CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Topuzidu, Jázmin Xénia |
|---|---|
| Title | The making of the knowing subject: The politics of the contemporary Hungarian education system |
| Summary | The past decade’s centralization of education in Hungary led to the curtailment of educational institutions’ autonomy and introduced several measures that control the knowledge transfer happening in the classrooms. As education is one of the main socializing mechanisms in one`s life, every political penetration to the education system can have a serious influence on students’ identity. This thesis analyzes the Orbán Government’s education policy, with a focus on some of the most recent regulations of it through the questions of authority, autonomy, identity, and subjectivity. The paper uses critical education theory as a framework to shed light on how government policies are aiming to produce a certain type of knowing subject and to look for the spaces left to resist the political pressure. The interviewed elite high schools in Hungary use their greater scope of autonomy to allow space for critical pedagogy in their classrooms. These daily practices are successfully used to contribute to the knowledge formation of students and produce autonomous thinkers within their institutions. |
| Supervisor | Strausz, Erzsebet |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/topuzidu_jazmin.pdf |
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