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Bulgarian education system faces complete overhaul

Thu, Aug 27 2009 10:14 CET

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Bulgarian education system faces complete overhaul

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The Bulgarian government will amend the country’s core education and science legislation, Education, Youth and Science Minister Yordanka Fandukova told the first sitting of the relevant parliamentary committee.

A brand new school education law will be forged out within a year with a view to restructuring the system and introducing new standards for pupil and teacher behaviour.

The package of reforms proposed by ex-minister Daniel Valchev towards the end of the term of the former government got rejected on the grounds of a proposal to prohibit wearing religious symbols in schools.

Fandukova said the new legislation should be built on a new philosophy and take its cue from vocational and university training.

All education policies will be developed with the help of psychologists and increasing the number of educationalists, social workers and psychologists at schools is also on the drawing board.

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Anonymous Valeri Fri, Aug 28 2009 23:57 CET
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North America is very different and we should be very selective as what we borrow from them.
The US's government high and middle schools, aren't that much better than those in BG....

Anonymous vulcho Fri, Aug 28 2009 04:09 CET
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Increasing teacher & education worker pay at all levels, while reducing the outlay for the Bulgarian military, is one avenue the GERB minister should consider.

Another is creating new approaches to working-class pedagogy, since most kids are from working-class backgrounds (including all Roma children), a good book from North America is Patrick Finn, LITERACY WITH AN ATTITUDE: EDUCATING WORKING-CLASS CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST (2nd ed., 2009)http://www.literacywithanattitude.com/?q=node/556


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