Democratization through education? Theory and practice of the Czech post-revolution education system and its reforms
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F19%3A10396417" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/19:10396417 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=1K~sHDCD2B" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=1K~sHDCD2B</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2019.08.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.postcomstud.2019.08.003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Democratization through education? Theory and practice of the Czech post-revolution education system and its reforms
Original language description
The transformation process from an authoritarian/totalitarian system entails many institutional changes, however, the individual citizen is often being overlooked in this chaotic, fast-paced process and his or her "transformation" into a democrat is taken for granted. The changing socio-political system and its exigencies may lead to nostalgia and social frustrations, which in turn cause democratic backsliding. In order to cultivate a democratic society and avoid future backsliding, the post-communist states quickly set out to reform their educational systems, both in form and substance. By reviewing the reform process of the Czech educational system and discussing the prevailing legacies left by the communist regime, the article will show that through the "destruction" of the former system and its de-monopolization, decentralization and de-ideologization, the state deliberately lost significant means and power to transform Czechs from "homo sovieticus" to "homo democraticus" and is now left with a dependence on the highly autonomous schools and their propensity to foster democratic generations that will uphold the democratic state in the future. This paradox is reminiscent of the so-called Böckenförde dilemma, claiming that the liberal democratic state "lives by prerequisites which it cannot guarantee itself".
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Communist and Post-Communist Studies
ISSN
0967-067X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
52
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
271-281
UT code for WoS article
000487576600008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85070553383