Lifelong Learning in Synagogues: The Forgotten Communities. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Goulden, Simon
• Is Part Of: Journal of Jewish education. Volume 87:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 60
• Page End: 77
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Lifelong learning -- research -- synagogues -- United Kingdom; Jews -- Education -- Periodicals; Jews -- Education -- United States -- Periodicals; Jewish religious education -- Periodicals; 370.89924073
• DOI: 10.1080/15244113.2020.1838975
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1524-4113

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Though the development of Jewish schools in the United Kingdom has increased enormously in the past 50 years, the planning of adult Jewish education in the UK has been almost entirely ignored. This article explores the purpose and provision of adult education in three communities in the United Synagogue, the largest synagogal body in the UK. Synagogue-based adult education is apparently provided with little planning or measurement of outcomes. Community leaders and members take differing approaches to its aims and success measurement, with socialization being vital for participants, most of whom are in their senior years.