Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities A Reconsideration

by Pomson, Alex; Deitcher, Howard

• ISBN13: 9781904113744
• ISBN10: 1904113745
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press

Summary

About 350,000 Jewish children are currently enrolled in Jewish day schools, in every continent other than Antarctica. This is the first book-length consideration of life in such schools and of their relationship both to the Jewish community and to society

Author Biography

Alex Pomson is a senior lecturer at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Howard Deitcher is the director of the Melton Centre and a senior lecturer at the School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration	p. xii
Introduction Jewish Schools, Jewish Communities: A Reconsideration	p. 1
Insights from Public and General Education
Building Community Within and Around Schools: Can Jewish Days Schools Measure Up?	p. 31
From Control to Collaboration: Mapping School Communities across Diverse Contexts	p. 52
Compassionate Conservatism: On Schools, Community, and Democracy	p. 71
A Response to Deborah Meier	p. 84
Community as a Means and an End in Jewish Education	p. 90
Cross-Cultural Insights
Do Jewish Schools Make a Difference in the Former Soviet Union?	p. 109
Jewish Pupils' Perspectives on Religious Education and the Expectations of a Religious Community: The Jewish High School in Berlin	p. 139
Mutual Relations between Shelihim and Local Teachers at Jewish Schools in the Former Soviet Union	p. 155
Community School versus School as Community: The Case of Bet El Community in Buenos Aires	p. 172
Beyond the Community: Jewish Day School Education in Britain	p. 193
Attitudes, Behaviours, Values, and School Choice: A Comparison of French Jewish Families	p. 207
The School Ghetto in France	p. 222
Insights through the Prism of Community
Relationships between Schools and Parents in Haredi Popular Literature in the United States	p. 237
The Impact of Community on Curriculum Decision-Making in a North American Jewish Day School	p. 255
Ideological Commitment in the Supervision of Jewish Studies Teachers: Representing Community	p. 270
Schooling for Change in the Religious World: An Educational Experiment in a Religious Junior High School in Israel	p. 289
Home-Made Jewish Culture at the Intersection of Family Life and School	p. 307
Teacher Perspectives on Behaviour Problems: Background Influences on Behavioural Referral Criteria and Definitions of Rebellious Behaviour	p. 324
Shabbatonim as Experiential Education in the North American Community Day High School	p. 341
Teaching Leadership through Town Meeting	p. 361
Building Community in a Pluralist High School	p. 375
Contributors	p. 395
Index	p. 401
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