Myth and Education: between Sisyphus and leadership

• Main Author: Avdi Visoka (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Association of Social and Educational Innovation, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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• Notes: 2393-0373
• Keywords: Myth; Education; Prevention; Reform; Kosovo; Imagination; Education; L
• Source: International Journal of Social and Educational Innovation, Vol 5, Iss 9 (2018)

This paper aims to theorize the interplay of the mythic imaginary with education and ideology, focusing on the case of Kosovo. After the Second Wold War, a hundred Albanian-language primary schools were opened. 1970 saw the establishment of the University of Prishtina which has had a great impact not only on educational policy but also on the national political agency. This is how the educational policy came in contact with political myths. After Kosovo's autonomy was abolished in 1991, the Albanian schools and university were closed by the police forces. Education soon took over the mission of the parallel state by being implied in national ideological agencies. This ideological implication continued even after 1999, when an international protectorate was established under UN auspices. Within this political milieu the process of reform has been sketched, a process which has presented reform mainly as a protection from the wrong way, by employing political myths to create tomorrow's leaders.