EDUCATION AS A CULTURAL PARADIGM
Journal Title: World Science - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 9
Abstract
The paper focuses on some issues concerning the introduction of new universalistapproaches such as learner centered teaching and autonomy, multiculturalism and pluralistic approachesin attempt to bring about a cultural paradigm shiftin the Bulgarian educational system. The basic hypothesis is that the attitudes towards these educational innovations and initiatives introduced and exported by the European Union administrative bodies depend highly on the receiving national culture. Bulgarian national cultureas a set of assumptions, beliefs and shared expectations isthen described along the six dimensions underlying Hofstede’s theory of organizations and cultures. An analysis of the teacher-student relationship as an archetypal social pair in Bulgaria is provided and implications concerning the innovative concepts of in education are conferred. Finally, it is concluded that local culture specifics can cause setups in the introduction of innovations in the overall educational process and to prevent the intended cultural paradigm shift.
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Ellie Boyadzhieva
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