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Research on post-socialist institutions is not short on “paradox,” “enigma,” and “dilemma.” It is a source of both fascination and frustration to Western-educated researchers that post-socialist institutions abound in social and organizational mechanisms that seem to defy rationality as it is understood in the West. What is the logic of a law in Poland that aims to make educational programs more innovative by means of detailed and restrictive regulations? (Shaw, 2014).
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Shaw, M.A. (2017). Beyond Teleological Rationality in Post-Socialist Educational Research. In: Silova, I., Sobe, N.W., Korzh, A., Kovalchuk, S. (eds) Reimagining Utopias. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-011-0_13
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