Teaching Israel - Studies of Pedagogy from the Field

"This book resituates teaching-the questions, dilemmas, and decision-making that teachers face-as central to both Israel Studies and Israel education. It illuminates how teachers from differing pedagogical orientations and who teach in a range of educational settings learn, understand, do, and ultimately improve the work of teaching Israel"--

About the author

Sivan Zakai is the Sara S. Lee Associate Professor of Jewish Education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's Los Angeles campus. She directs the Children's Learning About Israel Project and codirects Project ORLIE: Research and Leadership in Israel Education. She is the author of My Second Favorite Country: How American Jewish Children Think About Israel, winner of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity. Matt Reingold is a practitioner-researcher of Israel Education. He teaches and serves as the cohead of the Jewish History Department at TanenbaumCHAT in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Gender and Sexuality in Israeli Graphic Novels: Contested Masculinity and Independent Femininity, Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis, Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives, and The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories.

Product details

• Assisted by: Matt Reingold (Editor), Sivan Zakai (Editor)
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781684581177
• ISBN: 978-1-68458-117-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 154 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 654 g
• Illustrations: 4 Black and White, 4 tables
• Series: Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries