Class Municipalities and Education

The relevance of this UC lies in the fact that students learn to critically analyze the legal framework of the municipalities' educational action, in the field of relations between schools and local authorities

1. The recent evolution of the regulatory framework for educational action in municipalities
1.1 Conflicts and conformity in the decentralization of competences.
2. The relationship between the central administration and the municipalities in terms of education
2.1 From equality to differentiation: mitigated decentralization and new public educational policies.2.2 Characteristics and ambiguities of educational territorialization
3. The current phase of transfer of educational skills and the relationship with schools
3.1 The State and local authorities in the regulation of educational policies, contractualization and differentiation.
3.2 The relationship between municipalities and schools, the charter and the school network
3.3 Municipalities and educational decision-making bodies and municipal education councils
4. The logic of municipal educational mobilization
4.1 The market and the “social”

The proposed methodologies aim to develop autonomous, systematic, of each of the participants, but also the development of work habits in
team, where it is not enough to “be present”, but where the capabilities of analysis, synthesis and individual evaluation can determine the success of everyone's work. Therefore, the proposed methodologies intentionally aim to achieve the objectives of UC at different levels, from basic knowledge of the proposed topics to analysis criticism and evaluation of educational interventions or real or simulated projects. To the
At the same time, methodological diversification seeks to allow each of the students test other acquisitions, such as scientific attitude,
collaborative, reflexivity, among others.

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