Wednesday, February 16, 2011
I wrote a post about the book by Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld on Jewish Religious Education recently. In his book, among many excellent points, he writes about using literature as a tool for indirect learning, to reinforce and help students think about the points taught directly in other areas of the curriculum. I've notices a while ago that young children like to philosophize and think about many different issues of philosophical nature. So using stories that kids love to explore these philosophical ruminations further sounds like a good idea. Therefore, I was very excited to find this link that helps one do just that. As an aside there are quite a few books out there that use literature and other books that kids enjoy to teach a variety of subjects like art, music, history and even economics. I find this idea rather intriguing. So perhaps I'll collect some of these for a future post.