ENSEÑANZA PÚBLICA VS. ENSEÑANZA PRIVADA

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Abstract

The present article is placed inside the debate about public and private educational offers. Nowadays, such debate has in large extent been transfigured into a useful instrument of neoconservative groups whose policies attempt against one of the main conquests of Welfare States: the extension of the right to education for all citizens. To gain their ends, those groups make use of a rhetoric which hides the fair dimension of a comparison between public and private. This phenomenom can be observed in Brazil, in Spain and in many other countries. Firstly, I will position the discussion inside a statistical european scenery and after that I shall concentrate upon the "deconstruction" of the stereotypes that support the rhetoric which presently discredits the public.