Local references of educational quality: A comparative study with sobral/CE and Oeiras/PI trajectories

Abstract

This article is the result of a comparative education research on the educational reforms trajectories carried out in the last two decades by the municipalities of Sobral/CE and Oeiras/PI. Based on the last PISA results, the text discusses the different concepts of “quality” in education and then contextualizes the units of analysis and presents its main educational indicators results. The two trajectories comparison highlights the similarities and specificities of each process, indicating strategies action that can be replicated in other places, but also recognizing the importance of developing local solutions appropriate to each reality. In the final analysis, it shows that in different periods of time and conditions, Sobral and Oeiras have been able to advance significantly in the enforcement of the right to learning and that intranational comparisons are a promising source for new investigations and educational reform policies aimed at quality.