching Methods
Pomson, Alex; Deitcher, Howard – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
What are North American Jewish day schools doing when they engage in Israel education, what shapes their practices, and to what ends? In this article, we report on a multi-method study inspired by these questions. Our account is organized around an analytical model that helps distinguish between what we call the vehicles, intensifiers, and…
Descriptors: Jews, Day Schools, Foreign Countries, North Americans
Gilheany, Terence – Religious Education, 2013
The teaching of religion raises opportunities to reduce prejudicial beliefs and attitudes among students. In this study, 30 religion, history, and civics teachers in Israel, East Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Territories were interviewed about their motivations for teaching religion. This study found that teachers expressed a variety of…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Civics