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La Escuela En El Mundo Campesino Quechua: Tensiones Socioculturales Entre Modos De Socialización De Conocimientos, Jaime Zambrana Vargas

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

The implementation of State educational reforms has sidestepped the reality of a heterogeneous society and Bolivia’s cultural diversity. The pedagogic models of formal schooling have been thrust upon a rural world and fail to respond to the needs and socio-cultural interests of an indigenous peasant youth. As a result, the institutionalized school—an instrument geared toward homogenizing the culture—has failed to be sensitive to diverse indigenous cosmic visions, which has historically and repeatedly resulted in cultural conflicts, bargaining and mediation. This study takes a socio-historical perspective to qualitatively analyze the tensions between the modes of socialization of knowledge—formal schooling vs. peasant …