Commercialization of Education as a Tool for Shaping Social Safety. Analysis of the Program Concept s of the Civic Platform During the Government Period (2007–2015) Cover Image

Komercjalizacja edukacji jako narzędzie kształtowania bezpieczeństwa społecznego. Analiza koncepcji programowych Platformy Obywatelskiej w okresie rządów (2007–2015)
Commercialization of Education as a Tool for Shaping Social Safety. Analysis of the Program Concept s of the Civic Platform During the Government Period (2007–2015)

Author(s): Arkadiusz Lewandowski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, Political Theory, Politics and society, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: commercialization of education; social security; neoliberalism; Civic Platform

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article was the analysis of the educational concepts of the Civic Platform from the period when the party was a part of the government coalition. Research questions, which were posed within the framework of the text, concerned the following issues: Do the political concepts of the Civic Platform in the area of education take up the issue of its commercialization as a tool to raise the level of social security? Within the article, theoretical assumptions were proposed concerning both the phenomenon of commercialization of education as well as social security, and then there was conducted an analysis of authorship educational concepts carried out by the Civic Platform. The findings made it possible to define that the concepts of the Civic Platform to a large extent fit into the neoliberal model of commercialization and economization of education. At the same time, in the discussed assumptions, there can be found elements which relate to the issues of social security, understood both narrowly (the problem of students’ living conditions), and in a broad sense (school as an institution that gives opportunities for self-realization, development and success in professional life).

  • Issue Year: 29/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 125-140
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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