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Jean-Louis
Derouet
Deconcentration,
decentralisation and autonomy of French schools (1981-2003)
– From the revival of equal opportunities to network management |
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Between 1981 and 2003 France
has experienced a Copernican revolution in the concept of its
educational policy, abandoning a concept where justice and effectiveness
were based on the centralisation and even the standardisation
of the educational system in favour of another based on taking
into consideration local specificities and the autonomy of schools.
The article analyses the implementation of this new framework
which, without being rhetorical, is still strongly influenced
by the old culture. It looks at both the strengths and the effects
of the old culture, and as various indicators point to the growing
inequality between schools, it also looks into whether or not
this is a consequence of the new policy. The article also introduces
a reflection on semantic change in which, at the beginning of
the 1980s, the autonomy of schools was presented as a means
for making more tangible the promise of equal opportunities
as heralded by the welfare state. It compares this to the end
of the 1990s where it appears as the foundation of a management
based on the same methods which enabled capitalism to pull out
of the 1973 crisis, namely decentralised units and a networking
structure built on internationally recognised quality standards. |
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