Publication: Decentralizing Education in Transition Societies : Case Studies from Central and Eastern Europe
Date
2001-03
ISSN
Published
2001-03
Author(s)
Abstract
Starting in the fall of 1997, the World
Bank Institute organized a learning program on
Intergovernmental Roles in the Delivery of Education
Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
Bulgaria and Albania joined in 1998. The program aimed to
help build analytical capacity to understand the ways that
existing and future intergovernmental arrangements infringe
on the effectiveness of service delivery in the education
sector. Country teams prepared country assessments of
intergovernmental arrangements in the education sector. Each
country report reviewed the roles being played by different
actors in the system, analyzed the main contradictions
emerging from those roles, and developed a set of proposals
directed to resolving those contradictions. These reports
provided basis for a program of group learning under which
the teams from different countries exchanged views and
learned from each other through a series of workshops and
seminars. The overview in this book introduces the concept
of institutions and the methodology of institutional
analysis used in the program, It also discusses the group
learning approach used. It also presents a preliminary
assessment of substantive lessons regarding the implications
of service delivery. The following country chapters provide
a systematic and updated view of where the different
countries involved are in terms of reforming the governance
structure in their education systems.
Citation
“Fiszbein, Ariel. 2001. Decentralizing Education in Transition Societies : Case Studies from Central and Eastern Europe. WBI Learning Resources;. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/7db289ea-9397-58f9-a924-60ebe6618485 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”