Description
In Skills, Values, and Development: The Political Economy of Education in Latin America, the authors approach the education problem in 21st-century Latin America by considering it as a political economy issue. This political economy approach allows refocusing research from the supply of education in existing scholarship on policy reforms, to the conflicting demands of education by different actors at the intersection of political and economic dynamics. The book combines a variety of approaches and methodologies, including short and long-term perspectives, large N quantitative analyses, comparative methods, and country case studies.
Table of Contents
IntroductionJuan A. Bogliaccini and Aldo MadariagaPart I. Skills as Societal ValuesChapter 1: Latin America's Education Systems in Comparative Perspective, 1945-2021: Patterns and PuzzlesAgustina S. Paglayan and Katy NorrisChapter 2: The Value(s) of Education: On the Link between Skill Formation Regimes and Mass Public Attitudes in Latin AmericaMarius R. BusemeyerChapter 3: The Neglected Middle: Education in Latin America After a Half-Century of ReformStephen KosackChapter 4: Technocratic Reform and Value-Based Opposition: The Pedagogical Movement of ColombiaChristopher Chambers-Ju and Corrina SullivanPart II. The Historical Underpinnings of Education and Skills FormationChapter 5: Vocational Training Institutions in Latin America: Imported, Indigenous, and/or Mestizo?Andrew SchrankChapter 6: Political Regimes, Reform Coalitions and Skill Formation: A Sub-national Comparative PerspectiveFulya ApaydinChapter 7: State Building, Education Centralization, and the Colonial Legacies of Racial CapitalDavid N. LopezChapter 8: Early Childhood Education Policies, Delegated Provision, and Skills-Enhancing Goals in Latin AmericaMelina AltamiranoPart III. The Political Economy of Investment in SkillsChapter 9: Immigrants and Refugees in the Skill Systems of Middle-Income CountriesMerve SancakChapter 10: The Skills Formation Challenge in Latin America: States, Firms, and Clusters in High-Tech SectorsMariana Rangel-PadillaChapter 11: Education for all? Structural Inequality in Latin America and the Broken Promise of MobilityDenisse Gelber and Carolina Castillo
