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Gandin, Luis Armando – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This article examines the "Citizen School" project implemented in Porto Alegre, Brazil as an example of how to fight against neoliberal projects. It begins by describing the broader context in which the Citizen School project was born, including the hegemonic agenda for education, first in its global aspects and then in specific…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Politics of Education
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Simons, Maarten; Masschelein, Jan – Policy Futures in Education, 2006
The aim of this article is to analyse the evident use of the notion "educational quality" from the perspective of a critical "ontology of the present" by focusing on governmental relations. Through mapping present discourses on educational quality and related technologies, the authors analyse how our present concern with quality is part of a…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, Educational Quality, Educational Policy, Criticism