Short description

The workshop will focus on theoretical approaches that substantiate experiential/informal educational methods. Through a combination of readings, assignments and practical exercises, participants in the course will acquire skills in various informal pedagogical practices and strategies. Within the context of the course, students will develop a personal project of their choice.

Credits: 2

Mode: Frontal

Dr. Jonatan Ariel.

Short description

The workshop will focus on theoretical approaches that discuss the potential relevance of Israel studies in the context of Jewish education. Through a combination of readings, assignments, and practical exercises, participants in the course will acquire skills in a variety of pedagogical practices and strategies. Within the context of the course, students will develop a personal project of their choice.

Credits: 4

Mode: Online 

Dr. Alick Isaacs.

Short description

The course will study a series of Emmanuel Levinas’ Talmudic readings with an eye to their pedagogic method and their educational significance. The course will investigate how the Talmudic readings fit into Levinas’ broader educational vision and his general philosophy of “ethics as first philosophy.”

Credits: 4

Mode: Online

Dr. Michael Gillis.

Short description

This course is grounded in two assumptions: first, that Israel education is a multidimensional activity concerned with the development of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors, and, second, that Israel is not only a unique subject to be learned and understood, but an integral dimension of all aspects of the educational settings in which it takes place. The course examines and builds on these assumptions to explore how Israel education might become an integral and coherent component of Diaspora Jewish educational institutions.

Credits: 4

Mode: Online 

Dr. Alex Pomson

Short description

This course will examine texts from the Babylonian Talmud and the Book of Deuteronomy that reflect attitudes towards education, comparing them to Greco-Roman and Christian treatises from the same period. The course will focus on both the unique and shared aspects of Rabbinic thought about education.

Credits: 2

Mode: Frontal

Prof. Marc Hirschman

Short description

The course will address practical and theoretical aspects of fostering students higher order thinking (HOT) in the course of teaching. On the practical level we shall study thinking strategies (such as asking questions, formulating and criticizing arguments, making comparisons, constructing a "thinking lesson", fostering a HOT classroom discourse, using the "language of thinking", fostering metacognitive thinking, teaching HOT to diverse student population, inquiry learning and appropriate assessment means. The course will combine practical and theoretical aspects.

Credits: 2

Mode: Frontal

Prof. Anat Zohar – Udi Tsemach

Short description

This course is an exploration of the questions: "What does it mean for an educator to have a vision of Jewish education? Why is vision important in education?  How does one develop such a vision? In what Jewish and general sources can such a vision be rooted?" The course is aimed at eliciting students' personal responses to philosophical readings that address these questions.

Credits: 4

Mode: Online 

Dr.  Ari Ackerman

Summary

Literature and landscapes form mutual relationships. Through the lens of poetry and fiction Jerusalem  is not a “given” or static entity, but is constantly created and recreated in metaphors and stories, which depict it and reveal the hopes, frustrations and world views of the authors. In reading core literary Israeli works as well as popular contemporary fiction, this course offers multiple portraits of a city which is at the heart of Hebrew and Israeli culture.

Credits: 4

Mode: Frontal

Dr. Rafael Tsirkin-Sadan / Haim Aronovich