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      El reto de la descentralización educativa: reflexiones desde la mirada de actores nacionales y subnacionales en el caso del departamento del Atlántico Translated title: The Challenge of Educational Decentralization: Reflections from the Perspective of National and Subnational Social Actors in the Case of the Department of Atlántico

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          Resumen Según teóricos de la escuela de la elección pública, la descentralización política y administrativa mejora la eficiencia en la prestación de servicios públicos territoriales. Este artículo parte de una visión crítica de este marco de referencia en el estudio del fenómeno del bajo desempeño escolar. La experiencia del departamento del Atlántico representa un caso atípico del cumplimiento de los supuestos de la primera escuela y, por tanto, abre la posibilidad de entablar una discusión ontológica y práctica sobre el estudio del proceso de descentralización educativa básica y media en Colombia. El uso de un paradigma realista como referente metodológico para analizar entrevistas individuales y grupales hechas en diferentes niveles de gobierno permite entrever varias de estas implicaciones. Temáticas identificadas como la capacidad limitada de autoridades locales para diseñar y administrar políticas educativas, la falta de claridad entre actores de distintos niveles del sistema nacional de educación sobre el uso de las pruebas de Estado y la dificultad que enfrentan rectores de instituciones educativas públicas para que se transfieran oportunamente recursos para la calidad educativa son indicativas de complejidades de la política educativa omitidas en los diagnósticos del sector publicados en la literatura dominante.

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          Abstract Public choice theorists argue that political and administrative decentralization increases the efficiency in the delivery of public services in local communities. This paper departs from a critical stand of this perspective in studying the phenomenon of poor school performance. The Department of Atlántico is a case that deviates from the assumptions of public choice scholars, and hence its analysis serves to open an ontological and practical discussion on how to study processes of primary and secondary educational decentralization in Colombia. The use of a realist paradigm as a methodological backup to analyse a set of individual and group interviews at different levels of government helps to unveil many of these implications. Themes identified in this study include the limited capacity of local authorities to design and administrate educational policies, the lack of clarity among the actors of different levels of the national education system about the use of state examinations, and the difficulty experienced by school directors of public educational institutions to promptly access educational quality resources. These findings are all indicative of policy complexities omitted in the diagnostics of the sector published in the mainstream literature.

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                Journal
                papel
                Papel Politico
                Pap.polit.
                Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia )
                0122-4409
                December 2017
                : 22
                : 2
                : 339-367
                Affiliations
                [1] orgnameErasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands parraheredia@ 123456iss.nl
                Article
                S0122-44092017000200339
                10.11144/javeriana.papo22-2.rder
                4a9531a1-18e3-483f-9620-538c711bfc40

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 08 August 2016
                : 29 November 2016
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 46, Pages: 29
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                Atlántico,realismo crítico,educación,descentralización,critical realism,education,elección pública,decentralization,public choice

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