Progress of the work of Marcia Lopes Reis, visiting professor at EDO
What do the practices of management in secondary education in countries like Spain, Chile and Brazil have in common? It is the question which the researcher.tries to answer. With a Ph.D in Sociology, she has dedicated into to cultural analysis and its relationship with education in her country
As what has been noticed, the first approaches to the realities of the three countries indicate, despite sharing the feeling as Latin Americans, that there are not as many similarities as it seems at the first sight. It attracted the researcher´s attention, for example, the diversity and multiplicity of cultures in schools in and around Barcelona, as well as the paradox of practice in schools which is still unadvanced from the existing technological resources. It reminds us about the publication of Dewey in 1899 referring to "the school as a reflection of society."
One part of her Studies analyzes the relations between the processes of conception and elaboration of the “public” politics of education and daily practices. As she says, educational reforms in many Western countries, especially those carried out since the 1990s, have encouraged decentralization of education and institutional autonomy, promoting proposals such as school-based change and institutional innovation projects. Although it is difficult to generalize, it could be said that the series of these reforms is one part of a technical-scientific rationality of contemporary and is going to establish an educational management system in which schools become ones of the basic units in making decisions. The transformation involves a number of important points in areas such as curriculum, personnel or budget.
Marcia Lópes Reis is a professor of Paulista University (UNIP) of Brazil and visiting professor of EDO for the year 2011.
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