- Title Pages
- The Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
-
Introduction Jewish Schools, Jewish Communities -
One Building Community Within and Around Schools -
Two From Control to Collaboration -
Three Compassionate Conservatism -
Four A Response to Deborah Meier -
Five Community as a Means and an End in Jewish Education -
Six Do Jewish Schools Make a Difference in the Former Soviet Union? -
Seven Jewish Pupils’ Perspectives on Religious Education and the Expectations of a Religious Community -
Eight Mutual Relations between Sheliḥim and Local Teachers at Jewish Schools in the Former Soviet Union -
Nine Community School versus School as Community -
Ten Beyond the Community -
Eleven Attitudes, Behaviours, Values, and School Choice -
Twelve The School Ghetto in France -
Thirteen Relationships between Schools and Parents in Haredi Popular Literature in the United States -
Fourteen The Impact of Community on Curriculum Decision-Making in a North American Jewish Day School -
Fifteen Ideological Commitment in the Supervision of Jewish Studies Teachers -
Sixteen Schooling for Change in the Religious World -
Seventeen Home-Made Jewish Culture at the Intersection of Family Life and School -
Eighteen Teacher Perspectives on Behaviour Problems -
Nineteen Shabbatonim as Experiential Education in the North American Community Day High School -
Twenty Teaching Leadership through Town Meeting -
Twenty One Building Community in a Pluralist High School - Contributors
- Index
Schooling for Change in the Religious World
Schooling for Change in the Religious World
An Educational Experiment in a Religious Junior High School in Israel
- Chapter:
- (p.289) Sixteen Schooling for Change in the Religious World
- Source:
- Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities
- Author(s):
Elana Maryles Sztokman
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter argues that schools shape communities as much as communities shape schools. It is part of an ethnographic case study of a state religious junior high school, the Levy Girls' Religious School, in Israel. The study is based on three years of qualitative research at the school, from 1999 to 2002, during a period in which it was undergoing an experiment in social and ethnic transformation. The research as a whole includes dozens of interviews with students, staff, parents, and other interested parties, as well as observations of all aspects of school life, including classes, meetings, field trips, assemblies, and countless daily interactions in corridors, courtyards, and corners of the school. This chapter focuses on the school's principal, Dr Sylvia Cohen, and is based on ten open-ended interviews and dozens of observations during the course of the research.
Keywords: Levy Girls' Religious School, Israel, religious junior high school, Sylvia Cohen, social transformation, ethnic transformation, daily interactions, school principal
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- Title Pages
- The Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
-
Introduction Jewish Schools, Jewish Communities -
One Building Community Within and Around Schools -
Two From Control to Collaboration -
Three Compassionate Conservatism -
Four A Response to Deborah Meier -
Five Community as a Means and an End in Jewish Education -
Six Do Jewish Schools Make a Difference in the Former Soviet Union? -
Seven Jewish Pupils’ Perspectives on Religious Education and the Expectations of a Religious Community -
Eight Mutual Relations between Sheliḥim and Local Teachers at Jewish Schools in the Former Soviet Union -
Nine Community School versus School as Community -
Ten Beyond the Community -
Eleven Attitudes, Behaviours, Values, and School Choice -
Twelve The School Ghetto in France -
Thirteen Relationships between Schools and Parents in Haredi Popular Literature in the United States -
Fourteen The Impact of Community on Curriculum Decision-Making in a North American Jewish Day School -
Fifteen Ideological Commitment in the Supervision of Jewish Studies Teachers -
Sixteen Schooling for Change in the Religious World -
Seventeen Home-Made Jewish Culture at the Intersection of Family Life and School -
Eighteen Teacher Perspectives on Behaviour Problems -
Nineteen Shabbatonim as Experiential Education in the North American Community Day High School -
Twenty Teaching Leadership through Town Meeting -
Twenty One Building Community in a Pluralist High School - Contributors
- Index
