Abstrakt
This article analyses shifts in school culture in the post-totalitarian society in the Czech Republic. It states that transformation always combines aspects of restructuralisation and reculturalisation.
The article first introduces both of these aspects in the Czech school education system and then provides qualitative analysis of changes of school culture in one school located in a mid-sized town in the central part of the country. In-depth biographical interviews were carried out with teachers who taught in the school before and after 1989 – the year of political change.
The article offers a detailed description of how the totalitarian regime used teachers as its servants. At the same time it offers an analysis of the changes that were provoked by the political transformation, and how teachers reacted to them.
Last but not least the article also offers an analysis of teachers’ perception of the current situation in the Czech education system. Their view is also a reflection on what happened to the country as it underwent this dynamic development.