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Jon A. Levisohn
ASAC 330
(781) 736-2941
levisohn@brandeis.edu
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Jon A. Levisohn
Jon A. Levisohn
Jon A. Levisohn, Assistant Professor of Jewish Education, also serves as Assistant Academic Director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. He studies philosophy of education and philosophy of Jewish education. His particular focus has been on the myriad ways we have of making sense of texts – both religious texts and secular texts – especially in the contexts of teaching and learning.
Recent publications include The Interpretive Virtues: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Teaching and Learning of Historical Narratives (forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell), “Negotiating Historical Narratives: An Epistemology of History for History Education,” Journal of Philosophy of Education 44 (2010), and “A Menu of Orientations Towards the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature,”Journal of Jewish Education 75 (2010). With Sue Fendrick, he is co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Jewish Texts (Academic Studies Press).