Education and Social Change in Latin America [electronic resource] /
Motta, S.editor.
Cole, M.editor.
This book examines the multiple relationships between education, pedagogy, and social change in Latin America and beyond through a discussion of critical theory in education and its uses in Latin American society today. An international group of contributors discuss both individual countries and the region as a whole.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Exploring the Role of Education and the Pedagogical in Pathways to Twenty-First-Century Socialism in Latin America; Part I On the Philosophies, Theories and Histories of Emancipatory Education in Latin America; 1 Naming the World: Situating Freirean Pedagogics in the Philosophical Problematic of Nuestra América; 2 Marxism and Popular Education in Latin America; 3 On the Pedagogical Turn in Latin American Social Movements
Part II Education Struggles and/in Left Governments4 Nicaragua: Deprivatizing Education, the Citizen Power Development Model and the Construction of Socialism in the Twenty-First Century; 5 A Critical Theoretical Perspective on Education and Social Change in Bolivia: A Contested Alternative Pedagogy; 6 Epistemic Independence Struggles: A Comparative Analysis of Two Indigenous Universities in Peru and Ecuador; 7 Education for the Creation of a New Venezuela; 8 Hugo Chávez, Social Democracy and Twenty-First-Century Socialism in Venezuela: An Alternative to the Neoliberal Model
Interlude: Some, Our Leaves of FallPart III Education and Pedagogy from Below; 9 Movement Methodologies and Transforming Urban Space; 10 Which Education for Which Democracy?: The Case of the Penguins' Revolution in Chile; 11 Experiential and Relational Dimensions in the Pedagogical Practice of Solidarity Economy: Insights from Brazil; 12 Colombia: Education and Gender Equity in Context; 13 Cali's Women in Collective Crossing for Three Worlds: Popular Education, Feminisms and Nonviolence for the Expansion of the Present, Memory and for Nurturing Life
Conclusion: The Current Crisis in Capitalism and the Role of EducationList of Contributors; Index
Includes index.
This book examines the multiple relationships between education, pedagogy, and social change in Latin America and beyond through a discussion of critical theory in education and its uses in Latin American society today. An international group of contributors discuss both individual countries and the region as a whole.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Educational sociology.
International education .
Comparative education.
Political theory.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Latin American Culture.
Sociology of Education.
International and Comparative Education.
Political Theory.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Sociology of Education.