Essays
Secondary education in Croatia - Critical issues
Mladen Živković
Abstract
There are many critical points or “black spots” in our secondary school education system that should be examined and eliminated as part of a more profound reform of the school system and not ignored, as was the case with the last attempt at curriculum reform. It seems that we do not have a clear view of the historical situation and the essential goals of Croatian society and education as its most important component. The Croatian school system needs to be changed for many reasons, but not in such a way that the focus of interest is on subjects that provide operational and useful “knowledge” that is at the service of capital. The symbol of the last curriculum reform was a computer, i.e. a tablet! On the contrary, education should be at the center of efforts. It is obvious that with this reform we are not looking for creative efforts to find new, different and untried solutions that would best express national and general human interests in facing the great challenges of our time, but we are witnessing the mere transfer of Western, liberal‑capitalist scientific and technical patterns to all areas of life and thus also to school.
Keywords
school pathology; legal over‑normativity; school bureaucracy; deprofessionalization of teachers; education for humanity
Hrčak ID:
317469
URI
Publication date:
5.3.2024.
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