The age of studies and reports : selected elements concerning the background of encounters defining the power of education

Tašner, Veronika (author), Gaber, Slavko (author)

In the present paper, we discuss the time before the “age of reports”. Besides the Coleman Report in the period of Coleman, the Lady Plowden Report also appeared, while there were important studies in France (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1964; Peyre, 1959) and studies that inaugurated comprehensive education in Nordic countries. We focus on the period after the World War II, which was marked by rising economic nationalism, on the one hand, and by the second wave of mass education, on the other, bearing the promise of more equality and a reduction of several social inequalities, both supposed to be ensured by school. It was a period of great expectations related to the power of education and the rise of educational meritocracy.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: pregled
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publisher: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education
• Year: 2016
• Number of pages: 61-80
• Numbering: 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-85585
• ISSN: 1855-9719
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11070537
• Publication date in RUL: 20.09.2017

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Keywords: education