Educational Reform in Administrative Systems with Pre-modern Characteristics: the Case of Guatemala

Educational Reform in Administrative Systems with Pre-modern Characteristics: the Case of Guatemala

This article contains an analysis of specific instances of educational-reform failure in contemporary Guatemala. The purpose is to throw into relief those aspects which should be confronted in designing and implementing processes of educational reform in the context of weak nations with pre-moder...

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Príomhúdar: Ruano y Ruano, Carlos Roberto
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spelling redie-article-482017-04-19T01:08:38Z Educational Reform in Administrative Systems with Pre-modern Characteristics: the Case of Guatemala Reforma educativa en sistemas administrativos con características premodernas: el caso de Guatemala Ruano y Ruano, Carlos Roberto Educational planning educational reform educational policies. Planeación educativa reforma educativa política educativa. This article contains an analysis of specific instances of educational-reform failure in contemporary Guatemala. The purpose is to throw into relief those aspects which should be confronted in designing and implementing processes of educational reform in the context of weak nations with pre-modern features. One of these fundamental aspects is the need to study carefully the administrative and power structures within the government, with the aim of locating the channels of real and nominal decision-making. It is also argued that the principle of parallel liberty allows an understanding of the formation and reinforcement of parallel power structures, and that these are found outside the official bureaucratic channels. It is further argued that the administration and formulation of educational policies cannot be summed up in simple modernization schemes that do not take into account the particular sociohistorical conditions in which the educational systems originated. En este artículo se hace un análisis de ejemplos de reforma educativa que fracasaron en Guatemala. El propósito es poner de relieve los aspectos que deben confrontarse al diseñar e implantar procesos de reforma educativa en el contexto de naciones débiles y con rasgos premodernos. Uno de estos aspectos fundamentales es la necesidad de estudiar cuidadosamente las estructuras administrativas y de poder al interior del gobierno con el fin de ubicar los canales de decisión reales y los nominales. También se argumenta que el principio de la lealtad paralela permite comprender la formación y consolidación de estructuras de poder paralelas y que se encuentran fuera de los canales burocráticos oficiales. Finalmente, se plantea que la administración y la formulación de políticas educativas no pueden resumirse a simples esquemas modernizantes que no tomen en cuenta las condiciones sociohistóricas particulares en las que los sistemas educativos se han originado. REDIE es una publicación del Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo (IIDE). 2002-05-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion text/html application/pdf text/html application/pdf https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/48 Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2002) Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa; Vol. 4 Núm. 1 (2002) 1607-4041 spa eng https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/48/1245 https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/48/89 https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/48/1191 https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/48/90 Derechos de autor 2019 Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa
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Educational Reform in Administrative Systems with Pre-modern Characteristics: the Case of Guatemala
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title_short Educational Reform in Administrative Systems with Pre-modern Characteristics: the Case of Guatemala
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title_full_unstemmed Educational Reform in Administrative Systems with Pre-modern Characteristics: the Case of Guatemala
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description This article contains an analysis of specific instances of educational-reform failure in contemporary Guatemala. The purpose is to throw into relief those aspects which should be confronted in designing and implementing processes of educational reform in the context of weak nations with pre-modern features. One of these fundamental aspects is the need to study carefully the administrative and power structures within the government, with the aim of locating the channels of real and nominal decision-making. It is also argued that the principle of parallel liberty allows an understanding of the formation and reinforcement of parallel power structures, and that these are found outside the official bureaucratic channels. It is further argued that the administration and formulation of educational policies cannot be summed up in simple modernization schemes that do not take into account the particular sociohistorical conditions in which the educational systems originated.
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