The State, Literacy, and Popular Education in Chile, 1964-1990

by Robert Austin

The popular education and adult literacy movements in Chile have historically represented competing paths toward a literate society: one born and nurtured through bitter nineteenth-century labor struggles, the other a compensatory effort by the modern state to limit the political potential of literacy. Robert Austin's book explores the contest between the state and popular education in three paradigmatic Latin American regimes: that of Eduardo Frei...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739102885
• ISBN13: 9780739102886
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"