Abstract

PAICHADZE, Svetlana  and  GONZALO ALVAREZ, Carlos. Sistema sustentable de educación intercultural bilingüe para el área urbana. rlde [online]. 2006, n.7, pp.97-124. ISSN 2074-4706.

From the late 1970s, many countries have started shifting from a national state policy towards a multicultural state policy. In Bolivia, the Educational Reform of 1994 aimed at reinforcing the national identity by eliminating the difference between rural and urban education and by referring to an Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) for all Bolivians. The objective of this paper is:1) To show the need for a new approach to the IBE in Bolivia, taking into account the migratory movements from the rural to the urban areas and the ethnic-regional movements. 2) To establish the type of multicultural organization that would suit Bolivia, and the parameters for a successful implementation of the IBE. 3) To propose a sustainable system of IBE for the suburban and urban áreas, considering all the linguistic groups. Our proposal aims at elevating the status of the original languages with respect to Spanish and to develop the potential of the languages of foreign immigrants as a form of global integration.

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