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Traditional Roles, New Functions

Summary/Abstract: There is a variety of acknowledged methodologies available for an investigation of the educational roles of denominational education in Hungary. Among other things, we might analyze governmental policies (processes in strategy forming, legislation and symbolic actions) that have as their concern denominational educational institutions. Besides this, it is also worth investigating recent changes in the educational mission of churches with regard to the development of their school systems. We can interpret churches as civil actors, as mediators of public interests and we can also compare policies pursued with educational choices made in the social networks of affiliated community members. After surveying these approaches in this study, we summarize our conclusions and note four main trends in the transforming of church-run education. One of the most important changes is the new wave of expansion of denominational education, which can be detected with the help of statistical data from the middle of the last decade. An undoubted and already visible consequence of this expansion is the appearance of more or less centralized subsystems of denominations. The third important experience gained is that denominational systems are quickly defining their obvious boundaries. In spite of the fact that they are not separated from the environment, some signs of intersectoral interactions do exist. The most important trend in church-run education is an increasing determination of persons to take on the mission of educating students from disadvantaged regions and social strata.

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