¿How much influence does the international agenda have over the Central American educational systems?

A theoretical framework

Abstract

This essay proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the international input
on Central American educational reform processes in the early 90s, in light
of the political and cultural background in the region. The framework is
based on a dialogue between the critical international and cultural perspectives
of political economy applied in studies of educational sociology, in order to
understand the influence that international agencies and their respective
educational agendas have on educational reform processes in each national
historical setting. The essay sustains that this theoretical analysis helps to
understand how globalization, mainly understood as global capitalism,
interacts with the national educational systems as a part of the nation state;
and also, the power relations between different national agents, and their
capacity to produce, thru educational reform process, an ideological
hegemonic vision of society and ideal citizenship according to a country’s
ideas of class, ethnicity, gender and religion.