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artículo Edwards Jr. D. B., & DeMatthews, D. (2014) Tendencias históricas
en los procesos de descentralización educativa en los Estados Unidos y en
los países en desarrollo en el contexto posterior a la Segunda Guerra
Mundial. Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas, 22(40).
http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v22n40.2014

Edwards Jr. D. B., & DeMatthews, D. (2014). Historical trends in
educational decentralization in the United States and developing countries:
A periodization and comparison in the post-WWII context. Education Policy
Analysis Archives, 22(40). http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v22n40.2014

Abstract: In the present work, we fill a gap in the writing on the
decentralization of educational governance by periodizing and comparing
trends that have fallen under this label in both the United States and
developing countries in the post-WWII period (1945-present). The findings
are informed by a review of 127 decentralization-related studies from seven
leading, peer-reviewed journals in comparative and international education,
in addition to the Journal of Education Policy, Journal of Educational
Administration, and Harvard Education Review. We combine this review with
works that address larger political and economic shifts. One key finding is
that the application of community-level decentralization in developing
countries has not been as widespread as global rhetoric during the 1990s and
2000s would imply. A second key finding is that there has been a relatively
recent shift away from decentralization towards other forms of
accountability-based reforms in both the United States and developing
countries.
Keywords: Decentralization, School-Based Management, Education Governance,
Community Control, United States, Developing Countries, Accountability,
Neoliberalism