Reseña de Modernización Educativa de los ´90. ¿El Fin de la Ilusión Emancipadora? por Guillermina Tiramonti

Abstract

n this book, Tiramonti analyzes the deep cultural, economic and social impact of Argentina's educational reforms during the decade of the 1990s. Analyzing the profound connections of the social, economic, cultural and educational processes, Tiramonti dismisses the traditional interpretations that conceptualizes these reforms as expressions of either "neoliberal" or "progressive illuminism." Instead, the author points to the need for seeing these processes as intervening variables which reinforced and/or hindered already widespread and existing tendencies, viz., the generalization of social polarization, educational fragmentation, and the configuration of a new "map of responsibilities," changes in values and management practices within the educational sector.