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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450331303321

Titolo

Crisis and hope : the educational hopscotch of Latin America / / edited by Stephen J. Ball, Gustavo E. Fischman, and Silvina Gvirtz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-95125-X

1-138-96696-7

1-280-33553-X

0-203-46382-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Reference books in international education

Altri autori (Persone)

BallStephen J

FischmanGustavo

GvirtzSilvina

Disciplina

370/.98

Soggetti

Education - Latin America

Educational change - Latin America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Preface; Toward a Neoliberal Education?  Tension and Change in Latin America; Toward a Unified Agenda for Change in Latin American Higher Education The Role of Multilateral Agencies; Two Decades of Neoliberalism in Latin America Implications for Adult Education; Prioritizing the Education of Marginalized Youth in Brazil A Collaborative Approach; A Local Reform Goes Global The Politics of Escuela Nueva; Neoliberalism and Educational Decentralization Policies The Experience of the 1990s

Searching for ~Neoliberal~ Education Policies A Comparative Analysis of Argentina and ChileBeyond Neoliberalism in Education The Citizen School and the Struggle for Democracy in Porto Alegre, Brazil; Teachers' Work Revisited Mexican Teachers' Struggle for Democracy and the Anti-Neoliberal Alternative; While Gender Sleeps Neoliberalism's Impact on Educational Policies in Latin America; The Northern Influence and Colombian Education Reform of the 1990s; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.