https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:13:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/policies-that-succeed-and-programs-that-fail-ambiguity-conflict-and-crisis-in-greek-higher-education/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:46 +0000 http://arc.local/items/policies-that-succeed-and-programs-that-fail-ambiguity-conflict-and-crisis-in-greek-higher-education/ Continued]]> Why do some policies adopted by a wide margin fail to be implemented? Highlighting the role of policy entrepreneurial strategies within the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA), we examine the implementation of Greek higher education reform in 2011 to argue that when policies adversely affect the status quo, successful entrepreneurial strategies of issue‐linkage and framing, side payments, and institutional rule manipulation are more likely to lead to implementation failure under conditions of crisis, centralized monopoly, and inconsistent political communication. The findings clarify MSA by specifying the conditions that increase the coupling strategies’ chances of success or failure and illuminate the role ambiguity and conflict play in policy reform and implementation.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/active-citizenship-in-university-education-lessons-learnt-in-times-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:28 +0000 http://arc.local/items/active-citizenship-in-university-education-lessons-learnt-in-times-of-crisis/ Continued]]> Despite the fact that historically the university has been the par excellence locus for the discussion of public issues and the formation of citizens, current European Union education policies promote and foster citizenship in secondary education, while the civic dimension of higher education is less prominent. This paper presents the case study of a small peripheral Greek university, which provides for the teaching of citizenship, through a dedicated taught module. According to the analysis a strategy of exposure to current problems, heightened due to the crisis in Greece, has affected students’ behaviour and their understanding of the concept of “active citizenship” as promoted by European Union policy. Finally implications are drawn for the prospect of promoting active citizenship through university education.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/greece-education-and-brain-drain-in-times-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:21 +0000 http://arc.local/items/greece-education-and-brain-drain-in-times-of-crisis/ Continued]]> Brain drain is a phenomenon that Greece has experienced since late 1950, which hascontinued in subsequent decades and intensified over the 1990s. Although there was, in the firstdecade of the twenty-first century, a political and economic situation more stable than in the past, the unprecedented economic crisis that Greece is going through has caused, and willcontinue to cause, the increase in brain drain due to poor employment opportunities and strongausterity measures taken by past governments, which depress the level of living standards. Ifthis massive human capital flight increases, which is very likely, it would surely worsen thesituation as Greece would continue to suffer depression effects on its economy and to lose precisely the resources it needs for economic recovery.This article highlights some causes determining the brain drain in Greece, also in the light ofsome scientific surveys that analyse this phenomenon. Moreover, it tries to provide keys toending the crisis and to economic recovery, starting from education and implementation ofmajor reforms aimed at overcoming problems that have long plagued the Hellenic educationsystem and that can enhance its quality, while maintaining commitments to equity and social justice.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/educational-reform-in-greece-central-concepts-and-a-critique/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:13 +0000 http://arc.local/items/educational-reform-in-greece-central-concepts-and-a-critique/ Continued]]> The case of Greece as the most recent neoliberal experiment can provide valuable insights not only about a generalized attack on the welfare state and the public good, but also about the radical changes in public education that are altering its public mission, vision, and goals. In this paper first we trace the educational landscape in Greece as it emerges both from the reform in primary and secondary education and from the new law 4009 on higher education. The ongoing government discourse on education is shaped and constructed along the lines of a market- driven society and unapologetically espouses the neoliberal dogma that aims to convert education into training, universities into corporations, knowledge into a service or commodity, and students into clients. We further examine the official public discourse as illustrated in government documentation in an attempt to map out the marked shift from the university as a public good to the university as corporate entity, and highlight the particular ways in which this is done. The new educational legislation sets the stage for an education where the individual will thrive through relentless competition, where collectivity is abolished, where only “useful” knowledge counts and where “quality” and “excellence” serve as the excuse for a corporate standardization of the university and the academic life and thought.

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