Historical and Cultural Refractions in Recent Education Transitions: The Example of Former Socialist European Countries

Autor/inn/en	Goodson, Ivor; Mikser, Rain
Titel	Historical and Cultural Refractions in Recent Education Transitions: The Example of Former Socialist European Countries
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 71 (2023) 1, S.99-116 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1080/00071005.2021.2024138
Schlagwörter	Social Change; Social Systems; Western Civilization; Educational Philosophy; Cultural Differences; Social Science Research; Educational History; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Global Approach; Figurative Language; USSR; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Wandel; Social system; Soziales System; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Kultureller Unterschied; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ausland; Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Globales Denken; Europa
Abstract	Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet bloc, there still persists a rhetoric of differentiation and a discursive polarisation between the Western and the non-Western educational thinking and practices. This rhetoric overshadows a potential similarity, or homogeneity, between the dominant and several marginalised contexts. Regional, local and personal variations are prematurely attributed to fundamental, if often poorly argued, cultural differences. We seek to introduce and to preliminarily summarise the existing understandings of refraction in education and social research. Sporadically used but seldom defined, the refraction metaphor appears to feature: (a) a multiplicity of viewpoints as an incentive for social research, (b) non-relativistic, scientific progress as an end value for understanding social reality, (c) a balanced approach towards homogeneity and heterogeneity in social research, and (d) a substantially historical orientation towards analysing homogeneity and heterogeneity. Education in the former socialist European countries demonstrates how heterogeneity is rhetorically overstated and how variations can be more adequately addressed by analysing refractions. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01