Ιδεολογήματα και εννοιολογήσεις στην οργάνωση και λειτουργία των Πρότυπων Πειραματικών Σχολείων

Abstract

The present paper is concerned with the interpretation of legislative regulations for the time period between 2011 and 2015 about the Experimenting Schools (Peiramatika Sholia) and the policy of intentions, based on the economic, political and social conditions. They form the “narratives” activated, as inner automatic systems which trigger the functionality of institutions like education.

The legislative development of the afore-mentioned period is being investigated tied to an institution, particularly the regulations and prerequisites of students entering these special schools. More specifically, evaluation on special qualifications and skills is carried out based on selection criteria. The periods of evaluating entrance are being simultaneously scrutinized compared to the newly-formed legislation about selecting students through the process of choosing by lot.

Moreover, social meanings and symbolic existence about the concepts “charismatic person” or “high intelligence person” who form the framework are being explored. They are meaningful references valuing “difference” to the creation of special schools. The aim is to correlate the evolutionary function of these schools for charismatic children based on class and neo-liberal perceptions which reinforce – in the name of “the right to difference”- the content of standpoints. This is achieved by utilizing political structures of the nation-state and globalized political decisions. The underpinned new ideologies, as ipsoiure, through new fetish words – “modernization”, “innovation”, “reconstruction” – impose and legalize, as “construction”, the “educational correctness” of an expanded type of differentiations. Perhaps, the educational structural differentiations are cancelled by the recent law of 2015. This way, dialogue is brought back as there is necessity to reform public education through expanded opportunity structures.

Key words: experimenting – model schools (protypa peiramatika sholia), charismatic people, legislation, differentiation, public education, opportunity structures