Lifelong Learn. 2013, 3, 51-72
Travelling Educational Change and Cultural Diversity in the Czech Republic
This article analyses the interconnectedness of travelling policy and domestic top-down and bottom-up processes in the case of a country going through a transformation from a communist to a more open system. This interconnectedness and the dilemmas it poses will be examined in several steps. After a theoretical introduction to the concept of travelling policy and domestic bottom-up and top-down processes, we will introduce the initial situation of the educational system in the Czech Republic around 1989. We will then analyse the process of educational change, and we will describe how Czech teachers view this change by presenting the results of qualitative research among these teachers. Finally, we will concentrate on the diversity issue as one part of the process of educational change. A diversity aspect was chosen because on this issue we can demonstrate the influences of travelling policy on top and bottom development.
Funding
This publication was supported by the The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports—“Institutional Support for Longterm Development of Research Organizations–Charles University, Faculty of Humanities” (Charles Univ, Fac Human 2012) and Project “Increasing the flexibility of alumni of The Department of Civil Sector Studies” CZ.2.17/3.1.00/33281.
