Adult Jewish Learning Essay Collection
The goals of the Adult Jewish Learning Working Group are to develop a cohort of scholar-practitioners and to develop a knowledge base that will help to move the field of adult Jewish learning toward a greater focus on the learning trajectories of adult students.
Adult Jewish Learning Working Group is supported by funding from the Jim Joseph Foundation.
Publication
Edited by Jon A. Levisohn, Jenny L. Small, Tammy Jacobowitz, and Diane Tickton Schuster
Adult Jewish educators are focused on the subject that they want to teach and/or the students in front of them, but they tend not to learn about how those students have experienced Jewish learning over time, or how this particular experience fits (or does not fit) within that longer arc. The Adult Jewish Learning Working Group asked: What would happen if we asked about those stories? What would we learn?
The essays in this collection draw on interviews with a group of diverse adult learners who were asked to think about the course of their lives and the stories that they wanted to share about their Jewish learning. Each essay draws on the author’s experience and expertise as an adult Jewish educator. In this way, the authors model for us how to be curious about, and to learn from, the stories that our learners tell.