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Torres, Carlos Alberto – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
This article discusses some of the generalized analyses of adult learning education, mostly informed by technocratic thinking, highlighting perceived trends in adult learning education between CONFINTEA V and CONFITEA VI. Those trends could be understood as challenges. Employing a political sociology of adult learning education as a critique of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Politics of Education, Educational Sociology
Rexhepi, Jevdet; Torres, Carlos Alberto – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This paper discusses Critical Theory, a model of theorizing in the field of the political sociology of education. We argue for a "reimagined" Critical Theory to herald an empowering, liberatory education that fosters curiosity and critical thinking, and a means for successful bottom-up, top-down political engagement. We present arguments…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Educational Sociology, Role of Education, Teaching Methods
Torres, Carlos Alberto – Teachers College Press, 2009
Spanning an extraordinary 30-year career, this book collects seminal essays by critical theorist Carlos Alberto Torres. Torres is among the foremost scholars devoted to interpreting the work of Paulo Freire and has done much over the years to raise the visibility of Freire's contribution to educational theory. In addition, he has helped to…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, International Education, Educational Sociology, Cultural Pluralism
Peer reviewed
Torres, Carlos Alberto – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1990
Proposes a political sociology of adult and popular education in Latin America as a basis for a radical comparative approach. Discusses four problems associated with adult and popular education: definition, the political nature of education, quality of comparative research data, and the need for good theories. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Sociology
Peer reviewed
Torres, Carlos Alberto – Bilingual Research Journal, 1996
Reviews a book on the politics of educational change in Nicaragua, 1979-93. Following the revolution, the Sandinistas drastically revised curriculum and methods of instruction. However, when they lost political power, education in Nicaragua became contested terrain marked by fierce ideological debates, eventually rendering educational reform a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Book Reviews, Censorship, Educational Change
Bosio, Emiliano; Torres, Carlos Alberto – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
This paper presents a remarkable conversation with Carlos Alberto Torres about Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in relation to research, teaching, and learning in the USA. Torres is a Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, UCLA and Founding Director of the Paulo Freire…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Theories, Global Approach, College Faculty
Peer reviewed
Torres, Carlos Alberto – Comparative Education, 2002
Examines political aspects of international aid to education in Latin America, focusing on drastic ideological changes in the widespread shift from the liberal to the neoliberal state. Analyzes dilemmas and tensions of external aid, touching on the World Bank's roles and elements of its lending processes, particularly research policies. Addresses…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Educational Policy, Ethics, Foreign Countries
Torres, Carlos Alberto; Tarozzi, Massimiliano – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
Multiculturalism burst in Asia with the winds of globalisation. Fuelled by immigration, cultural hybridity and normative regimes from multilateral and bilateral organisations, multiculturalism is a new challenge for Asian economies, their politics of culture and their higher education institutions. Moreover, although heavily implemented from the…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Learning Experience
Weldon, Peter A.; Rexhepi, Jevdet; Chang, ChenWei; Jones, Lauren; Layton, Lucas Arribas; Liu, Amy; McKibben, Susan; Misiaszek, Greg; Olmos, Liliana; Quon, Amy; Torres, Carlos Alberto – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
In this study, faculty at institutions of higher education in Southern California were surveyed to determine the ways they interpret the effects of globalization dynamics upon their various teaching and research activities. Faculty in the state's three higher education tiers spoke positively about the intellectual benefits to be gained by exposure…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Information Technology, College Faculty
Torres, Carlos Alberto – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
Any study linking terms such as global education, internationalization, and global citizenship facing the dilemmas of local and global tensions, invariably has to address the questions of globalizations and neoliberalism, two concepts and two global movements that define our time and age, the age of interdependence. Neoliberal globalization, as I…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Global Education, Citizenship Education, Competition
Torres, Carlos Alberto – 1983
Although education, as an activity mandated, sponsored, and supervised by the capitalist state, is as much an apparatus of the state as any other state agency, it is far more democratic, open to change and innovation, and subject to potential community control than any other state apparatus. To understand education's function in a capitalist…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Community Control, Democracy, Educational Innovation
Torres, Carlos Alberto – International Journal of Political Education, 1983
Argues that the development of the educational system in Latin America is strongly linked with patterns of accumulation of capital and with the changing character of political regimes. The low status of adult education is due to the socioeconomic characteristics of its potential clientele and their lack of political power. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Comparative Education
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Torres, Carlos Alberto; Fischman, Gustavo – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1994
Two popular education projects--El Refugio de Los Angeles for Latino immigrants and native popular education in Buenos Aires--demonstrate how, while developing literacy skills, participants engaged in political and social analysis of their living conditions. (SK)
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Literacy, Consciousness Raising, Critical Theory
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Arnove, Robert F.; Torres, Carlos Alberto – Comparative Education, 1995
Goals, content, methods, and outcomes of adult education differ according to state policy and characteristics of the political regime. In the 1980s, Mexico represented a "corporatist" state undertaking an incremental approach to literacy provision for purposes of political legitimation and social integration, while Nicaragua represented…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Capitalism, Comparative Education, Educational Policy
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Torres, Carlos Alberto; Schugurensky, Daniel – Comparative Education, 1994
Examines adult education models and the perceptions of 442 adult learners and 160 teachers in Canada, Mexico, and Tanzania. Despite major economic and political differences between countries, the Canadian "therapeutic model," Mexican "recruitment model," and Tanzanian "forced modernization model" of adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Comparative Education, Educational Philosophy
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