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School Choice and Organizational Diversity: Transitional Consequences of Educational Deregulation

The establishment of educational services market has forced educational institutions to develop efficient school organization. Marketization in Croatian schooling introduced the processes of adaptation to environment where the spirit of competition and free-choice rule. While there are general trends that can be perceived in numerous transitional countries, each educational system has responded to the push for greater market forces in a different way. The paper examines the degree of regulation of the educational market, the extent of incorporation of the private initiatives, and the relationships between choice and expected organizational possibilities. The privatization processes in the educational system in Croatia, that accompanied the changes in the whole social services system, enabled the introduction of alternative organizational forms in the private school system. Drawing out a number of key elements arising from the previous analyses, this paper’s goal is to establish starting analytic fundamentals for the research of privatization impact on changes in school organization, that is a specific part of private schools market place.

School Choice; Private School Curriculum; Organizational Changes; Social Invention

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