International Handbook of Jewish Education 2 Volume Set

teaching the bible in our times; Barry W. Holtz.- Environment: Jewish Education as if the Planet Mattered; Eilon Shwartz.- Havruta Study - what do we know and what do we hope to learn? Elie Holzer, Orit Kent.- Hebrew Language in Israel and the Diaspora; Nava Navo.- History - issues in teaching and learning Jewish history; Benjamin M. Jacobs and Yona Shem Tov.- Holocaust Education; Simone Schweber.- Israel Education - purposes and practices; Alick Isaacs.- Israel Travel Education; Scott Copeland.- Jewish Peoplehood Education; David Mittelberg.- Life Cycle Education: Tradition, Ritual and Transition; Howard Deitcher.- Other Religions in Jewish Education; Michael Gillis.- Talmud: Making a Case for Talmud Pedagogy - the Talmud as an educational model; Marjorie Lehmann and Jane Kanarek.- Technology: The Digital Revolution That is Shaping the 21st Century - a fleeting snapshot from the first decade; Brian Amkraut.- Travel as a Jewish Educational Tool; Erik H. Cohen.- Travel: Location, Location, Location - a practitioner's perspective on Jewish travel; Jeremy Leigh.- VOLUME TWO: Section Three: Applications.- Introduction.- Academic Jewish Studies in North America; Judith R. Baskin.- Adult Jewish Education - the landscape; Lisa D. Grant and Diane Tickton Schuster.- Congregational Schools; Isa Aron.- Day schools in the Liberal sector - challenges and opportunities at the intersection of two traditions of Jewish schooling; Alex Pomson.- Day schools in the Orthodox Sector; Shani Bechhofer.- Early Childhood Education; Michael Ben Avie, Ilene Vogelstein, Roberta Louis Goodman, Eli Schaap and Pat Bidol-Padva.- Experiential Jewish Education - reaching the tipping point; David Bryfman.- Gender - shifting from evading to engaging; gender issues and Jewish education; Shira D.  Epstein.- Informal Education - the decisive decade - how informal Jewish education was transformed in its relationship with Jewish philanthropy; Joseph Reimer.- Intermarriage - connection, commitment, continuity; Evie Levy Rotstein.- Learning Organisations - learning to learn - the learning organisation in theory and practice; Susan L. Shevitz.- Limmud: A unique model of transformative Jewish learning; Raymond Simonson.- Mentoring - ideological encounters - mentoring teachers in Jewish education; Michal Muszkat Barkan.- Parents and Jewish Educational Settings; Jeff Kress.- Practitioner Enquiry and its Role in Jewish Education; Alex Sinclair.- Preparing for Jewish schools - enduring issues for changing contexts; Sharon Feiman Nemser.- Professional Development of teachers in Jewish Education; Gail Zaiman Dorph.- Professional Development: Vini, Vidi, Vici? Jewish educators short term trips to Israel as professional development programs; Shelley Kedar.- Rabbis as Educators - professional training and identity formation; Lisa D. Grant and Michal Muszkat Barkan.- Special Education - and you shall do what is right and good in special education in North America - from exclusion to inclusion; Rona Milch Novick and Jeffrey Glanz.- Teacher Education: ensuring a cadre of well-qualified Jewish Education Personnel for Jewish schools; Leora Isaacs.- Ultra Orthodox/Haredi Education; Yoel Finkelman.- Section Four: Geographical.- Introduction.- American Jewish Education in an Age of Choice and Pluralism; Jack Wertheimer.- Anglo-Jewish Education: day schools, funding and religious education in State schools; David Mendelsson.- Australia - The Jewel in the Crown of Jewish Education; Paul Forgasz and Miriam Munz.- Canada - Jewish Education in Canada; Michael Brown.- Europe: Education of Adult Jewish Leaders in a Pan-European Perspective; Barbara Lerner Spectre.- Europe: Something From (almost) Nothing: the challenge of education in European communities - a personal perspective; Steve Israel.- Former Soviet Union - Jewish Education; Olga Markus and Michael Farbman.- France - Jewish Education in France; Ami Bouganim.- Israel -  State religious education in Israel; Zehavit Gross.- Israel - Innovations in Secular Schooling in Israel; Yehuda Bar Shalom and Tamar Ascher Shai.- Latin America - Jewish Education in Latin America: Challenges, trends and processes; Yossi Goldstein and Drori Ganiel.- Netherlands - Social Integration and Religious Identity; Hetty Van Het Hoofd.- Name Index.- Subject Index.

working on a book on the teaching of Israel in North America.

Alex Pomson is a senior researcher at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He trained in History at the university of Cambridge and received his PhD in Religious education from the University of London in 1994. He was founding head of Jewish Studies at King Solomon High School, London. From 1996-2004. He served as Associate professor of Jewish Teacher Education at York University, Toronto, where he co-ordinated York's Jewish Teacher education Programme. He is past Chair of the Network for Research in Jewish Education. He completed a longitudinal study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of the Canadian Government, published in 2008, as a co-authored book, Back to School: Jewish day school in the lives of adult Jews. His most recent book, published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation, is a co-edited volume, Jewish schools, Jewish communities: a reconsideration.