Development and educational reform in Venezuela: the attempt to implement the semester-credit scheme in secondary education (1976-1986)

This paper aims to reconstruct thehis- torical process of the semester-creditregi- me attmept in the Venezuelansubsystem ofSecondaryEducationbetween1976and 1986 within the framework of theEdu- cational Reform. Here are alsorevealed unknown or little documentedelements related to the developmentalist theoryofeducation and its effective applicationin the Latin American region. Byadapting the method of Social History assynthe- sis history, total history, a wide reviewofdocumentary and bibliographicalsourceswas carried out with the purpose ofdes- cribing the historical process ofeducatio- nal reform; analyzing the process ofplan- ning, implemantation, developmentand cancellation of the semester-creditsche- me attempt within the framework ofthis reform. The relationship betweenEdu- cation and Development in thecontem- porary history of Venezuela wasfinallyassessed and it was possible toconcludethat the semester-credit systemattempt,despite its advantages, led tocomplicate the school administration because ofits regionalist and decentralized nature,and precisely for this reason, it wascanceledby the national administration in thelate eighties of the twentiethcentury.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6680
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/14837
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_educacion_latinamerican/article/view/8149; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/14837
• Palabra clave: Journal History of Latin American Education; history of secondary education; education reform; development; Revista Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana; historia de la educación media; reforma educativa; desarrollo; Revista de História da Edu- cação Latino-americana; história da educação secundária; reforma educacional; desenvolvimento
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