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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Program in Jewish Education
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Alick Isaacs
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday 10.30-12.00 contact via e-mail or skype
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Alick Isaacs
Course/Module description:
This is an online course that addresses the philosophical challenges of Israel education. The course focuses on the philosophical and ideological critiques of classical Zionist education that are pertinent to the challenge of Israel education today and seeks to explore new ways of addressing these in the context of educational thought.
Course/Module aims:
The students will become familiar with the challenges facing the field of Israel education and with a rich bibliography of Jewish, Zionist and philosophical sources. Students will become familiar with a wide range of classical Jewish, Western and modern Jewish philosophical texts which help us explore the meaning of land, statehood, nationhood, exile and redemption in ways that can be applied to the challenges facing educators who tackle the meaning of Israel the context of Jewish identity education today.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
On successful completion of this module, students will have gained a broad range of knowledge about concepts and thinkers who address questions of political philosophy,Zionist thought, critiques of Zionism, as well as an understanding of secular and religious, western and Mizrachi approaches to the State of Israel and its enduring meaning. Students will also have opportunities to apply this knowledge to the actualities of life in Israel and will develop tools for thinking philosophically about curriculum design in the field of Israel education.
Attendance requirements(%):
Attendance requirements stand at 80%. The attendance will be evaluusing the active participation of students in the "attendance activities" of each class.
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
The course involves viewing online lectures, watching video lectures, participation in a weekly online forum, 3 short mid term assignments and a final paper.
Course/Module Content:
The structure of the course is as follows:
1. What is the philosophy of Education/Jewish Education/Israel Education and how is it different from Theory of Education? This component includes a discussion of the difference between theory and philosophy with more emphasis on explaining what the philosophy of education is and how it applies to Israel Education. The section on the taxonomy will be removed. 3 lectures and short assignment (20%)
2. Key Topics in the Philosophy of Israel Education: This section is a significant reworking and new presentation of the same basic material covered in the second section of the course. Instead of addressing the three challenges outlined above, we will look at the tension between statehood and Jewish statehood focusing on thinkers such as Kant, Hobbes, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault on the one hand and Jewish sources ranging from Bible and Talmud, Rambam, Maharal, to Zionist thinkers already in the course such as Herzl, Ahad Ha’am, Tamares, Buber, Scholem, Heschel, Rav Kook, Gordon, Bialik.
4 lectures and 1 Zoom (synchronous) class and assignment (20%)
3. The Philosophy of Israel Education and Israel Today: This section of the course will focus on connecting contemporary examples drawn from current trends in Israelis society, culture and politics to the large philosophical questions dealt with in section 2.
2 lectures and assignment (20%)
4. From Educational Philosophy to Educational Action: This section of the course will consider different proposals and strategies looking forward to the future as in the existing course. 2 Lectures and final assignment (40%)
Required Reading:
This is an online course. As a result all the topics, sources and secondary bibliography is provided on the website of the course. Here is a list of topics with some selected bibliography for the course.
Lesson 1 – Introduction
Michael Rosenak, Roads to the Palace: Jewish Texts and Jewish Teaching, Berghahn Books, Providence and Oxford (1995) pp.5-6.
Elizabeth Steiner Maccia, "The Separation of Philosophy from Theory of Education", in Readings in the Philosophy of Education, edited by John Martin Rich, pp. 383-393
Lesson 2 – Israel Education and Zionism
Moses Hess: Rome and Jerusalem (1862): can be downloaded from the platform as an optional reading.
Leon Pinsker, Auto-emancipation (1882): can be downloaded from the platform as an optional reading.
Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State (1896): can be downloaded from the platform as an optional reading.
Ber Borochov Internet Archive: http://www.angelfire.com/il2/borochov/
Zeev Jabotinsky Selected Bibliography: http://www.jabotinsky.org/Site/content/T2.asp?Pid&eq;124&Sid&eq;10
Lesson 3 – Taxonomy of Israel Education
Alick Isaacs, Israel Education: Purposes and Practices” in Helena Miller, Lisa Grant, Alex Pomson (editors) The International Handbook of Jewish Education Springer Press 2011
Lesson 4 – Finding Your Place in the Taxonomy of Israel Education – A Response to Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” in New York Review of Books, June 10 2010
Lesson 5 – Un-negating the Diaspora
Gershom Scholem B’mai Kamipalgi (Translated Excerpts)
A.I.H. Kook Eight Papers, Hebron, Kiryat Arba and Jerusalem, Pozner Publication file 1 (1904-14) par. 26 p.9 [Hebrew] (Translated Excerpts)
Lesson 6 – The Accident of the Occident
Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, Vintage books New York Translated by Katherine Jones
Edward Said, Freud and the Non-European, Verso Book 2004
Lesson 7 – The Impact of War on The Modern State and on Zionism part 1
Immanuel Kant, “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch,” in H. Reiss (ed.), Kant’s Political Writings (2nd ed.; trans. H. B. Nisbet), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991
Georg Wilhelm Hegel, The Philosophy of Right Trans. T. M. Knox Addition G 362-363
Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum, “The Jewish Political Tradition” Yale, 2000
A.I.H. Kook, Orot Ha-Qodesh Jerusalem: Mosad Harav Kook, 1983,
Lesson 8 – The Impact of War on The Modern State and on Zionism part 2
Aaron Samuel Tamares, “Politics and Passion: An Inquiry into the Evils of Our Time,” trans. Everett E. Gendler, Judaism 12 (1963): 36–56;
Aaron Samuel Tamares, “Passover and Non-Violence,” trans. Everett E. Gendler, Judaism 17 (1968): 203–210;
Aaron Samuel Tamares,Patsifizm le-or ha-Torah (Jerusalem, 1992)
Fromm, Erich (1963), “Religious humanism and politics. To the editors of Judaism”, Judaism. A Quarterly Journal, New York, Vol. XII (Spring), pp. 223-224
Martin Buber, “Nationalism and Zionism”, Israel and the world: Essays in a Time of Crisis, Martin Buber Library, Syracuse Univesrsity Press, 1997, p. 252
Lesson 9 – Three Fundamental Issues – Summary and Exercises
Lesson 10 – New Directions in Contemporary Israeli Society and Culture
W.T. Cavenaugh, "A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House: The Wars of Religion and the Rise of the Nation State", in J. Milbank and S. Oliver (eds.), The Radical Orthodox Reader, London - New York: Routledge, 2009
Lesson 11 – New Directions in Contemporary Israeli Society and Culture II: Where the Un-negation of the Diaspora and the De-Westernization of the State Meet the Question of Peace.
Simon Dubnov: A General History of the Jewish People from the Beginnings of the People until the Eve of the Second World War. Baruch Karu Edition, Dvir, Tel Aviv (1956) pp.95-97.
George Steiner, In Bluebeard’s Castle, Some Notes towards the Redefinition of Culture Yale University Press (1971)
- The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. University of Chicago Press (1979)
- Jacques Derrida, The Beast and the Sovereign Volume 1 Trans. Geoffrey Bennington University of Chicago Press (2007)
Lesson 12 – Building the New-Zionist Educational Curriculum
Lesson 13 – Back to the Future
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 40 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 60 %
Additional information:
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