Bøger af Carlos Alberto Torres

This text examines the common problems facing education systems around the world as the result of global economic, social, and cultural forces.

Collects seminal essays by the author, a critical theorist and scholar devoted to interpreting the work of Paulo Freire and has done much over the years to raise the visibility of Freire's contribution to educational theory. This title contains the strands of the author's thinking, with his commitment to employing scholarship for social change.

In dialogues with eleven key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews these thinkers talk about their personal experiences and their work.

In this study of nonformal education in Latin America, the author argues that rather than providing new training for the labour force and improving the lot of the poor, the education policies in Latin America play an integral role in the governments's attempts to legitimize the capitalist state.

This text looks at developments that are changing our understanding of the role of education in citizenship and the possibilities of democratic participation. It reviews theories of citizenship and education and challenges educators to think more politically about education.

Takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. This book offers analytical avenues to understand and criticize the practices and policies of neoliberal states.

This volume provides a critical sociology of religion in Latin America. Its purpose is to discuss the notion of religion as part of social, cultural and political processes in capitalist societies, drawing on the classics of sociological thought.