Educational victory:

strengthening education in Nicaragua

Abstract

The authors present the advances in the strengthening of education in Nicaragua, through the ratification of the commitment assumed by the GRUN, which conceives education as a fundamental human and social right that through Executive Decree No. 116-2007, of December 18, 2007, retakes one of the priorities of the FSLN, which with the triumph of the RPS in 1979 had been initiated. This has allowed education to be in a process of evolutionary transformation which has strengthened the integrative model of school, family, and community, through the articulated and complementary joint work between the educational institutions of the different educational subsystems, to continue generating processes of change in the educational task at all levels and geographical areas of the country. Therefore, educational institutions must act in accordance with the demands of the role of education in the eradication of poverty, in order to achieve human development. They must promote transformations by stimulating the participation of the members of the educational community with emotionality and passion to envision disruptive changes and transformations. In the case of university education, which will be emphasized in this paper, it plays a fundamental role in the economic, social, political,scientific, and cultural transformation of society, in the generation of wealth, in the promotion of a culture of peace, integration, and social identification. Therefore, the new conception of education based on the country’s educational model that focuses on learning centered on the person, family, and community, in order to comply with the revolutionary aspirations contemplated in the constitution, stands out.