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{"title":"Jewish Education and the Potential for Change","authors":"Jonathan B. Krasner","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2038000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2038000","url":null,"abstract":"John F. Kennedy once called change “the law of life.” But its inevitability does not make change any easier. Institutions can be especially resistant to change, and educational institutions more than most. Change, with all its possibilities and obstacles to fruition, was on my mind as I reviewed the articles in the present issue of the Journal of Jewish Education. Let us begin with the articles in this issue that round out our special focus on “Jewish Education in the Time of COVID-19,” which began in our previous issue. Larry Cuban and David Tyack's 1995 book, Tinkering Toward Utopia, about the intractability of the “grammar of schooling,” the ways in which public schools have largely been impervious to a century of reform initiatives, seemed particularly relevant while reading Isa Aron and Ziva Hassenfeld's article, “Going Beyond Zoom to Enrich Learning in a Part-time Jewish School.” The authors explore how part-time congregational school teachers utilized technology as a pedagogical tool in the midst of the pandemic, particularly during the first few waves, when most schools were forced to migrate to online education. In particular, Aron and Hassenfeld offer a case study of two exemplary practitioners, describing specific lessons where these educators went beyond the functionalities provided by Zoom and utilized apps and Web 2.0 technologies in ways that allowed them to make online Jewish education more participatory and learner-centered. The authors also ask why these teachers were able to use technology so adeptly, even while the vast majority of their colleagues settled into a routine of frontal teaching on Zoom with the occasional use of breakout rooms and the polling function. Here is where Cuban and Tyack's work becomes relevant. Even with professional development and other support from a local Jewish educational agency there was very little change on the ground. Aron and Hassenfeld make a strong case for the integration of TPACK (technological pedagogical content knowledge) theory into the curricula of Jewish educator training programs. But they also acknowledge that the two teachers that they profiled were atypical in their degree of tech-savviness, penchant for creativity, and level of preparation for teaching. While the authors are optimistic that as more teachers become tech-savvy they will engage in “self-directed professional development” on the web, a century of failed school reforms in the public school and Jewish educational institutions points to a different possible outcome. Being a digital native does not necessarily endow a teacher with the mindset or skills to create impactful learning environments any more than knowing how to thread the film on JOURNAL OF JEWISH EDUCATION 2022, VOL. 88, NO. 1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2038000","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42790253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Surfing the Waves of Uncertainty: How Jewish Educational Leaders Face Enduring Dilemmas","authors":"Lesley Litman, M. Zeldin","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.2016035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.2016035","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The authors taught students in an Executive Master's program in Jewish education how to recognize and manage Enduring Dilemmas, situations in which two prized Jewish values stand in tension with one another and cannot be enacted simultaneously. They explore how these educators draw on the leadership practice of Managing Enduring Dilemmas in their professional lives and highlight the power of this practice to bring a unique Jewish frame and semblance of order to complex situations and issues. They conclude by describing the process by which educators learn this practice and the implications for professional learning and leadership development.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"56 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41360268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Musical Alternatives: Debbie Friedman in Houston, 1978–1984","authors":"Judah M. Cohen","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.1974802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.1974802","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore Jewish composer/singer/liturgist Debbie Friedman and her time in Houston (1978–1984) as a crucial moment in the history of Jewish education. Working as a music educator in two area synagogues, Friedman negotiated a changing environment as cantorial training rose to become a mark of communal musical authority. She consequently turned to a rising Jewish education counterculture (in CAJE) that increasingly warmed to popular music as a core part of its agenda. Friedman’s mutually beneficial relationship with CAJE ultimately built a like-minded audience for her music, while opening a path for song leaders to rise to national spiritual leadership.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"75 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45755577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“I Had to Reinvent My Jewishness”: Personal and Professional Identity Perceptions of Jewish Culture Teachers from the Former Soviet Union","authors":"Adi Binhas, I. Yaniv","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.1985408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.1985408","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article deals with the perceived professional and personal identity of Israeli public-school teachers of subjects related to Jewish culture who have immigrated from the former Soviet Union (FSU). Our research question was: What was the impact of the emigration from the FSU on the teachers’ Jewish-Israeli identity construction, and how did this process reflect on their professional self-perception as teachers of Jewishness-related subjects? We found that the development of the teachers’ individual Jewish identity had a considerable impact on shaping their educational approach to teaching Jewish cultural subjects.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"154 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48610219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collaborative Navigation and Negotiation of Jewish Texts Online: The Case of Project Zug as a Digital Havruta Platform","authors":"Shai Goldfarb Cohen","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.1985407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.1985407","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We know little currently about how new digital tools have effected changes in Jewish studies learning environments and processes – although technologies play a central role in contemporary discussions of learning. This study aims to understand how learners collaboratively interpret Jewish sacred texts using informal online collaborative learning platforms. This case study focuses on Project Zug, an online havruta (paired couple) platform for the learning of Jewish texts. Based on 13 semi-structured interviews with Project Zug participants and using sociocultural frameworks of learning, I present how Project Zug created a digital havruta community of practice enabling dynamic learning identities.