This volume offers an up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research in Latin American education, and invites the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region.

Series Preface Introduction: Toward a Neoliberal Education? Tension and Change in Latin America Chapter 1 Toward a Unified Agenda for Change in Latin American Higher Education The Role of Multilateral Agencies Chapter 2 Two Decades of Neoliberalism in Latin America Implications for Adult Education Chapter 3 Prioritizing the Education of Marginalized Youth in Brazil A Collaborative Approach Chapter 4 A Local Reform Goes Global The Politics of Escuela Nueva Chapter 5 Neoliberalism and Educational Decentralization Policies The Experience of the 1990s Chapter 6 Searching for “Neoliberal” Education Policies A Comparative Analysis of Argentina and Chile Chapter 8 Teachers’ Work Revisited Mexican Teachers’ Struggle for Democracy and the Anti-Neoliberal Alternative Chapter 9 While Gender Sleeps Neoliberalism’s Impact on Educational Policies in Latin America Chapter 10 The Northern Influence and Colombian Education Reform of the 1990s