Mejoramiento de la calidad educativa desde los estándares de calidad como ejercicio de la política pública educativa

Abstract

This monographic work is located in the educational field, in the area of Public Policy, specifically with regard to educational quality. Improvement of educational quality is the subject of continuous debate and has promoted the development of public policy in Education and there is no doubt that different visions converge in it. Therebefore, this research was developed in order to analyze the Ecuadorian public policy of improving educational quality from quality standards. To achieve this purpose, a descriptive documentary research was carried out, based on the review of pertinent bibliographic material on the variables (public policy, educational quality standards) that guide the study; in addition to analyzing and synthesizing relevant information found. Thus, the development of the research reveals that, in Ecuador and Latin America, the public policy of improving educational quality has been promoted, since the 90s, by international financial organizations; besides, it focuses on the principle of equality opportunities and uses quality standards as a strategy that, without a doubt, are business constructs that respond to the mercantilist line, that sometimes, in the Ecuadorian context, are discursively aligned to a new vision under the axes of quality argued by Aguerrondo. Finally, after the bibliographic search, the possibility of new orientations for the construction of educational public policy is rescued under the arguments of authors positioned in a humanistic line that defend principles such as integrality, freedom, respect and responsibility and that place the human being as the center of political action in resolution of problems and the search for common welfare