This paper seeks to explain analytically the present scenario of conflicting interests in Ecuador regarding the structure and main objectives of the education system at the national level. Its analysis shows that the changes within education in Ecuador these last four years, i.e., during the Correa administration, do not present a clear state policy or respond to a nationalist conception. Such discrepancies were mainly expressed when it came to taking a stance on the new educational law, approved this year. However, there are important changes in order to finance social policies and afer the Decennial Plan of National Education was approved in 2006, reforms have been implemented to transform the situation inside Ecuadorian schools
Education policies; Education in the 21st century; Ecuador; Rafael Correa; Education reform