Admissions Policies as a Mechanism for Social Engineering: The Case of the Bulgarian Communist Regime

Autor/in	Boyadjieva, Pepka Alexandrova
Titel	Admissions Policies as a Mechanism for Social Engineering: The Case of the Bulgarian Communist Regime
Quelle	In: Comparative Education Review, 57 (2013) 3, S.503-526 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086
DOI	10.1086/670728
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Admission Criteria; Educational Policy; Political Power; Politics of Education; Educational Development; Moral Values; Social Discrimination; Social Stratification; Social Mobility; Student Characteristics; Government School Relationship; Educational Malpractice; Educational History; Minority Group Students; Case Studies; Bulgaria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Macht; Educational policy; Bildungsentwicklung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Soziale Mobilität; Bildungsmisere; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Bulgarien
Abstract	This article discusses admissions policies to higher education during the Communist regime in Bulgaria (1946-89). It argues that under the conditions of the Bulgarian Communist regime, admissions policies were not only a component of the higher education system--viewed as an institution--but part and parcel of the process through which power was exercised and maintained. Their most basic goal was social engineering through the deliberate transformation of the intelligentsia's social profile. Discrimination and privileges were the main mechanisms at work. The article outlines the results of social engineering with regard to the expansion of higher education, the evolution of the student body, and the policies' moral effects on Bulgarian society. A short discussion of the Bulgarian case in comparative perspective is also included. (As Provided).
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