Critiques contemporary efforts to reform Chicano education, premised on "affirmational" education (use of cultural role models to reinforce self-concept) and "reformational" education (increased minority participation in educational institutions). Proposes a "transformational" education encompassing a bifurcated epistemology (two ways of "knowing"), self-determined study plans within defined cycles of student work, technological learning networks that include communities, and praxis. (SV)