The Place of Value in the “New” Educational System

István Magyari-Beck
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István Magyari-Beck: BUESPA, Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, H-1093 Budapest, Fővám tér 8, Hungary

Society and Economy, 2003, vol. 25, issue 1, 69-78

Abstract: The main tenet of the paper concentrates on the value reductionism promoted by the narrow-minded economic extremism flourishing in education. For economic extremism, the enjoyment of pupils and students - as allegedly the chief consumer value in education - stands for a large set of other values, which are necessary for the would be adults as successful labour force, and healthy and socialised people. However, pupils and students cannot be regarded as only consumers at the schools, colleges and universities. At the end of the presentation, the author gives a list of values and their short definitions so as to encourage a mode of teaching which is really beneficial - although not always so easy and enjoyable - for pupils and students.

Keywords: education; ideology; values; economic fundamentalism; job market; personality development; socialisation; professionalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
Note: This paper is an elaboration on theses which the author presented at the 47th annual conference of Comparative and International Education Society held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA on 12–16 March, 2003.
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