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Baltic Countries: From Post-socialist to New-liberal Education?

Irina Maslo (Head of the LU Doctoral school)

World Education Patterns in the Global North: The Ebb of Global Forces and the Flow of Contextual Imperatives

ISBN: 978-1-80262-518-9, eISBN: 978-1-80262-517-2

Publication date: 1 September 2022

Abstract

This chapter offers a survey of education development in the Baltic region and the dynamics of global forces in the three Baltic states’ contexts. First, a brief overview of the incoming new-liberal global trend that impacted the education in the Post-Socialist European region will be provided, followed by a discussion of similarities and differences in the development of education in Baltic states as co-shaped by contextual contours of the post-socialist region at whole. It shows that the contextual social and cultural realities of Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania not only have a powerful mediating role on the impact of global forces but are in their own right an agency in shaping the education response of Post-socialist societies of this region. Second, the knowledge of the interrelationship between education and societal cultural contexts in the Baltic region will be explained, stressing the lack of research on informal settlements or the informal economy and its intersection with education. The International Comparative Education research agenda will not only be of significance for the Baltic states but to the entire world. Many aspects of the contextual architecture of the region are becoming increasingly evident world-wide tending the neo-liberalism in education as distinct from liberalism insofar as it does not advocate market-economic policy but instead is highly constructivist and approve a strong state to bring reforms in every aspect of society transforming the education and teaching labor market.

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Maslo, I. (2022), "Baltic Countries: From Post-socialist to New-liberal Education?", Wolhuter, C.C. and Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) World Education Patterns in the Global North: The Ebb of Global Forces and the Flow of Contextual Imperatives (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 43A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 85-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-36792022000043A007

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