Our students access our tradition by encountering the Jewish bookcase. As educators we seek to promote a direct encounter – rather than a teacher-mediated encounter – between the student and the text. The educator is a facilitator, a guide, hoping to empower the...
Eli Kohn is the director of the Lookstein Center's curriculum development programs. This review of educational materials will focus on recent resources that have been developed for the teaching of halakhah in elementary schools in Israel. Although these materials have...
Jon A. Levisohn, Ph.D., is Assistant Academic Director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, where he is also Assistant Professor of Jewish Education in the Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies. At the Center, he...
To the editor, I enjoyed reading the last issue of the journal, particularly the section on orality and textuality. There is one realm of Jewish education however, whose transmission remains almost completely oral, namely, the teaching and transmission of laws of...
The Yaakov Herzog College at Yeshivat Har Etzion is one of the largest teacher training institutes for Jewish studies teachers in Israel, and features on its staff some of the key thinkers in Israel in the field of Tanach. Their approach to Tanach features the...
In 1999, noted educators Howard Gardner and E.D. Hirsch debated their distinctive views on curriculum development. Their debate can be viewed via this link. The following are responses of educators who discuss the implications of this debate for Jewish Studies...
Editor's Introduction For all that Joseph Schwab criticized the role that professional theoreticians played in developing curricula, he certainly valued the contribution which theory can make to practice. The uniqueness of his position lay in his perspective on the...
The Problem On my frequent visits to Jewish day schools, mainly in the English-speaking world, I am struck by an almost universal problem in these countries – the lack of a professionally written, systematic curriculum in Jewish Studies. I base myself, in particular,...
Introduction - Shalom Berger The MaToK Curriculum - Deborah Miller Adaptive Teaching and Learning the Bible - Bruriah Michman The Barkai Method - Dan Be'eri Teaching Tanakh in a Pluralistic Day School - Susan Tanchel The Torah Aura Text Method - Joel Lurie Grishaver...
In 1969, speaking to the American Educational Research Association – an academic audience mostly engaged in curriculum construction, curriculum research, and the development of curriculum theory – Joseph Schwab presented a paper that was to later become known as The...
