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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829896903321

Titolo

Jewish day schools, Jewish communities : a reconsideration / / edited by Alex Pomson and Howard Deitcher [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2014

ISBN

1-80034-077-X

1-909821-10-1

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Liverpool scholarship online

Disciplina

371.076

Soggetti

Jewish day schools

Jews - Education

Community and school

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in 2009.

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.