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"127 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59880409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Text Discussion in a PreK–1st Grade Virtual Bible Classroom","authors":"Hadassah Stanhill, N. Fenwick, G. Bogard, Gavriella Troper-Hochstein, Ziva R. Hassenfeld","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.1977096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.1977096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines a Pre-K–first grade full-time synchronous remote track in a Jewish day school. In the fall of 2020, Hassenfeld (Fifth Author) remotely taught biblical literature to Pre-K–first grade students. Through our analysis of two months of classroom transcripts, we sought to understand, first, the nature of student-to-student text discussion on Zoom, and, second, whether students were able to use one another as a resource during this isolating time. We found that students were able to form a unique intellectual and social community in this virtual learning space.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"87 1","pages":"316 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44606861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teachers Learn and Learners Teach: Enacting Presence in Online Havruta Text Study","authors":"Mindy M. Gold, Miriam Raider-Roth, Elie Holzer","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.2002090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.2002090","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the wake of COVID, the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI) faced essential pedagogical challenges in creating learner-centered, relational, and inquiry-based Jewish text study in an online synchronous space. In fall 2020, we offered an online adaptation of a line-by-line method for text study to understand the way this pedagogy invites enactments of teaching, social, and cognitive presences. This study uses qualitative methodologies to understand the learners’ experiences. Implications from this study can help us understand how activating presence in online spaces can bring rich, connected Jewish learning experiences into spaces often perceived to be flat and disconnected.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"87 1","pages":"332 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45950265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to Our Special Issue Change and Challenge: Jewish Education in the Time of COVID-19","authors":"Shai Goldfarb Cohen","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.1993031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.1993031","url":null,"abstract":"In December 2019 a new coronavirus, known as COVID-19 was discovered in the city of Wuhan, China (Huang et al., 2020). This deadly virus quickly spread across the globe causing the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO, 2020) to declare COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. Since this virus spreads through person-to-person transmission, pandemic responses have included the forced closures of public and community spaces including schools (Adedoyin & Soykan, 2020). As a result and over a very short period of time, a huge range of institutions had to adapt to the new conditions of work, shopping, communing, and learning at a distance. While communications technologies (email, videoconferencing platforms, and so on) have long been available, and although the drumbeat of “online learning” has been heard in educational circles for years, most institutions were forced to go fully online before they had appropriate procedures in place, and then they had to master this new situation quickly (Adedoyin & Soykan, 2020). For schools, social distancing and concerns about transmission meant rapidly pivoting away from classroom models and toward modes of instruction or interaction that were exclusively online (Dhawan, 2020). Some, of course, had greater success than others. Jewish schools, synagogues, summer camps, and other settings experienced the same shifts in remote learning and social interaction. Jewish communal organizations figured out how to continue their work holding services, celebrating life-cycle events, and learning under these new conditions. But even if you can have a Torah study group meet online, it is qualitatively not the same as meeting in a living room or around a seminar table. Therefore, it is important to ask what or how such changes impacted Jewish education and what these circumstances can teach us about online Jewish learning more broadly.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"87 1","pages":"270 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45521776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parental Report of Preschoolers’ Jewish Day School Engagement and Adjustment During the Covid-19 Shutdown","authors":"R. Novick, S. Brooks, Jenny R Isaacs","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.1977098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.1977098","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 forced shutdown of Jewish preschools (Spring, 2020) presented an unprecedented challenge for schools, preschoolers, and their families. During the preschool years, children are vulnerable to trauma, potentially affecting later adjustment. Relationships between school offerings, preschoolers’ school engagement and psychosocial outcomes were explored. Teacher immediacy behaviors were associated with preschoolers’ engagement in online learning but not with psychosocial outcomes. There were correlations between students’ willingness to engage and actual participation in online education and psychosocial adjustment. This study highlights the role that teachers and schools may play in keeping students connected and engaged in school during times of crisis.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"87 1","pages":"301 - 315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47326688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Face to Interface: Instructional Strategies of an Online Talmud Class","authors":"Joshua S. Ladon","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.1977099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.1977099","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Jewish adult education programs transitioned from in-person learning to synchronous webcast classes. This move creates new questions about the practice of teaching Jewish texts in the new medium. The author describes a case of an online Talmud class and the instructional strategies used by the practitioner. In the new medium, she is restricted in her use of interpretive-relational pedagogies, such as havruta that she would employ in person. Findings describe the ways she navigates these new challenges, emphasizing a tangle of strategies and tactics.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"87 1","pages":"365 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41632165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}