Sozialismus-Zionismus, Reformpädagogik und die Entwicklung der Erziehung im Kibbuz

Abstract

The Israeli kibbutzim are looked at as an example for a productive transformation of pedagogical ideas which were generated in a quite different environment. Although the kibbutzim cannot be regarded as a part of the new education at the beginning of the twentieth century they also benefited from the process of internationalisation of pedagogical ideas. In this case it were the socialist and psychoanalytical thoughts of Siegfried Bernfeld which were adopted by the protagonists of the Kibbutz movement who were in need of a theory for the exceptional educational practice they had invented as an answer to the needs of their exceptional situation. The author focuses on the way leading kibbutzniks perceived Bernstein's ideas whom several of them personally contacted. (DIPF/Orig.)