Research and the daily school context: prejudice and performance in homogeneous classrooms

Abstract

In school, the separation among students with higher and lower grades still happens nowadays in many levels of our educational system. The aim of this paper is to reflect on what kind of theory lays behind this separation and some of its consequences. Several studies are presented, which lead us to infer that the school segregation is developed and sustained by a kind of ideology – the technological rationality one – which represents the current society and hides its contradictions, being the prejudice one of its consequences.