Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish Education

Episode 19: Getting Serious About Play in Jewish Education | Rabbi Judd Levingston, PhD

November 28, 2023 Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University Season 3 Episode 2
Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish Education
Episode 19: Getting Serious About Play in Jewish Education | Rabbi Judd Levingston, PhD
Show Notes

Beyond lifting the spirits of teachers and students, play in Jewish education spaces can also shape moral development and character. Drawing from his new research, Judd Kruger Levingston shares how teachers and administrators can cultivate "a moral ecology of play" in classrooms, hallways, gathering spaces, and playgrounds. In this session, Levingston speaks about ways in which a wide variety of approaches to play across the curriculum and throughout a school's culture can transform a young person's values and moral outlook.

Originally recorded: 11/15/23

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