About the book
The book includes three comparative studies with the first findings of the “Future Challenges to Education Systems in Central Eastern European Context” project of the Center for Policy Studies (Democracy Institute) at Central European University. The research project was designed to assess the ability of the education systems of Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia to adapt to various ongoing disruptive changes, such as technological change and its impact on labour markets, various demographic changes, populist politics and autocratic governance, old and new inequalities, changing gender roles, and globalization. The summary studies in this book, which are based on the contributions of an extended international research team, address three focal areas. The first, written by Balázs Munkácsy and Ágota Scharle, provides an assessment of the relative regional contextual relevance of various global challenges to education systems. The second study, by Ágnes Kende, looks at the institutional preparedness of schools in the five countries to adapt and change. The last study, by Péter Radó, is a comparative institutional analysis of the preparedness of the five educational governance systems to encourage schools to adapt by effectively conveying clear external expectations.
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Agenda:
14:10 – 14:20: Opening remarks about EDUC project - Andrew Cartwright, Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute
14:20 – 14:40: Presentation of chapter 1: The Relevance of Future Challenges to Education in Five Central Eastern European Countries – Balázs Munkácsy and Ágota Scharle (Budapest Institute)
14:40 – 15:00: Presentation of chapter 2: The Institutional Conditions of School-level Adaptation – Ágnes Kende
15:00 – 15:20: Presentation of chapter 3: Governing Education for Adaptive Change in Five Central Eastern European Countries – Péter Radó (CEU DI)
Questions and answers
15:30 – 15:50: Coffee break
15:50 – 17:20: Panel discussion: Contemporary challenges to education
Participants: Dániel Horn (KRTK-KTI), Vera Messing (CEU DI), Balázs Váradi (Budapest Institute) and Zsuzsa Vidra (CEU DI)
Moderator: Ádám Havas (Milestone Institute)
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