Negotiating Tradition and Contemporary Education: An Enrichment Center for Jewish Ultra‐Orthodox Children in Israel

Abstract

This paper addresses the negotiations of Haredi (Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) kindergarten teachers with contemporary educational understandings as these emerge in a Haredi Enrichment Center for kindergarten children. Using the prism of Thirdspace, a close look at the themes around which the Enrichment Center and its activities were organized reveals the cultural strategies involved in the amendments that contemporary ideas and practices must undergo in order to be conceptually accepted and practically implemented by Haredi educators.

“I never display my emotions”: emotion suppression among Ultra-Orthodox female teachers

“…The girls' educational system (K-12) is fully accredited by the Israeli Ministry of Education, and its curriculum is similar to that of the general Israeli educational system (Almog and Perry-Hazan, 2011), although its contents are adapted to religious values and to the Ultra-Orthodox worldview. Thus, female teachers in the Ultra-Orthodox schools for girls balance between modern practices and religious norms in order to ensure that religious principles are not compromised in the schooling process (Haller et al. , 2018).…”