American Jewish Children’s Thoughts and Feelings About the Jewish State: Laying the Groundwork for a Developmental Approach to Israel Education

Zakai, Sivan; Cohen, Hannah Tobin

doi:10.1007/s12397-016-9160-y

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“…Like their teenage counterparts (Rosov Consulting 2013), they understand that Israeli society is imperfect and yet they nonetheless view themselves as personally responsible for participating in its repair . However, while American Jewish teenagers often believe that there is little room in the organized Jewish community to grapple with complex or conflicted emotions about Israel (Zakai 2011;Pomson 2012), American Jewish children readily express both feelings of pride or joy and feelings of anxiety or frustration with contemporary Israel and its role in American Jewish life (Zakai and Cohen 2016).…”

Section: Widening the Scope: Conceptions Of Israel Over A Lifetimementioning

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From the Mouths of Children: Widening the Scope and Shifting the Focus of Understanding the Relationships Between American Jews and Israel

Zakai

2019

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Scholars have spent considerable effort to uncover and explain the unique ways that contemporary American Jews think and feel about Israel, yet the voices of American Jewish children have been conspicuously absent from most research. American Jewish children-like the adults in their lives-have beliefs, opinions, and thoughts about Israel and its role in American Jewish life. This article makes two distinct yet interrelated arguments about the role of children in research on contemporary American Jews. The first is that children ought to be included in research about American Judaism. Second, the inclusion of children in research both widens the scope and shifts the focus of understanding American Jewish relationships to Israel. Children's participation in research demonstrates how American Jews develop relationships with Israel over the course of a lifetime. In addition, the methodological approaches that allow for the inclusion of children in research shift the focus of understanding away from a "deficit model" that measures participants' knowledge and connection against an existing ledger, and towards an "inventory model" that takes stock of participants' cognitive and emotional warehouses. This shift is essential for understanding what Israel means in the lives of American Jews of all ages.

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Section: Widening the Scope: Conceptions Of Israel Over A Lifetimementioning

confidence: 99%

From the Mouths of Children: Widening the Scope and Shifting the Focus of Understanding the Relationships Between American Jews and Israel

Zakai

2019

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Changing Students’ Perceptions by HumanizingDatiIsraelis through Comics

Reingold

2021

Religious Education

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What’s Happening at the Flag Pole? Studying Camps as Institutions for Israel Education

Aharon¹,

Pomson²

2018

Journal of Jewish Education

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American Jewish Children’s Thoughts and Feelings About the Jewish State: Laying the Groundwork for a Developmental Approach to Israel Education

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

From the Mouths of Children: Widening the Scope and Shifting the Focus of Understanding the Relationships Between American Jews and Israel

From the Mouths of Children: Widening the Scope and Shifting the Focus of Understanding the Relationships Between American Jews and Israel

Changing Students’ Perceptions by HumanizingDatiIsraelis through Comics

What’s Happening at the Flag Pole? Studying Camps as Institutions for Israel Education

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