Blumberg Ilana Blumberg

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Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American

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Produktbeschreibung

Fifteen years into a successful career as a college professor, Ilana Blumberg encounters a crisis in the classroom that sends her back to the most basic questions about education and prompts a life-changing journey that ultimately takes her from East Lansing to Tel Aviv. As she explores how civic and religious commitments shape the culture of her humanities classrooms, Blumberg argues that there is no education without ethics. When we know what sort of society we seek to build, our teaching practices follow. In vivid classroom scenes from kindergarten through middle school to the university level, Blumberg conveys the drama of intellectual discovery as she offers novice and experienced teachers a pedagogy of writing, speaking, reading, and thinking that she links clearly to the moral and personal development of her students. Writing as an observant Jew and as an American, Blumberg does not shy away from the difficult challenge of balancing identities in the twenty-first century: how to remain true to a community of origin while being a national and global citizen. As she negotiates questions of faith and citizenship in the wide range of classrooms she traverses, Blumberg reminds us that teaching - and learning - are nothing short of a moral art, and that the future of our society depends on it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978800830
• Artikelnr.: 72472882

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