Education in Latin America and the Caribbean at a crossroads
Author: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2022-09-10
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9231005413
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Author: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2022-09-10
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9231005413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laurence Gale
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-11-26
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1136871020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1969, this volume presents a survey of the contemporary national education system in Latin American countries. Laurence Gale describes the uneven provision of schools for different sections of the community and the problems which arise with the racial, cultural and geographical difficulties. He examines the main features in education throughout Latin America, areas of co-operation and agreement and differences of policy and provision.
Author: Orlando Albornoz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1993-06-18
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1349127094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoth 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.
Author: Carlos Alberto Torres
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-06
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0429711166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a relevant sample of the current research on Latin American education in comparative perspective. In their introduction, Torres and Puiggros, two of the most recognized researchers of Latin American education, draw from political sociology of education, theories of the state, history of education, and deconstructionist theories to focus on changes in state formation in the region and its implications for the constitution of the pedagogical subject in public schools. Throughout the different chapters, the contributors present and analyze the most relevant topics, research agendas, and some of the key theoretical and political problems of Latin American education.
Author: Carlos Ornelas
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-09-02
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9004413375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitics of Education in Latin America: Reforms, Resistance and Persistence portrays complex situations of education change policies in Latin America from Argentina and Chile, the southernmost part of the continent, to Mexico, the northernmost. The analyses tour through Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Cuba to conclude with a chapter that scrutinizes why the big teacher unions reject most attempts at education reforms. In these, teachers are the target of criticism and, at the same time, the focus of the expectations for progress and better educational quality. Readers will find a variety of contentious issues such as inclusion, equity, privatization, uses of power, and dialectics between the indications of intergovernmental organizations and the rejection of their recommendations by local political actors. They will also find narratives to raise public education participation, improve the quality of life of teachers, and put local education systems to dialogue with the global world. The politics of education in Latin America is a territory that groups and institutions continue to dispute since the establishment of their education systems.
Author: Carlos Alberto Torres
Publisher: James Nicholas Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1875408053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation and Social Change in Latin America is a valuable addition to the area studies literature in Comparative Education. Torres knits contributions from recognized North and South American experts to produce a comprehensive tapestry of analyses of both formal and non-formal education in Latin America. The book constitutes an excellent example of the application of a broad social science perspective to the study of education, viewed as a constituent sub-system. The foci of non-formal education (Part I), political socialisation (Part II), and the impact of social change upon education in Brazil (Part III) facilitates a broad range of comparisons. A balance between the often-contradictory perspectives-economic, anthropological, sociological and political-provides the reader with a comprehensive “snapshot” of trends and developments in Latin American education during the crucial 1980s. This inter-disciplinary examination of aspects of Latin American education has a broad range of applications, ranging from introductory courses to senior seminars to a valuable research tool. What would otherwise be an exceptional book is rendered even more valuable by Torres’ conversation with Paulo Freire. While Torres is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on Freire, this chapter explores Freire as a human being, an educator, and introduces some of the contradictions faced by a world renowned adult educator who assumed the mantle of an administrator in the formal education system in his native Brazil between 1989 and 1991.
Author: Hernando Gómez Buendía
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julio-César Mateus
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0429534671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a systematic study of media education in Latin America. As spending on technological infrastructure in the region increases exponentially for educational purposes, and with national curriculums beginning to implement media related skills, this book makes a timely contribution to new debates surrounding the significance of media literacy as a citizen’s right. Taking both a topical and country-based approach, authors from across Latin America present a comprehensive perspective of the region and address issues such as the political and social contexts in which media education is based, the current state of educational policies with respect to media, organizations and experiences that promote media education.
Author: Axel Rivas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-30
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1000515699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book synthesizes and analyzes the complex map of educational reforms in Latin America in the first two decades of the 21st century. The book offers insights into the agendas, processes and political economy of educational reforms in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Written by renowned contributors from each country, chapters present systematic, critical and reflective accounts of an intense period of education reforms. The book fills a gap in educational research and provides a systematic study that compares the cases analyzed. The first broad, comparative collection of its kind, the book is well-suited to courses in international and comparative education policy.
Author: Marco Aurelio Navarro Leal
Publisher: Palibrio
Published: 2013-05-09
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1463355882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough in Latin America there are no educational programs specialized in comparative education, as there are in some European, Oriental and North American universities, there are scholars who cultivate this field. With the production of this book, the authors -most of them affiliated to member organizations of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies- are walking towards a Latin American network of researchers with an interest in establishing a dialogue with non-Spanish speaking colleagues from the rest of the world. This is the reason of our effort in writing most of the chapters in English. Comparative education, as all disciplinary fields, has evolved with different ways of thinking, approaching and constructing its objects of research and analysis, which are nurtured by different epistemological traditions living together in our times, enriching and bringing complexities. From Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Mexico, the authors of the book pose questions, historical descriptions, reflections, discussions and cases to set forth their views.