How People Learn in Jewish Education

This 2024 framework by Dr. Ari Kelman shifts the focus from an approach to Jewish education that caters to learners to one guided by an understanding of learning. It offers a challenge, a charge, and a provocation to Jewish educators and supporters of Jewish education to imagine what might happen to the field if we shift its focus from what Jewish education teaches and instead explore how people learn. The paper begins with an overview of some basic approaches to general theories of learning to establish a framework for exploring their implications for the field of Jewish education. It serves as an invitation to consider what Jewish education might look like if it places the ways that people learn at the center.

Read the research: How People Learn in Jewish Education, Ari Y Kelman, Ph.D., November 2024

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