SCHOOL RE-ENTRY UNDER SOCIALISM: SPONSORED MOBILITY OR A SECOND CHANCE ?

• Authors: Kreidl M
• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper analyzes the participation of the vocational school graduates in further education in five former socialist countries between 1948 and 1989. The students in the vocational secondary schools were not acquiring complete secondary education equivalent to that offered in the academic and professional high schools. Previous analyses have shown that many apprentices re-entered the system of secondary education and had a chance to attain a secondary-school leaving examination. The principal question is in this text: who were the apprentices who re-entered school after completing their vocational training? Using event history analysis of a large survey data file (N=6010) the author shows that school re-entry played a dual role in educational stratification during socialism. It was a vehicle to educate the communist cadres and, at the same time, it served as a second chance for the members of the politically persecuted families.

Keywords

EN

EDUCATIONAL STRATIFICATION; SECONDARY EDUCATION; SOCIAL INEQUALITY; SOCIALIST COUNTRIES

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 95-118
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kreidl M

• M. Kreidl, Filozoficka fakulta, Katedra sociologie, Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni, Sedlackova 15, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA02394976