Abstract

DOMINGUEZ, Laura  and  GATTI, Elsa. Uruguay: transformation or step backwards?. Educ. Soc. [online]. 2011, vol.32, n.115, pp. 357-372. ISSN 0101-7330.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0101-73302011000200007.

Contradictory symptoms mark Uruguay's current political framework. Education has become the central topic of the offcial discourse while the transformative guidelines implemented between 2005 and 2010 have been taken to pieces. In addition, the most relevant promoters of the "paradigmatic shif" have been kept out whereas the most highlighted players of the 90s "education reform" and those who designed, in inner circles, the present Law of Education, which ignores the huge 2006 Debate on Education are still in command. On top of it, autonomy has been restricted and the government is negotiating a new loan with the Interamerican Development Bank. As a result, we are prone to think that we might be facing a "restoring change" of neoliberal policies.

Keywords : Reform; Paradigmatic transformation; Transition.