POLÍTICAS DE EVALUACIÓN ESTANDARIZADA Y GOBERNANZA “EMPRESARIAL” EN EDUCACIÓN

Abstract

This article analyses closely the policies of standardized evaluation that continue to be implemented throughout the world and which represent one of the most incisive mechanisms of the new paradigm of “neo-liberal governance” in education. It investigates how this evaluation model demands the implementation of new managerial "business" style techniques in educational institutions and it is supported by rhetoric that proclaims the necessity of decentralization and of educational autonomy for schools. However, this discourse does not refer to pedagogical autonomy, but to financial autonomy - decentralization without resources. In this context, the so-called "New Public Management" comes to the fore as a mechanism of governance for public services, applied to education. The article explores how these stratagems operate, what they "make one do"  and how they become tools of social control since they require the active participation of those involved and impose a rationale oriented to "self-governance" under the pressure of competition, in accordance with the principle of calculating maximum individual interest. Finally, in a proactive sense, this article raises the need for a different approach to educational evaluation and management that is both possible and necessary in a democratic and inclusive model.