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

Past Research

Over the years, the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education (MCSJE) has asked critical questions and challenged assumptions about Jewish educational scholarship.

MCSJE not only conducts high quality research but also is committed to sharing its findings and learnings more broadly with other scholars and practitioners in an effort to strengthen the field of Jewish education scholarship. Summaries about past research can be found below.

• Beginning Teacher Network

• Beit Midrash Research Project

• Boston Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI)

• Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy in Jewish Studies

• Children's Learning About Israel

• Choosing to Teach

• Conceptualizing the Outcomes of Religious Education (CORE)

• Hasidic Learning

• Hebrew in American Jewish Summer Camps

• Jewish Historical Understandings

• Jewish Learning Through the Cultural Arts

• Learning Agenda Project

• Learning to Read Talmud

• Longitudinal Study of Day School Teachers

• NRJE/Mandel Center Mentoring Seminar

• Online Jewish Education
• Pedagogies of Engagement in Jewish Studies
• Perceptions of Race and Identity in Jewish High Schools

• Pedagogy Lishma

• Philosophy of Education Research Colloquia (PERC)

• Portraits of Jewish Learning

• Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning

• Pursuing Fluency in the Tanakh Classroom

• Rethinking Jewish Identity and Jewish Education

• Studying Pluralism in Jewish Education

• Students’ Understanding of Rabbinics

• Talmud and Rabbinic Formation

• Teacher Learning Project

• Teacher Research Partnership

• Teaching and Learning in Jewish Day Schools

• Transformation Project