Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities : A Reconsideration.

Cover -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- INTRODUCTION: Jewish Schools, Jewish Communities: A Reconsideration -- PART 1: Insights from Public and General Education -- 1 Building Community Within and Around Schools: Can Jewish Days Schools Measure Up? -- 2 From Control to Collaboration: Mapping School Communities across Diverse Contexts -- 3 Compassionate Conservatism: On Schools, Community, and Democracy -- 4 A Response to Deborah Meier -- 5 Community as a Means and an End in Jewish Education -- PATR II: Cross-Cultural Insights -- 6 Do Jewish Schools Make a Difference in the Former Soviet Union? -- 7 Jewish Pupils' Perspectives on Religious Education and the Expectations of a Religious Community: The Jewish High School in Berlin -- 8 Mutual Relations between Shelih. im and Local Teachers Jewish Schools in the Former Soviet Union -- 9 Community School versus School as Community: The Case of Bet El Community in Buenos Aires -- 10 Beyond the Community: Jewish Day School Education in Britain -- 11 Attitudes, Behaviours, Values, and School Choice: A Comparison of French Jewish Families -- 12 The School Ghetto in France -- PART III: Insights through the Prism of Community -- 13 Relationships between Schools and Parents in Haredi Popular Literature in the United States -- 14 The Impact of Community on Curriculum Decision-Making in a North American Jewish Day School -- 15 Ideological Commitment in the Supervision of Jewish Studies Teachers: Representing Community -- 16 Schooling for Change in the Religious World: An Educational Experiment in a Religious Junior High School in Israel -- 17 Home-Made Jewish Culture at the Intersection of Family Life and School -- 18 Teacher Perspectives on Behaviour Problems: Background Influences on Behavioural Referral Criteria and Definitions of Rebellious Behaviour.

19 Shabbatonim as Experiential Education in the North American Community Day High School -- 20 Teaching Leadership through Town Meeting -- 21 Building Community in a Pluralist High School -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Cross-cultural and genuinely comparative, this consideration of Jewish day-schools around the world reframes day-school research and policy-making and offers original insights into faith-based schooling and the public good.

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