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Private and alternative primary schools - a response to the needs of the knowledge society

At the end of the 19th century school criticism and the crisis of education started a reform of the educational system. The development of new pedagogical concepts followed. Efforts to solve educational crisis were manifested, among other, in the process of privatization of the educational system. The most usual interpretation of educational privatization is the founding of schools which are governed by non-governmental organizations (NGO). There are three different theories of educational privatization. Market approach sees the parents as the „ consumers“ , while the schools are the „ providers“ . The second approach finds educational choice to be an elementary human right. The third approach to school choice finds private schooling to be a possibility for the poor, giving them the same options that the wealthy families have. Lately, there has been a great development of private schools, voucher programs, new models of partnership in education, as an answer to the needs of knowledge societies. Despite of numerous positive effects of educational pluralism, the question of the school choice development in Croatia remains since it greatly depends on the financial support that private schools and families receive from the state.

private education; alternative education; school choice; primary schools

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