SIMULATED CHANGE: TOTALITARIANISM AND WHAT COMES NEXT.
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Keywords

totalitarianism
post-totalitarianism
transitional justice
democratization
education
The Legacies of Totalitarianism
Aviezer Tucker

How to Cite

Cristina Petrescu, C. P. (2019). SIMULATED CHANGE: TOTALITARIANISM AND WHAT COMES NEXT. Porównania, 24(1), 263–267. https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2019.1.22

Abstract

My intervention focuses on Aviezer Tucker’s assessment of legacies of totalitarianism in the educational system. Tucker singles out a major dilemma of post-totalitarian universities: to fundamentally restructure in order to become autonomous or to simulate change while preserving state support. He contends
that the Bologna system meant the transformation of universities into state-managed corporations that lowered standards and introduced various mechanisms of measuring performance. Thus, Tucker convincingly argues, the unwanted result of including the former communist coun-tries in the European Union was the return to a familiar model of simulated change in the field of education.

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