DECISION 558
Incorporation of Integration subjects
into the secondary school curriculum
THE ANDEAN
COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS,
HAVING SEEN:
Articles 16, 22 and 30 of the Cartagena
Agreement;
WHEREAS: The
Andean Presidential Council, at its 1999
meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, instructed
the Ministers of Education to boost efforts
to make educational policy strengthen both
the Andean identity and the exercise of our
peoples’ intercultural relations and promote
integration values;
At the
Thirteenth Meeting of the Andean
Presidential Council, in Carabobo, in 2001,
the Presidents called upon the Ministers of
Education to present the Andean Council of
Foreign Ministers with a harmonized
curriculum plan that would incorporate
Andean cultural integration values into
primary and secondary education; and
The Simón
Bolívar Andean University is working on a
series of books about the History of Andean
America that shall serve as a vitally
important instrument for the project to
harmonize the teaching of integration, which
will help form an Andean civic conscience;
DECIDES:
Article 1.-
To incorporate Andean Integration subjects
into the secondary school curriculum design
in order to disseminate, in coordination, a
common vision of the history, integration
values and culture of the Andean Community
Member Countries.
Article 2.-
The Ministers of Education shall adopt the
guidelines for that project no later than
June 30, 2004.
That subject
matter shall be incorporated into the
educational programs for the following
school year once the curriculum design has
been agreed upon, in keeping with each
Member Country’s educational schedules.
Article 3.-
The Ministers of Education shall establish a
system to monitor compliance with this
Decision so that integration programs can be
updated as advances are made in Andean
integration.
Article 4.-
This Decision shall become effective as of
its publication in the Official Gazette of
the Cartagena Agreement.
Signed in the
Quirama Recinto, Department of
Antioquia, of the Republic of Colombia, on
the twenty-fifth of June of two thousand
three.
