Education and Society in Latin America

Both financial and political factors impede the positive role of education in social and economic development in Latin America. This book argues that the inefficient operation of its education system constitutes one reason why Latin America is increasingly marginal on the world scene.

Inhalt

Introduction; higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean; educational reform in Latin America and the Caribbean - Argentina, Nicaragua and Venezuela; the search for knowledge and the university as a bureaucracy - the role of the university in Latin America and the Caribbean; technological transfer from the higher education sector in non-industrial societies; academic institutions in the non-intellectual society - the role of intellecutals in Venezuela; educational reform and educational policies - the ideological legitimation for social stability; higher education in Latin America at the end of the century.