Crisis and Hope: The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America / Edition 1

by Gustavo Fischman, Stephen Ball, Silvina Gvirtz

Overview

This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415935357
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/12/2003
Series:	Reference Books In International Education
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gustavo Fischman, Stephen Ball, Silvina Gvirtz

Table of Contents

Series Preface Introduction: Toward a Neoliberal Education? Tension and Change in Latin America Chapter 1 Toward a Unified Agenda for Change in Latin American Higher Education The Role of Multilateral Agencies Chapter 2 Two Decades of Neoliberalism in Latin America Implications for Adult Education Chapter 3 Prioritizing the Education of Marginalized Youth in Brazil A Collaborative Approach Chapter 4 A Local Reform Goes Global The Politics of Escuela Nueva Chapter 5 Neoliberalism and Educational Decentralization Policies The Experience of the 1990s Chapter 6 Searching for “Neoliberal” Education Policies A Comparative Analysis of Argentina and Chile Chapter 8 Teachers’ Work Revisited Mexican Teachers’ Struggle for Democracy and the Anti-Neoliberal Alternative Chapter 9 While Gender Sleeps Neoliberalism’s Impact on Educational Policies in Latin America Chapter 10 The Northern Influence and Colombian Education Reform of the 1990s