1. Principios democráticos de la educación para adultos: su metamorfosis en los '90.
- Author
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Brusilovsky, Silvia and Cabrera, María Eugenia
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ADULT education & state , *DECENTRALIZATION in government , *CONSERVATISM , *FREEDOM of teaching , *EDUCATION & politics , *DEMOCRACY , *EDUCATION , *HISTORY of education policy , *ECONOMIC conditions of teachers - Abstract
This article pertains to the changes undergone by some of the principles of democratic and popular education for youths and adults that were resignified from a New Right perspective. Following a brief reference to the educational situation of adults and youths, we analize various educational policy decisions that are related to their school education, with the intention of showing the following changes in signification : a) the passage from decentralization construed as autonomy and distribution of power to hierarchical forms of decentralization; b) the conversion of the concept of flexibility (construed as suitability to needs and living conditions) into deregulation and mercatilization of education (due to privatization of supply and its dependence on demand) or into assistential practices; c) the transformation of teacher autonomy (construed as the power to participate in and decide on central issues in their work as well as to appraise and have a bearing on political and educational decisions) into the limitations of real autonomy due to the teachers conversions into executors of centrally determined decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008