Abstract

LAUGLO, Jon. A critique of. Cad. Pesqui. [online]. 1997, n.100, pp.11-36. ISSN 0100-1574.

A critique is given of the World Bank's 1995 policy review on education, especially these aspects: its assumptions about the benefits of schooling, the way it deals with basic schooling and basic skills, the short shrift that is given to publicly provided vocational education, the view of pedagogic professionalism that seems implied in the view taken of quality improvement, the assumption that is possible to protect the poor when fees are raised, the type of decentralization that is advocated, and the reliance on rate-of-return analysis that recommended. Implications for other donors are commented on. In view of the extensive (but inevitably, selective) use that made of research findings as arguments recommendations, the Bank's Review raises the question of how far it is possible to base policy prescriptions on research. It is suggested that "banker's" and "pedagogues" tend to look at education through quite different professional lenses.

Keywords : Política Pública de Educação; Banco Mundial; Financiamento do Ensino; Qualidade do Ensino; Economia e Educação.

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