Abstract

CAMARGO ABELLO, Marina. The critical matter of school equity: a multicase study. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2009, vol.7, n.2, suppl.1, pp.1619-1638. ISSN 1692-715X.

School equity has become a complex problem for educational institutions as the educational system has been configured historically in a way that the population group segmentation - according to the position of individuals in society - and the scarce attention to the underprivileged groups have led to a historical inequity that is being faced nowadays by means of compensatory and focused policies whose main aim is to prevent that polarization between rich and poor groups be more severe. This means, then, that the individuals' differences in society with reference to quantity and quality of education levels reached can be questioned from the perspective of justice. Accordingly, this situation is shown in five cases of educational policy at the Colombian Capital District, during the Mockus and Peñalosa mayor administrations. These policies aimed at promoting educational equity: demand-subsidy high schools, labor competence high schools, excellence leveling-up schools and other educational institutions that do not belong to a particular program, but to the district governmental action oriented to school quality, efficiency and equity.

Keywords : social equity; educational equity; school equity; education social function; equity educational policies; equity orientation of educational institutions.

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