The Bulgarian Educational System and the Development of New Stereotypes and Group Representation

Fifteen years after the political changes, the educational system in Bulgaria is still searching the direction of its reformation. From a social psychological viewpoint this is a search for identity. The context of the educational reform being unknown has influenced the stakeholders to close themselves in their own groups and to refuse negotiations. A process of unbalanced interplay between internal and external representations of the main agents in education takes place. The paper compares the representations of own group and outer group of students, teachers, professors, professional educational staff focusing on the development of own mythology and self‐favoring biases. This illustrates the inoperative communication process taking place in the Bulgarian education.