Exclusionary Rationalities in Brazilian Schooling

Decolonizing Historical Studies
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-20046-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 356 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education

Through in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses and processes of quantification around school performance and student failure rates in Brazil, this volume highlights the prevalence of Eurocentric colonized thought that results in the persistence of exclusion bottlenecks; different trajectories according to gender, race, and class; and significant regional variations in the rates of failure and dropout, among other problems.

Focusing on processes performed between 1918 and 2012, this book offers rich analysis of historiographic sources including journals, newspapers, and administrative documentation to trace the development of initiatives intended to promote the democratization of Brazilian schooling. An examination of reforms including school classification, the graduated school model, admissions examinations, and automatic promotion reveal a school system that mirrors wider societal injustices and guarantees academic success for only a minority of students.

Bringing a nuanced and elaborated historical perspective of the pragmatics of the selective classificatory logic in different institutional and epistemic qualities of the school organization of children and the reasoning about abilities and achievement, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in curriculum and assessment, the sociology of education, and the history of education.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gil, Natalia

Gil, Natália

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Exclusion in Brazilian schooling: quantification, classification, and other colonized rationalities Chapter 2. Exams in modern school, the moralization of conducts, and the purposes of schooling poor children Chapter 3. Overlapping evaluation functions in Brazilian schools Chapter 4. Measurement and classification of persons: tests in the service of school efficiency Chapter 5. Graded school, homogenization of classes, and reductions of teaching programs Chapter 6. Democratization of teaching and the hierarchy of capacities Chapter 7. The scandal of numbers and the quantification of educational problems Chapter 8. Non-approval, repetition, and dropout: the debate around statistics Chapter 9. Causes of school repetition from the perspective of periodical press: a long inventory of prejudices Chapter 10. Solutions for school non-approval and concern with the quality of teaching Index

Über Autor(innen)

Natália Gil is Professor and Researcher in the School of Education at The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.