Assimilation v. Integration: Immigrant absorption in the Israeli educational system

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Abstract

Israeli society consists largely of immigrants. The immigrants and sons of immigrants of yesterday are the absorbers of the immigrants of today. The crystallisation of the educational system is a product of Israel's coping with the various waves of immigration both before and after Independence. Before 1947, the Jewish educational system in Palestine was fundamentally voluntary and linked with the evolving political system of the Jewish community. After 1947, the system became state supervised and devoid of political and ideological partisan orientation. The Israeli educational system was occupied during its incipient period with solving logistics problems. From a logistic point of view, the system was not prepared for the implementation of the Compulsory Education Act of 1949, which provided free education for children from the ages of five to fourteen. A special unit was established in the Ministry of Education to deal with the immigrant children.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEducating Immigrants
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages137-157
Number of pages21
ISBN (Electronic)9781351628334
ISBN (Print)0709903103, 9781138071346
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

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