The meritocratic ideal in education systems: The mechanisms of academic distinction in the international context

dc.contributor.author	Torres L.L.
dc.contributor.author	Quaresma M.L.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-02T22:29:19Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-02T22:29:19Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier	10.17159/1947-9417/2017/490
dc.identifier.citation	21, 1, 13-30
dc.identifier.issn	16823206
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12728/6412
dc.description	The state school lives immersed in the tension between democratic purposes and the ideals of merit and selectivity. In this context, state schools establish instruments of public praise for students who stand out academically or in other dimensions. We propose to map the rituals of academic distinction in Portuguese state schools and to discuss the widespread adoption of these mechanisms by secondary schools. However, neither their configuration nor the selection criteria are homogeneous, which points to the existence of distinct conceptualisations of excellence and margins of freedom for each school to define their own criteria for success. © 2017. The Author(s).
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Centre for Education Rights and Transformation
dc.subject	Academic distinction
dc.subject	Excellence
dc.subject	State school
dc.title	The meritocratic ideal in education systems: The mechanisms of academic distinction in the international context
dc.type	Article

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