Egy baloldali oktatáspolitika körvonalai

In the politically divided Hungarian education policy field, a dedicated and coherent leftist education policy alternative has never been formulated since the regime change. Inspired by Hungarian critical education literature and the international literature on leftist education and pedagogy, our paper aims to make a sketch of the main cornerstones of an up-to-date and comprehensive leftist education policy approach. The paper aims to spark a debate: it does not elicit data analysis but rather elicits principles. The main elements of a leftist, critical education policy alternative are the following: an equalizing and comprehensive school system which considers the social embeddedness of the schools and conceives the school as a political space at the macro-level; adaptive, community-based schools at the meso-level; and democratic pedagogical practices at the micro-level. In addition to these main lines, it is proposed to think about the teacher as considered as a social transformative, autonomous intellectual and professional and to envisage a curriculum mindful of class issues.