Jewish Educational Leadership invites articles for the Winter 2012 issue focusing on Empowering Students.

Student empowerment has multiple expressions - teaching someone to be able to study Talmud on his/her own, creating student government, allowing students to rate their teachers, providing elective courses, and much more.

In this issue we will explore questions including:

1. How might student empowerment impact on traditional authority structures (Board > Head > Principal > Teacher > Student)?

2. What impact does student empowerment have on traditional religious structures (Rabbi > Talmid, Religious Authority > Religious Follower)?

3. How much authority and freedom can reasonably and meaningfully be afforded institutions such as student government and press?

4. Should students be able to choose Jewish studies courses? What impact will student choice in Jewish studies courses have on student attitude toward Jewish studies? What impact might student choice have on faculty?

5. At what age should student empowerment be introduced?

6. What are reasonable limits to student empowerment?

For more information on the types of articles and guidelines for writers, click here.

Submissions will be accepted until November 25, 2011.

Please send your abstracts, final copies, or questions to the Editor, Zvi Grumet.

Jewish Educational Leadership is the professional journal for Jewish educators published by The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education. This publication aims to increase the exposure of Jewish educators to general research and advances in education; in particular, it focuses on the applicability of these findings to the world of Jewish education.