A reforma educacional na América Latina e a disseminação de políticas públicas de avaliação de sistemas educacionais

Abstract

The global diffusion of public policies in developing societies in the 1990's, is presented as a consolidated adoption process of structuring policies in particular in the field of education. These public policies are stated by implementing the national and subnational policies and programs, suitable to subsidize the policy of the Basic Education. In the countries of the Latin American continent the assessment of school effectiveness shall correspond to the models of policies result implemented in the post-reform period. Considering the influence of the World Bank in shaping policies adopted on the continent, the survey's purpose is to analyze the diffusion process of policy evaluation models on a large scale in the context of modernization of education management in newly democratized countries in Latin America. The methodology approaches the interpretation of official documents by the international comparative studies of educational public policy. In an investigative and exploratory analysis of the assessment models implemented on the continent, is expected to demonstrate how the process of adoption of models of evaluation of educational systems policy materialized in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, in the 1990's. It was found that in the Latin American continent, the decision-making process by national governments was marked in a developmental vision, supported the decentralization process in the education sector and institutionally influenced by the World Bank. The process occurs by consensus of Latin American governments to the expertise of the World Bank, in the design of policy models of large-scale evaluation mostly in sample character. On a subnational level, specifically in Brazil, the adoption of the public policies assessment, to a large extent, is nationally articulate. Nevertheless, its propagation is connected with the autonomy and protagonism of the state governments, in a process of learning policy from the horizontal network of an evaluative political process which is stablished in the country , and that promulgate innovations to contribute to a hegemonic diffusion of the assessment census patterninnovations to contribute to a hegemonic diffusion of the assessment census pattern