Becoming an intercultural primary school teacher: Experiences from Bolivia

The article analyses various developments that took place within the context of a Technical Cooperation project, financed by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, and implemented by GTZ (the German Technical Cooperation Agency) together with Bolivian Educational Ministry during 1997 and 1998. The project focused on teacher education, especially initial teacher education, in the course of national educational reform in Bolivia and concentrated on intercultural bilingual education in the Bolivian highlands.