Education Policies in a Minority Context: Changes in Minority and Kin-State approaches Cover Image

Oktatáspolitikai koncepciók kisebbségben - külhoni és anyaországi változások
Education Policies in a Minority Context: Changes in Minority and Kin-State approaches

Author(s): Z. Attila Papp
Subject(s): Politics, Education, State/Government and Education, Demography and human biology, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: minority education; educational policy; demographic challenges; minority political parties; role of Kin-state;

Summary/Abstract: This article outlines the main changes in Hungarian-language minority education systems in four neighbouring countries: Romania/Transylvania, Serbia/Voivodina, Slovakia, and Ukraine/Transcarpathia. The author contextualizes minority education policies by reflecting on challenges related to major demographics, educational statistics and institutional development processes. An analysis of minority education’s inner processes is carried out via identifying and describing the role of different, chief educational actors: minority political parties and organizations, the state, and Kin-state institutions. The article also analyses the interaction and possible impact of different Hungarian government bodies and non-governmental minority educational organizations beyond the country’s frontier.

  • Issue Year: 23/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 67-80
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian