Cervinkova, Hana and Rudnicki, Pawel
(2019)
Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, Authoritarianism. The Politics of Public Education in Poland.
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 17 (2).
ISSN 1740-2743
Abstract
We focus on describing some of the effects of austerity capitalism in
the public educational sector in Poland, a country that was a part of
the Soviet bloc from WWII and experienced dramatic transformation
after 1989. This transformation from “communism” to “democracy”
involved all spheres of the life of society and individuals and meant a
dramatic re-orientation of the social, political and economic
imaginary. We see the current post-transformation moment in Poland
as characterized by the dominance of three fundamental tendencies:
predatory neoliberalism, creeping authoritarianism and nationalist
neoconservatism. For the purposes of this text, we will begin with a
short discussion of neoliberalism as it took over post-communist
Central Europe during the last decade of the 20th century and
onwards. We will focus especially on privatization as a key dimension
of neoliberal transformation intertwined as it was with strong
neoconservative tendencies, centering in our discussion on the effects
of these trends on Polish public education.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Poland, public education; neoconservatism; neoliberalism;
authoritarianism; nationalism; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology |
| Item ID: |
13482 |
| Depositing User: |
Hana Cervinkova
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| Date Deposited: |
02 Nov 2020 16:47 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies |
| Publisher: |
Institute for Education Policy Studies |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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