Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Education
Angaben zur Quelle:
85,3 (2019) 268-292
Keywords:
Jewish day schools
;
Jewish religious education
;
Jews Identity
;
Study and teaching
Abstract:
Faith schools are often perceived as restricting students’ autonomy through inculcating a single religious ideology and compelling participation in collective worship. Based on interviews and focus groups with parents, students and senior staff, this article investigates how England’s one pluralist Jewish secondary school has, in contrast, attempted to accommodate various forms of Jewish practice and facilitate students’ agency to determine their Jewish identities as desired. It reveals that students enjoy opportunities to actively negotiate Judaism, but that their autonomy is not without limits, and issues inherent to pluralism exist in executing an ethos accommodative of diverse, personalized expressions of Jewishness.
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