Global Journal of Human Social Science, C: Sociology and Culture, Volume 21 Issue 5

© 2021. Natália Gil. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. School Grade Repetition in Brazil: History of the Configuration of a Political and Educational Problem By Natália Gil University of Rio Grande do Sul Abstract- This article intends to argue that the movement of students through the Brazilian mandatory school only acquires signs of an educational political problem from the 1930’s on. It indicates that the current sense of the notion of student failure came to be defined only in the twentieth century, although it was possible to fail students since before. It intends to show further that, in articulation with political and cultural changes in education – such as the emergence of compulsory school, the definition of grade-based model of school, and the primacy of homogeneity of classes – the emergence of better and systematic statistics after 1931 contributed decisively in defining the conditions for the possibility of inclusion of student failure as a problem on the political agenda. Keywords: history of education, educational statistics, school performance, educational policy, student achievement. GJHSS-C Classification: FOR Code: 370199 SchoolGradeRepetitioninBrazilHistoryoftheConfigurationofaPoliticalandEducationalProblem Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: C Sociology & Culture Volume 21 Issue 5 Version 1.0 Year 2021 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: