Translating Global Ideas

How Policy Legacies and Domestic Politics Shape Education Governance in Latin America

Claudia Diaz-Rios

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781438497273
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

International organizations have consistently influenced education reforms in Latin America, but not all countries have adopted the same policy recommendations. This book offers a unique comparative analysis of secondary education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia, from the 1960s to the 2010s, with a focus on three key areas: manpower planning, state-retrenchment (market-based versus active-state), and ideas about having a right to a quality education in an era of government accountability. While responding to similar policy recommendations, these countries have differed in how they have implemented decentralization, incorporated private actors, allocated authority over curriculum, and established instruments of accountability. Claudia Diaz-Rios traces the legacies of previous education policies and local struggles among stakeholders in reshaping—and sometimes rejecting—foreign recommendations. Translating Global Idea will be an invaluable resource for scholars of comparative politics and the globalization of education—particularly those interested in policy development in middle- and low-income countries, as well as practitioners invested in promoting education policy changes in Latin America.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Introduction: Global Ideas, Policy Variation, and the Governance of Secondary Education in Latin America
• Chapter 1 Policy Legacies and Domestic Conflict in the Translation of Global Ideas
• Chapter 2 Translation of Manpower Education Planning Ideas
• Chapter 3 Varieties of State Retrenchment: Market-Based and Active-State Ideas
• Chapter 4 The Translation of Education for All in the Era of Accountability
• Paths of Translation: Implications for Future Research and Reforms
• Appendix
• Notes
• References
• Index
• Back Cover