Mandel Center News & Events -I- February 2022
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SCRoLL Lab
SCRoLL Lab director Professor Ziva Hassenfeld supervises 4-8 undergraduate students each year. The group collaborates on everything from designing new studies, recruiting participants, developing data and assessment instruments, conducting ethnographic observations and other forms of data collection, analyzing data, and publishing their findings.
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MCSJE Research
MCSJE is committed to sharing its research findings broadly with other scholars and practitioners in an effort to strengthen the field of Jewish education scholarship. To that end, please find links to selected past MCSJE research:
This book, which emerged from the Mandel Center's Beit Midrash Research Project, broke new ground from two perspectives: by offering a model of havruta text study situated in broader theories of interpretation and learning, and by treating havruta text study as composed of textual, interpersonal and intra-personal practices which can be taught and learned. Elie Holtzer and Orit Kent lay out the conceptual foundations of their approach and provide examples of their pedagogical implementation for the teaching of havruta text study. Included are illustrative lesson plans, teachers' notes and students’ reflections, exercises for students, and other instructional materials for teaching core concepts and practices.
The Beyond Jewish Identity book emerged from the Mandel Center's Rethinking Jewish Identity and Education project. In this chapter, Tali Zelkowicz argues that learners’ identities–and specifically Jewish identities–are not products that can be generated by educators. Drawing upon cultural studies theory and ethnographic research of identity and schooling, Zelkowicz reframes identity formation as a form of situated sociocultural work, rather than a static product that can be shaped in others. She argues that educators have a much more realistic and productive purpose, namely, to serve as navigational guides who help learners to develop tools and strategies they need to engage in their own ongoing work of becoming Jews.
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Special Issue of The Journal for Jewish Education
This is the Journal's largest and first-ever openly available issue, and includes articles submitted through the Online Jewish Education project supported by the Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah in partnership with the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education.
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All MCSJE events are free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. |
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Accentuating the American Jewish Hebrew Speaker
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2022
Time: 1 - 1:30 p.m. ET via Zoom
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This conversation will focus on Professor Sharon Avni's recent work on how the everyday acts of speaking, learning, and engaging with Modern Hebrew inform our understanding of contemporary American Jewish life.
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Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education Book Launch:
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Time: 4 - 5:15 p.m. ET via Zoom
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What can we learn from carefully crafted portraits of nine well-regarded Jewish day schools that vary in size, location, sponsorship, ideological orientation? How do these schools go about their work, and how do school leaders respond to the pressing challenges that day schools face in the 21st century?
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