EDUCATIONAL DECISION-MAKING IN OPEN SOCIETIES

Open societies which lack official ideologies but try to organize conflicting interests, can they base their educational system on educational goals at all? The traditional integration of the educational system into the state administration is no longer acceptable. To organize education just like the state on the basis of democratic principles is highly questionable. So, more and more contract regulation seems to be adequate, market principles or corporate structures. But, private business is not the model. Public contractual regulation seems instead to be the keyword. New trends in educational policy point into this direction: de-institutionalization of the educational system, efficiency expectations, multiculturalism, choice, participation.