Švietimo sistemų efektyvumas ir našumas kintančių švietimo paradigmų kontekste
Effectiveness and Eficiency of Educational Systems in a Context of Shifting Educational Paradigms

Summary/Abstract: Neoliberal conceptions are pervading educational context worldwide. Lithuania is not an exception. Originally conceived as a sociocultural educational paradigm is being rapidly replaced by an economical paradigm. Constrained and short-sighted preoccupation with labour market needs is a sharp shift from humanistic and cultural vision of education as social good per se. Effectiveness and efficiency as an important endeavour of The New Public Management today permeates our education system. Data from international surveys show clear links between investment in education and student learning outcomes, yet, as EBPO PISA 2015 demonstrates, science classrooms in Lithuanian schools come short of laboratory equipment, leaving teachers with traditional chalk and talk methods, significantly lagging behind the international ones. We ask rhetorically “outputs without inputs”?

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