Policy and model analysis : the case of soviet immigrant teacher re-training in Israel

Abstract

This paper presents an evaluation study of the re-training programme for immigrant science teachers from former USSR (FSU) that took place in Israeli universities and teacher-training colleges for the first time during 1990-1991 following the mass immigration from FSU. The main criterion for this evaluation was the degree to which the re-training programmes catered to professional, social and cultural inherent affecting factors and met the aims of the re-training policy. On the basis of this study, a list of policy recommendations is offered. The re-training considerations and the models identified in this study might be applied in countries where major social changes, such as immigration or recession, occur.