The Azrieli Papers: Dimensions of Orthodox Day School Education

A GREAT RESOURCE FOR ALL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL EDUCATORS!

It is customary in educational discourse to speak about four commonplaces, the common denominators of all formal educational experiences. They are: the milieu, the learners, the instruction, and the subject matter.

Modern Orthodox Jewish day schools are like other schools, only more so; unlike other schools and, again, only more so. Day school educators, like their opposite numbers in the general sector, make assumptions about children and the way in which they acquire and process information; about adults and those interactions they have with children that constitute instruction; about schools as the loci in which these interactions occur and are, hopefully, nurtured; and, finally, about the nature of knowledge and which general and specific varieties of knowledge best serve the purposes and interests of the particular children for whose education they have taken responsibility. This anthology is designed to focus attention on each of these critical areas of educational concern and its contents are distributed along those same lines of inquiry.