A educação de qualidade segundo o relatório McKinsey: análise crítica a partir da contribuição de John Dewey

Abstract

This project shows a short analysis of the report carried out by McKinsey & Company, called“ How the World’s Best-performing School Systems Come out on Top”, analyzing the idea of a qualityeducationand also discussing whether it is shown tally with an education of thinking. The initial matters of this research were: at what point the education of thinking, approached in McKinsey report, is really quality? Could there be a consideration and a work of an education ofthinking? Thus, from John Dewey’s contribution, the measures about the quality education proposed by the report were examined, considering how the report includes or not the education of thinking. First of all, three lessons of the high-performing school systems were approached, as well as the school system of Finland since it has been had a strong achievement. After that, the ideas of John Dewey and his followers were reflected on, in terms of the education of thinking. The most focus wasgiven in order to think about the ideas of this international report compared to Dewey’s educational theories of thinking –whether the quality is only for results or it is for a meaningful education as Dewey concerned in all his life. Related tothe collection and analysis of information, this research was done within the criteria of the qualitative approach with exploratory, whose foundation based on the assumption that there is a dynamic relationship between the real world and the character. From the main objective, this research can be considered as a study of an educational matter. This way, a documental analysis of McKinsey report was done, verifying ideas like: if there is a concern about learning or simply learn; if the quality is a shared knowledge construction or only results. With these ideas, some information was selected to understand better all assumptions about education of thinking in John Dewey’s studies