Abstract:
This research raises the effects that have had the different sort of labor organizations (Fordism and post-Fordism) in education. During the last decades, we attend to a situation of essential changes, in which the Fordism and Taylorism work organization form has been moved into new ones, called neo-Fordism, post-Fordism, flexible specialization. These changes within the economic and politic reform seem to configure an answer to capitalist crisis in order to recover the lost cost-effectiveness levels. However we can not talk about a straight correlation between work organization types and educational field, many ideas and practices demonstrate that these work organizations had and still have an influence on educational ideas and practices. With Fordism and Taylorism speech, some changes are been introduced into education such as fragmented knowledge, positive and negative reinforcements, personalized assessment to each student, cost-efectiveness control, new sort of selection and professional training. With this new kind of labor organization, the education gains new duties based on “flexibility and adaptation skills” that must also have school establishments, the experts, managers and teachers in order to offer answers to unpredictable facts, singular situations or potential customers demands.