Multicode Organizations: A Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Boarding Schools

High-school student councils: A typological approach

“…Student councils are a nonformal entity within the formal school (Halfon, 2012). Dar (2012) defines six types of multicode organizations-organizations in which there is a symbiosis between formal and nonformal dimensions (Kahane, 1988). To understand the essence of the integrative type, we will compare it with one of the patterns described by Dar (2012)-the hybrid type, which is characterized by optimal integrative action in the various realms of activity, and by integrating many types of activity.…”

“…Based on these approaches, we may assume that the simultaneous exposure to contents areas may benefit students' personal and educational development. The integrative type was compared with Kahane's (1988) hybrid type, one of six types of multicode organizations, and the hybrid type is characterized by combining many different domains and by optimal, integrative, action (Dar, 2012).…”

Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED

“…If parental 8 Boarding schools have a long and controversial history as educational and socializing institutions in a variety of socioeconomic contexts around the world (Kahane, 1988). For instance, elite English and American boarding schools have been described by sociologists as conservative institutions aimed at preserving an existing social order (Kahane, 1988;Levine, 1980;Cookson and Persell, 1985;Zweigenhaft, 1992). In stark contrast, boarding schools also have a history as tools for assimilation for groups such as Native Americans (Adams, 1995;Ellis, 1996).…”

A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony: Trends in Israeli Haredi Culture

“…Building on the work of Lévi-Strauss, Kahane located the codes of different organisations on a continuum between freedom and constraint, structure and content, moratorium and constriction, taboos and allowance, and abstraction and concretisation. In his work on informal codes, Stadler explains, " Kahane (1988Kahane ( , 2001 claimed that researchers can discern a particular movement of a group's worldviews and the organisation of its lifestyle by taking stock of the widening or paring down of its informal codes" . This model also helps Stadler explain the difficulty of maintaining the formal codes (and the stiffening of religious principles) for a long period and the subsequent need to expand the informal codes which give greater freedom to community members to pursue their individual interests.…”