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what is the place for emotional language if it is not readily voiced in the ultra-Orthodox teachers’
room, and which needs underlythe development of work approaches with students in situations
of risk in ultra-Orthodox educational schools.
The issue’s third section, Knowledge Management and Development, details the challenge of
preserving and sharing knowledge in an organization. In this section, Daniel Kerenji, Knowledge
Manager at JDC-Ashalim’s Knowledge and Learning Center, presents the mounting phenomenon
of knowledge sharing in the organizational landscape, at least in the declarative aspect. The article
provides answers to the question of why technological tools alone are insufficient to gather the
specialized knowledge within the organization. It suggests a fresh look at the phenomenon of
knowledge sharing, viewing it as an integral part of a broad and enabling organizational culture
that stimulates innovation, creativity and friendship among the organization’s various employees.
The issue’s final section, Reading Corner, focuses on interesting literature relevant to social
activity in the field of children, youth and young adults in situations at risk and their families. Here,
professionals from within and outside JDC-Ashalim were given a platform to read and analyze
a new book relevant to our endeavors, and to share their resulting personal and professional
experience with readers. In this issue, Zvi Amely, a professional staff member of the Group
Facilitators Training Program in the Continuing Studies Unit at the Bar-Ilan University School
of Social Work, and a lecturer at JDC-Ashalim’s Knowledge and LearningCenter, selected two
poems that deal with childhood: “Morid Hageshem”(The Rainmaker) by Aharon Almog, and a poem
written by Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska, who passed away this year. Amely reacts to
the poems from a developmental point of view. He engages in a dialogue between the words of
the poems and his personal and collective experience, posing a fascinating challenge to readers.
It is also an invitation to the child inside each and every one of us to join the discourse dealing
with the creative life urge, the passion of creativity, the power of poetry, and the conditions that
facilitate or repress growth.
עט השדה
2012
ספטמבר
VI