La calidad educativa de la educación básica en Brasil y México: las voces de los padres de familias.

Abstract

Concern about institutional quality gained momentum since the 1980’s and the discussion covered different areas: political, academical and social. For various reasons, these are current and valid. In this way, this research intends to know the social representations of institutional quality, created by parents or authorities who visit often elementary institutions in Brazil and Mexico. Through a questionnaire, the formation of semantic networks from four generative words was obtained. 87 parents were surveyed in Mexico (n=53) and Brazil (n=34). With the support of the Social Representations Theory (Moscovici, 1979) it was verified that parents do not have a clear vision of institutional quality, fragmenting their performance in aspects such as: the educational institution, teachers, investment and the educational values and practices carried out at school.