The Other Dual Curriculum: Jewish Community High School Students' Reflections on What Counts as "Jewish" Learning

Research on Jewish day schools has long focused on the challenges they face in managing the tension between the "Jewish" and "general" components of their "dual curriculum." Interviews with 34 graduating seniors of a private, community Jewish high school found that stud...

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Published inJournal of Jewish education Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 398 - 417
Main Authors Kelman, Ari Y, Horwitz, Ilana M, Ahmed, Abiya
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Routledge 2023
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Day Schools
Dual curriculum
Dual Enrollment
General Education
High School Students
Jewish day schools
Jews
Judaism
learning
Private Schools
Religious Education
Student Attitudes
students
California
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Summary:Research on Jewish day schools has long focused on the challenges they face in managing the tension between the "Jewish" and "general" components of their "dual curriculum." Interviews with 34 graduating seniors of a private, community Jewish high school found that students experienced another dual curriculum within the school's approach to Jewish Studies. This other dual curriculum points to the central tension of liberal Jewish education, which is caught between two approaches: one that is fundamentally discursive, deliberative, and inquiry based and one that is essentially instructional and normative.
ISSN:1524-4113
1554-611X
DOI:10.1080/15244113.2023.2258236