Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación (Dec 2015)

Public policies and factors for school improvement

  • Mariano Herrera

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 2

Abstract

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The Latin American school seems to have been the victim of a crisis of general disorientation. Since the 1970s, critics have seen the reproductive nature of the educational system -regarded in classic works such as Bourdieu and Passeron, Bowels and Gintis, among others- added to the criticism of the teacher's authoritarianism, leaving teachers and schools with disorientation and sometimes even despair.