Exclusionary rationalities in Brazilian schooling decolonizing historical studies / Nat©Łlia Gil.
| Author/creator | Gil, Nat©Łlia |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge research in decolonizing education |
| Contents | Exams in modern school, moralization of conducts and purposes of schooling poor childhood -- Overlapping evaluation functions in Brazilian school -- Measurement and classification of persons : tests in the service of school efficiency -- Graded school, homogenization of classes and reduction of teaching programs -- Democratization of teaching and the hierarchy of capacities -- The scandal of numbers and the quantification of educational problems -- Non-approval, repetition and dropout : the debate around statistics -- Causes of school repetition from the perspective of periodical press : a long inventory of prejudices -- Solutions for school non-approval and concern with quality of teaching. |
| Abstract | "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, significant regional variations in the rates of failure and dropout, among other problems. Focussing on processes performed between 1918 and 2012, chapters offer 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. Examination of reforms including school classification, the graduated school model, admissions examinations, and automatic promotion reveal a school system which 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 reasoning about abilities and achievement, it will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in curriculum and assessment, the sociology of education, and the history of education"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gil, Nat©Łlia. Exclusionary rationalities in Brazilian schooling New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781032200453 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022060153 |
| ISBN | 9781003261988 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |