Between Parents and Principal: Social Drama in a Synagogue School


 

Publication Date: January 1992

Publisher: Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry

Author(s): Joseph Reimer

Research Area: Education

Keywords: American Jews; Jewish education

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

In Contemporary Jewry 13, 60-73. A common conflict between parents and a principal in a synagogue school is analyzed in terms of Turner's "social drama." The analysis suggests why synagogues are vulnerable to these conflicts, how these conflicts unfold and how the way stakeholders play their roles contributes to a cohesive or disharmonious outcome to the drama.