ERIC Number: EJ1113412
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Oct
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Equity of Access to Higher Education in the Context of South-South Cooperation in Latin America: A Pluri-Scalar Analysis
Muhr, Thomas
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, v72 n4 p557-571 Oct 2016
This article draws from an education governance approach to conduct a pluri-scalar analysis of equity of access to tertiary education in the context of South-South cooperation. An account of distributional justice in access to tertiary education in the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is integrated with a structural approach related to South-South cooperation among the two nations as well as within the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), upon which two interrelated arguments are developed: first, despite persistent inequities in access to university education in both territories, state-interventionist policies enhance equity of access directly with respect to availability and accessibility. Second, South-South cooperation transforms the background conditions for educational justice by producing an alternative structure to the neoliberal global governance of education and its agenda of privatisation and commercialisation.
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, International Cooperation, Justice, Intervention, Privatization, Commercialization, Neoliberalism, Governance, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Cross Cultural Studies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Brazil; Venezuela
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