Socio-educational Incubator
The socio-educational incubator
The Institute for Democratic Education and the Kibbutzim College of Education offer a special programme: the incubator for Social Education and Endeavours. The incubator operates as part of the School of Education in the Humanities track, as part of different specialisations: history, literature and Bible - Jewish culture.
The incubator program's main goals are:
- training entrepreneurial educators to conduct innovative socio-educational projects
- training teachers/educators for educational social leadership, using the methods and tools of democratic education.
Democratic education is based on the perception that the principal goals in the field of education are - educating for democratic values, human dignity, and educating for independence. Educating for independence encourages people to gain awareness of themselves - their uniqueness and aspirations - and as a result people initiate and create in spheres that interest them.
Admission requirements to the incubator program:
- Social awareness and interest
- Experience in leading educational and social processes.
- A combined score of 500 and above - the score is determined by an average of matriculation exams (bagrut) in the psychometric exam - 85 weighted to 500 and a psychometric exam grade of 500
- People with vision and initiative
- With self learning skills
The incubator programme grants its graduates three diplomas
- A BA degree in education (B.Ed.)
- A teaching certificate for high schools, in 2 spheres: students can choose between History & Literature, and Bible & Jewish Culture
- A certificate of specialisation in democratic education
Tuition fees
The same fees charged by the Kibbutzim College of Education, plus NIS 2000 per year.
There are many options for generous grants - conditional and non-conditional
Structure of studies
Studies are grounded on a combination of academic studies and experiential studies at the college, with diverse experiences in the field - outside the college.
The programme includes the following:
- Foundation studies in the humanities.
- Educational content from a socio-democratic perspective
- Teaching the humanities, and practical teaching experience.
Studies are held at the college two days a week, and include:
- A workshop + personal incubator - to produce a socio-educational venture.
- Specialised classes in the humanities.
- Workshops and classes for experiential teaching (the teaching incubator)
- Classes and workshops on democratic education
- Organising a group as a democratic learning community
- General classes in education and experiential endeavours in the field during the rest of the week including -
- All stages of a personal incubator - searching, enhancing, and producing (at least half a day per week).
- Experiential teaching in democratic and state schools (half a day - mornings and early afternoon)
- Independent learning as the results of credit-intensive specialisation classes
- Socio-educational endeavours in the student's sphere of interest (at least half a day per week).
This is a four-year program, if students fully comply with their obligations. Programme graduates - if found suitable and complying with the program's requirements - can obtain work in different aspects of democratic education or state schools.
Students in the programme will:
- gain experience in developing and producing socio-educational ventures that match their personal aspirations and needs in the field;
- specialise in a field of expertise in the humanities;
- develop as independent learners;
- gain experience in professional teaching of the humanities;
- gain experience in acquiring democratic education skills: dialogic ability, mentoring, advice on independent learning, applying a democratic educational system;
- shape their personal educational worldview
- acquire skills in the fields of managing and entrepreneuring;
- become members of a democratic community