Education and Social Change in Latin America

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Introduction: Exploring the Role of Education and the Pedagogical in Pathways to Twenty-First Century Socialism in Latin America Sara C Motta PART I: ON THE PHILOSOPHIES, THEORIES, AND HISTORIES OF EMANCIPATORY EDUCATION IN LATIN AMERICA 1. Naming the World: Situating Freirean Pedagogics in the Philosophical Problematic of Nuestra America Jon L. Mansell 2. Marxism and Popular Education in Latin America Liam Kane 3. On the Pedagogical Turn in Latin American Social Movements Sara C Motta PART II: EDUCATION STRUGGLES AND/IN LEFT GOVERNMENTS 4. Nicaragua: Deprivatizing Education, the Citizen Power Development Model, and the Construction of Twenty-First Century Socialism Thomas Muhr 5. A Critical Theoretical Perspective on Education and Social Change in Bolivia - A Contested Alternative Pedagogy Mieke Lopes Cardozo 6. Epistemic Independence Struggles: A Comparative Analysis of Two Indigenous Universities in Peru and Ecuador Lenin Arturo Valencia Arroyo 7. Education for the Creation of a New Venezuela Francisco Dominguez 8. Hugo Chavez, Social Democracy and Twenty-First-Century Socialism in Venezuela: An Alternative to the Neoliberal Model Mike Cole INTERLUDE: Some, Our Leaves of Fall Angela Martinez Dy PART III: EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGY FROM BELOW 9. Movement Methodologies and Transforming Urban Space Jennifer L. Martinez 10. Which Education for Which Democracy?: The Case of the Penguins' Revolution in Chile Ivette Hernandez 11. Experiential and Relational Dimensions in the Pedagogical Practice of Solidarity Economy: Insights from Brazil Ana Margarida Esteves 12. Colombia: Education and Gender in Context Glory Rigueros Saavedra 13. Cali's Women in Collective Crossing through Three Worlds: Popular Education, Feminisms, and Nonviolence for the Expansion of the Present, Memory and Nurturing of Life Norma Lucia Bermudez Conclusion: The Current Crisis in Capitalism and the Role of Education Mike Cole