Transforming the nation? The bolivarian education reform in Venezuela

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• dc.contributor.author Abbott, Jared
• dc.contributor.author Soifer, Hillel David
• dc.contributor.author Vom Hau, Matthias
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-06T08:24:28Z
• dc.date.available 2020-05-06T08:24:28Z
• dc.date.issued 2017
• dc.description.abstract The Chávez government introduced a ‘Bolivarian’ national curriculum to promote radically different understandings of Venezuelan history and identity. We place the fate of this reform initiative within the broader study of state formation and nationalism. Scholars have long identified mass schooling as the key institution for socialising citizens and cultivating national loyalties, and many states have attempted to alter the nationalist content of schooling with these ends in mind. Venezuela constitutes an ideal case for identifying the specific conditions under which transformations of official national ideologies do and do not gain broader resonance. Using evidence derived from textbook analysis and semi-structured interviews with educational officials and teachers in Caracas, we highlight a new argument, showing that intrastate tensions between the central government and teachers, heightened by a well-established cultural machinery and by teachers’ increasing exclusion from the Chavista political coalition, explain the limited success in government efforts to implement Bolivarian nationalism through the school curriculum.
• dc.description.sponsorship Research for this article was funded in part by Temple University.
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• dc.identifier.citation Abbott JA, Soifer HD, Vom Hau M. Transforming the nation? The bolivarian education reform in Venezuela. Journal of Latin American Studies. 2017 Nov;49(4):885-916. DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X17000402
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X17000402
• dc.identifier.issn 0022-216X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44430
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Latin American Studies. 2017 Nov;49(4):885-916
• dc.rights © Cambridge University Press. The published version of the article: Abbott JA, Soifer HD, Vom Hau M. Transforming the nation? The bolivarian education reform in Venezuela. Journal of Latin American Studies. 2017 Nov;49(4):885-916. DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X17000402 is available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/
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• dc.subject.keyword Venezuela
• dc.subject.keyword Education
• dc.subject.keyword Nationalism
• dc.subject.keyword Chavismo
• dc.title Transforming the nation? The bolivarian education reform in Venezuela
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