The quality of education in times of new National Curriculum Parameters - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

The quality of education in times of new National Curriculum Parameters |

The semantic impossibility of delimiting accurately the term “quality” challenges us. When one thinks of quality, it is common to ask questions related to the processes themselves or to the results achieved with emphasis on the satisfaction of those who participated in such processes. Thus, “quality” refers to the skills to carry out successful processes and generate satisfactory products.

Regarding the quality of education, a tension is pointed between formal quality, which is related to the competence of doing; and the political quality, related to the competence of doing and making history⁽⁾. From these premises, an educational process, with formal quality, does not necessarily increase the autonomy and protagonism in the students. In order to attain political quality, the educational process will have to go beyond formal quality and to empower students with the perspective of “being” rather than of “having”.

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