THE PARAGUAYAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FACING THE SOCIAL CHALLENGES OF THE 21st CENTURY: A HISTORICAL EVOLUTION

Abstract

In 2011, the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education and Culture assumed the responsibility of coordinating actions and monitoring a very ambitious educational program called "Educational Goals 2021: the education we want for the bicentennial generation". This article pretends to know the historical evolution of the Paraguayan educational system towards this program and analyze the progress and achievements of Paraguay, one of the signatory countries of this project. For this analysis we use national and international reports that allow us to know in detail and reliability the results of the application and development of the eleven goals of the educational program in the Paraguayan educational context. However, by extension of this article we focus on three of these eleven goals achieving very relevant results regarding the achievements and absences of the objectives of the goals analyzed. The data reflect a considerable advance in educational policies from 2011 to the present, although there are still notable shortcomings in aspects related, mainly, to the training, selection and strengthening of the teaching profession. It is necessary to point out that the educational statistical data to which we have had access was very limited since the last accessible MEC report from Paraguay is from 2011, so we had to resort to external reports.