CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Jakab, Laszlo Oliver |
|---|---|
| Title | An Educational Policy Implementation Analysis: The Place of the Roma in the Hungarian National Social Inclusion Strategy |
| Summary | The Hungarian Government adopted the National Social Inclusion Strategy (NSIS) in 2011. One of the main goals of the NSIS is to improve the education level of the Roma by ensuring equal access to quality education and the elimination of discriminatory practices in schools. However, Hungary constantly fails to achieve these goals. Roma children still face segregation, discrimination, high drop-out rate, and exclusion in public education. The main purpose of the present thesis is to identify the factors that represent obstacles to successfully implement the educational goals of the NSIS. The thesis makes an analytic attempt to reveal the reasons why policy outcomes represent failure in Roma education. This is achieved by analyzing the implementation process of the NSIS. For this, the thesis is based on an educational implementation theory developed by Meredith I. Honig (2006). The theory focuses on three policy dimensions, namely policy, people, and places. It goes beyond the bottom-up and top-down approaches and provides a synthesized model of educational policy research. The research methodology involves desk research and content analysis. The thesis demonstrates that the major factors hindering successful implementation are the lack of genuine commitment to implement the NSIS, obscure targeting, historically embedded negative attitudes, and the government’s policy direction of supporting school segregation. |
| Supervisor | Matei, Liviu |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/jakab_laszlo.pdf |
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