Background
Torres, Carlos Alberto was born on October 1, 1950 in Buenos Aires. Son of Domingo Roberto and Maria Laura (Novoa) Torres. came to the United States, 1980.
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Education, Policy, and Social Change: Experiences from Latin America by Morales Gomez Daniel A. Torres Carlos Alberto (1992-09-17) Hardcover
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Education, Policy, and Social Change: Experiences from Latin America
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The purpose of this contributed volume is to examine the links among research, policy, and change in education in Latin America in the context of the relationships between the economy, politics, and the state in the 1980s. The case analyses will discuss the challenges these societies face in education in their progression towards the twenty-first century. In its various sections, the book addresses the following questions: How did education respond during the 1980s to the major sociopolitical and economic changes that affected these countries? How did the changes in the 1980s affect the relationships between education, society, and the state, and what lessons can be learned from the interaction between research and policy that may help in understanding the developmental role of education in the 1990s? And is educational research and policy helping to improve the social condition of minorities in Latin America? This volume will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in Latin American studies, educational research, education policy, and educational planning.
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The State, Corporatist Politics, and Educational Policy Making in Mexico by Morales Gomez Daniel A. Torres Carlos Alberto (1990-05-11) Hardcover
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The Church, Society, and Hegemony: A Critical Sociology of Religion in Latin America
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This book 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 (Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Gramsci). Thus, churches are analyzed as organized institutions of religious mediation intimately linked to the production of social, cultural, and political hegemony in Latin America. The Catholic Church, the dominant church in the region, is analyzed in terms of its different faces, changes, and transformations from conquest and colonization through the changing winds of Vatican II to the revolutionary experiences of the popular church in the 1970s and 1980s. This work will be of interest to scholars of Latin American studies, politics, religion, culture, and sociology. It also speaks to theologians and philosophers working in Latin America.
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Carlos Alberto Torres
Edit ProfileEducation
Litentiate in Sociology, U. del Salvador, 1974; M. Political Science, Flacso, Mexico City, 1978; Master of Education, Stanford University, 1982; Doctor of Philosophy in Education, Stanford University, 1984.
Career
General secretary, Institute for Study Science Latin American, Buenos Aires, 1973-1975; assistant professor, U. del Salvador, Buenos Aires, 1974-1975; associate professor, U. Pedagógica Nacional, Mexico City, 1979; professor, researcher, Flacso, Mexico City, 1984-1986; scholar-in-residence, World College W., Petaluma, California, 1986; Killam fellow, U. Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 1986-1988; assistant professor, U. Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 1988-1990; assistant professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1990-1992; associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1992-1994; full professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1994; coordinator comparative & topical programs Latin American Center, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1992; head social science and comparative education division, since 1994; professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1994; head social science and comparative education division, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1994. Visiting professor U. Toronto (Ontario, Canada)-Oise, 1989. Independent consultant United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, 1990-1991.
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Education, Policy, and Social Change: Experiences from Latin America
( The purpose of this contributed volume is to examine th...)
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The Church, Society, and Hegemony: A Critical Sociology of Religion in Latin America
( This book provides a critical sociology of religion in ...)
- Education, Policy, and Social Change: Experiences from Latin America by Morales Gomez Daniel A. Torres Carlos Alberto (1992-09-17) Hardcover
- The State, Corporatist Politics, and Educational Policy Making in Mexico by Morales Gomez Daniel A. Torres Carlos Alberto (1990-05-11) Hardcover
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Education, Policy, and Social Change: Experiences from Latin America
Membership
Fellow Latin American Studies Association. Member International Political Science Association (board of directors, member research committee political education since 1985), International Sociological Association (board directors research committee sociology of education 1990-1994, vice president since 1994), Comparative International Education Society board directors 1991-1994).
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Married Maria Cristina Pons, March 10, 1973. Children: Carlos Alberto, Pablo Sebastian, Laura Silvina.
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Argentinian
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Fulbright fellow, 1986, Spencer fellow National Academy Education, 1990-1992. Fellow Organization of American States, 1982-1984, Stanford University, 1980-1983.Fulbright fellow, 1986, Spencer fellow National Academy Education, 1990-1992. Fellow Organization of American States, 1982-1984, Stanford University, 1980-1983.