Visions of Jewish Education

By Scheffler, Israel, Seymour Fox, Daniel Marom (Eds.)
Cambridge University Press, 2003, Paperback, 352pp, ISBN: 0521528992, $26.00

This groundbreaking book illustrates the translation of educational ideas into practice and reports on a sustained effort to articulate such ideas as embodied in a particular school's ongoing activities.

Over 15 years in the making, this book presents the approaches of leading scholars from Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Secular movements on how to teach the different branches of Judaism.

There is a chapter on the general concept of the educated person and another section on the common elements of the philosophies of education. Menachem Brinker’s chapter on the teaching of Liberal-Secular perspective of Judaism is definitely worth a read. The book is intended to stimulate the philosophical consideration of Jewish existence in our time as reflected in Jewish education, its alternative visions, its purposes and instrumentalities, the values it should serve, and the personal and social character it seeks to foster.