Преоткриването на българското частно училище
Rediscovering the Bulgarian Private School

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary image of the Bulgarian private schools as a specific place of socialization is analyzed in the article. The particular dimensions of the private school at present are traced. Private schools emerge in order to offer training that is “lacking” in state educational institutions; this implies a new thematic orientation of the curricula and the inclusion of some subjects that are not taught at present in state schools. Private schools can be classified in the following general groups according to: – A philosophical theory of education; in this case private schools can be considered a peculiar laboratory for alternative models of school organization and education. – A certain religion. – An ethnic orientation, most often connected with certain religious traditions. – A gender; some parents prefer their children to attend a single-sex school. Modern Bulgarian private schools are no exception from the general scheme of emergence and recognition: they exist in order to fill the “gaps” in the educational space. Moreover, private schools are identified as places for the socialization of an economic elite, becoming a stimulating factor of social stratification and differences, a socialization model which state schools do not offer. At the same time, the specific curricula, the special climate of communications and relations, the individual development of students are very important prerequisites, unambiguously defining private schools as contemporary institutions, as places of personality-forming pedagogy; it is exactly in this direction that the efforts of state schools should be oriented.

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