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CARLOS TORRES

About Carlos Torres

Professor
Social Sciences and Comparative Education
Director, UCLA Latin American Center

 

Books

Democracy, Education and Multiculturalism: Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World. (Lahman,Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield). (in press)

Critical Social Theory and Education: Freire, Habermas and the Dialogical Subject. (New York,Teachers College Press-Columbia University).  Raymond A. Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres (in press)

Sociology of Education: Emerging Perspectives. [Albany, New York: State University of New York Press].  Torres, C. A and Ted Mitchell (editors) (in press)

Education, Power, and Personal Biography. Dialogues with Critical Educators. (Including Michael Apple, Samuel Bowles, Martin Carnoy, Paulo Freire, Herbert Gintis, Henry Giroux, Maxine Green, Gloria Lanson-Billings, Henry Levin, Jeannie Oakes, and Geoff Whitty ). [New York, New York: Routledge]. (1998)

Democracy and Education. Paulo Freire, Social Movements and Educational Reform in SãoPaulo. [Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press].   O'Cadiz, Pilar, Carlos Alberto Torres and Pia Linquist Wong (1998)

Pedagogia da Luta. De la Pedagogia do Oprimido a la Educação Pública Popular. [São Paulo, Brazil: Instituto Paulo Freire and Cortez Editor].  (1997)

Latin American Education: Comparative Perspectives. [Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press]. Torres, C.A. and Adriana Puiggrós (editors), (1997)

Las Secretas Aventuras del Orden. Estado y Educación. [Buenos Aires, Argentina: Miño y Davila Editores]. (1996)

Estado e Educação. [São Paulo, Brazil: Instituto Paulo Freire and Cortez Editor].   (1995)

Social Theory and Education. A Critique of Theories of Social and Cultural Reproduction. [Albany, New York: State University of New York Press]. Morrow, R. A. and C.A.Torres (1995) Traslation in Portuguese,Afrontamento Edicões, Porto, Portugal, 1997.

Estudios Freireanos. [Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones del Quirquincho].  (1994)

Education and Social Change in Latin America. [Melbourne, Australia: James Nicholas Publisher].  (Edidtor, 1994)
 


Editor of Special Issues of Research Journals:

Torres, C. A. & A. Alcántara Santuario, (1995) (Guest Editors) "Educación Superior en América Latina" [Higher Education in Latin America]. Special issue of Perfiles Educativos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de M/xico; July-September 1995, No. 69; October-December 1995, No. 70.
 


Other Publications:

Education, policy and change: Experiences from Latin America (Editor, with D. A. Morales-Gómez). Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1992.

The Church, Society and Hegemony. A Critical Sociology of Religion in Latin America (translated by R. A. Young).  Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1992.

From the "Pedagogy of the oppressed" to "A luta continua": The political pedagogy of Paulo Freire. In P. McLaren and P. Leonard (Eds.), Paulo Freire: A critical encounter. London: Routledge, 1992.

The politics of nonformal education in Latin America. New York: Praeger, 1990.

The state, corporatist politics and educational policy making in Mexico (with D. A. Morales-Gomez). New York: Praeger, 1990.
 

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Web Sites

http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/pages/torres.html

 

How to Contact Carlos Torres

torres@gseis.ucla.edu

 

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