Two Periods of Equality and Segregation Education Policy in Hungary Cover Image

Az egyenlőség és az elkülönülés oktatáspolitikájának két korszaka Magyarországon
Two Periods of Equality and Segregation Education Policy in Hungary

Author(s): Géza Sáska
Subject(s): School education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: trends of equality and segregation; middle class opposition and consequences; school autonomy; segregation or segregation-enhancing

Summary/Abstract: The study describes the anti-middle-class movements to increase social equality from the mid-1930s, and the unifying measures of the authoritarian and totalitarian state until the early 1960s in the education policy. For aiming at the social peace more and more concessions was made to the middle class. It caused gradually increased the distance between social strata in terms of educational attainment. Firstly the social inequality appeared within (educational) institutions, and later between institutions. In the mid-1980s, and more after the change of regime, the reorganization of school and school management based on the idea of self-government abolished the institutinal system of social equalization in the public education system, which made possible for the middle-class parents and teachers the creating of elit schools.

  • Issue Year: 30/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 479-495
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Hungarian
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