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AAJE Jewish Civics Sourcebook: a Leader's Guide for Teaching Citizenship in the Jewish Community DOCUMENT RESUME ED 142 487 SO 010 191 AUTHOR Efron, Benjamin, Ed.; Chanover, Hyman, Ed. TITLE .AAJE Jewish Civics Sourcebook: A Leader's Guide for .:Teaching Citizenship in the Jewish Community. INSTITUTION AmeriCan Association for Jewish Education, New York, N. Y. PUB DATE 75 NOTE 114p.; This publication was made possible through a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Arnow AVAILABLE FROM American Association for Jewish Education, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011 ($6.95 paperbound) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.83 Plus Postage. HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Citizenship Responsibility; Curriculum Guides; Elementary Secondary Education; *Group Unity; *Jews; Learning Activities; Religious Cultural Groups; Self Concept; *Social Development; Social Studies; Teaching Methods; *Unit Plan ABSTRACT The guidebook contains curriculum ideas, learning experiences, and resources for teaching civics and community responsibility to Jewish youth from grades 'one to 12. Its contents are applicable for all types of Jewish schools,including congregational and communal, day, afternoon, and weekend. There are four major sections. Section one, a civics curriculum, presents a sequential program focusing on the contemporary Jewish community. concepts and related learning experiences are described for primary, intermediate, junior high, and senior high grades. For example, to illustrate how American Jews are simultaneously part of two cultures, students might conduct a seminar discussing contributions of various ethnic groups to the overall society. .Section two contains a teaching strategy on Jewish identity through the concept of "tzedakah,"which is "the sociological end result of the psychological process where identity is really formulated." The program bases learning on the study of individuals familiar to students. It outlines goals, learning opportunities, and evaluation measures. Section three contains five units on topics such as responsibility to Israel and respect for the elderly. Section four, an idea corner,desciibes over 50 innovative projects from schools, temples, and bulletins ofthe t. Bureau of Jewish Education. (Author/AV) *********************************************************************** Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes everyeffort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless,items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makesavailable * * via the ERIC'Document Reproduction Service (EDRS) .EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. *********************************************************************** U S. DEPARTMENT OFHEALTH, EDUCOTION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AUG8 1977 EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HASBEEN REPRO- DUCED EXACTLY ASRECEIVEU FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATIONORIGIN- ATING IT POINTS OE VIEWOR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILYREPRE- SENT OFF ICIAL NATIONALINf,TITUTE EDUCATION POSITION ORPOLICY T:,SSION 10 Wk. PRODOt C.OPvPi(MTE0 VAT! A,ALBY MICRO ONLY 14.S (qLN S a Ct, e -bu Ow OP! PAT ) I PIC AND Opr.Ahi,TATIONSWI TH THE; NA i,C,UTiOrAURIE 1.0NAt NST ITO IFOF AOOC AT ION AfIJE Ijht TH[14 11EPWOC,.:( PEWAT,T, 1,41.f'kfC yV.IET.^ NTiO0.4E5 ,ON 0$ THE C0PV::16H1()AVNER J,CWISH :comsat A LEADER'S GUIDE FOR TEACHING CITIZENSHIP IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Benjamin Efron Editor Hyman Chanover Executive Editor Published by the National Curriculum Reseirch Institute of the American Association for Jewish Education The N3tional Curriculum Research Institute, established in memory of Samuel Rosenthal of Cleveland, has asits purpose the furtherance of curriculum research and pedagogic innovation in Jewish education. In addition to serving as R coordinating body and clearing house in the field of Jewish educational research, it stimulates, initiates, guides and evaluates experimental concepts, programs, methods and text materials. This publication was made possible through a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Arnow. .