Challenges To The Implementation Of Institutional Reform In The Lithuanian General Education System

• Authors: Birutė Pranevičienė , Agnė Margevičiūtė
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The educational system of Lithuania has undergone transformation conditioned by the radical change of the political situation in the region after the restoration of independence on March 11, 1990. The new educational system was gradually developed, changing and denying the former Soviet educational framework. The main goal of the new educational system is to provide education compatible with the newly applicable international standards and create an effective network of schools. The article aims to present an overview of the reform of the institutional system of general education of Lithuania that began in 1988 and was to be completed in September 2015; however, the completion of the reform was recently postponed until September 2017. The article also reviews key challenges to the reform implementation and discusses the compatibility of the reform with societal expectations and standards of international educational law.

Keywords

EN

System of education; right to education; education reform; institutional reform of general education; general education

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 106-138

Dates

published

2015-06-01

received

2015-04-19

accepted

2015-07-27

online

2015-10-05

Contributors

author

Birutė Pranevičienė

• Mykolas Romeris University, Faculty of Public Security (Lithuania)

author

Agnė Margevičiūtė

• Mykolas Romeris University, Faculty of Public Security (Lithuania)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/bjlp-2015-0013