Abstract

GAMBOA ROCABADO, Franco. Conflictive modernization. Educational reform and indigenous movements in Bolivia. Rev Cien Cult [online]. 2011, n.26, pp.93-127. ISSN 2077-3323.

Despite the political and social transformations in Bolivia during the lasttwenty years, Bolivian educational system displays strong continuities with the past, both in its surface methodologies and in its aims.The Educational Reform started in 1994 is certainly the most comprehensive efort to break with the civilizatory project that once de)ned the destruction of indigenous identity and its exclusion of civil society groups in one of school’s main objectives. Why, then, have Bolivian indigenous movements swung between acceptance and resistance to the implementation of reforms designed to help the population? Why have reforms neither been well understood nor sufciently legitimized? This research focuses on just such an instance of confict and confusion, namely that regarding educational reform and all the roles played by struggle of the indigenous movements.

Keywords : Educational reforms 1995-2010; political conflicts; modernization and public policies; State and indigenous movements; ethnic identity.

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