Basic education foundation, peak and crisis of the 1979-1989 project

Abstract

This research was to understand, under an approach criteria based on three variables: state, ideology and education, the venezuelan educational system changes as a product of an educational reform supported in the concept of Urbaneja (1985) Promoter State. The study is a documental and historical of interpretative type one. The research process was initiated with a search of sources to determine information referred to time and space in which the Educational Reform was given. Next, an analysis matrix was done in which data about socio-political context were registered; the ideological-political basis of school, the most meaningful curricular changes and the historical-legal evolution of educational supervising in Venezuela related to the third decade of the Venezuelan Democracy (1979 and 1989). The outcomes of the research demonstrate that this stage ends with the approach of a proposal of a limited and progressive non centralism, aimed at the preschool and basic stage only at the first moment, emphasizing in a future transference to the municipalities firstly and to the states secondly.