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SUMMARY:Between ‘modernisation’ and ‘transition’: the discourse of
  the  Serbian 2001 civic education policy - Sanja Djerasimovic (PhD studen
 t\, Department of Education\, University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20141030T174500Z
DTEND:20141030T183000Z
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CONTACT:Laura Carnicero
DESCRIPTION:This project explored the development of the Serbian 2001 civi
 c education policy\, a policy which marked the start of an all-encompassin
 g education reform that was hailed as one of the tools in assisting the co
 untry’s transition from various forms of authoritarianism to a modern de
 mocracy. It was also a strong political signal that the then governing eli
 te was dedicated to joining Serbia with other post-communist countries on 
 their way ‘back to Europe’. Through interviews with the then policy ma
 kers and various contemporary critics and commentators of the policy\, and
  through the analysis of relevant policy and media documents and parliamen
 tary debates\, I explore the discourses and legitimisation strategies that
  gave rise to this policy\, and especially its relation to the religious e
 ducation policy\, introduced\, with some controversy\, at the same time. I
  hypothesise that the civic education policy served as symbolic capital us
 ed by the Serbian policy elite in their bid to position themselves more fa
 vourably in an international education policy field.
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DM
 B\, Room GS1
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