Infrastructure conditions of Brazilian schools: A needy school for the needy?

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https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.3536

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Public policies of education, Educational inequalities, School infrastructure, Cluster analysis

Abstract

We analyzed the infrastructure conditions of Brazilian schools, aiming to expose their inequalities and territorial distribution. The literature review pointed an influence on previous studies of school infrastructure of regulation by outcomes on the educational system coordination and the limits of current redistributive policies in promoting greater inter federative equity. We tested the hypothesis of a poor school for the poor using the clusters analysis (use of K-means after application of hierarchical method, to determine the number of clusters and centroids). The three clusters obtained (adequate, intermediate and precarious) allowed us to trace the profiles of school infrastructure inequalities by constructing reference variables that expressed the quality of the good or service. Among the results obtained, there was a greater number of students from families participating in the “Bolsa Família” Program in public schools located in urban areas in the group called “adequate”, according to Brazilian standards. There was also a higher concentration of these students in municipal schools in rural areas of the “precarious” group, despite the reduced number of enrollments by Brazilian standards. We concluded by relating the reasons for the invisibility of these schools to the agendas of national public education policies.

 

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Marisa Ribeiro Teixeira Duarte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutora em Educação. Professora associada da Faculdade de Educação de Minas Gerais e do Programa de pós-graduação em educação: conhecimento e inclusão. Professora residente do Instituto de Estudos Avançados Transdisciplinares da UFMG (2017-2018). Áreas de pesquisa: Políticas públicas e desigualdades educacionais. CV Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3026096226745336

Carlos André Teixeira Gomes

Professor de Sociologia e pesquisador, mestre em Ciências Sociais pela Puc-Minas (2009). Experiência de pesquisa em Ciências Sociais, com ênfase em Sociologia da Educação e em Políticas Públicas, com foco nas desigualdades sociais e escolares. 

Luciana Gonçalves de Oliveira Gotelib

Graduação em Estatística (2009) e especialização em Gestão Estratégica da Informação (2012), ambos pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Published

2019-06-10

How to Cite

Duarte, M. R. T., Gomes, C. A. T., & Gotelib, L. G. de O. (2019). Infrastructure conditions of Brazilian schools: A needy school for the needy?. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27, 70. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.3536

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