The Melton Centre for Jewish Education - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

December 29th, 2007

Prof. Kieran Egan and Dr. Sean Blenkinsop

Co-directors of the ‘Imaginative Education Research Group’, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada

"Imaginative Education"

December 29th, 2007

Prof. Ellen Goldring

Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership

Peabody College, Vanderbilt University

"Research in Jewish Education - Less may be more"

December 16th, 2007

Prof. Martha Nussbaum

Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The University of Chicago Law School.

"Humanistic Education and Global Justice"

June 30th, 2007

Dr. Menachem Hirshman

The Melton Centre for Jewish Education, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

"Between Midrash and History"

June 4th, 2007

Prof. Avi Sagi

Head of the Philosophy Department - Bar-Ilan University

"Religion, Reason and Spirituality"

June 4th, 2007

Øyvind Olsholt

Co-Director of Children and Youth Philosophers. Norwegian Center for Philosophy with Children and Youth.

"Walk and Talk: Pilgrimage and Philosophical Practice"

June 4th, 2007

Dr. Eugenio Echeverría

Director of the Latin American Centre of Philosophy for Children and Youth (Celafin), Mexico.

"Teacher Education in Multicultural Contexts"

June 4, 2007

Dr. Gregory Maughn

Director, Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children - Montclair State University.

"Philosophy, Religion and Philosophy for Children"

June 4th, 2007

Prof. Ann Sharp

Director of Philosophy for Children Graduate Programs, Montclair State University.

"Going Visiting”: The Art of Making Better Judgments in the Classroom Community of Inquiry"

January 2nd, 2007

Dr. Asher Shkedi

The Melton Centre for Jewish Education, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem

"Teachers' Ideologies"

December 5th, 2006

Dr. Michael Gillis

The Melton Centre for Jewish Education, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

"The "Revivim" program- Jewish Culture in Israeli Schools and the Question of Teacher Education"

November 19th, 2006

Prof. Gabriel Horenczyk

The Melton Centre of Jewish Education, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem

"Biculturalism and Jewish Identity"

June 29th, 2006

Prof. Ellen Goldring

Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.

"Building a Community Within and Around Schools of Choice: Can Jewish Day Schools Measure Up?"

June 28th, 2006

Prof. Steven M. Cohen

Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at HUC-JIR/New York

"Changing Conceptions of Jewish Community in the US: The Implications for Day Schools"

June 28th, 2006

Prof. Zvi Gitelman

Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, The University of Michigan.

"Do Jewish schools make a difference in the Former Soviet Union?"

June 27th, 2006

Prof. Deborah Meier

Central Park East Schools; New York University

"Schools, community and democracy"

June 27th, 2006

Dr. Alex Pomson

The Melton Centre for Jewish Education, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

"Reframing Jewish day school education worldwide: the school in the community - community in the school"

Dr. Howard Deitcher

The Melton Centre for Jewish Education, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem

"Education and Midrash"

March 29th, 2006

Prof. Steven M. Cohen

Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at HUC-JIR/New York

"Emerging Forms of Jewish Identities and Connections among the Next Generation of American Jews"