Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish Education
Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University
40 episodes
1 month ago
In a time of continued war and exhaustion, how are teachers in Israel teaching, and what do they prioritize in their classrooms? In a longitudinal study, scholars Ziva Hassenfeld and Hadar Fisher asked these questions of 41 teachers in Israel, beginning just three weeks after October 7 and continuing with a group of 12 for another two years. In this session, they share insights into these teachers' ethic of care and how they enact in their teaching varied ideas surrounding their diverse under...
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In a time of continued war and exhaustion, how are teachers in Israel teaching, and what do they prioritize in their classrooms? In a longitudinal study, scholars Ziva Hassenfeld and Hadar Fisher asked these questions of 41 teachers in Israel, beginning just three weeks after October 7 and continuing with a group of 12 for another two years. In this session, they share insights into these teachers' ethic of care and how they enact in their teaching varied ideas surrounding their diverse under...
Episode 23: Why Young Jews Love Yiddish | Dr. Sandra Fox
Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish Education
28 minutes
1 year ago
Episode 23: Why Young Jews Love Yiddish | Dr. Sandra Fox
Over the last two decades, talk of Yiddish as an alternate path of engaging with Jewishness comes up in the Jewish press almost cyclically — a journalistic evergreen. In this session, historian and Yiddish podcaster Sandra Fox explains how Yiddish became culturally significant, why young people are flocking to learn Yiddish in larger numbers than ever before, and what the growth of Yiddish says about American Jewish youth culture. More information can be found in her article, 'The Passionat...
Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish Education
In a time of continued war and exhaustion, how are teachers in Israel teaching, and what do they prioritize in their classrooms? In a longitudinal study, scholars Ziva Hassenfeld and Hadar Fisher asked these questions of 41 teachers in Israel, beginning just three weeks after October 7 and continuing with a group of 12 for another two years. In this session, they share insights into these teachers' ethic of care and how they enact in their teaching varied ideas surrounding their diverse under...
