Transmission and interpretive facilitation : teaching Hebrew bible in Jewish elementary schools
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores how elementary school Jewish studies teachers understand the goals of Jewish education and the pedagogies they adopt to achieve these goals. Jewish education theorists and Jewish institutions make two demands on their teachers: to transmit Jewish knowledge and to cultivate students' interpretive autonomy. Do teachers in real Jewish studies classrooms understand their teaching in these terms? This study observed whole class text discussions in six Jewish studies classrooms in Jewish day schools and conducted stimulated-recall interviews (SRIs) with the teachers after every observation. Analysis of classroom observations found that the pedagogy of transmission was most prevalent, but there were also teachers who adopted the pedagogy of interpretive facilitation. Analysis of the SRIs revealed that teachers in this study articulated deeply held educational goals that motivated their pedagogical choices. But, teachers did not primarily articulate their goals in the language of the dual demands, transmission and interpretive autonomy. Instead, teachers described their goals either as religious or literary. Only three teachers mentioned the dual demands. Of these three teachers, two saw the goals of transmission and interpretive autonomy as mutually exclusive and one saw them as complementary. This study concludes with a comparative analysis of these three teachers and argues that much more theoretical attention needs to be paid to explaining why cultivating students' interpretive autonomy is fundamentally a religious responsibility.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Hassenfeld, Ziva R |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Kelman, Ari, 1968- |
| Thesis advisor | Kelman, Ari, 1968- |
| Thesis advisor | Aukerman, Maren (Maren Songmy) |
| Thesis advisor | Goldenberg, Claude Nestor, 1954- |
| Advisor | Aukerman, Maren (Maren Songmy) |
| Advisor | Goldenberg, Claude Nestor, 1954- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ziva R. Hassenfeld. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Ziva Reimer Hassenfeld
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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