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Backenroth, Ofra Arieli – Religious Education, 2004
This article examines the practice of teaching content-based disciplines through visual art. Qualitative and ethnographic methods are used in researching the teaching practice of a Bible teacher in a Jewish day school. The teaching method under study provides for active learning of the biblical text and demonstrates sensitivity to students'…
Descriptors: Jews, Ethnography, Day Schools, Biblical Literature
Zeldin, Michael – 1986
Reform Judaism, the branch of Judaism most liberal in religious practice and most committed to adapting to the realities of modern America, has recently abandoned its opposition to Jewish day schools and has thereby signalled its acceptance of an alternative to public education. When the ancestors of these Reform Jews came to America in the middle…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Origins, Ethnicity, Jews
Rockowitz, Murray; Lang, Gerhard – 1976
This study was conducted to ascertain Jewish school enrollment in the U.S. during 1974-75 and to collect data that permit comparison with previous surveys conducted in 1958, 1962, 1966, and 1970. Data on Jewish school enrollment were received from 55 communities representing 84 percent of the estimated Jewish population in the U.S. Based on these…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends, Jews
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Schoem, David – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1982
Ethnographic study of a suburban Jewish afternoon school suggests that students' failure to meet school behavior and learning standards occurred because they did not value or understand the rewards made available to them through the school and because their means of achieving status mobility had shifted away from the Jewish school. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Ethnography, Failure, Jews
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Kaniel, Shlomo – Religious Education, 2000
Presents problems inherent in religious Zionist education. Provides solutions to dissonance within the religious Zionist identity: (1) a firm educational doctrine and the goals that follow; and (2) education toward effective cognition. Addresses the implications of combining an educational doctrine with cognitive elements. Includes references.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Objectives
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Shamai, Shmuel – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2000
Explores the situation of the Israeli-Jewish education system in Israel that has developed educational streams according to religious differences. Highlights the changes in the status of cultural stands of secular and religious Jewish groups throughout the twentieth century. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Sociology, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN. Film Library. – 1989
This annotated bibliography is a compilation of audio/visual materials related to Jewish and religious studies that are held by the Film Library of Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana). A subject index is followed by an alphabetical listing by title of 206 items. Included in the annotations are: (1) format indications; (2) rental cost; (3)…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Buddhism, Christianity, Elementary Secondary Education
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Inbar, Efraim – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1979
This paper looks at the reasons for the growth of Hebrew Day Schools and also discusses the changing dynamics of Orthodox Jews in the American Jewish community. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Community Schools, Cultural Education, Day Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shkedi, Asher – Educational Research, 1997
A study of the pedagogical content knowledge of 52 teachers focused on the teaching of the Bible in Israel and in Jewish schools outside Israel. Findings suggest that teachers' conceptions of students and of the educational subject matter are frequently inconsistent. Teachers' pedagogical knowledge usually involves tensions between the two…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Jews
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Addi-Raccah, Audrey – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2005
Based on the social closure perspective, this study examines the intersection of women and minorities in school leadership positions and argues that organizational culture is related to the exclusion of women and minorities from high-rank positions. This argument is tested by an estimation of the likelihood of minority women, minority men,…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Jews, Organizational Culture, Foreign Countries
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Sztokman, Elana – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2006
This paper examines the ways in which gender, religion, ethnicity and class intertwine in a state religious girl's junior high school in Israel. It is based on ethnographic data collected from 1999-2002, including interviews with staff and students and observations of classes and other school events. The claim is made that in this school,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Ethnicity, Jews, Ethnography
Yeshiva of Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY. Joel Braverman High School. – 1987
The Yeshiva of Flatbush, a high school located in the Midwood-Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, teaches both secular and Judaic studies with an emphasis upon transmitting the values and traditions of Halachic Judaism. The philosophy of the school is to provide an education in which Jewish studies are taught in Hebrew and to encourage student…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, High Schools
Weinglass, Janet; Steil, Janice M. – 1981
Theorists concerned with issues of social justice assert that ideology plays a substantial role in mediating perceptions of injustice and feelings of relative deprivation. To investigate the impact of feminism and religious fundamentalism on the perception of injustice in the content of sex differences in a study of traditional religious…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attitude Measures, Females, Feminism
Himmelfarb, Harold S. – 1975
This study assesses the effectiveness of different types of Jewish schools in producing adult religious involvement, using a sample of 1,009 individuals from the Chicago area and an analysis of covariance design. Based on his analysis, the author concludes that the type of supplementary Jewish education received by over 80 percent of those Jews…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Adams, Bruce F. – History Teacher, 1989
Suggests themes in Russian history that can be integrated into existing history, social studies, civics, or religion classes. Expounds on the following themes: agriculture and collectivization, police force and legality, Jews and dissidence, plurality and ideology, and the arms race. Provides bibliographic sources. (RW)
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Bibliographies, Civics, Communism
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