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Education and the State in Modern PeruIntroduction

Education and the State in Modern Peru: Introduction [The existence of a centralized system of public education in Peru is a reality that was not questioned, either officially or unofficially, until recently. Although several other Latin American countries have moved toward the decentralization and privatization of schools since the 1980s, Peruvian public opinion assumed that national government control over primary and secondary schools was a given. It took until 2006 for President Alan García, leader of populist party Acción Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), to implement a small-scale program of educational decentralization. National authorities handed the administration and funding of public schools to a limited number of municipal governments. The program faced strong opposition from politicians and educators who feared a lack of human and financial resources and declining working conditions for teachers. By the time García’s administration ended in 2011, the program was largely stalled and new President Ollanta Humala cancelled it. Reference to the history of public schooling in Peru has been mostly absent from these recent events.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-46404-3
Pages
1 –20
DOI
10.1057/9781137333032_1
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Abstract

[The existence of a centralized system of public education in Peru is a reality that was not questioned, either officially or unofficially, until recently. Although several other Latin American countries have moved toward the decentralization and privatization of schools since the 1980s, Peruvian public opinion assumed that national government control over primary and secondary schools was a given. It took until 2006 for President Alan García, leader of populist party Acción Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), to implement a small-scale program of educational decentralization. National authorities handed the administration and funding of public schools to a limited number of municipal governments. The program faced strong opposition from politicians and educators who feared a lack of human and financial resources and declining working conditions for teachers. By the time García’s administration ended in 2011, the program was largely stalled and new President Ollanta Humala cancelled it. Reference to the history of public schooling in Peru has been mostly absent from these recent events.]

Published: Nov 6, 2015

Keywords: Public School; Private School; Latin American Country; National Authority; Social Reproduction

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