Abstract

BARROSO, Geraldo. School Crisis or Crisis at School? An Analysis of the Sense of Crisis of the Public Systems in the Framework of the Compulsory Education. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2008, vol.21, n.1, pp.33-58. ISSN 0871-9187.

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.

Keywords : Public education; School smash; History of education; Public school.

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