Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-334). Also available on the Intenet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Judaism stresses the concept of education continuously. It has been important in the past. It is important in the present. It will be important in the future. Education is one of the bulwarks within the Jewish religion. From the time one is old enough to understand until the day one dies, the Jew is expected to study - to continually expand his knowledge and broaden his horizons and awareness. In fact, religious education is stressed to such a degree that it has become one of the sancta within Judaism. Such weight is placed upon this activity that it overshadows many other important religious activities. In traditional Judaism, one is to recite prayers from the prayerbook every day. It is stated in rabbinic literature, however, that if one is deeply absorbed in studies, he should not interrupt his studying even though it is time to pray. Thus we can perceive on what a high level Jewish education was and is still held. Education covers a whole lifetime. This thesis, however, will discuss one area of this range - Jewish religious school education. It will be the task within the following pages to analyze and discuss the aims and objectives vis-a-vis the curriculum. There are three curricula examined within this thesis. They represent each of three major movements within Judaism - Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform. Each curriculum is the official curriculum of each movement. This means that the curriculum is that one which has been published by the educational staff of the movement. It does not signify, however, that each and every temple or synagogue uses one of the three. There is no dogma or policy stating that Reform temple has to use the official Reform curriculum. The same is also true for the Conservative and Orthodox groups. The official curriculum is only a suggested one. Each temple or synagogue is autonomous. It does what it wants to do. It can use this curriculum completely. It can use only selections from it. It cannot use it at all. Simply, for the sake of order and comparison, the three official curricula have been chosen. Within each curriculum, the aims and objectives are stated. These will be analyzed and discussed. The major point to which this thesis is directed is that of the relationship between aims and objectives and the actual curriculum. Are the aims and objectives carried out in the curriculum? Is there an attainable rapport between the two? What kind of philosophy of education do the curricula reflect, and how is this related to the expressed goals? Young boys and girls spend many hours within religious schools. The Jewish boy and girl goes both to a secular school and a religious school. It may be said that in one instance they experience one type of culture while in the next instance they experience another culture. The latter culture, that found in the religious school, has a certain purpose - specific aims and goals. Are these aims and goals reflected within and attained from the curriculum? / 2999-01-01

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A tese procura demonstrar que em resposta ao desafio de transmitir o judaísmo para as novas gerações, num mundo freqüentemente hostil à cosmo-visão judaica, há uma proposta que é a visão halakhika da educação judaica que se baseia na articulação do conhecimento dos caminhos mandatórios ou leis judaicas, transformados em ações e comportamentos concretos que as realizam, na qual é fundamental e estruturante a indagação filosófica sobre os princípios que as fundamentam e suas aplicações em outros casos e situações. Tudo isso se dá dentro do referencial judaico, que reúne diversos conceitos específicos como HaSchem, Shabat, Torá e Olam Habá. Eles produzem uma visão da educação judaica com diferenciais próprios. O autor apresenta, para fundamentar a tese, algumas Leis do Estudo da Torá, conforme ensinamentos de Maimônides, bem como o pensamento de dois filósofos contemporâneos, Isadore Twersky e Moshe Greenberg, que focaram seu trabalho acadêmico nas fontes judaicas tradicionais, especialmente na Torá ou Bíblia Hebraica, no Talmud e no Mischnê Torá. / The thesis aims at to demonstrate that, as an answer to the challenge of transmitting Judaism to the new generations in a world that is frequently hostile to this world vision there is a proposal, that is the halakhik vision of Jewish education based on the articulation of knowledge of the Jewish mandatory pathways or laws, expressed into concrete actions and behaviors, in which the philosophical enquire is fundamental, structuring the principles that underlie them and its applications in other cases and situations. All this happens inside the Jewish referencial which brings together diverse specifical concepts, like HaSchem, Shabat, Torah and Olam Habah. These produce a vision of Jewish education with its own differences. The author, to fundament the thesis, presents some of the Laws of the Torah Study, according to the teachings of Maimonides and the thought of two philosophers, Isadore Twersky and Moshe Greenberg, who focused his academic work in traditional Jewish sources, especially Torah, the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and the Mishne Torah.

