New guiding principles in educational policy
The case of Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11488762 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manfred Wei (0000-0003-4851-6439, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, corresponding author), Manfred Weiss |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 307-320 |
| Publication date | 1993-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Education Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-0939 • E-ISSN: 1464-5106 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0268093930080401 |
| OpenAlex | W2166261841 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
Pluralism, decentralization, deregulation, school autonomy, greater diversity and parent empowerment in education are among the new guiding principles in educational policy in numerous industrial countries. Whereas this paradigm shift reflects the advance of the market ideology into the education sector in other (particularly English‐speaking) countries, the driving force behind this movement in Germany is rather the political system's loss of legitimation and the conflict‐ridden state of educational policy. The first part of the article takes a retrospective view which links up to the analyses of Weiler. It shows that the former strategies for securing legitimation and regulating conflicts ‐ involving science in the educational reform process, legalization and judicialization ‐ have only been effective temporarily. Using the new Education Act of Hesse as example, the hypothesis is developed that the strategy of increasing parent empowerment and partially transferring regulatory powers and decision‐making competence to individual schools will also not bring about the expected effects since this will not solve the structural problems of the German school system. In the second part of the article this thesis is elaborated within the framework of a differentiated analysis of the consequences of the structural problems as manifested in individual school types on local educational markets
Autonomy · Competence (human resources · Decentralization · Discretion · Economics · Education policy · Empowerment · Epistemology · Higher education · Ideology · Legalization · Legitimation · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · School choice · Sociology · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Public Administration · Religious Education and Schools
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2020 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |