Teachers’ Workshop Encounters with Jewish Moral Texts

This paper deals with the concept of pedagogical content knowledge in the context of the teaching of Jewish moral texts in Jewish day-schools. The author's approach views pedagogical content knowledge as the dimension of translating subject-matter knowledge for teaching. Teaching Jewish texts is nowadays becoming a highly complicated task, because most Jews no longer accept the a priori authority of the Jewish texts. In order to understand the pedagogical content knowledge involved in teaching moral texts, an analysis is presented here of the process taking place during teachers’ workshops.