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14. Education Policy in Croatia

Authors : Tihomir Žiljak, Nikola Baketa

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Abstract

The chapter describes the changes in educational policy in Croatia from 1990 to 2015 with a brief overview of the previous period and an analysis of policy instruments used in the last decade. In the analysed period, Croatian educational policy has undergone important changes although it was not a priority of key political actors. The analysis is focused on instruments used to achieve the educational policy goals. The goals are defined based on national public political documents, which have determined educational priorities in the analysed period and they are analysed within the context of all changes in national policies, changes in politics and the Europeanization of public policies. The chapter begins with the thesis that selecting instruments depends highly on ideas and interests of key actors.

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1
Europeanization refers to: “Processes of (a) construction (b) diffusion and (c) institutionalisation of formal and informal rules, procedures, policy paradigms, styles, ‘ways of doing things’ and shared beliefs and norms which are first defined and consolidated in the making of EU decisions and then incorporated in the logic of domestic discourse, identities, political structures and public policies”(Radaelli 2003: 30).
 
2
It measures “both the quantity and quality of skills and the training that today’s worker possess, as well as the level of education and skills of tomorrow’s workforce, with particular emphasis on the use of ICTs in school and the style of teaching” (Sala-i-Martin et al. 2016: 57).
 
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According to OECD (2016: 265) “Money is necessary to secure high and equitable performance in school, but it is not sufficient. Only one of the ten PISA-participating countries with the highest cumulative public expenditure per student up to age 15 – Singapore – is among the seven countries/economies where less than 20% of students are low achievers in any of the three domains. […]What matters are how resources are allocated and the qualitative differences in education policies, cultural norms and professional practices that underlie the performance differences between and within countries.”
 
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Metadata
Title
Education Policy in Croatia
Authors
Tihomir Žiljak
Nikola Baketa
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Policy-Making at the European Periphery

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-73581-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-73582-5

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73582-5_14