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Author(s)
Eleftheria Argyropoulou
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DOI:10.17265/1537-1514/2018.02.001
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University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece
ABSTRACT
The world is amidst a
turbulent era with impacts on all aspects of social life and social systems,
including that of education, especially in the so-called recessionary
economies, as the Greek one. In the framework of the development of a better
type of public administration, major international organizations for the
economic growth and prosperity, namely the OECD and the European Union, have
provided Greece with guidelines and better policies. Recent government policies
in education reflecting these guidelines have created an immense agitation
among all educational partners, teachers, students, parents, and local
authorities, as the latter seems not to understand the rationale behind them. The
government rhetoric—though
echoing different political areas every time—always includes the argument of the necessity of a planning process to
respond to the volatility in schools’ external environment and to provide an
appropriate basis for their internal management and leadership. This
paper investigates the role of the international organizations of educational
planning in designing governmental educational policies, their impact on the
macro-level of recessionary Greece and the role of school management and
leadership in coping with
problems in Greek schools. Moreover, this paper explores other relational
factors of the Greek reality that add to recession and put an extra burden on
school praxis, thus making governmental policies and international guidelines
difficult to apply and easy to provoke disillusionment to education partners.
Finally, the paper discusses the peculiarities of the Greek educational
landscape and proposes new paths for research that can facilitate the
introduction of structural changes and further development.
KEYWORDS
economic crisis, educational planning, government policies, school leadership, Greece
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