Diversification in secondary education curricula from a comparative perspective

Autores/as

  • Aaron Benavot Education for All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO, Paris, France and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Palabras clave:

Secondary education, expansion, diversification, curricular structures, comparative perspective

Resumen

Secondary education continues to expand rapidly worldwide. Equally important is its diversification. The present paper contends that the diversification of secondary education, while acknowledged, is not well studied. Despite the widespread expansion of secondary education in different world regions, the information available to researchers—and policy makers—for informed comparisons of secondary education systems has been, and remains, rather superficial and limited. The present paper compares the programmatic foci and contents of secondary education systems. It seeks to move beyond existing characterizations of secondary education, by reporting initial results from an IBE-sponsored, cross-national study of secondary level programs, tracks and curricula. This study, while mainly limited to academic-oriented tracks, provides an empirical basis for comparing the diversification of secondary education systems.

Biografía del autor/a

Aaron Benavot, Education for All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO, Paris, France and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

AARON BENAVOT es Senior Policy Analyst con el Informe de Seguimiento Global con la “Educación para todos” (EFA) en el equipo de la UNESCO (Paris). Ha llevado a cabo una amplia investigación sobre los efectos de la educación en el desarrollo económico y en la democratización, los orígenes y expansión de la educación de masas, y sobre los patrones mundiales de los currículos escolares oficiales. Ha sido coautor o editor de cuatro libros, School Knowledge for the Masses (con J. Meyer y D. Kamens); Law and the Shaping of Public Education (con D. Tyack y T. James); Global Educational Expansion: Historical legacies and political obstacles (con J. Resnik y J. Corrales); y School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective (con C. Braslavsky); así como artículos en revistas relevantes en sociología de la educación y en educación comparada. Después de cursar su grado avanzado en sociología de la educación de Stanford, ha enseñando en la Universidad de Georgia (USA) y en la Universidad hebréa de Jerusalem ( Israel ). También ha llevado a cabo trabajos de asesoría para el Banco Mundial, la Oficiona Internacional y la Unión Europea

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2006-04-01