Overview
Explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia. Winner of the 2025 Best Monograph Award presented by the Globalization & Education SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society International organizations have consistently influenced education reforms in Latin America, but not all countries have adopted the same policy recommendations. This book offers a unique comparative analysis of secondary education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia, from the 1960s to the 2010s, with a focus on three key areas: manpower planning, state-retrenchment (market-based versus active-state), and ideas about having a right to a quality education in an era of government accountability. While responding to similar policy recommendations, these countries have differed in how they have implemented decentralization, incorporated private actors, allocated authority over curriculum, and established instruments of accountability. Claudia Diaz-Rios traces the legacies of previous education policies and local struggles among stakeholders in reshaping-and sometimes rejecting-foreign recommendations. Translating Global Idea will be an invaluable resource for scholars of comparative politics and the globalization of education-particularly those interested in policy development in middle- and low-income countries, as well as practitioners invested in promoting education policy changes in Latin America.
Full Product Details
Author: Claudia Diaz-Rios
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.372kg
ISBN: 9781438497259
ISBN 10: 1438497253
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 02 October 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
""This book's comparative historical approach is innovative and theoretically sophisticated. Bridging political science and comparative education policy, Diaz-Rios is able to explain the most relevant processes of change and continuity in the governance of Latin American education systems and opens a long-haul line of future research."" — Antoni Verger, coauthor of The Privatization of Education: A Political Economy of Global Education Reform
"""This book's comparative historical approach is innovative and theoretically sophisticated. Bridging political science and comparative education policy, Diaz-Rios is able to explain the most relevant processes of change and continuity in the governance of Latin American education systems and opens a long-haul line of future research."" — Antoni Verger, coauthor of The Privatization of Education: A Political Economy of Global Education Reform"
Author Information
Claudia Diaz-Rios is Assistant Professor in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the University of Toronto.
