Jewish day schools, Jewish communities
Subtitle: a reconsideration
By: edited by Alex Pomson and Howard Deitcher.
Contributors: Pomson, Alex.; Deitcher, Howard, 1955-
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781904113744
Subjects: Jewish day schools -- Cross-cultural studies; Jews -- Education -- Cross-cultural studies; Community and school -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building community within and around schools: can Jewish days schools measure up? / Ellen B. Goldring; title: From control to collaboration: mapping school communities across diverse contexts / Claire Smrekar; title: Compassionate conservatism: on schools, community, and democracy / Deborah Meier; title: A response to Deborah Meier / Joshua Elkin; title: Community as a means and an end in Jewish education / Jon A. Levisohn; title: Do Jewish schools make a difference in the former Soviet Union? / Zvi Gitelman; title: Jewish pupils' perspectives on religious education and the expectations of a religious community: the Jewish High School in Berlin / Christine Müller; title: Mutual relations between shelihim and local teachers at Jewish schools in the former Soviet Union / Ira Dashevsky and Uriel Ta'ir; title: Community school versus school-as-community: the case of Bet El community in Buenos Aires / Yossi J. Goldstein; title: Beyond the community: Jewish day school education in Britain / Helena Miller; title: Attitudes, behaviours, values, and school choice: a comparison of French Jewish families / Erik H. Cohen; title: The school ghetto in France / Ami Bouganim; title: Relationships between schools and parents in Haredi popular literature in the United States / Yoel Finkelman; title: The impact of community on curriculum decision-making in a North American Jewish day school / Eli Kohn; title: Ideological commitment in the supervision of Jewish studies teachers: representing community / Michal Muszkat-Barkan and Asher Shkedi; title: Schooling for change in the religious world: an educational experiment in a religious junior high school in Israel / Elana Maryles Sztokman; title: Home-made Jewish culture at the intersection of family life and school / Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor; title: Teacher perspectives on behaviour problems: background influences on behavioural referral criteria and definitions of rebellious behaviour / Scott J. Goldberg, Binyamin Krohn, and Michael Turetsky; title: Shabbatonim as experiential education in the North American community day high school / Jeffrey S. Kress and Joseph Reimer; title: Teaching leadership through town meeting / Jay Dewey; title: Building community in a pluralist high school / Susan L. Shevitz and Rahel Wasserfall.