Category: Issue 8

“Change in the value system and the cognitive domain of education. A critical approach.” Menelaos Givalos Page 11-34 Abstract In the current paper we examine the meaning of Education as it is constructed in the contemporary frame of the post-modernistic conception. We analyze the new criteria that turn the traditional values of the enlighten pattern […]

h3>““Trends” and the formation of the European area of education. The transformation of an analytical tool into a means for manipulating education policy” Dimitris Mattheou Page 59-70 Abstract Trends as a term is widely used by at least two groups of people. For academics, and certainly for comparativists, trends constitute an abstraction, a mental construct, […]

“Social control, power relationships and cultural appropriation in education” Gitsa Kontogiannopoulou – Polydorides Page 35-58 Abstract The present work investigates theoretical positions and empirical data in examining social control in Greek education and aims to bring to the fore new dimensions of the issues at hand. The empirical analysis (in the light of relevant theory) […]

“Policy in Education: The Formation of Educational Policy in independent Cyprus (1960-2005)” Menelaos Givalos Page 11-34 Abstract In the current paper we examine the meaning of Education as it is constructed in the contemporary frame of the post-modernistic conception. We analyze the new criteria that turn the traditional values of the enlighten pattern of Education […]