The (Un)Importance of Public Opinion in Educational Policy-Making in Post-Communist Ukraine. Education policy 'elites' on the role of civil society in policy formation. (Preprint). - Deutscher Bildungsserver

Fimyar, Olena

The (Un)Importance of Public Opinion in Educational Policy-Making in Post-Communist Ukraine. Education policy 'elites' on the role of civil society in policy formation. (Preprint).

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"This paper is part of a larger study in progress. Drawing on a Foucauldian concept of governmentality, it explores the major political and educational discourses which inform the external testing of schoolgraduates reform in Ukraine. The study interprets the introduction of standardized testing within awider framework of shifting rationalities of policy-making in Ukraine towards greater auditing and per-formativity as instruments of government. The study also attempts to understand the balance of powerexercised by the internal and external policy actors in the process of education policy formation. In thecourse of the research, sixteen interviewees, including former high-ranking UMES (Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science) officials, academics, and representatives of international organizations and do-nor agencies, offered their perspectives on different aspects of the education policy-making process." Paper presented at the Changing Europe Summer School IV - Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe before and after the End of Socialism - Kyiv (Ukraine), 27 - 31 July 2009 at the National University of 'Kyiv - Mohyla Academy' sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation. [Abstract: Site editor's information].