Politics of Education in Latin America

Reforms, Resistance and Persistence
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41336-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices

Politics of Education in Latin America: Reforms, Resistance and Persistence portrays complex situations of education change policies in Latin America from Argentina and Chile, the southernmost part of the continent, to Mexico, the northernmost. The analyses tour through Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Cuba to conclude with a chapter that scrutinizes why the big teacher unions reject most attempts at education reforms. In these, teachers are the target of criticism and, at the same time, the focus of the expectations for progress and better educational quality.

Readers will find a variety of contentious issues such as inclusion, equity, privatization, uses of power, and dialectics between the indications of intergovernmental organizations and the rejection of their recommendations by local political actors. They will also find narratives to raise public education participation, improve the quality of life of teachers, and put local education systems to dialogue with the global world. The politics of education in Latin America is a territory that groups and institutions continue to dispute since the establishment of their education systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ornelas, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Robert F. Arnove

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Reforms, Resistance and Persistence

Carlos Ornelas

1 The Long and Winding Road to Inclusion: Educational Policies in Argentina (2003–2015)

Jason Beech

2 Recent Education Reforms in Chile: How Much of a Departure from Market and New Public Management Systems?

Beatrice Ávalos and Cristián Bellei

3 The Difficult Process in Chile: Redefining the Rules of the Game for Subsidized Private Education

Gonzalo Muñoz Stuardo and José Weinstein Cayuela

4 Education Reform in Brazil: Multicultural Reflections

Ana Ivenicki

5 Endurance and Absences in Peru’s Reform: The Challenge of Second Order Reforms in the Core of Educational Practice

María Balarin and María Fernanda Rodríguez

6 The Paradox of Power in Ecuador: Governance and Education Reform: 2007–2015

Jorge Baxter

7 From the Indicative to the Imperative: Colombia, the Most Educated in 2025?

René Guevara Ramírez and Sandra Milena Téllez Rico

8 Education in El Salvador: Recent Political Economy of Education Policy

D. Brent Edwards Jr.

9 Education and Teacher Education in Cuba: Revolución and perfeccionamiento

Mark Ginsburg and Gilberto Garcia Batista

10 Hills and Valleys of the Mexican Reform: Politics and Contentions

Carlos Ornelas

11 Teacher Unions and Educational Reforms: The 90’s in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

Aurora Loyo

Postscript

Carlos Ornelas

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos Ornelas is a professor of Education and Communications at the Metropolitan Autonomous University. His previous book is entitled The Contests for Education: Globalization, Neo-corporatism and Democracy (in Spanish) published in Mexico by the Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018.