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School System and Knowledge Society

According to the systems theory, the school system is one of the subsystems of society. The interdependence of the school (sub)system, the economic (sub)system, the political (sub)system and the socio-cultural (sub)system is well-known (Pastuović, 1999). In the school theory the school system is a very important issue. It is not irrelevant whether we regard the school system from the point of view of the (Tillmann, 1994): structural-functional theory, psychoanalytic theory, interactionist theory, spiritual-scientific theory, radical critique of the school or the theory of the withering away of the school as an institution. The discussion about the relationship between the school system and the knowledge society is, in fact, the discussion about the relationship between the school system and the development idea. We believe that by using the development category it is possible to understand the significance of the school system in the knowledge society. The change is mostly understood as the symbol of development, although every change does not mean progress. The school system has the features of contemporariness if it is based on: (a) the development idea, (b) the idea of lifelong learning and (e) the knowledge society idea. D. Plevnik (2006) states that it is incorrect to talk about the knowledge society if we exclude the category of sense. This author argues for the syntagm “ the society of knowledge and sense” .

School system, systems theory, school theory, development idea, knowledge society, lifelong learning, learning organization, quality of education

Međunarodna konferencija o naprednim i sustavnim istraživanjima ECNSI - 2007. održana je u Zadru, 25. - 27. listopada 2007. godine. U sklopu Konferencije održan je i znanstveno-stručni simpozij: Pedagogija u kontekstu društva znanja (Zadar, 25. i 26. 10. 2007).