School failure, whose failure? The transformation of the notion of school failure

Authors

  • Adriana Aristimuño Universidad Católica de Uruguay

Keywords:

School failure, Inclusive education, Dropout prevention, Best practices

Abstract

The article contributes to the discussion on the conception of “school failure”, through the revision of the literature, and shows how it has evolved, since the introduction of the notion of inclusive education. It analyzes the current literature on how it has been faced in different contexts, and in the diverse levels of the educational systems (policy design, school and classroom levels). It concludes that numerous best practices exist, and proposes that the best results are attained when an inclusive, preventive, and systemic approach is put into action, complemented at the classroom level with a risk-taking and an experimentation approach.

Author Biography

Adriana Aristimuño, Universidad Católica de Uruguay

Licenciada y doctora en ciencias de la educación (Universidad Católica de Lovaina, 1996). Ha realizado el seguimiento de políticas de educación media en la educación pública de Uruguay. Profesora de carreras de grado y postgrado, formadora de investigadores y gestora en la Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Ha publicado y desarrollado docencia como invitada en universidades de Argentina, Chile, Colombia, México y Perú. Actualmente es docente titular de la Universidad Católica y dirige su departamento de formación humanística. Sus líneas de investigación son la política educativa, los procesos de cambio y las estrategias de mejora, con foco en la educación media. Integra el Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del Uruguay.

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Published

2015-05-15

How to Cite

Aristimuño, A. (2015). School failure, whose failure? The transformation of the notion of school failure. Revista Latinoamericana De Educación Inclusiva, 9(1), 111–126. Retrieved from https://revistainclusiva.ucentral.cl/revistainclusiva/article/view/19_1_008

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Diverse Experiences of Inclusion

Section

Sección Temática

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