Education and other modes of thinking in Latin America - 9780367075767

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Education and other modes of thinking in Latin AmericaAuthor(s): Robert Aman, Timothy Ireland\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367075767, 978-0367075767\nSynopsis\nAfter long periods of military dictatorships, civil wars, and economic instability, Latin America has changed face, and become the foremost region for counter-hegemonic processes. This book seeks to address contemporary paradigms of education and learning in Latin America. Although the production of knowledge in the region has long been subject to imperial designs and disseminated through educational systems, recent interventions from liberation theology, popular education, and critical literacy to postcolonial critique and decolonial options have sought to shift the geography of reason. \n\nOver the last decades, several Latin American communities have countered this movement by forming some of the most dynamic and organised forms of resistance: fr.