Education, Policy, And Social Change
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...
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This volume examines the links among research, policy, and change in education in Latin America in the context of relationships between the economy, politics, and the state in the 1980s. The case analyses discuss the challenges these societies face in education in their progression towards the 21st century.
TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Education and Development in Latin America1Pt. IEducation for Social Survival: Managing the Crisis of Development1Bolivia: Society, State, and Education in Crisis232Colombia: Educational Research and Policy - Problems of the 1980s, Issues for the 1990s353Ecuador: Basic Quechuan Education474Mexico: Modernization of Education and the Problems and Challenges of Basic Education575Peru: Education for National Identity - Ethnicity and Andean Nationalism696Venezuela: Education after Prosperity83Pt. IIEducation for Transition: From Dictatorship to Democracy7Argentina: Education in Transition - From Dictatorship to Democracy1018Brazil: Conflicts between Public and Private Schooling and the Brazilian Constitutions1119Chile: The State and Higher Education131Pt. IIICoping with Political Turmoil and Economic Downturn: Education for National Integration10Costa Rica: Education and Politics - A Historical Perspective14111Cuba: Educational Research and Decision Making15712Nicaragua: Education and Social Transformation, 1979-91169Conclusion: Educational Research and Policy in the 1990s - Future Challenges185References197Index215About the Editors and Contributors221
