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After two decades of neoliberal reforms, Latin America educational policy remains hotly contested by a number of players. Crisis and Hope studies the role of the state, political parties, international organisations and teachers in determining the course of South American education and invites us to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crises, and promises of education in the region. In these lively essays, readers in ''the North'' get a glimpse of the innovative work of Latin American scholars whose research is usually only available in Spanish and Portuguese.

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Table of contents : Introduction: Towards a Neo-Liberal Education?: Tensions and Changes in Latin-America G. Fischman, S. Ball & S. Gvortz 2. Towards a Unified Agenda for Change in Latin America Higher Education: The Role of Multilateral Agencies R. Rodriguez-Gomez & A. Alcantara 3. Two Decades of Neoliberalism in Latin America: Implications for Adult Education D. Schugurensky 3. Prioritising the Education of Marginalized Young People in Brazil: A Collaborative Approach P. Wong & R. Balestino 4. A Local Reform Goes Global: The Politics of Escuela Nueva P. McEwan & L. Benveniste 5. Neoliberalism and Educational Decentralization Policies: The Experience of the 1990s J. M. Gorostiaga Derqui 6. Searching for 'Neoliberal' Education Policies: A Comparative Analysis of Argentina and Chile M. Narodowski & M. Nores 7. Beyond Neo-Liberalism in Education: The Citizen School and the Struggle for Democracy in Porto Alegre, Brazil L. Armando Gandin & M. W. Apple 8. Teachers' Work Revisited: Mexican Teachers' Struggle for Democracy and the Anti-neoliberal Alternative S. Street 9. While Gender Sleeps: Neoliberalism's Impact on Educational Policies in Latin America N. Stromquist 10. The Northern Influence and the Columbian Education Reform of the 1990s P. Vanegas