Education transformation and GATS - new paradigms in government and administration.

Autor/in	Kopp, Botho von
Titel	Education transformation and GATS - new paradigms in government and administration.
Quelle	Aus: Reuter, Lutz Rainer (Hrsg.); Döbert, Hans (Hrsg.): After communism and apartheid. Transformation of education in Germany and South Africa. Frankfurt, Main u.a.: Lang (2002) S. 207-229Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	0-8204-6038-9; 3-631-39977-4
Schlagwörter	Bildungssystem; Neoliberalismus; Regierung; Transformation; Privatisierung; Deregulierung; GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services); Verwaltung; Polen; Tschechische Republik; Ungarn
Abstract	The author goes beyond the transformation debate as far as it is related to the socio-political system turn in post-communist and post-apartheid countries and the accompanying thorough modernisation of subsystems like education. With reference to Alvin Toffler and Peter F. Drucker, he puts this (limited) transformation into the broader framework of major historical transformations since the Renaissance as well as of the contemporary comprehensive transformation process, labelled as a globalising, post-capitalist, post-materialistic or late-modern process. Basic features of the current neo-liberalist transformation are, as the author sees it, indirect (market-) control, liberalisation, deregulation and participation. In this contribution, he studies the general Agreement on Trade and services (GATS [1994], extending the general Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]) in the context of the existing nationally controlled education systems. GATS bans any discrimination against foreign suppliers of services including education. The article differentiates between the positive and negative effects of liberalisation, the breaking of monopolies, overprotection and over-regulation on the one hand and unrestricted marketising and economising by which political and economic power structures use their hegemonic position on the other hand. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2009/2