CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Mashkova, Roksolana |
|---|---|
| Title | Struggle for Hegemony after Maidan: The Role of University Faculty in Ukrainian Education Reform |
| Summary | Education reform in Ukraine provides an opportunity to investigate the role of university faculty in a highly controversial reform, which tries, but mostly fails, to go against the current of general austerity. The present research finds that the faculty members tend to resist the changes, especially those which threaten their interests. It also demonstrates that their resistance is the more strong, the more their position is threatened, and the more their well-being depends on maintaining the status quo. However, this research does not treat those who resist as rational actors, who act solely to maximize their benefits and minimize costs; instead, it investigates how the actions and attitudes of faculty members are influenced by the ideologies which they support and use to make their claims. It finds that, due to the lack of alternatives to the hegemonic modernist discourse of pro-Europeanism, used by the government to justify austerity cuts and by the professors to oppose them, the resistance to the reform remains conservative, and only redefines the keywords of the existing ideology, without transcending it. |
| Supervisor | Kalb, Don; Rajaram, Prem Kumar |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/mashkova_roksolana.pdf |
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