Rethinking Public Education Systems in the 21st Century Scenario : New and Renovated Challenges Between Policies and Practices

"This book emanated from presentations at the World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), held in b72623317Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 2013. The Congress theme of "New Times, New Voices" provided the broad frame of the post-Buenos Aires series of volumes including this one containing research contributions focusing on the situation of public education systems. The chapters in this volume are selected for quality of research and relevance to the theme, and for representation across global regions. They examine the new and renovated challenges faced by public education systems at present for which different paths are suggested. In particular, this book puts together studies from authors from Latin American countries, especially from the Southern Cone, as a way of giving voice to particular educational problems and perspectives in a globalized world. Getting into educational systems in Argentina, Brazil and Chile and analysing some of its current particularities through the lenses of regional and international comparison, contributes to a better understanding of the processes of circulation, reception, appropriation and translation that historically characterizes educational systems development. This is why the volume also includes studies regarding the impact on contemporary educational reforms in the public sector, their links to past reforms and their cumulative impact on educational systems." -- Prové de l'editor TABLE OF CONTENTS 8 1. RETHINKING PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEMS: An Introduction 10 PRESENTATION 10 ABOUT THIS BOOK 13 REFERENCES 16 2. THE RESTRUCTURING OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN BRAZIL AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: Concepts and Politics 18 INTRODUCTION 18 ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION, MULTILATERAL AGENCIES AND ONGOING CHANGES IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE EU AND IN BRAZIL 20 CONCLUDING REMARKS 27 NOTES 28 REFERENCES 28 3. SECONDARY EDUCATION POLICIES IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA: A Historical Comparative Analysis 30 PRESENTATION 30 CONCEPTUALIZATIONS: THE EXPANSION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL AND THE INSTITUTIONAL MODEL 31 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN WESTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA: AN OVERVIEW 32 Secondary School in Western Europe: Continuities and Changes 33 The First Indication of the Limits of the Segmented Matrix: Comprehensive Reforms 35 Secondary Education in Latin America: Between Global Tendencies and Local Scenarios 36 COMPARING POLICIES FROM DIFFERENT SCENARIOS 40 CLOSING REMARKS 48 Effects on Social and Pedagogical Segmentation 48 Effects of Focalization: New Stigmatization 49 Effects on the Teacher’s Work: Overburdening and New Demands 49 Effects on Pedagogical Work: Educational Limitations of the Remedial Strategy 50 NOTE 50 REFERENCES 50 4.TEACHER EVALUATION: Contributions from Literature and Propositions in America’s Countries 53 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 53 The Context for Teacher Evaluation Approaches Expansion 53 Teacher Evaluation Strands 56 EXISTING INITIATIVES IN COUNTRIES OF THE AMERICAS 59 SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT TEACHER EVALUATION 63 REFERENCES 64 5. PISA IN A LATIN AMERICAN CONTEXT: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil and Chile 66 INTRODUCTION 66 PISA PROGRAM 67 PISA AND OECD: OBJECTIVES AND APPROACH 68 TECHNICAL-POLITICAL DIMENSION OF EVALUATION 71 NATIONAL GOALS FOR EDUCATION 73 Argentina 74 Brazil 76 Chile 78 PISA IN THE LATIN AMERICAN CONTEXT: FINAL CONSIDERATIONS 82 NOTES 86 REFERENCES 87 6. QUALITY AND MONITORING IN BRAZIL: Prova Brasil and its Impacts on Public Education 89 INTRODUCTION 89 SAEB AND PROVA BRASIL 89 PROVA BRASIL AND MUNICIPALITIES 91 PROVA BRASIL AT SCHOOL 94 FINAL COMMENTS 98 NOTE 98 REFERENCES 99 7. RE-SYSTEMATIZATION OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE PAST TWO DECADES IN THE PROVINCE OF BUENOS AIRES: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Recent Changes in Education Systems 100 PRESENTATION 100 PART ONE SYSTEMS AND SUBSYSTEMS IN THE STRUCTURE OF EDUCATION IN ARGENTINA 101 EXPANSION OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE PROVINCE OF BUENOS AIRES, 1996–2011: FORMATION OF A DUAL SYSTEM 102 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOCIAL SYSTEM AND THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE CONFIGURATION OF O SEGMENTED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM 104 ARTICULATION OF EDUCATION SYSTEMS WITH THE SOCIAL SYSTEM 105 SOCIAL ARTICULATION MECHANISMS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND BETWEEN HOME AND SCHOOL 107 PART TWO ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURE OF EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN A SEGMENTED SYSTEM 108 DIMENSIONS OF THE “ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE” 108 TYPOLOGY: INSTITUTIONS WITH INTEGRATED INCLUSIVE PRACTICES AND INSTITUTIONS WITH SEGMENTED INCLUSIVE PRACTICES 110 FINAL CONCLUSIONS AND QUESTIONS 115 NOTES 116 REFERENCES 117 APPENDIX I 119 APPENDIX II 120 "This book emanated from presentations at the World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 2013. The Congress theme of "New Times, New Voices" provided the broad frame of the post-Buenos Aires series of volumes, including this one containing research contributions focusing on the situation of public education systems. The chapters in this volume are selected for quality of research and relevance to the theme, and for representation across global regions. They examine the new and renovated challenges faced by public education systems at present for which different paths are suggested. In particular, this book puts together studies from authors from Latin American countries, especially from the Southern Cone, as a way of giving voice to particular educational problems and perspectives in a globalized world. Getting into educational systems in Argentina, Brazil and Chile and analysing some of its current particularities through the lenses of regional and international comparison, contributes to a better understanding of the processes of circulation, reception, appropriation and translation that historically characterizes educational systems development. This is why the volume also includes studies regarding the impact on contemporary educational reforms in the public sector, their links to past reforms and their cumulative impact on educational systems"--Back cover Front Matter....Pages i-vii Rethinking Public Education Systems....Pages 1-8 The Restructuring of Higher Education in Brazil and the European Union....Pages 9-20 Secondary Education Policies in Europe and Latin America....Pages 21-43 Teacher Evaluation....Pages 45-57 Pisa in a Latin American Context....Pages 59-81 Quality and Monitoring in Brazil....Pages 83-93 Re-Systematization of Secondary Education in the Past Two Decades in the Province of Buenos Aires....Pages 95-115