TY - JOUR AU - Rodríguez Suárez, Jadhiel Alejandro PY - 2018/01/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Development and educational reform in Venezuela: the attempt to implement the semester-credit scheme in secondary education (1976-1986) JF - Revista Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana JA - Rev. hist.edu.latinoam VL - 20 IS - 30 SE - ARTICULOS DO - 10.19053/01227238.8149 UR - https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_educacion_latinamerican/article/view/8149 SP - 243-259 AB - <p>This paper aims to reconstruct thehis- torical process of the semester-creditregi- me attmept in the Venezuelansubsystem ofSecondaryEducationbetween1976and 1986 within the framework of theEdu- cational Reform. Here are alsorevealed unknown or little documentedelements related to the developmentalist theoryofeducation and its effective applicationin the Latin American region. Byadapting the method of Social History assynthe- sis history, total history, a wide reviewofdocumentary and bibliographicalsourceswas carried out with the purpose ofdes- cribing the historical process ofeducatio- nal reform; analyzing the process ofplan- ning, implemantation, developmentand cancellation of the semester-creditsche- me attempt within the framework ofthis reform. The relationship betweenEdu- cation and Development in thecontem- porary history of Venezuela wasfinallyassessed and it was possible toconcludethat the semester-credit systemattempt,despite its advantages, led tocomplicate the school administration because ofits regionalist and decentralized nature,and precisely for this reason, it wascanceledby the national administration in thelate eighties of the twentiethcentury.</p> ER -