Jewish day schools, Jewish communities : a reconsideration / edited by Alex Pomson and Howard Deitcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pomson, Alex, editor.

Deitcher, Howard, 1955- editor.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish day schools--Cross-cultural studies.

Jewish day schools.

Jews--Education--Cross-cultural studies.

Jews.

Community and school--Cross-cultural studies.

Community and school.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 414 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2014.

Summary:

Cross-cultural and genuinely comparative, this consideration of Jewish day-schools around the world reframes day-school research and policy-making and offers original insights into faith-based schooling and the public good.

Contents:

Building community within and around schools : can Jewish days schools measure up? / Ellen B. Goldring

From control to collaboration : mapping school communities across diverse contexts / Claire Smrekar

Compassionate conservatism : on schools, community, and democracy / Deborah Meier

A response to Deborah Meier / Joshua Elkin

Community as a means and an end in Jewish education / Jon A. Levisohn

Do Jewish schools make a difference in the former Soviet Union? / Zvi Gitelman

Jewish pupils' perspectives on religious education and the expectations of a religious community : the Jewish High School in Berlin / Christine Müller

Mutual relations between sheliḥim and local teachers at Jewish schools in the former Soviet Union / Ira Dashevsky and Uriel Ta'ir

Community school versus school as community : the case of Bet El community in Buenos Aires / Yossi J. Goldstein

Beyond the community : Jewish day school education in Britain / Helena Miller

Attitudes, behaviours, values, and school choice : a comparison of French Jewish families / Erik H. Cohen

The school ghetto in France / Ami Bouganim

Relationships between schools and parents in haredi popular literature in the United States / Yoel Finkelman

The impact of community on curriculum decision-making in a North American Jewish day school / Eli Kohn

Ideological commitment in the supervision of Jewish studies teachers : representing community / Michal Muszkat-Barkan and Asher Shkedi

Schooling for change in the religious world : an educational experiment in a religious junior high school in Israel / Elana Maryles Sztokman

Home-made Jewish culture at the intersection of family life and school / Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor

Teacher perspectives on behaviour problems : background influences on behavioural referral criteria and definitions of rebellious behaviour / Scott J. Goldberg, Binyamin Krohn, and Michael Turetsky

Shabbatonim as experiential education in the North American community day high school / Jeffrey S. Kress and Joseph Reimer

Teaching leadership through town meeting / Jay Dewey

Building community in a pluralist high school / Susan L. Shevitz and Rahel Wasserfall.

Notes:

Originally published in 2009.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80034-077-X

1-909821-10-1

OCLC:

1048772385