Studying Sacred Texts as a Pathway to Positive Youth Development: Middle School Students Read Hebrew Bible

Studying Sacred Texts as a Pathway to Positive Youth Development: Middle School Students Read Hebrew Bible

In many religious education classrooms, the meaning of a sacred text is treated as something stable and authoritative. A teacher’s job is to transmit that meaning to students. This study reports on a year-long intervention conducted in a seventh grade Hebrew Bible classroom in which studen...

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Main Author: Ziva Hassenfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-06-01
Series:Religions
Subjects:
Hebrew Bible
Pedagogy
Reader-response theory
religious education
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/6/379
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spelling doaj-8b0c4ed4067b446ca3843d3e975eecd52020-11-25T01:50:53ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442019-06-0110637910.3390/rel10060379rel10060379Studying Sacred Texts as a Pathway to Positive Youth Development: Middle School Students Read Hebrew BibleZiva Hassenfeld0Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USAIn many religious education classrooms, the meaning of a sacred text is treated as something stable and authoritative. A teacher’s job is to transmit that meaning to students. This study reports on a year-long intervention conducted in a seventh grade Hebrew Bible classroom in which students were asked to find their own meaning in the biblical text. The study found that religious text classrooms can offer a unique opportunity to support positive youth development when an effective interpretive community is created.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/6/379Hebrew BiblePedagogyReader-response theoryreligious education
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Hebrew Bible
Pedagogy
Reader-response theory
religious education
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title Studying Sacred Texts as a Pathway to Positive Youth Development: Middle School Students Read Hebrew Bible
title_short Studying Sacred Texts as a Pathway to Positive Youth Development: Middle School Students Read Hebrew Bible
title_full Studying Sacred Texts as a Pathway to Positive Youth Development: Middle School Students Read Hebrew Bible
title_fullStr Studying Sacred Texts as a Pathway to Positive Youth Development: Middle School Students Read Hebrew Bible
title_full_unstemmed Studying Sacred Texts as a Pathway to Positive Youth Development: Middle School Students Read Hebrew Bible
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publishDate 2019-06-01
description In many religious education classrooms, the meaning of a sacred text is treated as something stable and authoritative. A teacher’s job is to transmit that meaning to students. This study reports on a year-long intervention conducted in a seventh grade Hebrew Bible classroom in which students were asked to find their own meaning in the biblical text. The study found that religious text classrooms can offer a unique opportunity to support positive youth development when an effective interpretive community is created.
topic Hebrew Bible
Pedagogy
Reader-response theory
religious education
url https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/6/379
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