Abstract
The rapid pace of change in the broader American culture—spurred on by dramatic innovations in information technology, communication, transportation, scientific development, industry, and connectivity—has brought remarkable change to the American Jewish education landscape. Summer camps, travel, museums, social media, and other informal educational organizations and activities have emerged as a robust counterculture to the prior culture of formal American Jewish schooling. This counterculture, while ostensibly new and anti-establishment, may actually signal a return to the more holistic Jewish educational frameworks of old, whereby Jewish education happens in the course of everyday life experiences at home and in the community, rather than as a separate, cloistered, systematic activity.
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Chazan, B., Chazan, R., Jacobs, B.M. (2017). The Counterculture of American Jewish Education. In: Cultures and Contexts of Jewish Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51586-1_5
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