Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 248
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-0-8420-2489-1 • Hardback • August 1997 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-0-8420-2490-7 • Paperback • August 1997 • $39.00 • (£30.00)
John A. Britton is professor of history at Francis Marion University.
Part 1 I The Colonial Legacy and the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 2 In Search of Deference: Education and Civic Formation in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
Chapter 3 Children and Schooling in Guanajuato, Mexico, 1790-1840
Part 4 II Universities in Ferment
Chapter 5 The Popular Universities and the Origins of Aprismo, 1921-1924
Chapter 6 The Great Conflict
Part 7 III Revolution
Part 8 The Roots of Revolution
Chapter 9 The Satiric Penny Press for Workers in Mexico, 1900-1910: A Case Study in the Politicization of Popular culture
Chapter 10 What is Sandinismo?
Part 11 Revolutionary Governments and Social Change
Chapter 12 The Educational Project of the Mexican Revolution: The Response of Local Societies (1934-1940)
Chapter 13 God and Revolution: Protestant Missions in Revolutionary Guatemala, 1944-1954
Chapter 14 Educatoin for Peròn
Chapter 15 Pro-Communist Revolution in Cuban Education
Part 16 IV Problems of Institutionalization
Part 17 The Challenges of Bureaucratization and Centralization
Chapter 18 Paulo Freire—Philospher of Adult Education
Chapter 19 Animating Grassroots Development: Women's Popular Education in Bolivia
Part 20 The Impact of International Institutions: Ideas and Images from Abroad
Chapter 21 The Americanization of Latin American Television
Chapter 22 The Projection of a Faborable American Image in Brazil
Chapter 23 Autonomy versus Foreign Influence: Mexican Education Policy and UNESCO
In an era where education is considered as a possible solution to many of Latin America's woes, John Britton's Molding the Hearts and Minds is timely and informative. The essays are deftly selected and balanced historically, geographically, and theoretically.
— Roderic Ai Camp, Philip McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College
With this imaginatively chosen collection, John Britton has provided a coherent and tantalizing glimpse of the character and development of education in 19th and 20th century Latin America and its relationship to social change. The reader will find this a felicitous working tool, in or out of the classroom, for the study of the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Latin America.
— Charles W. Macune, Jr., California State University, Northridge
Britton has assembled a provocative set of readings on a highly significant topic. Most of the contributions are well written and thoroughly researched . . . a useful book for anyone interested in social change in Latin America.
— Hispanic American Historical Review