Abstract

This article reflects on managerialist policies and their role as a central axis in educational management. This thesis maintains that these policies have consolidated a system capable of modifying and imposing changes in the work of educational institutions and actors. The writing focuses on two arguments. The first places managerialist policies as a new way of exercising control and regulation through the validation of mechanisms based on decentralization, standardization, privatization, and accountability. The second argument is based on the distortion of pedagogical practices, subordination, and deprofessionalization of teaching work as a consequence of the discourse of quality and effectiveness. This reflection aims to contribute to the theoretical debate on managerialist policies and their role in strengthening an instrumental vision of Education based on academic results as synonyms of quality and its implications for teaching.