Skills, Values, and Development

NOTE EDITORE

Education remains one of the biggest challenges for Latin American societies. However, the factors explaining this are hardly known, less so thoroughly understood. In Skills, Values, and Development: The Political Economy of Education in Latin America, the authors approach the education problem in 21st-century Latin America by considering it as a political economy issue. This political economy approach allows refocusing research from the supply of education (educational outcomes, institutions, and reform trajectories) in existing scholarship on policy reforms, to the conflicting demands of education by different actors at the intersection of political and economic dynamics. The book is divided into three sections: first, the authors examine how education expansion--or the lack of it--relates to common regional political trends, how these trends relate to skills, value-orientations, and developmental goals, and the conflictual dynamics between these goals. The second section of the book explores some of these issues from a historical perspective, while the final section discusses the political economy of investing in skills in the context of the region's attempts to successfully integrate itself into the knowledge economy and build more cohesive and prosperous societies. The book combines a variety of approaches and methodologies, including short and long-term perspectives, large N quantitative analyses, comparative methods, and country case studies.

AUTORE

Juan A. Bogliaccini, PhD, is Professor of Political Sciences in the Department of Social Sciences at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU). He is the author of Empowering Labor: Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Latin America and several articles published at leading journals in the field. His research focuses on the political economy of distribution, on issues related to labor policy, skill formation, and human security. Aldo Madariaga, PhD, is Associate Professor at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, and director of the Max Planck-UDP Group Challenges of Green Growth. His research interests are comparative and international political economy, growth models, and sustainable development. His book Neoliberal Resilience: Lessons in Democracy and Development from Latin America and Eastern Europe received honorable mentions for best book by ISA and SASE.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780197803189
• Collana: International Policy Exchange
• Dimensioni: 242 x 28.2 x 165 mm Ø 640 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 42 b/w figures
• Pagine Arabe: 336