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Modernizing minds in El Salvador : education reform and the Cold War, 1960-1980 / Hector Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor, 1952-
- Series:
- Dialogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Dialogos
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television in education--El Salvador.
- Television in education.
- Educational change--El Salvador.
- Educational change.
- Education and state--El Salvador--History.
- Education and state.
- El Salvador--History--1944-1979.
- El Salvador.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this thoughtful collaborative study, the authors examine the processes by which education reform in El Salvador in the 1960's and 1970's became entwined in debates over theories of modernization and the politics of anticommunism.
- Contents:
- A fight within the right : rivaling visions of modernization
- Modernizing reform and anticommunist repression : the first PCN administration, 1961-1967
- "A monitor instead of a teacher" : the origins of the 1968 education reform and how television became its centerpiece
- "A feverish laboratory" : the education reform of 1968
- Modernization projects and authoritarian practices in the 1970's
- "The most thoroughly studied educational technology project in the world".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283636780
- 1283636786
- 9780826350824
- 0826350828
- OCLC:
- 817819390
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