Session Information
Session 3A, Enacting equity in Europe: towards a comparison of equitable practices in different local contexts (part 2)
Symposium
Time:
2004-09-23
09:00-10:30
Room:
Chair:
Lazaro Moreno Herrera
Discussant:
Lazaro Moreno Herrera
Contribution
School education in French-speaking Belgium has made widespread use of the grade retention in managing pupils in difficulties. Since 1995, some political initiatives aim to reduce grade retention in primary school, forbidding the repetition of a year within cycles of study and promoting changes in pedagogical practices. The main goal of this reform is to fight social selection observed with grade retention and to increase equality of opportunities and equality of results at school-leaving. An analysis of primary- level teachers' perceptions and practices highlights how much this reform conflicts with teachers' spontaneous conceptions of equality. In this way, different meanings of equality are presented and discussed in this paper. Competition between schools in a quasi-market environment also appears as an obstacle to an egalitarian project. Such a market pressure is analysed from a neo- institutional perspective.
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