Neoliberalizam i obrazovanje u kontekstu globalne obrazovne politike
Neoliberalism and education in the context of global education policy

Summary/Abstract: The concept of global education policy has emerged in the last several decades. It is a phenomenon which includes features of globally present education reforms that have emerged due to globalization mechanisms. In other words, the task of global education policy is to describe those mechanisms, define them, as well as to try to determine who stands behind their dissemination. Globalization has also resulted in the creation of the transnational educational area where, along with the governments, new actors have emerged as well, whose influence on education policy has become more powerful over time. The most prominent are international organizations, which affect governments of many countries by enforcing various mechanisms, whereby they have the opportunity to promote their own agenda, characterized by one common point –the neoliberal doctrine. The emergence of neoliberalism, as an outcome of the World's economic stagnation in the 70's of the previous century, has resulted in the presence of free market solutions, with an emphasis on efficiency, competition and freedom of choice, which, thanks to globalization, have permanently rooted in the education systems of almost all countries. Phenomena such as decentralization, privatization, new public management, and new professionalism have become the basis for creation of new global trends in education, while involvement of the private sector and a redefined role of the government in providing and financing educational services are considered to be a sort of imperative when it comes to the neoliberal influence on education. Finally, public-private partnerships have emerged as well, whiche occurence portrays the breakthrough of privatization and market mechanisms in education.

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