Study and Moral Action in Contemporary Jewish Education


 

Publication Date: January 1980

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Author(s): Barry Chazan

Research Area: Culture and religion; Education

Keywords: American Jews; Jewish education

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

In: Journal of Curriculum Studies 12/4, 307-321. The paper examines several representative programmes and curricula to determined the attitudes to the study-moral dialectic implicit in them. The specific question to be examined is: given the pluralism of modern Judaism, what are the categories in the study-moral action dialectic to be found in today's Jewish schools?