INTRODUCTIONS TO THE PROJECT

To the project “Evaluating Education Reforms in the South” the one that is going to be sent to IDB & similars

Estamos frente a un trascendental tránsito, el transito entre el neoliberalismo ya cuestionado y que empieza a morir y lo que ya  empieza a nacer,  formas de nueva democracia que subordinan   la economia de mercado al interes publico en cada localidad y nacion del mundo. Estamos frente al final de las utopias globalizadoras y la emergencia de ciudadanos del mundo que afirman su derecho a existir sobre la base del derecho a  tener raiz y a preservar sus identidades socio-culturales de pueblo, de localidad y de  nacion.

Cual es el rol de la educacion en este contexto de transicion? Las reformas educativas tienen que discriminar que parte del pasado, de aquello que se va, sirve al desarrollo futuro, y que no. [[Discriminar entre lo que sirve a la reproduccion del neocolonialismo actual y lo que sirve al desenganche y la forja de una nacion y region autonoma]] Y examinar tambien, en lo que ya esta por nacer, que conviene incorporar ya al presente, para facilitar su nacimiento y  hacer mas cercano el futuro.

We are in front of a transcendental transition, a journey between the questioned neoliberal economy that  already begins to die and what it already begins to be born: new forms of democracy that subordinate market-economies  to the public interest in each locality, nation and region of the world. This is the real end of global utopias and the emergency of citizens of the world who affirm their right to exist by having the right to a root and to preserve the socio-cultural identities of towns, localities, nationalities and those which identify their whole nation.

What is the role of education in this transitional period and context? Educational reforms must discriminate what serves to the future development and what no, among things left from the past, from the society that goes away. And to examine also, in which is about to be born, those things that are necessary to incorporate now to the present, to facilitate its birth and to make more near the future.