CU7-IOGP

Suggestions for the process of interviewing representatives of religious groups.
 * 1) Everything we do at Folkshul should have a secular, humanist Jewish purpose (overt preferable to covert) including the interviews
 * 2) The primary purpose of the interviews with leaders from religious groups is to learn about ourselves by clarifying our boundaries (where we are similar, where we are different) and seeing how they measure up to our standards of excellence/value and how we measure up to theirs.
 * 3) The order of interviews should be from the least similar to the most similar (eg - orthodox first, reoconstructionist last) so that as the students' experience grows with the interviews, they will learn how to make the finer distinctions necessary to see the differences between ourselves and those closest to us and lessen their reluctance to ask critical questions
 * 4) During the interview, only the students should ask and answer questions with the speaker. Any adults in the audience should be there as listeners only.
 * 5) After the interview, there should be a teacher-led followup to clarify and guide the students to the secular humanist Jewish position on the issues.
 * 6) It is important to label and classify the ideas expressed to aid later identification and to associate other concepts with what is being discussed. It will also help the students to decide what they are whether it is SHJ, pantheist, reform, etc