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Stanford University, Ph.D. Stanford University, M.A. Stanford University, M.A. Harvard University, B.A. Jon A. Levisohn holds the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis, and directs the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. Levisohn studies philosophy of education and philosophy of Jewish education. His particular focus has been on understanding how we make sense of texts -- both religious texts and secular texts -- especially in the contexts of teaching and learning. More recently, Levisohn has expanded his focus to general questions about the desired outcomes of Jewish education. Typically those outcomes are conceived in terms of the transmission of content, or the promotion of "Jewish identity," or at the communal level, in terms of the replication or continuity of the Jewish community. None of these conceptions are satisfactory. Instead, Jewish educators ought to develop a conception of the desirable outcomes of Jewish education in terms of the moral and intellectual dispositions that they seek to foster -- the virtues, as it were, of Jewish education.