Innovative Approaches in Working with Children and Youth

New Lessons from the Kibbutz

Yuval Dror

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780789014191
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317719533
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Explore the unique social and educational laboratory known as the Israeli kibbutz!This valuable book examines state-of-the-art innovations in services for children and youth happening today in the kibbutz in Israel. It brings to light the latest developments in integrated services for clients inside and outside the kibbutz society, services for detached and troubled individuals and groups from outside the kibbutz, and regional services that include kibbutz and non-kibbutz children who live at home while attending kibbutz institutions.According to editor Yuval Dror, "Since the mid-1980s, the kibbutz movement has experienced a deep social and economic crisis, but despite this negative influence on the semi-private kibbutz educational system, the uniqueness of 'communal/cooperative education' has been maintained, and has even grown. The openness of the kibbutz to its neighbors from non-kibbutz settlements in the 1980s and 1990s enabled rural areas to succeed in fruitful cooperation with the kibbutz. These experiences are detailed here."In Innovative Approaches In Working with Children and Youth: New Lessons from the Kibbutz you'll learn about youth aliya groups (youth societies), the Project for the Education of Israeli Children in the Kibbutz Movement, the NA'ALEH Program, and the Zweig Center for Special Education at Oranim. This unique book brings you:

• a comparison of two kibbutz secondary boarding schools with residential facilities in different forms
• a look at a unique way of absorbing young Russian immigrants in kibbutzim and other residential settings
• an examination of integration practice in kibbutz day schools
• a discussion of how Kfar Tikva serves disabled adults
• . . . and much more!

Educators and their students, youth workers, and social workers, as well as anyone with an interest in the unique learning opportunities offered by the kibbutz system will find Innovative Approaches In Working with Children and Youth: New Lessons from the Kibbutz an invaluable tool.

Index

Absorption, of youth

Friedben Scale of, 96–97, 111–112

in kibbutz, 40, 42, 81–83

collective elements for, 83–87

individual elements for, 87–89

policy principles for, 78–79

school arrangements for, 79–81, 83

successes and difficulties of, 48–50, 76–77, 89–90

in Na’aleh Program, 95–108

as new students, 3–4, 12, 18

in secondary schools, 4, 40, 75–90

Academia field, collaboration on special education, 144, 146–148

Academic achievement

in regional schools, 120–122

student absorption and, 81, 87–88

Academic courses/programs

of Kfar Tikva, 31–32

for kibbutz youth, 55–57, 81

whole school, 2

Academic integration. See Educational integration

Active learning, in kibbutz model, 2, 139

Adaptation, of immigrant students emotional, 102

Friedben scale of, 96–97, 109–110

in Na’aleh Program, 95–108

Admission examinations, student absorption and, 80–81

Adoption. See also Foster families

motivation for, 41–42, 49

symbolic kibbutz, 56–57

Agricultural community, kibbutz youth groups as, 61–62

Alienation, in Russian kibbutz students, 93, 98, 107

Aliyah, making of

Jewish, through kibbutz youth groups, 56, 59–60, 62–63

by Russian students, 97

Altruistic giving, 18

Analysis schemes

for kibbutz education, 1, 5

for kibbutz youth group, 58–59, 64, 71

for special education, 145–146

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editor
• Introduction
• Shafririm: The Institute for Special Education
• Kfar Tikva–Therapeutic Concept for People with Special Needs: Knock, Knock, Knock… Is Someone Out There?
• The Project for the Education of Israeli Children in the Kibbutz Movement
• Educating Youth Groups in Kibbutz Communities: The Interests of the Kibbutz
• Social and Academic Integration of City and Kibbutz Youth
• One Russian “Chevrat Noar” Group in the Kibbutz: An Assessment of the Na’aleh Program
• Integration in Kibbutz Day Schools: Regionalization of Secondary and Elementary Schools in the Beit Shean Valley Since 1972
• The Zweig Center for Special Education: School-University Partnership and Professional Development School According to the Heritage of Kibbutz Education
• Index