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The purpose of this contributed volume is to examine the links among research, policy, and change in education in Latin America in the context of the relationships between the economy, politics, and the state in the 1980s. The case analyses will discuss the challenges these societies face in education in their progression towards the twenty-first century.
In its various sections, the book addresses the following questions: How did education respond during the 1980s to the major sociopolitical and economic changes that affected these countries? How did the changes in the 1980s affect the relationships between education, society, and the state, and what lessons can be learned from the interaction between research and policy that may help in understanding the developmental role of education in the 1990s? And is educational research and policy helping to improve the social condition of minorities in Latin America? This volume will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in Latin American studies, educational research, education policy, and educational planning.
List of contents
Introduction: Education and Development in Latin America
Education for Social Survival: Managing the Crisis of DevelopmentBolivia: Society, State, and Education in Crisis
Colombia: Educational Research and Policy--Problems of the 1990s, Issues for the 1990s
Ecuador: Basic Quechuan Education
Mexico: Modernization of Education and the Problems and Challenges of Basic Education
Peru: Education for National Identity--Ethnicity and Andean Nationalism
Venezuela: Education After Prosperity
Education for Transition: From Dictatorship to DemocracyArgentina: Education in Transition--From Dictatorship to Democracy
Brazil: Conflicts between Public and Private Schooling and the Brazilian Constitutions
Chile: The State and Higher Education
Coping with Political Turmoil and Economic Downturn: Education for National IntegrationCosta Rica: Education and Politics--A Historical Perspcetive
Cuba: Educational Research and Decision-making
Nicaragua: Education and Social Transformation, 1979-91
Conclusion: Educational Research and Policy in the 1990s--A New decade of Challenges
Bibliography
Index
About the author
DANIEL A. MORALES-GOMEZ is Director, Social Policy Program with the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. He co-authored (with Carlos Alberto Torres)
The State, Corporatist Politics, and Educational Policy Making in Mexico (Praeger, 1990).
CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of
The Politics of Nonformal Education in Latin America (Praeger, 1990) and
The Church, Society and Hegemony (Praeger, 1992).
