Education Law & Public Education Policy
“Landscape After Battle” – On the Margins of the Hungarian Public Education Act
Public education; teachers’ rights; right to strike; educational autonomy; LGBTQ content; constitutional rights
Protests by teachers' and students' NGOs and civil disobedience movements have drawn attention to the fundamental deficiencies of the Hungarian public education system. The controversial so-called „Status Law”, which provoked intense debates, redefined the careers of teachers (called national career path model - see below) and the whole organisation of public educational system. The most significant dilemma of the legislation act is how to interpret the constitutional right to education and the autonomy of public education. In answering this question, it is necessary to point out the government's intention and the wide social/political debate that also emerged behind the government decree on child protection and has resulted in the exclusion of LMBTQ-themed learning materials from school textbooks. The latter has led to the need to wrap LGBTQ books in the youth literature section of bookshops. Why and how have education and child protection issues become politicised and ideologised in Hungary?
EGRESI, KATALIN
Connection Points Between Segregation and Becoming a Criminal Perpetrator...
Roma minority; segregation; criminalization; crime prevention; discrimination; social exclusion
The article examines how educational, residential, economic, and social segregation may contribute to criminalization among Hungary’s Roma minority. It rejects biologically based notions of “Gypsy crime” and advocates integration, education, cooperation, and preventive interventions.
BODNÁR, ZSOLT
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