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Politics of Education in Latin America
Reforms, Resistance and Persistence
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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.
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.
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.
Foreword
âRobert F. Arnove
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Reforms, Resistance and Persistence
âCarlos Ornelas
1 The Long and Winding Road to Inclusion: Educational Policies in Argentina (2003â2015)
âJason Beech
2 Recent Education Reforms in Chile: How Much of a Departure from Market and New Public Management Systems?
âBeatrice Ãvalos and Cristián Bellei
3 The Difficult Process in Chile: Redefining the Rules of the Game for Subsidized Private Education
âGonzalo Muñoz Stuardo and José Weinstein Cayuela
4 Education Reform in Brazil: Multicultural Reflections
âAna Ivenicki
5 Endurance and Absences in Peruâs Reform: The Challenge of Second Order Reforms in the Core of Educational Practice
âMarÃa Balarin and MarÃa Fernanda RodrÃguez
6 The Paradox of Power in Ecuador: Governance and Education Reform: 2007â2015
âJorge Baxter
7 From the Indicative to the Imperative: Colombia, the Most Educated in 2025?
âRené Guevara RamÃrez and Sandra Milena Téllez Rico
8 Education in El Salvador: Recent Political Economy of Education Policy
âD. Brent Edwards Jr.
9 Education and Teacher Education in Cuba: Revolución and perfeccionamiento
âMark Ginsburg and Gilberto Garcia Batista
10 Hills and Valleys of the Mexican Reform: Politics and Contentions
âCarlos Ornelas
11 Teacher Unions and Educational Reforms: The 90âs in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico
âAurora Loyo
Postscript
âCarlos Ornelas
âRobert F. Arnove
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Reforms, Resistance and Persistence
âCarlos Ornelas
1 The Long and Winding Road to Inclusion: Educational Policies in Argentina (2003â2015)
âJason Beech
2 Recent Education Reforms in Chile: How Much of a Departure from Market and New Public Management Systems?
âBeatrice Ãvalos and Cristián Bellei
3 The Difficult Process in Chile: Redefining the Rules of the Game for Subsidized Private Education
âGonzalo Muñoz Stuardo and José Weinstein Cayuela
4 Education Reform in Brazil: Multicultural Reflections
âAna Ivenicki
5 Endurance and Absences in Peruâs Reform: The Challenge of Second Order Reforms in the Core of Educational Practice
âMarÃa Balarin and MarÃa Fernanda RodrÃguez
6 The Paradox of Power in Ecuador: Governance and Education Reform: 2007â2015
âJorge Baxter
7 From the Indicative to the Imperative: Colombia, the Most Educated in 2025?
âRené Guevara RamÃrez and Sandra Milena Téllez Rico
8 Education in El Salvador: Recent Political Economy of Education Policy
âD. Brent Edwards Jr.
9 Education and Teacher Education in Cuba: Revolución and perfeccionamiento
âMark Ginsburg and Gilberto Garcia Batista
10 Hills and Valleys of the Mexican Reform: Politics and Contentions
âCarlos Ornelas
11 Teacher Unions and Educational Reforms: The 90âs in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico
âAurora Loyo
Postscript
âCarlos Ornelas
Scholars, graduate students, public servants, teachers and educated layman interested in the education of Latin America will find this volume enlightening and controversial.