Abstract
Germany''s federal system has a long history, and education, in particular, was being still regarded as an independent area under the jurisdiction of local state governments. Even when the war had ended in 1945 and the Federal Republic was established in western Germany, the federal government did not have the legal authority to engage in the education policy. It played a very limited role in supporting the state governments according to the ‘Kulturföderalismus’(cultural federalism). However, with the beginning of education reform in the 1960s, the tendency of centralization for unifying the educational system and planning of the education policies at the national level beyond regional limits began to develop. Through the revision of the Constitution in 1969, the federal government was first guaranteed jurisdiction over the education policy and allowed to have the ‘BMBW’(Federal Ministry of Education). Furthermore, the education policy began to be managed in some integrated way by the central government. This study examines the process of reform for the centralization of the education policy, and deals with the controversies and limitations surrounding it.
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