DEMOCRATIZATION AS A PRINCIPLE OF THE PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA

EDUCATION AS PART

Abstract

This article addresses the construction of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and education as part of this process. We present a historical panorama of the fights of resistance that indigenous communities and nations fought for their right to life, their territorial rights and their demand for full respect for their linguistic and cultural diversity in education. As part of the investigation "The public-private relationship in Latin American countries: Themes and content of the proposal", the methodology employed was the same as in the previous investigation: comparative education, network analysis and secondary sources in each country. Based on dialectical historical materialism, we analyze the evolution of reality, the particularities of each country, the construction of the public through long dictatorships and, simultaneously, the privatization of education. In this text, we present the history of the struggles of indigenous villages in the face of the colonial logic that characterizes Latin America, and we focus on the moment in which the country transitioned to a plurinational State where the social rights of everyone and their particularities are guaranteed. We highlight the relevance of education as a supreme function through which social change was instituted, historically constructed unequally by the division between urban and rural areas, which constituted a racial division. We conclude that Bolivia, in a process of correlation of forces, built the Plurinational State as a materialization of the democratization of society, and education was an integral part of this process.