A tese procura demonstrar que em resposta ao desafio de transmitir o judaísmo para as novas gerações, num mundo freqüentemente hostil à cosmo-visão judaica, há uma proposta que é a visão halakhika da educação judaica que se baseia na articulação do conhecimento dos caminhos mandatórios ou leis judaicas, transformados em ações e comportamentos concretos que as realizam, na qual é fundamental e estruturante a indagação filosófica sobre os princípios que as fundamentam e suas aplicações em outros casos e situações. Tudo isso se dá dentro do referencial judaico, que reúne diversos conceitos específicos como HaSchem, Shabat, Torá e Olam Habá. Eles produzem uma visão da educação judaica com diferenciais próprios. O autor apresenta, para fundamentar a tese, algumas Leis do Estudo da Torá, conforme ensinamentos de Maimônides, bem como o pensamento de dois filósofos contemporâneos, Isadore Twersky e Moshe Greenberg, que focaram seu trabalho acadêmico nas fontes judaicas tradicionais, especialmente na Torá ou Bíblia Hebraica, no Talmud e no Mischnê Torá. / The thesis aims at to demonstrate that, as an answer to the challenge of transmitting Judaism to the new generations in a world that is frequently hostile to this world vision there is a proposal, that is the halakhik vision of Jewish education based on the articulation of knowledge of the Jewish mandatory pathways or laws, expressed into concrete actions and behaviors, in which the philosophical enquire is fundamental, structuring the principles that underlie them and its applications in other cases and situations. All this happens inside the Jewish referencial which brings together diverse specifical concepts, like HaSchem, Shabat, Torah and Olam Habah. These produce a vision of Jewish education with its own differences. The author, to fundament the thesis, presents some of the Laws of the Torah Study, according to the teachings of Maimonides and the thought of two philosophers, Isadore Twersky and Moshe Greenberg, who focused his academic work in traditional Jewish sources, especially Torah, the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and the Mishne Torah.

This is a case study of the restructuring of the Jewish community schools in Johannesburg, South Africa. The purpose of this research is to explain why, how and with what impact, economic and ideological forces shaped the restructuring of the Jewish community schools. This is explored by drawing out the views of the different stakeholders as well as the meanings that they attached to the change and by recalling their experiences and understandings vis-à-vis the restructuring process. This study investigates what was considered to be the “first stage” of restructuring – a stage that aimed at ejecting the past, establishing new management and designing a blueprint for the future. The study follows the process as it evolved from April 2001 when a CEO was contracted to manage the schools until March 2003 with the 27th National Conference of the South African Board of Jewish Education, at which the changes were endorsed and constitutionalised. The study suggests that the restructuring evolved through the interaction and convergence of two globalised forces: one force pulled the schools towards marketisation and managerialism; and the other force pushed the schools towards the intensification of their religious identity. The study explores the impact of these two sets of dynamics as they came together in the context of a faith-based community school, and the contradictory forces that were set in motion. The main argument is that the synergy created between new managerialism and religious extremism, in a transitional and unstable context, undermined the fragile democracy of the faith-based community schools and caused them to change, thus shifting them towards ghettoisation, exclusion and autocracy. The study identifies and explains the global, national, local and institutional conditions and realities that enabled and constrained this process. This qualitative case study relies on insider accounts of the process of change and contestation, and raises important methodological and ethical questions around the difficulties of researching one’s own community and colleagues. / Thesis (PhD (Education Management and Policy Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Education Management and Policy Studies / unrestricted

The study investigated how a pedagogic change process is managed by the divergent Haredi and Modern Orthodox streams of Orthodox Jewish schooling. Its literature study looked at the classical forms of historic Jewish pedagogy and how they have adapted to internal and external dynamics. It also examined how contemporary Orthodox schooling, specifically, is an amalgam of a variety of responses, reactions and adaptations to the radically changed landscape of modernity. The influence of the modern student profile was examined along with the affects of the inclusion of secular studies into the modern Jewish syllabus. The appropriateness of new interactive methods and technologies and the specialized teacher training they require were also explored. A qualitative study of the expert opinions of six contemporary experts was conducted and thematically analyzed along with an analysis of material from two file-sharing websites. Recommendations for educational practice and further research were proposed. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Comparative Education)

The study investigated how a pedagogic change process is managed by the divergent Haredi and Modern Orthodox streams of Orthodox Jewish schooling. Its literature study looked at the classical forms of historic Jewish pedagogy and how they have adapted to internal and external dynamics. It also examined how contemporary Orthodox schooling, specifically, is an amalgam of a variety of responses, reactions and adaptations to the radically changed landscape of modernity. The influence of the modern student profile was examined along with the affects of the inclusion of secular studies into the modern Jewish syllabus. The appropriateness of new interactive methods and technologies and the specialized teacher training they require were also explored. A qualitative study of the expert opinions of six contemporary experts was conducted and thematically analyzed along with an analysis of material from two file-sharing websites. Recommendations for educational practice and further research were proposed. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Comparative Education)

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Orthodox Jewish adolescents develop and mature within a very structured environment. The aim of this study was to explore adolescent psychosocial identity development within Orthodox Jewish education. The secondary focus was the nature of the religious identity acquired through religious education, specifically Jewish Orthodox education. The literature study explored adolescent identity and development (within Erikson's framework), religious orientation and Orthodox Jewish education. The qualitative research was conducted empirically, in the form of a case study of seven adolescents from a single-sex Orthodox school based in Johannesburg. The themes that emerged from the empirical study are as follows: the community; Orthodox Judaism; education; parents, family and peers; adolescent and religious identity. The study indicated that the participants' identity development is dominated by their religious psychosocial world that paradoxically provides the structure that supports and complicates their identity development. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (Guidance and Counseling)