Deadline: 30 August 2010
Eligibility: no restrictions
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): papers, articles
Prize/Payment: publication
The Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal invites contributions for an upcoming guest edited volume on Jewish Education. This issue of DIME seeks to explore how informal and formal educational practices construct, challenge, or reify Jewish identity against the backdrop of societal secularization, denominational polarization, Israel-as-center reinterpretations, and globalization. Eschewing normative definitions of "Who is a Jew" in favor of a more experiential and fluid paradigm, we welcome critical contributions from both theoretical and empirical perspectives from various disciplines that touch on the intersection of cultural and religious reproduction and educational practices as they change and react in the fluxes of the broader discourses of religious/cultural education in modernity.
Of particular interest are issues concerning:
1. Day school education
2. Informal education
3. Jewish Travel and tourism
4. Jewish Philanthropy
5. Social networking and technology
6. Jewish languages
Of equal interest will be contributions that revisit the tradition and history of educational frameworks (i.e., synagogue-based schools, Hebrew schools, camps, Israel trips) and recast their approaches in new and illuminating ways.
Please send abstracts to Sharon Avni savni@bmcc.cuny.edu and Zvi Bekerman mszviman@mscc.huji.ac.il by October 30, 2010. Responses to submitted abstracts will be sent by December 2010. Final articles expected for August 30, 2011. Papers invited for the special issue will undergo blind review procedures.
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focused on critical discourse and research in diaspora, indigenous, and minority education. The journal is dedicated to researching cultural sustainability in a world increasingly consolidating under national, transnational, and global organizations. It aims to draw attention to, and learn from, the many initiatives being conducted around the globe in support of diaspora, indigenous, and minority education, which might otherwise go unnoticed.
More information here.
