Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning (Jun 2021)

What is so Alternative about the Alternative Education in Israel? The Scale of 11 Challenges set by the Alternative Education None-Mainstream

  • Arie Kizel

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 30
pp. 16 – 41

Abstract

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The Israeli education system consists of public state schools and an alternative education system. This article reviews the unique characteristics of the alternative educational frameworks and analyzes the challenges they pose to the traditional and conservative state education system. The text offers a distinction between “Alternatives in education” vs. “Alternativeness in education” based on Ivan Illich others.

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