ñ Particularism and Universalism

Posted On Feb 13, 2017 | ñ Learning and the Non-Jew | Philosophy

Marc Silverman: “‘Free Jews’ and Their Views on ñ Culture and Its Interface with Other Peoples’ Cultures”

Yossi Turner: “ñ Learning and the Non-Jew: Toward a New Particularist-Universalist Paradigm”

Chair: Jeffrey Kress

This session was part of “ñ Learning and the Non-Jew,” the 2017 Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction conference, hosted by JTS’s William Davidson Graduate School of ñ Education. The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a collaboration of the three centers endowed by Samuel M. Melton ”l at JTS, , and .

Marc Silverman, presently retired, served as a senior lecturer in the Hebrew university’s Seymour Fox School of Education and Melton Centre for ñ education for over thirty years. He teaches, researches, writes and publishes articles in two main interrelated educational fields: Philosophy of Education, Moral, progressive, radical and ñ educational thought; and the intellectual history, sociology and ideologies of current ñ cultural and educational movements and trends. His monograph on the pedagogy and philosophy of Janusz Korczak entitled A Pedagogy of Humanist Moral Education: The Educational Thought of Janusz Korczak is scheduled to be published by Palgrave-Macmillan this March 2017.

Yossi Turner is professor of ñ Thought and Philosophy at the Schechter Institute of ñ Studies in Jerusalem. His work is in the area of the philosophy of ñ existence, education, culture and society and he his published books include The Relation to Zion and the Diaspora in 20th Century ñ Thought (Hebrew) and Faith and Humanism: an Inquiry in Franz Rosenzweig’s Religious Philosophy (Hebrew), among others.

Jeffrey S. Kress is the Bernard Heller Associate Professor of ñ Education at the ñ Theological Seminary. He is also a coordinator of the Research Center at the Leadership Commons of the Davidson School. He has a degree in Clinical Psychology and has written on ñ identity, experiential ñ education, and social, emotional, and spiritual issues in ñ education.