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Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education

Research Interests

  • Social Studies Education
  • History of Education
  • Curriculum Theory
  • Teacher Education
  • Jewish Education / Ethnic Education

Selected Publications

Jacobs, B. M. (2009). Socialization into a civilization: The Dewey-Kaplan synthesis in American Jewish schooling in the early twentieth century. Religious Education, 104(2), 149-165.

Chazan, R., & Jacobs, B. M. (2005). Jewish history from the academy to the schools: Bridging the gap. In M. Nisan & O. Schremer (Eds.), Educational deliberations: Festschrift in honor of Seymour M. Fox (pp. 149-172). Jerusalem: Keter Publishers.

Jacobs, B. M. (2005). What’s wrong with the history of American Jewish education? Journal of Jewish Education, 71(1), 33-51.

Jacobs, B. M. (2004). Jewish education for intelligent citizenship in the American Jewish community, 1910-1940. In C. Woyshner, J. Watras, & M. S. Crocco (Eds.), Social education in the twentieth century: Curriculum and context for citizenship (pp. 76-92). New York: Peter Lang.

Jacobs, B. M. (2003). [Review of the book The education of Jews and the American community: 1840 to the new millennium]. American Jewish History,91(2), 331-334.

Jacobs, B. M. (2002). Where the personal and the pedagogical meet: A portrait of a master teacher of Jewish history. Journal of Jewish Education,68(1), 73-86.

Courses

  • The Social Sciences and the Social Studies
  • Social Studies for In-Service Middle/Secondary Teachers
  • Historiography of Curriculum and Schooling
  • Critical Examination of Curriculum in Context