Abstract

ROCHEX, Jean-Yves. ¿Reformar la secundaria o democratizar la escolaridad obligatoria? Problemas escolares y sociales en Francia.Translated byPatricia Ducoing. RMIE [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.32, pp.63-84. ISSN 1405-6666.

This text addresses the problems related to the policies of democratizing basic education in France. It focuses on secondary school, considered the weak link in the French educational system. The article begins by questioning the conceptions, models, ideologies and possible conditions underlying the project of “sole secondary” school. As a project for openness and unification, this model, far from contributing to the lessening of social inequalities, has increased them by restricting access to the appropriation of knowledge and intellectual skills. Debate is centered on whether secondary education should be unified or diversified. An analysis is also made of the contradictions, polemics, and discouraging effects of various government strategies, such as the policies of Priority Zones of Education (aimed at the most disadvantaged groups), school autonomy, and the educational project.

Keywords : secondary education; compulsory education; educational policy; democratization; social marginalization; multiculturalism; France.

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