Ziva R Hassenfeld

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Assistant Professor of Jewish Education

Departments/Programs

Education
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education

Degrees

Stanford University, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, M.A.
New York University, B.A.

Profile

I study reading comprehension from a sociocultural perspective, focusing on how children develop interpretations of the Hebrew Bible as a case of student reading development. I use a variety of qualitative methods including ethnographic observation, stimulated recall interviewing, and think-aloud interviewing. These investigations connect my research to the worlds of biblical hermeneutics, both contemporary and rabbinic, as well as literary theory and criticism.

Lab website: https://www.brandeis.edu/mandel/projects/research-lab/index.html

Courses Taught

ED	161b	Religious Education in America
ED	165a	Reading (and Talking Back to) Research on Education
ED	266a	Teacher Research: Principles, Methods, and Design
ED	266b	Teacher Research: Analysis and Publication

Scholarship

Hassenfeld, Ziva R and Bers, Marina U. "Debugging the writing process: Lessons from a comparison of students’ programming and writing practices." Reading Teacher 73. 6 (2020).

Hassenfeld, Ziva R., Govind, M., Ruiter, L., & Bers, M.. "If You Can Program, You Can Write: Learning Introductory Programming Across Literacy Levels." Journal of Information Technology Education: Research 19. 1 (2020).

Hassenfeld, Ziva R and Levisohn, J.A.. "The challenge of professional development in Jewish Studies: Why the conventional wisdom may not be enough." Journal of Jewish Education 85. 1 (2019).

Hassenfeld, Ziva R. "A sacred language or the language of the Bible: A curricular study of Jewish Hebrew Bible instruction." Religious Education (2019).

Hassenfeld, Ziva R. "Pursuing fluency: A curricular intervention in Tanakh Education." Journal of Jewish Education 85. 1 (2019)

Hassenfeld, Ziva R. "Studying sacred texts as a pathway to positive youth development: Middle school students read Hebrew Bible." Religions 10. 6 (2019).

Hassenfeld, Ziva R. "The Mistaken Assumption." Portraits of Jewish Learning. Ed. Diane Schuster. Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2019. 1-15.

Hassenfeld, Ziva R. "Putting students front and center in the Hebrew Bible classroom: Inquiry-oriented pedagogy in the orthodox and liberal classroom." Journal of Jewish Education 84. 1 (2018).

Hassenfeld, Ziva R. "Resources of Jewish culture: A case study of two Talmud teachers." Religions 9. 7 (2018).

Hassenfeld, Ziva R. "Teaching sacred texts in the classroom: The pedagogy of transmission and the pedagogy of interpretive facilitation." Journal of Jewish Education 83. 4 (2017).

Hassenfeld, Ziva R. "Reading sacred texts in the classroom: The alignment between students and their teacher’s interpretive stances when reading the Hebrew Bible." Journal of Jewish Education 82. 1 (2016).