Open Your Hand : Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American / Ilana Blumberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blumberg, Ilana, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Note on the Text

Introduction

1. Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: Kindergarten to College-Beit Rabban and Michigan State University

2. Choosing to Learn, Learning to Choose: "Smith" Middle School

3. "It's the Land": "Smith" School and Jerusalem

Postscript: Shadow Schools-Kindergarten to College, America and Israel

Discussion Questions

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-9788-0085-1

OCLC:

1100919255