Systems of state education are a crucial means for realizing the state s focal aspiration of guaranteeing solidarity and civil loyalty (Van Kemenade, 1985 pp. 854ff. ). The means at hand include the state s structuring and organization of schooling, determination of what education is compulsory, examinations that decide admittance to institutions of secondary and tertiary education, the design of educational aids, curricula, textbooks, didactic methods, and the general distribution of resources to schools. A further apparatus is that of teacher education and the regulations for appointment to...
Systems of state education are a crucial means for realizing the state s focal aspiration of guaranteeing solidarity and civil loyalty (Van Kemenade, ...