Processes of educational change in contexts of school segregation: A design-based research

Abstract

The processes of racial and socioeconomic school segregation, the inequalities that generates in learning opportunities and its relationship with low compulsory school completion rates, constitute a serious obstacle to social and educational equity. In this article we report a design-based research currently under development and lasting more than four years, which is part of a set of actions for educational change in an institute-school from Barcelona (Catalonia), Our aim is to carry out a historical analysis of the transformations and tensions in this system of activity and among its participants: educational team and school students, undergraduate students and researchers. We observe that the legitimization and negotiation of their reasons and goals have led to processes of appropriation and agency of the project, and we identify tensions and contradictions that are analyzed under the power relations that happens in schools.