International Handbook of Jewish Education

<p>Preface.- About the editors.- About the contributors.- Introduction: Helena Miller, Lisa Grant and Alex Pomson.- VOLUME ONE: Section One: Vision and Practice.- Introduction.- Analytic Philosophy of Education and Jewish Education - the road not taken; Barry Chazan.- Community Engagement - the challenge of connecting Jewish schools to the wider community; Helena Miller.- Culture - restoring culture to Jewish cultural education; Zvi Bekerman and Sue Rosenfeld.- Curriculum Development - what we can learn from International curricula; Roberta Louis Goodman and Jan Katzew.- Curriculum Integration; Mitch Malkus.- Gender and Jewish Education - why doesn’t this feel good?; Tova Hartman and Tamar Miller.- Historiography of American Jewish Education - a case for guarded optimism; Jonathan Krasner.- Janush Korczak’s Life and Legacy for Jewish Education; Marc Silverman.- Jewish Identities - education for multiple and moving targets; Stuart Charme and Tali Hyman Zelcowicz.- Jewish Identity and Jewish Education: the Jewish identity space and its contribution to research and practice; Gaby Horenczyk and Hagit Hacohen Woolf.- Jewish Identity- who you knew affects how you Jew - The impact of childhood Jewish networks upon adult Jewish identity; Steven M. Cohen and Judith Veinstein.- Jewish Thought for Jewish Education - sources and resources; Jonathan A. Cohen.- Philosophy of Jewish Education – thoughts; Michael Rosenak.- Planning for Jewish Education in the 21st Century - towards a new praxis; Jonathan S. Woocher.- Pluralism in Jewish Education; Brian Conyer.- Post modernism - after enlightenment - Jewish education and the paradoxes of post modernism; Hanan Alexander.- Spirituality - the spiritual child and Jewish childhood; Michael Shire.- Visions in Jewish Education; Daniel Pekarsky.- Section Two: Teaching and Learning.- Introduction.- Art - educating with art without ruining it; Robbie Gringras.- Arts and Jewish Day School Education in North America; Ofra Backenroth.- Bible - teaching the bible in our times; Barry W. Holtz.- Environment: Jewish Education as if the Planet Mattered; Eilon Shwartz.- Havruta Study - what do we know and what do we hope to learn? Elie Holzer, Orit Kent.- Hebrew Language in Israel and the Diaspora; Nava Navo.- History - issues in teaching and learning Jewish history; Benjamin M. Jacobs and Yona Shem Tov.- Holocaust Education; Simone Schweber.- Israel Education - purposes and practices; Alick Isaacs.- Israel Travel Education; Scott Copeland.- Jewish Peoplehood Education; David Mittelberg.- Life Cycle Education: Tradition, Ritual and Transition; Howard Deitcher.- Other Religions in Jewish Education; Michael Gillis.- Talmud: Making a Case for Talmud Pedagogy - the Talmud as an educational model; Marjorie Lehmann and Jane Kanarek.- Technology: The Digital Revolution That is Shaping the 21st Century - a fleeting snapshot from the first decade; Brian Amkraut.- Travel as a Jewish Educational Tool; Erik H. Cohen.- Travel: Location, Location, Location - a practitioner’s perspective on Jewish travel; Jeremy Leigh.- VOLUME TWO: Section Three: Applications.- Introduction.- Academic Jewish Studies in North America; Judith R. Baskin.- Adult Jewish Education – the landscape; Lisa D. Grant and Diane Tickton Schuster.- Congregational Schools; Isa Aron.- Day schools in the Liberal sector - challenges and opportunities at the intersection of two traditions of Jewish schooling; Alex Pomson.- Day schools in the Orthodox Sector; Shani Bechhofer.- Early Childhood Education; Michael Ben Avie, Ilene Vogelstein, Roberta Louis Goodman, Eli Schaap and Pat Bidol-Padva.- Experiential Jewish Education – reaching the tipping point; David Bryfman.- Gender - shifting from evading to engaging; gender issues and Jewish education; Shira D.  Epstein.- Informal Education - the decisive decade - how informal Jewish education was transformed in its relationship with Jewish philanthropy; Joseph Reimer.- Intermarriage – connection, commitment, continuity; Evie Levy Rotstein.- Learning Organisations - learning to learn - the learning organisation in theory and practice; Susan L. Shevitz.- Limmud: A unique model of transformative Jewish learning; Raymond Simonson.- Mentoring – ideological encounters – mentoring teachers in Jewish education; Michal Muszkat Barkan.- Parents and Jewish Educational Settings; Jeff Kress.- Practitioner Enquiry and its Role in Jewish Education; Alex Sinclair.- Preparing for Jewish schools – enduring issues for changing contexts; Sharon Feiman Nemser.- Professional Development of teachers in Jewish Education; Gail Zaiman Dorph.- Professional Development: Vini, Vidi, Vici? Jewish educators short term trips to Israel as professional development programs; Shelley Kedar.- Rabbis as Educators - professional training and identity formation; Lisa D. Grant and Michal Muszkat Barkan.- Special Education - and you shall do what is right and good in special education in North America - from exclusion to inclusion; Rona Milch Novick and Jeffrey Glanz.- Teacher Education: ensuring a cadre of well-qualified Jewish Education Personnel for Jewish schools; Leora Isaacs.- Ultra Orthodox/Haredi Education; Yoel Finkelman.- Section Four: Geographical.- Introduction.- American Jewish Education in an Age of Choice and Pluralism; Jack Wertheimer.- Anglo-Jewish Education: day schools, funding and religious education in State schools; David Mendelsson.- Australia - The Jewel in the Crown of Jewish Education; Paul Forgasz and Miriam Munz.- Canada - Jewish Education in Canada; Michael Brown.- Europe: Education of Adult Jewish Leaders in a Pan-European Perspective; Barbara Lerner Spectre.- Europe: Something From (almost) Nothing: the challenge of education in European communities – a personal perspective; Steve Israel.- Former Soviet Union – Jewish Education; Olga Markus and Michael Farbman.- France - Jewish Education in France; Ami Bouganim.- Israel -  State religious education in Israel; Zehavit Gross.- Israel - Innovations in Secular Schooling in Israel; Yehuda Bar Shalom and Tamar Ascher Shai.- Latin America - Jewish Education in Latin America: Challenges, trends and processes; Yossi Goldstein and Drori Ganiel.- Netherlands - Social Integration and Religious Identity; Hetty Van Het Hoofd.- Name Index.- Subject Index. </p>