This issue of In Focus showcases the advanced study of Visions of Jewish Education being undertaken by a number of ongoing seminars and projects, and provides resources for individuals who are interested in continuing and deepening their engagement with the book.
Prof. Sharon Feiman-Nemser at the VJE Launch Seminar |
VJEP Video Library Now Online
Since its inception the VJEP has recorded video proceedings of many of its seminars and events. We are pleased to make excerpts of these videos available online through the VJEP website, and to offer a catalogue of complete video recordings that are available on request.
In this issue of In Focus, we feature excerpts from the Launch Seminar for Visions of Jewish Education that allow readers of the book to explore a conversation about some of its key issues. Excerpts include discussions about the feasibility of developing vision-guided practice in various settings in North America and about Moshe Greenberg’s conception. |
Prof. Israel Scheffler |
The VJEP video library also spotlights current work by the Visions scholars and VJEP staff. This month, we are happy to present an interview with VJE author and editor Prof. Israel Scheffler, conducted by VJEP staff member Avi Katzman. Prof. Scheffler discusses the key questions now facing philosophy of education, his own educational influences, and his decades-long friendship with project founder Prof. Seymour Fox ז"ל.
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Participant Lori Sagarin at the January 2007 meeting of the Alumni Seminar at Brandeis |
Visions Projects: New Initiatives Undertaken by VJEP Participants
Video excerpts from a presentation by VJEP staff member Jennifer Lewis on the goals and challenges of a day school visions project are now available here.
Participants in the MTEI-MLI Alumni Visions Program have recently completed a two-year cycle of seminars. They worked on developing individual projects in a variety of settings. Go to the homepage of the Alumni Seminar to read more about their projects.
Rabbi Yaakov Bieler, a participant in the VJEP's ongoing collaboration with leading scholars and educators in North American Modern Orthodox communities, has written a new conception of Jewish Education. His paper and related resources are available here.
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VJEP staff members studying together |
Continued Study: Expanding the VJEP Library
In addition to its video and audio resources, the VJEP Library offers a collection of articles and links that can be downloaded by readers of Visions of Jewish Education who would like to expand their understanding of its guiding principles and the scholars’ conceptions.
The VJEP Library now contains the first installments in an ongoing project to provide an even greater level of depth and complexity to readers and project participants who are engaged in close study of the book, its ideas and its implications for their practice. New materials include audio recordings of Daniel Marom on bringing Menachem Brinker’s ideas to American education.
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Conversations Across Communities: A New Introduction to Visions of Jewish Education for Israeli Readers
A special introduction to Medabrim Hazon, the Hebrew translation of Visions of Jewish Education, written by editors Avi Katzman and Daniel Marom, has been published in the August 2007 edition of the Journal of Jewish Education (volume 73, number 2). The introduction, specially translated into English for this publication, was written for the Israeli readers of the Hebrew translation, for whom many aspects of Jewish life and education in North America may be unfamiliar. In this new introduction, Katzman and Marom consider what Israeli audiences might learn from some of the challenges and opportunities that arise from an international conversation on Jewish education, through which the editors hope to generate a greater awareness of how individual communities within the Jewish world approach educational vision.
We are also pleased to announce the upcoming publication of a French translation of Visions of Jewish Education, to be published by Presses Universitaires de France. |
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