Ilana Blumberg

Open Your Hand

Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American

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Produktbeschreibung

Fifteen years into a successful career as a college professor, Ilana M. Blumberg faced a teaching crisis that shook her core beliefs and sent her on a life-changing journey. Open Your Hand shares her remarkable personal story, drawing upon Blumber’s Jewish faith and her American ideals to forge a teaching practice with the potential to transform society

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781978800823
• ISBN-10: 1978800827
• Artikelnr.: 51986937

Autorenporträt

ILANA M. BLUMBERG is a senior lecturer in English literature and director of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is the author of Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels and the Sami Rohr Choice Award-winning memoir Houses of Study: a Jewish Woman among Books.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction    
                                                                                                            
Part One: Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: Kindergarten to College,
Beit Rabban and Michigan State University    
                  
Part Two: Choosing to Learn, Learning to Choose: “Smith” Middle School     
                                                
                                          
Part Three: “It’s the land”: Smith School and
Jerusalem                                                                                    
 
Postscript: Shadow Schools: Kindergarten to College, America and
Israel