Planning and Educational Plans in Spain: the evolution of the scientific and academic production 1978-2016

Abstract

The article is part of the field of public policies for Basic Education in Spain, focusing on the problems concerning their planning. From an exhaustive documental survey, covering certain academic and scientific productions published in this country (1978-2016), this work draws a quantitative balance and its evolution based on the categories: Educational Planning and Plans for Education. As a main conclusion, this article identifies: i) repercussions of the supranational regulation processes, translated by the growing decline of interest in studies related to educational planning and, at the same time, rise of studies that only discuss goals of Education Plans; ii) the planning fragmentation in a series of punctual plans, almost always disconnected among each other, and also; iii) a little participatory process in the construction of these plans, therefore, on the sidelines of their discussion and socio-political elaboration.

Educational Planning; Educational Plans; Basic Education; Spain