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The Institutionalization of Education in Latin America: Loci of Attraction and Mechanisms of Diffusion

The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Institutional Theory

ISBN: 978-0-76231-308-2, eISBN: 978-1-84950-409-6

Publication date: 17 July 2006

Abstract

I suggest in this section that throughout their formation processes, Argentine and Brazilian educational systems have been subject to similar influences. However, it will also be suggested that these influences have been interpreted differently, resulting in particular patterns in each of these systems, since “Educational ideas do not just migrate; in speaking to different cultural histories and conditions they also change” (Alexander, 2000). Thus, in this section Argentine and Brazilian systems of education will be analyzed as contexts of reception and adaptation of two major international influences: Positivism and The New Education Movement.

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Beech, J. (2006), "The Institutionalization of Education in Latin America: Loci of Attraction and Mechanisms of Diffusion", Baker, D.P. and Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Institutional Theory (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 281-303. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3679(06)07012-5

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