Routes to reform : education politics in Latin America / Ben Ross Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Ben Ross, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--Latin America.

Education and state.

Educational change--Latin America.

Educational change.

Teachers--Political activity--Latin America.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Ben Ross Schneider examines education policy throughout Latin America to show that reforms to improve learning - especially making teacher careers more meritocratic and less political - are possible. He contends that the first bottom-up route to reform is electoral. The second route was more top-down and technocratic, with little support from electorates or civil society. By framing education policy in a much broader comparative perspective, Schneider demonstrates that contrary to much established theory, reform outcomes in Latin America depended less on institutions and broad coalitions, but rather - due to the emptiness of the education policy space - on more micro factors like civil society organizations, teacher unions, policy networks, and technocrats.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 16, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-775889-4

0-19-775887-8

OCLC:

1422168330