The State, Literacy, and Popular Education in Chile, 1964-1990

ISBN-13: 9780739102886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 416 str.

Robert Austin

Opis

Popular education and adult literacy in Chile have historically represented competing paths toward a literate society: one born and nurtured through bitter 19th century labour struggles, the other a compensatory effort by the modern state to limit the political potential of literacy. Robert Austin's book explores the contest between the state and popular education in three paradigmatic Latin American regimes. The author's narrative captures the relationship between the Chilean state, formal and non-formal literacy, and popular education from the demise of liberal capitalism to the consolidation of neoliberalism. This investigation of the dynamic link between the historical process, literacy and pedagogy celebrates popular education's victory in securing the inclusion, and subsequent empowerment, of women and ethnic minorities.