Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation: From Volozhin to Buczacz, by Harvey Shapiro, PhD, brings together two different fields of study-modern Jewish studies and contemporary educational theory-to provide new theoretical frameworks for their interaction. Although Jewish studies and education programs at secular universities have joined denominational and transdenominational institutions of higher learning in adopting a dual or parallel course structure, there has been little scholarly attention given to the basis for doing so. Shapiro provides alternative theoretical frameworks for the relationship between Jewish studies and educational theory and discusses different ways of developing and articulating these relationships between disciplines. Shapiro shows what is at stake when students and faculty think and communicate together across discourses-in particular, between the fields of education and Jewish studies. Presenting an alternative to conventional notions of interdisciplinarity, this book's import extends to virtually all relationships between the humanities and professional education when these different discourses illuminate and challenge one another.

Auteur
Harvey Shapiro, Ph.D is Associate Professor of Education at Northeastern University in Boston. He earned his Ph.D. in Jewish Education from Hebrew Union College.

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Part One: Introducing the Discourses Chapter One: Engaging the Discourses Chapter Two: Differentiating and Deepening the Relationships: John Dewey, Justus Buchler, and Michael Oakeshott Part Two: Educational Theory Meets Volozhin Chapter Three: R. Hayyim of Volozhin, John Dewey, and Martha Nussbaum: An Educational Query Chapter Four: Ends vs. "The End": Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin's Non-Messianic Vision Chapter Five: Walking and Talking Together: John Dewey and R. Hayyim on Means, Ends, and the Ideal Part Three: Agnon's Narratives: An Ethics of Alterity in Reading and Teaching Chapter Six: Multivocal Narrative and the Teacher as Narrator: Agnon's "Two Scholars Who Were In Our Town." ("Shnei talmidei hakhamim she-hayu be-'ireinu") Chapter Seven: The Student as Outcast: Double-voice in S. Y. Agnon's "Hanidah" Afterword: The Legacy of Conversation: Continuing . . . Bibliography Index About the Author