Gebundenes Buch

Advancing the Learning Agenda in Jewish Education

Beschreibung

This volume is the first of its kind to bring together scholars from inside Jewish education and from the learning sciences to address core elements of Jewish education: its desired outcomes, the kinds of learning needed to achieve these, and how those kinds of learning actually occur.

Autor

Jon A. Levisohn holds the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University, where he is also serves as the director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. A philosopher of education, he focuses on the teaching and learning of classical Jewish texts, and on the desired outcomes of Jewish education. He is co-editor of Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts (2013) and Beyond Jewish Identity: Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives (forthcoming). Jeffrey S. Kress is the Dr. Bernard Heller Associate Professor of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he also directs the research center of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education. He focuses on developmental issues in Jewish education, especially social, emotional and spiritual development. He is the author of Development, Learning and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools (2012) and the editor of Growing Jewish Minds, Growing Jewish Souls: Promoting Spiritual, Social and Emotional Growth in Jewish Education (2013).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781618117533
• ISBN-10: 161811753X
• Artikelnr.: 53018398