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The Routledge History of Latin American Culture
The Routledge History of Latin American Culture delves into the cultural history of Latin America from the end of the colonial period to the twentieth century, focusing on the formation of national, racial, and ethnic identity, the culture of resistance, the effects of Eurocentrism, and the process of cultural hybridity to show how the people of Latin America have participated in the making of their own history. The selections from an interdisciplinary group of scholars range widely across the geographic spectrum of the Latin American world and forms of cultural production. Exploring the means and meanings of cultural production, the essays illustrate the myriad ways in which cultural output illuminates political and social themes in Latin American history. From religion to food, from political resistance to artistic representation, this handbook showcases the work of scholars from the forefront of Latin American cultural history, creating an essential reference volume for any scholar of modern Latin America.
The Politics of Nonformal Education in Latin America
Using the literacy and adult education programs in several Latin American countries as prime examples of adult educational reform, Torres examines such issues as why given educational policies are created, how they are constructed, planned, and implemented, what are the implications of such policies.
Unintended Lessons of Revolution
Tanalís Padilla traces the history of the normales rurales—rural schools in Mexico that trained campesino teachers—and outlines how despite being intended to foster a modern, patriotic citizenry, they became sites of radical politics.
Organizing Dissent
Organizing Dissent examines the democratic movement that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s within Mexico's National Union of Education Workers, the largest union in Latin America. The size, perseverance, and success the movement stood out in a country whose governing regime was renowned for its ability to co-opt, control, and repress dissent. Maria Lorena Cook analyzes the development of the teachers' movement from its origins in the 1970s through the economic crisis 0f the 1980s and into the early 1990s under the Salinas administration. She explores the evolving relationship among the union leadership, the state, and rank-and-file teachers, looks closely at organization dynamics and competing strategies within the movement, and compares the successes and failures of six regional contingents of the teachers' movement located in southern and central Mexico.
Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico
This is an examination of the challenges Mexico faces in reforming the administration of its justice system - a critical undertaking for the consolidation of democracy, the well-being of Mexican citizens, and US-Mexican relations.
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La federalización educativa en México
El objetivo de este libro es el de recuperar la historia de un añejo debate: el de la centralización y la descentralización de la educación básica y normal. Al mismo tiempo se propone analizar la federalización descentralizadora de nuestros días, a la luz de la desconcentración, la federalización centralizadora y la descentralización inconclusa que le antecedieron. Los fundadores del sistema educativo mexicano siempre sostuvieron la idea de "federalizar" la educación primaria, con el fin de equilibrar -u ocultar- las consecuencias centralizadoras de las políticas de expansión del sistema federal y las iniciativas federales encaminadas a uniformar y/o absorber los sistemas educativos locales; y sobre todo con la intención de doblegar la oposición de los gobiernos y los educadores de los estados a cualquier proyecto centralizador de la enseñanza.
