Education and Society in Latin America

Education and Society in Latin America

Author: Orlando Albornoz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1993-06-18

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1349127094

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Both financial and political factors impede the positive role of education in social and economic development in Latin America. This book argues that the inefficient operation of its education system constitutes one reason why Latin America is increasingly marginal on the world scene.


La educación en América Latina y el Caribe en el último tercio del siglo XX

La educación en América Latina y el Caribe en el último tercio del siglo XX

Author: José Blat Gimeno

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Après avoir retracé l'évolution de la situation éducative entre 1960 et 1980 et exposé la situation actuelle, l'auteur donne les grandes orientations de la Conférence de Mexico. (Nouvelles politiques éducatives et priorités, objectifs quantitatifs pour l'an 2000, éducation des groupes les moins favorisés, l'éducation et le monde du travail, etc ... ; l'éducation pour le futur.


Educational Planning

Educational Planning

Author: Jacques Hallak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1136517839

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It was in a context of unprecedented economic growth that educational planning developed in the 1960s. At the time, educational planners were entrusted with orchestrating the tremendous expansion of schooling, with the aim of both universalizing education and providing national economies with the qualified manpower needed. Such rigid mandatory planning is not suited to today's world, but other forms of planning such as policy analysis, policy dialog, labor market analysis, and strategic management are still valid. The following is a complete list of reprinted essays collected for this book.


New Languages of the State

New Languages of the State

Author: Bret Gustafson

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2009-07-10

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0822391171

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During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia’s indigenous regions. Bret Gustafson spent fourteen years studying and working in southeastern Bolivia with the Guarani, who were at the vanguard of the movement for bilingual education. Drawing on his collaborative work with indigenous organizations and bilingual-education activists as well as more traditional ethnographic research, Gustafson traces two decades of indigenous resurgence and education politics in Bolivia, from the 1980s through the election of Evo Morales in 2005. Bilingual education was a component of education reform linked to foreign-aid development mandates, and foreign aid workers figure in New Languages of the State, as do teachers and their unions, transnational intellectual networks, and assertive indigenous political and intellectual movements across the Andes. Gustafson shows that bilingual education is an issue that extends far beyond the classroom. Public schools are at the center of a broader battle over territory, power, and knowledge as indigenous movements across Latin America actively defend their languages and knowledge systems. In attempting to decolonize nation-states, the indigenous movements are challenging deep-rooted colonial racism and neoliberal reforms intended to mold public education to serve the market. Meanwhile, market reformers nominally embrace cultural pluralism while implementing political and economic policies that exacerbate inequality. Juxtaposing Guarani life, language, and activism with intimate portraits of reform politics among academics, bureaucrats, and others in and beyond La Paz, Gustafson illuminates the issues, strategic dilemmas, and imperfect alliances behind bilingual intercultural education.