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Through in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses around school performance and student dropout rates in Brazil, this volume highlights a colonial legacy of exclusionary schooling practices rooted in racist, violent, and classificatory logics.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Exclusion in Brazilian schooling: quantification, classification, and other colonized rationalities Chapter 2. Exams in modern school, the moralization of conducts, and the purposes of schooling poor children Chapter 3. Overlapping evaluation functions in Brazilian schools Chapter 4. Measurement and classification of persons: tests in the service of school efficiency Chapter 5. Graded school, homogenization of classes, and reductions of teaching programs Chapter 6. Democratization of teaching and the hierarchy of capacities Chapter 7. The scandal of numbers and the quantification of educational problems Chapter 8. Non-approval, repetition, and dropout: the debate around statistics Chapter 9. Causes of school repetition from the perspective of periodical press: a long inventory of prejudices Chapter 10. Solutions for school non-approval and concern with the quality of teaching Index
About the author
Natália Gil is Professor and Researcher in the School of Education at The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.
Summary
Through in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses around school performance and student dropout rates in Brazil, this volume highlights a colonial legacy of exclusionary schooling practices rooted in racist, violent, and classificatory logics.
