Crisis of the Public Education System?

Problems and Attempts of Reform in Critical Perspectives

The article aims at deconstructing the traditional myths related to schooling that represent it as good and beneficial for the individuals and for the whole society. It presents and criticizes the mainstream discourses around education, especially those of crises and reform by arguing that schools are encapsulated in the system of capitalist reproduction. After the presentation of the main international neo-liberal and neo-conservative discourses and policy trends, the paper offers an alternative narrative based on critical policy analysis about the history and present of the Hungarian educational system and reforms. This denounces both liberal and conservative reform policies of the last 25 years as fundamentally unjust and unprofessional initiatives.

Released: Replika 83, 77–91.