martes, 14 de junio de 2011

¿Cómo las escuelas y facultades de educación pueden recuperar su papel en la política pública?



Importante contribución para entender los términos del debate actual sobre la incidencia de las escuelas y facultades de educación en el diseño y la deliberación de políticas públicas educacionales. Análisis de los nuevos y viejos actores que participan en este ámbito, las diversas formas de justificar su intervención y evaluar sus propuestas y el papel que pueden jugar las facultades de educación. A continuación del texto original en inglés, traducción automática al castellano proporcionada por0 Google.


How Education Schools Can Take Back Their Role in Policy
By Jeffrey R. Henig, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2, 2011

In recent years, education schools have been marginalized in the national education-policy debates. On the teaching side, they have been edged from their traditional central place by alternative training programs for teachers, principals, and district leaders. Most recently, education schools have been displaced by philanthropic and for-profit businesses that have become prominent players in an enterprise previously shaped by educators. Since education has become front-page news, the dominance of education schools in the field of education research has also been challenged by private research organizations and by renewed interest in education among scholars in academic disciplines such as economics and political science.

The marginalization of education schools has been partly based on legitimate criticisms about the weakness of rigor and training, and the narrowness of ideas, at some schools.


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