Latin American education
Subtitle: comparative perspectives
By: edited by Carlos Alberto Torres and Adriana Puiggrós.
Contributors: Torres, Carlos Alberto.; Puiggrós, Adriana.
Publisher: Westview Press; WestviewPress
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Education and state -- Latin America -- Cross-cultural studies; Basic education -- Latin America -- Cross-cultural studies; Education, Higher -- Latin America -- Cross-cultural studies; Popular education -- Latin America -- Cross-cultural studies; Educational change -- Latin America -- Cross-cultural studies
Description: This 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The state and public education in Latin America / Carlos Alberto Torres and Adriana Puiggrós; title: Financing education for democracy in Latin America / Ernesto Schiefelbein; title: Education policy and human development in the Latin American city / José Luis Coraggio; title: Neoliberal education policies in Latin America / Robert F. Arnove; title: Dewey under South American skies / Inés Dussel and Marcelo Caruso; title: Contemporary Brazilian education / Moacir Gadotti; title: The problems of the decentralization of education / Sylvia Schmelkes; title: Teacher education reform initiatives / Maria Teresa Tatto and Eduardo Velez; title: The paradox of the autonomy of Argentine universities / Marcela Mollis; title: University restructuring in Argentina / Daniel Schugurensky; title: Women, education, and the state of Cuba / Sheryl L. Lutjens; title: Freire, Frei, and literacy texts in Chile, 1964-1970 / Robert Austin; title: Popular education and the reconstruction of El Salvador / Jack L. Hammond.