Education and Social Change in Latin America

This book examines the multiple relationships between education, pedagogy, and social change in Latin America and beyond through a discussion of critical theory in education and its uses in Latin American society today. An international group of contribut

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Education and Social Change in Latin America Edited by

Sara C. Motta and Mike Cole

EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATIN AMERICA

Copyright © Sara C. Motta and Mike Cole, 2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-38067-8

All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-47933-7 DOI 10.1057/9781137366634

ISBN 978-1-137-36663-4 (eBook)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Education and social change in Latin America / edited by Sara C. Motta and Mike Cole. pages cm.—(Marxism and education) Includes index. 1. Education—Social aspects—Latin America. 2. Social change— Latin America. 3. Social movements—Latin America, I. Motta, Sara C., 1973– II. Cole, Mike. LC191.8.L37E379 2013 306.43—dc23

2013026023

A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: December 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

We dedicate this book to the memory of Hugo Chávez, who once described Venezuela as “a giant school” and to the countless—often invisibilised and undervalued- popular educators, educational visionaries and communities in struggle who give birth to and tenderly nurture the pedagogical innovations, emancipatory horizons and revolutionary educational practices that are at the heart of the reinvention of 21st Century Socialism in Latin America, and beyond.

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Contents

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List of Illustrations

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Series Editor’s Preface Anthony Green

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Exploring the Role of Education and the Pedagogical in Pathways to Twenty-First-Century Socialism in Latin America Sara C. Motta

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Part I On the Philosophies, Theories and Histories of Emancipatory Education in Latin America 1

Naming the World: Situating Freirean Pedagogics in the Philosophical Problematic of Nuestra América Jon L. Mansell

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Marxism and Popular Educati