Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.31297/hkju.16.2.5
Decentralisation and Governance of the Education System in Mexico
Mauricio Covarrubias Moreno
; Professor of Public Administration at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Adriana Plasencia Díaz
; Professor at the National Institute of Public Administration of Mexico
Mauricio Covarrubias Romero
Sažetak
The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the progress of a little more than two decades of political decentralisation in Mexico, through so-called “educational federalism”. The Agreement for the Modernisation of Basic Education in 1992 was a turning point in the history of education in Mexico, because it represented the first attempt at comprehensive reform in the sense that, in addition to curricular reform and the promotion of social participation, it comprised the overall redesign of the organisation and management of the education system. Our analysis aims to show the dislocation suffered by the national education policy due to the lack of coordination between the actions of different levels of government. We do not intend to argue against federalism as a system of political organisation, but to draw attention to the concrete experience of educational decentralisation in Mexico, and how the advantages of decentralisation can be undermined by shortcomings in its design and implementation.
Ključne riječi
decentralisation; educational federalism; comprehensive reform; social participation; education system; coordination
Hrčak ID:
163856
URI
Datum izdavanja:
17.6.2016.
Posjeta: 1.986 *