Aportaciones político-educativas de las Escuelas de Segunda Oportunidad (E2C) en Europa. El éxito del fracaso

Over the last decades, we have confirmed how a constant flow of pedagogical initiatives have tried to solve the social and economic exclusion of the youngest. Definitely, the European initiative “Second Chance Schools” (E2C), which is celebrating its 20 years of application, has become essential to achieve equal opportunities from the School, thanks to its firmness, organization and institutionalization. Our proposal includes a bibliographic review in combination with a socio-critical approach. We intend to know what its origins are -which we anticipated in the mid-90s-, what its political- educational evolution is as well as the reflection it currently presents in the different countries of Europe. In this way, on the one hand, we will discover whether the E2C can and should be considered as a «supranational action» and, on the other hand, whether it is an educational equity guarantor essential to achieve success after failure. To this end, we are expounding a discussion in which we put on paper the pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages, of this socio- educational bet, as praised as criticized, concluding, finally, with a novel approach regarding the potentialities and possibilities that, still little recognized or hidden, we believe that these «opportunity schools´» have.