La educación como control social. Un análisis a través de los instrumentos de gobierno

Abstract

The article looks forward to determinind te mechanisms that establish the educaction as a feature of social control. The education depends on the political project which is settled in each country and because os this the control is based on the instruments designed for this purpouse. Some countries from Latin America which political scheme changed since the beginning of XXI century were analyzed because based on them it could be observed the changes implmented in the educational frame. With this purpouse on mind, the categorization done by Hood (2007) has been used to explain the modification of the behavior of asystem through the instruments of a public policy, in this specific case, the education policy. The categories authority, information, organization, and treasure were explained and the evidence of them was established. The methology used was the documentary analysis and the comparative approach between latinoamerican countries to determine the way these nations have applied the categories and instruments in order to estructure the education as a mechanism of social control. Also, there are some political measures that were analyzed, through the four categories scheme, in order to determine if there were a change in terms of the role of education and the establishment of a social control in these new model.