The Education and Children’s Chances Roundtable:
scenes of policy-making in Hungary

 

 

 

 

This is the abstract of a paper published in Hungarian based on the Orientation 2/1 case study of the Hungarian Education team.

Analysing the Roundtable for Education and Child Opportunities (2007-2008), the paper discusses the recent strengthening of scientific paradigms and the strategies of establishing legitimacy in policy-making. The activity of the experts’ coalition is analysed in relation to other bodies constituting the Hungarian education policy space and the expert knowledges offered for political use. The various policy paradigms (sociological, psychological, economic, policy analysis) competing and cooperating for political influence are discussed and the reorganization of knowledge forms and disciplines informing decision-making as well as the strategies of persuasion are analyzed.