Manpower Supply and Admissions Policy in Israeli Social Work Education

Publication Date: March 1977

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Eliezer D. Jaffe

Research Area: Education; Social conditions

Keywords: Higher Education; Social Services; Recruitment; Diaspora Relations

Type: Report

Coverage: Israel

Abstract:

The author asserts that the field of social work in Israel ought to reform its social work education and recruitment methods, which he contends were mostly copied from traditional American methods. In addition to reforming admissions practices for collegiate social work programs, the author advocates modular curricula and non-credit tutorial programs. He argues that Israel must pursue bold and experimental expansions of its social work field in order to meet growing needs of the Israeli population.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, ed. by Sanford Sherman, v.53, no.3, March 1977, p.242-249.