LA EDUCACIÓN EN VENEZUELA: DOS DIMENSIONES DE UN DERECHO

This book of professor Carlos Eduardo Herrera M, on “Education in Venezuela: two dimensions of a right,” deals in depth with one of the capital issues of Venezuelan society. The distinguished professor Allan R. Brewer-Carías says it well in the important prologue that the reflections left by this work will undoubtedly serve for the educational reforms that must be carried out in the future. The work is based on the analysis of the two dimensions of the right to education: the benefit or objective that obliges the State to provide the population with free and quality education and the dimension of education in freedom, or freedom of education through the which families can freely exercise their right to choose among a plurality of schools that reflect the diversity of society. Freedom of education will only be effective if private schools can access public financing or alternative investment mechanisms. The research touches on controversial issues which, sooner rather than later, should be addressed in the definition of public policies in education, among them are: nature, content and scope of the right to education, with special emphasis on the transformation of the teaching State. to the knowledge society. It is also addressed: Venezuela a country rich in educational diagnoses and poor in solutions. The twenty years of meetings and disagreements during the Bolivarian Revolution are studied. An x-ray of national education is made and reflections are made on educational quality with a special mention to the PISA Program and efficient educational models. The dismantling of the teaching State is considered as an urgent challenge of modernity in Venezuela and the hypertrophy of the Ministry of Popular Power for Education is analyzed. Finally, some considerations are made on Administrative Justice in the field of Venezuelan education. It should be noted that this work contains an interesting and well-documented article by IESA professor Ernesto Blanco Martínez, entitled Towards an Education for the 21st Century, where he solvency poses the challenges that the Fourth Industrial Revolution entails for humanity.