Recent Publications from MLI Scholars
Educational Deliberations: Studies in Education Dedicated to Shlomo (Seymour) Fox – Editors: Mordecai Nisan and Oded Schremer, published by Mandel Leadership Institute with Keter Publishing House.
Prior to his untimely death, colleagues, friends and students of Professor Seymour Fox æ"ì compiled two collections of articles, one in English and one in Hebrew, in honor of his 75th birthday. What these articles all have in common is the attempt to reflect a general view of education that combines vision and practice, the desirable and the attainable, the universal and the particular. Together these articles reflect the manifold aspects of Fox's life work since he began working in education more than 50 years ago.
The Educational Deliberations presented in this book are based on Jewish and general thought, the experience of practitioners and the systematic study of researchers. The theoretical and practical challenge that Fox posed and which the papers take up is unconventional in its demands on teachers, researchers and scholars. It awakens those in the field and those who shape education to fresh thinking and action.
Self Creation: Life, Man and Creation in Nietzche`s Thought by Eli Eilon, Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute's Graduates Unit was published by the Magnes Publishing House.
What is self creation? How is liberty possible? What processes enable the creative person's inner abundance? Is the super-human merely a utopia? What connects culture and reality to the individual's most intimate experience? What can man hope for in a world that is merely a man made prison of metaphors?
The author of this exciting book offers a new interpretation for Friedrich Nietzche's (1900-1844) polemic contemplations, which influence thought and culture to this day. The essay reconstructs this contemplation, based on a revolutionary idea that the human being creates itself. The author also reflects on the thought of Schopenhauer, Nietzche's spiritual guide, and of other philosophers who had influenced him, bringing to the surface internal and less familiar structures in Nietzche's thought. The book settles fundamental discrepancies in Nieztche, and provides criticism at crucial points.
Learning in Places: the Informal Education Reader – edited by Zvi Bekerman, a member of the Mandel Leadership Institute's faculty, Nicholas Burbules and Diana Silberman-Keller. Peter Lang Publishing Group, New York
Learning in Places is a concerted effort undertaken by an outstanding group of international researchers to create a resource book that can introduce academic, professional and lay readers to the field of informal learning/education and its potential to transform present educational thinking. The book presents a wealth of ideas from a wide variety of disciplinary fields and methodological approaches covering multiple learning landscapes – in museums, workplaces, classrooms, places of recreation – in a variety of political, social and cultural contexts around the world. Learning in Places presents the most recent theoretical advances in the field; analyzing the social, cultural, political, historical and economical contexts within which informal learning develops and must be critiqued. It also looks into the epistemology that nourishes its development and into the practices that characterize its implementation; and finally reflects on the variety of educational contexts in which it is practiced.