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• W137580992 abstract "The Bureaucratic Tradition in Latin American Education: The Legacy of Spanish Colonialism As Latin American nations marshall their rapidly growing human and material resources, they frequently encounter organizational infrastructures which are incapable of supporting the rapid process of modernization. Yet, these inadequate infrastructures persist over time leaving behind unrecoverable losses. Attempts to understand the problems of modernization must not only consider questions of social and economic development, but also questions reflecting on the development of organizational and administrative processes. The administrative processes in Latin America are so rooted in their traditions that it is difficult to understand current organizational behavior without looking back to the administrative patterns which were firmly entrenched during the 300 years of Spanish colonialism. This study, conducted in part by a field research methodology, examines the bureaucratic character of the modern Ministry of Education in Venezuela. The organizational elements of, (a) centralized decision-making, (b), hierarchy, (c) standardization of procedure, (d) rule elaboration, and (e) communication processes'are examined in terms of their functional and dysfunctional consequences for the process of modernization. These same organizational elements are also placed in their cultbral, political, and historical context which assists us in understanding why they exist as they exist as well as why such extreme difficulty is,associated with attempts to change the administrativq procedures. THE BUREAUCRATIC TRADITION IN LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE LEGACY OF SPANISH COLONIALISM In a distant corner of the great plains of Venezuela, not far from the iron-rich reserves of the Guayana Region, there sits a small, one-room rural school house which serves as the hop for a better life for the 15 or 20 campesino children in attendance. One bright morning not so long ago the maestra was orchestrating her restless charges when a delivery truck arrived with, of all things, a bicycle from the Ministry of Education. The children could hardly be contained and the teacher was as pleased as she was amazed. She had never submitted a request for a bicycle to the Ministry and nothing ever happened without such a request. Looking hack into the issue it was found that, the former teacher who had been at the school two years previous to the arrival of the delivery truck had submitted a request, but she had waited in vain. The visitor, who by chance happened to be at the school that day, was as amazed as the teacher, but for a different reason. The visitor was stunned by the fact that the administrative mechanisms of the Ministry could and would respond to a request two years after the fact. The example of the bicycle and the rural school teacher is hardly an event of significant proportions, but when acted out in a thousand ways in a thousand different placed at the same moment in time the accumulative effect can be crushing. As Venezuela and other Latin American nations begin to marshall their rapidly growing human and material resources, they frequently encounter organizational infrastructures which are incapable of supporting the rapid process of modernization. Yet, these inadequate infrastructures seem to persist over time, leaving behind unrecoverable losses. Attempts to understand the problems of modernization must not only consider questions of social and economic development, but also questions reflecting on the development of organizational and administrative processes. Because the administrative processes in Spanish America are so rooted in their traditions, it is difficult to understand contemporary organizational behavior without looking back to the administrative pattern which became firmly entrenched during the 300 years of Spanish colonialism. This study is based in part on a field research methodology which was carried out, in the main, it Venezuela. Interviews, participant-observation, and document search (historical and contemporary) played significant roles in the data-gathering process. This paper attempts to place the modern administrative machinery of the educatiinal process in Venezuela in its political, cultural and historical context, thus facilitating an understanding of the dysfunctional characteristics of the administration of education and the difficulty associated with changing the process to place it more in concert with the needs of a modernizing nation." @default.
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