Decentralization and Structural Change in Secondary Education in Argentina: The Case of the Province of Buenos Aires

Autor/inn/en	Acedo, Clementina; Gorostiaga, Jorge M.; Senen-Gonzalez, Silvia
Titel	Decentralization and Structural Change in Secondary Education in Argentina: The Case of the Province of Buenos Aires
Quelle	In: Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 37 (2007) 1, S.127-145 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-1538
DOI	10.1007/s11125-007-9021-2
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Educational Researchers; Educational Policy; Administrative Organization; Secondary Education; Enrollment; Compulsory Education; Argentina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sekundarbereich; Einschulung; Schulpflicht; Argentinien
Abstract	Over the past decade, Argentina created and implemented a compulsory lower-secondary education level, within an ambitious educational reform programme. This article addresses the reform at the national level, diverse provincial responses, and the particular way that the powerful province of Buenos Aires appropriated the structural change. The authors' main source of data is fieldwork in Argentina, specifically in that province, in May 2002; they gathered official documents, interviewed national and provincial policy-makers, educational researchers and school actors, and observed schools and classrooms. The authors analyse the ways actors form and appropriate educational policy at three levels--national, provincial, and school--and within the limits set by various global, national. and local policy discourses. After reviewing the historical background and context of Argentina's reform, they discuss national education policy during the 1990s, focusing on the change in academic structure, and the different provincial responses and implementation problems. They then analyse the case of the province of Buenos Aires (PBA). Finally, they summarise some quantitative effects of the reform. (Contains 1 table and 3 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10