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LARREA ALVAREZ, Rosario Martha. Epistemology of the public policies of higher education in Bolivia. Edu. Sup. Rev. Cient. Cepies [online]. 2018, vol.5, n.2, pp.9-22. ISSN 2518-8283.

Abstract The analysis of the epistemology of public education policy of higher education is the object of the study, in its singular and plural perspective. The Approach of the epistemologies of the educational policy (epistemological positioning, epistemological perspective) was assumed as the parties to be investigated, through the epistemological approach, for which officials from the Ministry of Education were interviewed. The results show, singularly, that the Avelino Siñani-Elizardo Pérez Law is assumed as a synonym of educational policy, evidencing a limited legal-institutionalist approach. There is also evidence of an opening to pluralism, where higher education is seen by the government as university, technological, linguistic, artistic, as well as teacher training. This pluralism makes the presence of more private universities, the creation of indigenous universities. Plurally, an epistemological positioning is observed in the public servants anchored in the defense of the government, of its management and educational action, that is to say, that the educational policy is restricted to the current governmental management and not to a general planning, to an organic vision with the economic structure of the country. Complementarily, the epistemological perspective is oriented towards the cultural potency of the indigenous peoples of Bolivia, their ancestral knowledge and the possibilities of constructing a decolonizing vision, of affirming cultural pluralism. In higher education educational policy, the position of the government clashes with the barrier of university autonomy that has enabled the Bolivian university system to define its academic content and pedagogical objectives. There is no University-Government synchrony.

Palabras clave : Educational policy; higher education; focus on the epistemologies of educational policy.

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