This article suggests some axes for the analysis of the learning activity, in the wider scope, of the intensification of processes of social and political conflicts that happened and, even today, in Latin American countries, during the last two decades, Attempting to contribute to a critic comprehension of the teachers' conflict, the author hereby bring some quantitative data that allow the establishment of general tendencies regarding the characteristics and dynamics adapted by actions of protest augmented by the teaching organization in eighteen countries of that region. Yet trying to enrich and encourage the debate about teachers' conflict of education, searching for an educational conflict definition and conceptualization, springing from a reflex ion with respect to politics and neoliberal reformation programs, may offer elements for the development of alternative analysis on teacher's difficulties, as well as for the building of proposals and democratic alternatives for the change of Latin American systems of education.
Teachers association; Educational reform; Educational conflict; Social conflict; Neoliberalism; Teacher's struggle; Latin America
