Education in Mexico, Central America and the Latin Caribbean

by Posner, C. M.; Martin, Christopher; Brock, Colin; Brock, Colin

• ISBN13: 9781474267687
• ISBN10: 1474267688
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-04-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Education in Mexico, Central America and the Latin Caribbean examines the development and practice of education in México, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panamá. The chapters, written by local experts, provide an overview of the structure, aims and purposes of education in each of these ten countries with very different socio-economic backgrounds. The authors present curriculum standards, pedagogy, evaluation, accountability and delivery, discussing both how the formal systems are structured and how they actually function. The volume explores the origins of proposed reforms and their implementation, emphasising the distinctiveness of each country and attempting to locate new practices that could lead to better education.

Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole and guides to available online datasets, this book is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers.

Author Biography

C. M. Posner is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He was founding Director of the Instituto de Investigación Educativa y Desarrollo de Nayarit and Professor at the The Metropolitan Autonomous University, México, OECD consultant and Advisor to Ministry of Education, México. He is co-author, with David Scott, Christopher Martin and Elsa Guzmán, of Interventions in Education Systems (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Christopher Martin is Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He is also a consultant on education reform programmes for the Ministry of Education, Mexico, and Associate Fellow of the Virtual University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He is co-author, with David Scott, Charles Posner and Elsa Guzmán, of Interventions in Education Systems (Bloomsbury, 2014)

Colin Brock is Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Durham, UK, and Visiting Professor of Geography at the University of Loughborough, UK. He was formerly UNESCO Chair of Education as a Humanitarian Response at the University of Oxford, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Regional Overview, C. M. Posner (Institute of Education, University College London, UK), Christopher Martin (Institute of Education, University College London, UK) and Yvonne Martin (Independent Education Consultant)
Part I: México
1. Overview, Elsa Guzmán (Independent Educational Consultant), Christopher Martin (Institute of Education, University College London, UK) and C. M. Posner (Institute of Education, University College London, UK)
2. Educational Reform, Carlos Ornelas (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
3. Policy and the Political System, Bonifacio Barba (University of Aguascalientes, Mexico)
4. Failure of Curricular and Institutional Reform, Rodolfo Ramirez Raymundo (Institute Belisario Dominguez, Mexico)
5. Improving Educational Quality, David Turner (University of South Wales, UK) and María Guadalupe González de Turner (World Education Fellowship, UK)
Part II: Central America and Panamá
6. Costa Rica: Selection and Control, Ronulfo Jiménez (Academia de Centroamérica, Costa Rica)
7. Guatemala: Education and Cultural Diversity, Otto Rivera Alváres (UNESCO, Guatemala)
8. Honduras: The Failure of Reform, Javier Luque (Pontifical Catholic University, Peru)
9. Nicaragua: Education and the Challenge of Sustainable Human Development, Cefas Asensio Flórez (Eduquemos, Nicaragua)
10. Panamá: Towards an Effective Education, Rolando de la Guardia Wald (University College London, UK)
11. El Salvador: Resistance and Change, Louis Carlos Morales Zúñiga (University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica)
Part III: The Latin Caribbean
12. Cuba: An Overview, Elvira del Pilar Martín Sabina (University of Havana, Cuba) and Jorge González Corona (University of Havana, Cuba)
13. Cuba: Educational Impact of the Cuban Revolution, Rosemary Smith (University of Nottingham, UK)
14. Dominican Republic: Strengthening Public Education, Molly Hamm (Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project, Dominican Republic) and Rebeca Martínez (Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project, Dominican Republic)
15. Haiti: Escaping from the Failed State, Pierre M. Lubin (Columbia University, USA)
Index