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Direct linkZakai, Sivan – Journal of Jewish Education, 2021
This article offers a detailed study of one child's relationships to Israel from kindergarten (2012-2013 academic year) through 7th grade (2019-2020 academic year). By tracing Avigail over the course of eight years, I argue that children do not develop "a relationship" with Israel but rather many different relationships over time. Using…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 7, Longitudinal Studies, Student Attitudes
Hassenfeld, Ziva R. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2019
This study set out to design and implement an approach to Tanakh education that would help students become expert decoders of the Biblical Hebrew text as they became expert interpreters of it. The goal, following existing, research-based best instructional practices from literacy, was to create a curriculum in which language skills and meaning…
Descriptors: Judaism, Biblical Literature, Semitic Languages, Language Skills
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
Avni, Sharon – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This article examines how students and teachers at a non-Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City negotiate the use of translation within the context of an institutionalized language policy that stresses the use of a sacred language over that of the vernacular. Specifically, this paper analyzes the negotiation of a Hebrew-only policy through…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Jews, Day Schools
Segal, Aliza; Bekerman, Zvi – Journal of Jewish Education, 2009
This article presents an empirical study of a seventh-grade Talmud class in a religious boys' school in Israel. This case study touches upon and attempts to elucidate aspects of several broader areas. It is fundamentally an example of the transmission of culture, values, and culturally valued text in a schooling context, which exists within a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Judaism, Case Studies, Grade 7
Aron, Isa – Journal of Jewish Education, 2007
This article deals with a recurrent situation in congregational schools, in which parents lobby for a reduction in the number of days per week of instruction. Following two similar studies by Joseph Reimer, the article utilizes the theoretical construct of a "social drama" as a frame for the recounting and analysis of a recent occurrence…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Jews, Judaism, Religious Conflict
