The Politics of Nonformal Education in Latin America

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Using the literacy programmes in several Latin American countries - including Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as the prime examples of adult educational reform, Torres examines in this book such issues as: why are given education policies created How are they constructed, planned, and implemented Who are the most relevant actors in their formulation and operationalization What are the implications of such policies for both clients and the broader society What are the fundamental, systematic, and organizational processes involved Throughout, Torres uses an approach based on a political sociology and informed by political economy analysis. Challenging the established assumptions of mainstream adult and nonformal education, he argues persuasively that, rather than providing new training for the labour force or attempting to improve the living conditions of the poor, the nonformal education policies in Latin America have played an integral role in governments' attempts to legitimize the capitalist state.

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Social scientists interested in critical epistemology and methodology, education specialists, students and practitioners of public policy in general and Latin Americanists can all benefit from these essays.-Convergence
"Social scientists interested in critical epistemology and methodology, education specialists, students and practitioners of public policy in general and Latin Americanists can all benefit from these essays."-Convergence

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CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Widely published in Mexico and Latin America, he is the author or editor of twelve previous works in Spanish as well as numerous articles, reviews, and papers. A forthcomingbook, with Daniel A. Morales-Gomez in English, is entitled The State, Corporatist Politics, and Educational Policy Making in Mexico (New York: Praeger, 1990).