Abstract

LESSARD, Claude. O debate americano sobre a certificação dos professores e a armadilha de uma política educativa baseada na evidência. Linhas Críticas [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.28, pp.63-94. ISSN 1981-0431.

The article analyses the lively debate, currently taking place in the United States of America, with respect to the certification of teachers at primary and secondary level, which opposes the “professionalists” and the “deregulationists”. This debate is, at the same time, ideological, political and scientific: to begin with, the protagonists are presented with the agendas they adopt and the context of concurrency among the groups interested in the control of the American educational policy; then, the data available and debated are identified, as well as the zones of consensus and of discussion, along with the strategies of argumentation used to try to win the “adversary” and thus be “victorious”. Finally, in conclusion, the characteristics of the debate are reflected upon, namely with reference to the “policy based on evidence’ and to the relations it reveals between science, politics and ideology.

Keywords : Certification; Deregulation; Teacher Training; Public Policies; Professionalization of Teaching; University.

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