Description
Book SynopsisGroundbreaking interpretations of classical rabbinic texts lead the reader through an exploration of ""attuned learning"" an emerging paradigm of mindfulness that emphasizes alertness to ones own mental, emotional, and physical workings as well as awareness of others within the complexities of learning interactions. The pedagogical is integrated with the ethical in transformative teaching and learning; repair of educational disruptions; the role of the human visage; and the dynamics of argumentative and collaborative learning. Textual analyses reveal how deliberate self-cultivation not only infuses ethics and spirituality into the growth of teachers, learners, and co-learners, but also offers a potential corrective for calculative modalities in contemporary educational thinking. The author speaks to the existential, humanizing art of education, enabling readers to examine, expand, or revisit their beliefs and practices.
Trade Review"This highly original book offers readers an opportunity to study rabbinic texts on education with a gifted teacher and to experience a process of learning which touches the mind and heart. To help readers grow into attuned learners, Holzer presents a way of studying ancient texts that cultivates the ethical dimensions of learning. Anyone interested in dialogical approaches to education and empowering text study will benefit greatly from reading this book." -- Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor of Jewish Education, Brandeis University
Table of ContentsAttuned Acknowledgments
Part One: Conceptual Frameworks
Chapter One: The Concept of Attuned Learning
Chapter Two: Reading Rabbinic Texts for Education
Part Two: Co-Learners’ Attuned Learning
Introduction:Collaborative Learning in Rabbinic Literature
Chapter Three: Self-Refinement in Argumentative Learning
Chapter Four: Study Partners’ Learning
Part Three: Teachers and Students’ Attuned Learning
Introduction: Teaching in Rabbinic Literature
Chapter Five: Learning Transformations
Chapter Six: Disruptions and Repairs
Chapter Seven: The Visages of Learning Interactions
Part Four: Attuned Learning and Educational Thought
Chapter Eight: Attuned Learning in Contemporary Contexts
Glossary of Technical and Foreign Terms and Language Usage
Bibliography
Index
