Crise da escola ou na escola? Uma análise da crise de sentido dos sistemas públicos de escolarização obrigatória

Abstract

This study discusses the meaning that are ascribed to the crisis of public (state) schools of compulsory attendance in the educational critical literature published since the last decades of the 20th century, both in Brazil and Portugal. It lists the optimistc expectations that impelled the massification of schooling after the Second World War and compares them with the impasses that the public systems of education are confronting, at the beginning of the 21º century, and which are largely due to the unfulfilled promises of modernity. It also deals with the impact of the changes of globalised cultures and economies, multicultural societies, accelerated information, and Nation-States deflated of their historical functions in the configuration of that crisis; it deals as well with the different estrategies that have been designed, both in Brazil and in Portugal, in order to overcome this crisis.