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Public School Reform in Puerto Rico: Sustaining Colonial Models of Development

Public School Reform in Puerto Rico: Sustaining Colonial Models of Development

Solis, Jose

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to the Study of Education, Book 60

General Education

ISBN10: 0313289786
ISBN13: 9780313289781
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Apr 21 1994
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Puerto Rico's colonial history under the United States has shaped the character of development and education in that territory. In 1898, when the United States invaded Puerto Rico, the language, culture, and development of the latter was arrested by a colonialist mandate involving the social, political, and economic spheres. The role that the development of a mass public school system would play in sustaining colonial relationships was seen as paramount. Since then the developments in public school reform policies have contributed to and have been defined and determined within the linguistic and ideological framework of the colonizers' conceptualization of development for Puerto Rico. If development is more than growth, and if it includes self-determination and cultural expression within the context of political and economic arrangements, then Puerto Rico remains a classic example of colonialism 500 years after Columbus.

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