Nunez, J: Colombia‘s Post Conflict Education: Beyond The Cha

The convergences between global developmental agencies and Colombia s education have always been riddled with social and political challenges. Using case study data drawn from a secondary school in Colombia, the study examines the extent to which post conflict conditions and global economic forces have interacted to shape educational processes for students with Post-Traumatic Stress. The finding suggest three lenses by which schooling curriculum and market-driven policies interact in this region.Through the lens of post-conflict conditions, it is suggested that volatile teaching conditions exist in schools, including military threats,teacher protection fees,and teacher assassinations.Students often face educational marginalization through lack of exposure to national educational subject areas.The study argues that the educational practices learned in school thrust often- unwilling students into micro-entrepreneurship projects thatstudents are constructing alternative methods of learning outside of schools that are both receptive to the content of the classroom, yet undermine the goals of development.