Fordulópont a magyar oktatás történetében
The Turning Point in the History of the Hungarian Education System: The 70 Year-Old Primary School

Summary/Abstract: The primary school as an institution was created in controversial circumstances. A sociopolitical and professional consensus was lacking and the political legitimacy of the primary school was under dispute. Furthermore, poor conditions of day-to-day functioning had a major impact on the future of this type of school. The initially-conceived humanistic and democratic function of the primary school was gradually replaced with Communist ideological and political goals in 1948. This caused a serious dysfunction, which was exacerbated by rapidly changing political requirements and an intensification of the selection process. Yet the symptoms of the crisis in 1980 went beyond the school system’s internal problems – and the new democratic system that was established in 1990 has failed provide proper responses to the challenges posed by the old system.

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