Geoffrey D. Claussen, "Teaching Modern Jewish Ethics Through Role-Play," Journal of Jewish Ethics, vol. 6, no. 1 (2020): 74–93.This article considers the use of role-playing pedagogy in an undergraduate Jewish Ethics course, focusing on a course activity in which students represented diverse modern Jewish thinkers and debated how Jews should understand particular moral virtues. As an example, I describe a class in which students represented seven modern Jews with diverse perspectives on altruistic love, kindness, and compassion and engaged in character with questions regarding gender, violence, and who is included in the commandment to love one’s fellow, among other issues. I explore how such role-playing engaged students and challenged them to think critically about the views of others, the construction of virtue, the diversity of modern Jewish ethical traditions, and their own approaches to ethics.
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