Projects
Pedagogies of Jewish Studies
The Mandel Center sponsors a set of projects that investigate the teaching of Jewish texts in various settings. These studies break new ground in the scholarship of teaching Jewish studies and other Jewish pedagogies such as havruta learning.
The Initiative on Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy in Jewish Studies
The Initiative on Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy in Jewish Studies examines the intersection of scholarly knowledge and teaching practice in the teaching of Jewish Studies, and brings together teachers of Jewish studies with leading scholars around common questions.
Director: Jon A. Levisohn
Staff: Susan P. Fendrick (Senior Research Associate)
Coordinator for the Conference on Teaching Rabbinic Literature: Beth Polasky
Contact: BridgingInitiative@brandeis.edu
Beit Midrash Research Project
The Beit Midrash Research Project investigates teaching and learning in a unique professional development experiment using text study and havruta learning.
Director: Orit Kent
Staff: Elie Holzer (Senior Research Associate)
Contact: Orit Kent (okent@brandeis.edu) or Elie Holzer (esholzer@netvision.net.il)
Multimedia Cases of Jewish Teaching and Learning
Multimedia Cases of Jewish Teaching and Learning enables talented K-12 teachers to construct web-based cases of their teaching, to be used for professional development.
Leader: Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Staff: Rachel Kulick
Contact: Marcie Quaroni (mquaroni@brandeis.edu)
Studying Pluralism in Jewish Education
Studying Pluralism in Jewish Education was a field-based pilot study, supported by the Mandel Center, of the ways in which pluralistic education is enacted in a multi-denominational Jewish high school setting.
Leader: Susan Shevitz
Staff: Rahel Wasserfall (Senior Research Associate)
Contact: Susan Shevitz (shevitz@brandeis.edu)