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Education and Society in Latin America

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Orlando Albornoz

    1. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Latin America at the Beginning of the 1990s

    • Orlando Albornoz
    Pages 1-8

  3. Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • Orlando Albornoz
    Pages 9-51

  4. Educational Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Argentina, Nicaragua and Venezuela

    • Orlando Albornoz
    Pages 52-67

  5. The Search for Knowledge and the University as a Bureaucracy: the Role of the University in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • Orlando Albornoz
    Pages 68-93

  6. Technological Transfer from the Higher Education Sector in Non-Industrial Societies

    • Orlando Albornoz
    Pages 94-107

  7. Academic Institutions in the Non-Intellectual Society: the Role of Intellectuals in Venezuela

    • Orlando Albornoz
    Pages 108-116

  8. Educational Reform and Educational Policies: the Ideological Legitimation for Social Stability

    • Orlando Albornoz
    Pages 117-129

  9. Higher Education in Latin America at the End of the Century

    • Orlando Albornoz
    Pages 130-146

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 147-185
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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.

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  • Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

    Orlando Albornoz

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