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Orbis scholae is an academic journal published by Charles University, Prague. It features articles on school education in the wider socio-cultural context. It aims to contribute to our understanding and the development of school education, and to the reflection of teaching practice and educational policy.
ORBIS SCHOLAE, Vol 1 No 2 (2007), 11–44
In Pursuit of Educational Change: Transformation of Education in the Czech Republic
David Greger, Eliška Walterová
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363177.2018.165
published online: 22. 02. 2018
abstract
This study, using a common theoretical framework, analyses the process of educational change in the Czech Republic since the political changes in 1989. It starts with a brief introduction to the country and its educational system. Its main concern is focused on the phases and particular dimensions of the transformation process in school education at the primary and secondary level. Social and political incoherence, non-linearity, imbalances, atomization and diffussion as a consequence of tensions between continuity and discontinuity are identified as characteristic features of the process. In spite of positive shifts concerning educational policy, legislation, management, financing regulation, the curriculum, teacher professionalisation and support structure development, there are still barriers, e.g. lack of political consensus and the lack of a steering and monitoring mechanism in the educational sector. Real systemic reform reaching the intermediate and microlevels of the educational system has not been implemented yet.
keywords: social transition, Czech Republic, educational system, school education, educational policy, process of transformation, dimensions of transformation, systemic reform, education change
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