©Copyright 1975 American Association for Jewish Education 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 1 0011 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION The American Association for Jewish Education, founded in 1939, is the central national service agency for coordination, promotion and research in Arlierican Jewish education. It assists local communities and neional agencies in organizing and operating Jewish educational programs; fostersie estlishment of central communal agencies for Jewish education; helps plan and oroanize programs among congregational, communal and day schools; cunducti national and regional educational studies; publishes pedagogic materials; licenses 'iaachers and principals and seeks to enhance their security and statuz, and stimulates lay interest in the field of Jewish education. The AAJE's constituents include 18 national Jewish organizations with ongoing programs of Jewish education, 45 central communal agencies for Jewish education in the United States and Canada, and an atlarge membership of concerned community lay leaders, educators and scholars. Constituent National Organizations National Commission on Torah Education Hadassan Union 01 Atilere Can Hebrew Congregations Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation Commission on JemSh Education Labor Zionist leiance United Synagogue of America National Council tor Jewish Education Commission on Jewish Education National Council of Jewish Women American Jewish Committae CJCA National Jewish Welfare Board American JewiSp Congress Pioneer women American Sephardi Federation Shalom Mechem Folk Institute B nai 8 rdn Workmen $ Circle Congress for Jewish nulture Zionist Organization 0 America Constituent Communal Agencies Bureau ot Jewish Education. Atlanta Department of Jewish Education. New Haven Jewish Education Committee. Atlantic City Jewish Education Association Board of Jewish Education. Baltimore of Metropolitan New JerSey Bureau of Jewish Education. Boston Board of Jewish Education, New York Bureau of Jewish Education. Buffalo Jewish Egueallon Council, Oakland Bureau of Jewish Education. Camden Board ol JewiSh Education, Paterson Associated Talmud Torahs. Chicago Committee on Jewish Education, Philadelphia Board of Jewish Education Cnizago Division ol Community Service Committee On Jewish Education. Chicago Gratz College. Philadelphia Bureau of Jewish EducatiOn. Cincinnati SChoOl of Advanced Jiwisn Studies Pittsburgh Bureau of Jewish Education. Cleveland Hebrew institute of Pittiburgn Jewish Education Committee Columbus Bureau of Jewish Education. Portland, Ore Bureau of Jewish Education. Clayton Bureau of Jewish Education. Providence Central Agency ?Or Jewish Education. Dsnver Bureau of Jewish Education. %Chester Bureau of Jewish Education. Des Moines Central Agency fOr Jewish Education. St Louis United Habra.** Scnools. DetrOil Talmud Torah of St Paul Commission tor Jewish Education. Houston Bureau 01 Jewish Education. San Diego Jewish Education'Association, Indianapolis Bureau of Jewish Education. San Francisco Jewish Education Council litanies Cdy Comunity Hebrew School Sioux City Bureau 0 Jewish Education, LOS Angeles United Hebrew SChOGis. Springfield mass Bureau of Jewish Education, Louisville Board of Jewish Education, Toledo Central Agency for Jewish Education. Miami Board Of Jewish Education. Toronte Board of Jewish Education. Milwaukee Board of Jewish Education. Washington. DC The Talmud Torah of MinnealSOlia Preface With this volume, the Nation:d Curriculum Research Institute of the AmericanAssociation for Jewish Education brings to a close thc first phase of its efforts in the area ofJtawish civics. This activity. projected tbr a two-year period, was conducted under the aegisof the NCRI's Com- mission on Jewish Civics. Fruts of the Commission's labors haveincluded a student text, teaching guides. a simulation game. an annotated bibliography ofmultimedia materials, mini- courses for junior-and senior hieh school classes. several.teacher training institutes, an extensive cOnsultation service, and a systematic campaign to promote interest in Jewish civics as an integral aspect of the curriculum of the Jewish school. TheSourcebookisa much-needed document in the fields offormal and informal Jewish education. lt contains a wealth of proposals which, in many respects, synthesize thetrends in curriculum planning and the innovations in social studies teaching of the past fifteen years. Its thrust is more than cognition of the structure and problems of theJewish community. It attempts, through the numerous "sensitivity" experiences ithighlights, to help Jewish youth develop a meanindbl individual relationship with the functioning Jewishcommunity and, in due course, become responsible participants in itsactivities. Its foci are first, the quality of the personal association that can and should exist between our young and theirpeoplelocally', nationally, and internationallyand second, the relationship that ought toobtain between them as Jews and the larger societyof which they are a part. Schools, centers, and other educational agencies have heretofore done little to achieve these goals. One can only trust that professional personnel in the formai andinformal spheres of Jewish education will allow the contents of this volume to guide them towardredesigning their social studies programming so that preparat:on for "Jewish citizenship" will begin to occupy
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