[Interpretationandmethods] Neoliberalism & Higher Education Reforms in Latin America

[Guillermina Seri]

Dear Viviana,

As far as I know, there is a substantial body of research on the impact of
neoliberalism on higher education reforms developed at least in Argentina
(and Mexico, I guess, but I'm just familiarized with Argentina).
Interestingly enough, interpretive and discourse-analysis approaches (mostly
the latter) have been privileged by these researchers.
The first big name that comes to my mind is Adriana Puiggros and the
research teams she coordinated for years (at least) in the Departments of
Education at UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and UNER (Universidad
Nacional de Entre Rios). During the 1990s, both Ernesto Laclau and Jacques
Ranciere (among others, this is just to give you a sense of the
perspective) taught seminars sponsored by those Departments, and I remember
having attended lectures by researchers from UNAM (Universidad Autonoma de
Mexico) (Alicia Gracia?) (I guess, the University of Campinas, in Brazil,
also participated, as well as the Universidad de la Republica from Uruguay,
but...as this is not my field, I'm just not sure).

For several years, UNER hosted a Master's Program in Education designed
along these lines (so, there should be interesting Theses to explore), and
they now offer a Doctoral Program.

I'd look for books written and edited by Puiggros... The journals *Desarrollo
Economico *and *Realidad Economica *should have published some articles on
the subject.

In Entre Rios, Silvia Dosba de Duluc is a name that comes to my mind as
someone you may want to contact... She was involved in all of the seminars
and teams I mentioned before.
 Unfortunately, I don't have their e-mail addresses, but you could write to

Facultad de Ciencias de la Educacion - UNER:
http://www.fcedu.uner.edu.ar/index.html
(At the UBA, Ciencias de la Educacion is included under Filosofia y Letras),
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA: postmaster at filo.uba.ar

FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) is a prolific
institution; yet, if I'm not mistaken, their research on high education
reforms was more a) economic oriented and quantitative, and b) supportive of
Neoliberalism, at times in the antipodes of the people I mentioned
before...

Finally, the Argentine site Educ.ar (
http://www.educ.ar/educar/site/educar/index.html) used to contain tons of
books and research reports; you may want to see what's going on in there...

Hope this helps.

Best regards


 Guillermina Seri
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
105 Social Sciences Building
Union College
807 Union St., Schenectady, NY, 12308
serig at union.edu
(518) 388-8330
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