Industrial democracy: a discussion about the end of bacharelism in high school

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  • Katya Mitsuko Zuquim Braghini

Keywords:

Secondary school, Quality of schooling, Democracy.

Abstract

The objective of this study is to answer the following question: Why does the expression “industrial democracy” summarize the reasons for the change in the quality standard of secondary school in the 1950s? The hypothesis that guided the investigation is that a new situation (significant growth of this stage of schooling, directly or indirectly caused by the advance of the middle classes into the schooling system, and by the intense agitation that characterizes the admission of the country into the era of mass societies) would have encouraged the intensification of the debate on the quality of secondary school. The subject of these debates is the ideal model of secondary school for a changing society. Finally, we found that there was a deep change in the idea of what a quality secondary school should be like; and the expression “industrial democracy”, whose meaning could be summarized by the triad development-work-social integration, becomes the great dynamic model of the transformation of the Brazilian secondary school in that period. During the preparation of this study, articles on secondary school published by the Revista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos(RBEP, Brazilian Journal of Pedagogical Studies) were analyzed.

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Braghini, K. M. Z. (2008). Industrial democracy: a discussion about the end of bacharelism in high school. Education, 33(2), 293–304. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufsm.br/reveducacao/article/view/37

Issue

educação v. 33, n. 2, maio/ago. 2008

Section

Continuous Demand

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