Back to School: Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814333834 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Schnoor teaches at the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University.. Randal F. Alex Pomson is a senior lecturer at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University, Jerusalem
"Very fine book on what parents get from Jewish day schools" according to Paul Burstein. This book considers the impact of Jewish day schools, not on the students, but on their parents. Primarily an ethnographic study, it shows how parents decide to send their children to a day school (often with considerable ambivalence), what they get out of the day school community of parents as well as teachers and students (often, a lot), and how they respond to the Jewish learning and enthusiasm the children bring home (often with surprising enthusiasm). P. A look at how these schools are designed to turn children into well educated and morally correct Jewish adults Much like many Catholics have their own schools, The Jewish people have formed schools for their own children as well. "Back to School: Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews" is a look at how these schools are designed to turn children into well educated and morally correct Jewish adults - and how parents and even non-parental adults can get involved with their local schools for events and celebration, among other things. "Back to School: Jewish Day S
Drawing on a longitudinal study at DJDS, and against the backdrop of a comparative study of two other Toronto day schools as well as four day schools from the U.S. Back to School began as an ethnographic study of the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School (DJDS) in Toronto, a private, religiously pluralistic day school that balances its Jewish curriculum with general studies. In addition, the authors discovered that parents who considered themselves secular Jews were introduced to or reacquainted with the depth and meaning of Jewish tradition and rituals through observing or taking part in school activities. Jewish parents, Jewish studies scholars, as well as researchers of educational and social trends will enjoy this evocative volume.. In Back to School, authors Alex Pomson and Randal F. The authors found an
Back to School is both interesting to and challenging of many dominant assumptions about the relations between schools and parents. --Rabbi Joshua Elkin, executive director of the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish EducationThere is no question that this is a groundbreaking study in the field of Jewish education. A genuine contribution. --Joseph Reimer, associate professor in the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership at Brandeis UniversityThere is no question that this is a groundbreaking study in the field of Jewish education. --Joseph Reimer, associate professor in the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership at Brandeis University . This first-rate portrait of school-parent interface represents a coming of age for the Jewish day-school movement. A genui