Schooling for twenty-first-century socialism: Venezuela's Bolivarian project

Title: Schooling for twenty-first-century socialism: Venezuela's Bolivarian project
Creator: Griffiths, Tom G.
Relation: Compare Vol. 40, Issue 5, p. 607-622
Relation: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057920903434897
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: The global dominance of neoliberal policy prescriptions in recent decades has been well documented, with particular implications for educational systems. These include reduced public expenditure and provision, the promotion of individual (parental) choice, competition, increased user‐pays and the privatisation of education. Against this background, this paper reviews contemporary educational reforms in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which are moving in a counter direction. In particular, I examine the expansion of publicly funded education, and its overtly politicised objective of preparing citizens to contribute to the Bolivarian socialist project being advanced in the country. Through this counter example, I argue that the Venezuelan case highlights the potential for substantive policy alternatives to neoliberalism into the twenty‐first century.
Subject: Venezuela; socialism; neoliberalism; universal education
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921366
Identifier: uon:9297
Identifier: ISSN:0305-7925
Language: eng
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