¿Calidad de la educación o educación de calidad? Una preocupación más allá del mercado

Abstract

This article presents a series of theoretical considerations that constitute meeting points and benchmarks for reflecting on the concept of quality in education.
This work is part of the «Quality education» project. A project developed by the International Center for Education and Human Development (cinde, for its Spanish acronym) along with the Department of Education of Soacha Municipality, Cundinamarca State, and unicef Colombia.
We will discuss different approaches of educational policies to the concept of education quality and the constructions that consider local and regional educational contexts, and the institutional experiences related to the concept of quality education.
We will underline the polysemic essence of the concept of quality and the challenges presented to the school, in its everyday life, by assuming an approach to quality connected to both the demands of the actual educational contexts and the expectations of the different social actors that coexist in the educational institution, and also to the materialization of a perspective on rights in school practices that fosters the political subjectivity of kids and teenagers.