Naslov
Exploring the National Minorities' Rights within the Implementation of Education Reforms – Content Analysis Approach Issues

Autori
Elezović, Ines

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Abstract Book: Social Relations in Turbulent Times / - : European Space Agency (ESA), 2011, 647-647

ISBN
2-940386-18-5

Skup
10th Conference of the European Sociological Association: Social Relations in Turbulent Times

Mjesto i datum
Ženeva, Švicarska, 07.09.2011. - 10.09.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
external evaluation; national minority; education; reforms

Sažetak
External evaluation of education in Croatia began in 2006, with the first national exams. Used procedures had a goal of setting an objective, valid and reliable indicators of the schooling system quality. One of the basic characteristics of wide scale knowledge, skills and competencies assessments are standardized exams identical for all participating students. This preconditions equal right of access to equal education quality in national documents and practices. In that respect, high school students educated in the language and writing of their national minority have an additional set of rules which proscribe their rights and obligations. Implementation of common European documents into specific national environments reflects bureaucratic nature of such endeavours “laid down from above”. In this research international alignment activities in education were tracked throughout content analysis of relevant documents and practices. But, the actual value of key problems that are frequently mentioned showed to be hidden ; these are not just concepts that are taken into consideration by the state authorities the most, but often also indications of the ones that are not dealt with in practice. Second main conclusion is that the extensively covered themes are not necessary best resolved ones within the national context ; sometimes they are the problematic ones. Such solely theoretical, but widely advocated, theme is human rights and democratic citizenship which in fact exists only as sub integrated area in present Croatian general curricula. This means that national minority issues in education should only be addressed randomly via different subjects, such as history or geography that completely depends on individual teachers. If education indeed has a burden of deliberate unequal redistribution of knowledge, as one of the Bourdieu’s type of social capital reserved for elites, what better time to ensure its elitist goals then in time of worldwide social and economic crisis. National minorities in reality are protected only as long as they openly ask for a positive discrimination. These problems are not subject of quantitative methods research because of their delicate nature and we thus need to approach them from a qualitative perspective, but obviously, not exclusively through content analysis of accessible documentation in education.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Pedagogija

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