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Fórumok és tiltakozómozgalmak a közoktatásban
Forums and Protest Movements in Public Education

Author(s): Iván Bajomi, Mihály Csákó
Subject(s): School education, State/Government and Education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: unprepared reforms; lack of negotiations; eradication and reorganization of forums; protests; alternative policies

Summary/Abstract: The right-wing government elected with a large majority in 2010 carried out deep changes in Hungarian public education. Many of changes were made quickly and without appropriate preparation and consensus. Some consultative bodies in the field of primary and secondary education which were set up after the systemic change found themselves dissolved. In the second part of the paper we present the various new teachers’ and students’ movements which express the discontent of those employed in the public education. More than demonstrations, some networks (based on the internet) put together complete counter-programme for educational policy. The particularly intensive protest movements of 2016 prompted the government to create a new forum, but the representatives of the unions and the new movements do not participate in its work because of the composition and mode of operation of this body.

  • Issue Year: 26/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 528-539
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian