Lack of Education and Delinquency in Children’s Journals in Israel’s First Decade
Keywords:
Israel in Its Early Years, Compulsory Education Law, 'Gadna', Children’s Press in IsraelAbstract
Israel’s first decade was a time of considerable regulatory activity, much of which was aimed at defining the state’s character. One way was through legislation that formalized compulsory education for young children and state-run pedagogical activities for older children through the ‘Gadna’ youth corps. During the 1950s education also served as an important junction for legal and political thought.
This article examines how children’s journals fulfilled the state’s educational commitment by emphasizing, for example, education as means of crime prevention. The journals are analyzed in the context of the social climate. The article focuses on the supreme importance the authors placed on their own role in the socialization of their readers by pointing to the link between illiteracy, truancy and delinquency, and the origin of truant children and their parents from Islamic countries.
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