God's Paintbrush Teacher's Guide: A Guide for Jewish and Christian Educators and Parents
Multicultural, Nondenominational, Nonsectarian
Includes steps for exploring the book's theological foundations with students from kindergarten through Grade 4 and above. Lesson plans, classroom activities and more.
About God’s Paintbrush
Through fantasy, involvement and the imagination, God’s Paintbrush invites children of all faiths and backgrounds to encounter God openly through moments in their own lives—and helps the adults who love them to be a part of that interactive encounter. This book provides a gift of images that nurture and encourage children in making meaning of their world.
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Book details
- Author
- Jeffrey Schein
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Reference
Religion › Judaism - Topics
- religious education · Jewish education · Christian education · early childhood faith · theology for children · multicultural spirituality · classroom activities · interfaith teaching
- ISBN-13
- 9781879045576 (Paperback)9781683360964 (Hardcover)
About the author
JEFFREY L. SCHEIN is a rabbi and Jewish educator who has authored approximately a dozen books on Jewish living and learning. His recent books include Text Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Meets Contemporary Technology, God’s Paintbrush Teacher’s Guide and Creative Jewish Education: A Reconstructionist Perspective.
Schein holds a doctorate from Temple University in curricular studies and is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He served for twenty years as national director of education for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation and is senior consultant for Jewish Education of the Mordecai Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.