Latin American education: Recent e-books
This guide is for those beginning research on Latin American education.
Recent e-books
Postcritical theory and curriculum in Latin America: didactics, Bildung and US hegemony by Silvia. Morelli
Publication Date: 2025Drawing on a range of postcritical theories including postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of curriculum in Latin America.Mobilizing teachers: education politics and the new labor movement in Latin America by Christopher Chambers-Ju
Publication Date: 2024With detailed case studies of Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, this book is the first comparative analysis of teacher politics in Latin America. Drawing on extensive field research and multiple sources of data, it enriches theoretical perspectives in political science and sociology on the interplay between protests, electoral mobilization, and party alliances.School food politics in Mexico: the corporatization of obesity and healthy eating policies by José Tenorio
Publication Date: 2024"This book situates obesity as a structural problem enabled by market-driven policy change, problematizing the focus on individual behavior change which underpins current obesity policy. It argues that the idea of healthy lifestyles draws attention away from the economic and political roots of obesity, shifting blame onto an ‘uneducated’ population."Decolonizing study abroad through the identities of Latinx students: a manifesto to reclaim identities and heritage by G. Sue Kasun; Beth Marks; Julián Jefferies
Publication Date: 2024"This book counters the common understanding of study abroad in Latin America as a White and middle-class colonizer practice and re-imagines it to fit the needs of Latinx immigrant/transnational higher education students. The book centers Latinx youth inhabiting familial heritage spaces as a pathway toward a deeper understanding of themselves as racialized and colonized individuals, reframing study abroad for Latinx youth as a way for them to reclaim, negotiate and strengthen their own immigrant/Latino/a/Chicano/a and other identities."
2023
Indigenous STEM education : perspectives from the Pacific Islands, the Americas and Asia. Volume 1 by Pauline W. U. Chinn (Ed.); Sharon Nelson-Barber (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2023This book explores ways in which systems of local knowledge, culture, language, and place are foundational for STEM learning in Indigenous communities. It is part of a two-volume set that addresses a growing recognition that interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and cross-hybrid learning is needed to foster scientific and cultural understandings and move STEM learning toward more just and sustainable futures for all learners.
2022
Engaging Employers in Vocational Education and Training in Brazil by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publication Date: 2022One of a series of studies on vocational education and training (VET), this report focuses on how international evidence can inform reforms of the VET system in Brazil. The reforms aim to considerably expand provision of initial VET, tripling enrolment between 2014-2024.
2021
The educational philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren: pioneering working-class education in Latin America by María Alicia Rueda
Publication Date: 2021"Through close analysis of the textual archives and press writings, The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren offers comprehensive insight into Recabarren's belief in education as essential to the empowerment, emancipation, and political independence of the working class, and emphasises the importance he placed on the education of workers through experiential learning in their organizations and press.Managing for learning: measuring and strengthening education management in Latin America and the Caribbean by Melissa Adelman; Renata Lemos
Publication Date: 2021We have both paper and electronic versions.
The preponderance of evidence shows that it is learning - and not schooling in and of itself - that contributes to individual earnings, economic growth, and reduced inequality. For LAC in particular, low levels of human capital are a critical factor in explaining the region's relatively weak growth performance over the last half century. The easily measurable inputs are well-known, and the end goal is relatively clear, but raising student achievement at scale remains a challenge. Why? We propose that part of the answer lies in management - the processes and practices that guide how inputs into the education system are translated into outputs, and ultimately outcomes.
2020
Professional development for EMI faculty in Mexico: the case of bilingual, international, and sustainable universities by Myrna Escalona Sibaja
Publication Date: 2020Despite Mexico's implementation of a bilingual model in its tertiary education programmes, this book is the first contribution to knowledge regarding EMI in Mexico.
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