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Casanova, F.
INA of Costa Rica: a tradition of change

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 1997
106 p.

 

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Costa Rica is a peculiar and interesting country, given its geography, climate, diverse plant life and fauna, as well as its social and economic achievements or on account of its political tradition. But if the person who visits it also takes an interest in formation and training, inevitably they will have to check out the National Learning Institute (Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje: INA), an institution whose origin and characteristics can only be understood by the capability the country has shown to propose, periodically, new models of development that permitted it to change, maintaining its identity. And by the very vocation of INA, to maintain an interactive relation with its society, in which institution and nation influence each other reciprocally. Currently a process of structural change is underway, perhaps deeper than that which originated it. Will INA be able to achieve renovated validity as an instrument at the service of Costa Rica's development? This is a question that similar institutions also pose to themselves, when their respective societies appeal to them. INA is trying out an affirmative answer, with the contemplation and radicality with which the whole country can seek a transformation that allows it to continue along the path of economic and social development, in an original Costa Rican way.

 

 

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