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Changes in educational discourse in postsocialist Croatia

Branislava Baranović ; Institut za društvena istraživanja, Zagreb

Abstract

In this article the changes of the secondary school discourse caused by the changes of the political system in postsocialist Croatia are analysed. The first part of the article discusses the basic characteristics of the process of postsocialist political transformation as the socio-political context of educational changes in Croatia. The other part of the article presents the changes of secondary school syllabi in the periods immediately preceding and following the first multi-party elections held in 1990 in Croatia. The analysis is based on the results of empirical research of secondary school syllabi carried out in 1993 on a sample of 23 schools. The analysis shows that promoting of the idea of an ethnonational state and ethnonational ideology instead of liberal democracy, leads toward apostrophizing values and interests of national culture and catholic religion in the restructuring of educational discourse.

Keywords

postsocialist transformation; national state; ethnonational ideology; education program; (de)ideologization of the educational discourse; high school system

Hrčak ID:

154850

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154850

Publication date:

31.12.1994.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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