Debates y Desafíos: Reformas de la Educación Superior en Bolivia, una Sociedad Multicultural

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze from a critical perspective the changes in Bolivian university higher education policies in the last two decades. The 1990s were characterized by neoliberal policies of educational reform in Bolivia. However, a reform perspective from a populist national vision framed by an indigenist ideology has emerged since 2005. The administration of Evo Morales, Bolivia's first aboriginal president, is offering a new discourse on educational reform. However, it is still debatable whether the government is indeed accomplishing the transformations in eduation that its post-neoliberal indigenist discourse promises.