This volume is the first of its kind to bring together scholars from inside Jewish education and from the learning sciences to address core elements of Jewish education: its desired outcomes, the kinds of learning needed to achieve these, and how those kinds of learning actually occur.

Introduction: What the ¿Learning Agendä Is and Why It Matters
Jon A. Levisohn and Jeffrey S. Kress

Activating Jewish Learners: Positioning Youth for Persistent Success in Jewish Learning and Living
Rena Dorph and Christian D. Schunn

Fostering Identity and Disposition Development in Jewish Education: A View from the Learning Sciences
Janet L. Kolodner

Learning about Learning in Jewish Education
Ari Y. Kelman

Old Traditions, New Practices: A Proposal for a Return to Text Study as a Centerpiece of Jewish Community and Family Life
Daniel P. Resnick and Lauren B. Resnick

Observing Havruta Learning from the Perspective of the Learning Sciences
Baruch Schwarz

Learning the Whole Game of Shabbat
Joseph Reimer

What We Can Learn about Learning from Holocaust Education
Simone Schweber

Is this a Real Story? Learning Critical History and Learning Its Limits
Sam Wineburg

Jon A. Levisohn holds the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University, where he is also serves as the director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. A philosopher of education, he focuses on the teaching and learning of classical Jewish texts, and on the desired outcomes of Jewish education. He is co-editor of Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts (2013) and Beyond Jewish Identity: Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives (forthcoming).

Jeffrey S. Kress is the Dr. Bernard Heller Associate Professor of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he also directs the research center of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education. He focuses on developmental issues in Jewish education, especially social, emotional and spiritual development. He is the author of Development, Learning and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools (2012) and the editor of Growing Jewish Minds, Growing Jewish Souls: Promoting Spiritual, Social and Emotional Growth in Jewish Education (2013).