Open Your Hand
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American
American ideals
Author_Ilana Blumberg
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citizen
civic
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ethics
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ILANA M. BLUMBERG
intellectual discovery
Jew
Jewish
Jewish education
Jewish faith
learning
life-changing journey
moral
Open Your Hand
reading
religious
speaking
students
teaching
Teaching as a Jew
Teaching as an American
teaching crisis
teaching practice
thinking
writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781978800823
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2018
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Fifteen years into a successful career as a college professor, Ilana Blumberg encounters a crisis in the classroom that sends her back to the most basic questions about education and prompts a life-changing journey that ultimately takes her from East Lansing to Tel Aviv. As she explores how civic and religious commitments shape the culture of her humanities classrooms, Blumberg argues that there is no education without ethics. When we know what sort of society we seek to build, our teaching practices follow. In vivid classroom scenes from kindergarten through middle school to the university level, Blumberg conveys the drama of intellectual discovery as she offers novice and experienced teachers a pedagogy of writing, speaking, reading, and thinking that she links clearly to the moral and personal development of her students. Writing as an observant Jew and as an American, Blumberg does not shy away from the difficult challenge of balancing identities in the twenty-first century: how to remain true to a community of origin while being a national and global citizen. As she negotiates questions of faith and citizenship in the wide range of classrooms she traverses, Blumberg reminds us that teaching - and learning - are nothing short of a moral art, and that the future of our society depends on it.
ILANA M. BLUMBERG is a senior lecturer in English literature and director of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is the author of Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels and the Sami Rohr Choice Award-winning memoir Houses of Study: a Jewish Woman among Books.
