Teaching Modernization: Spanish and Latin American Educational Reform in the Cold War

Published by Berghahn Books 2019

Teaching Modernization

Spanish and Latin American Educational Reform in the Cold War

Edited by: Óscar J. Martín García and Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla

Volume 6 in the series Studies in Latin American and Spanish History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789205466

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In the 1960s and 1970s, the educational systems in Spain and Latin America underwent comprehensive and ambitious reforms that took place amid a "revolution of expectations" arising from decolonization, global student protests, and the antagonism between capitalist and communist models of development. Deploying new archival research and innovative perspectives, the contributions to this volume examine the influence of transnational forces during the cultural Cold War. They shed new light on the roles played by the United States, non-state actors, international organizations and theories of modernization and human capital in educational reform efforts in the developing Hispanic world.

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Óscar J. Martín García is currently a tenure-track researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. His research has focused mainly on social movement and democratization studies and international Cold War history. He has authored two monographs, co-edited the collection Machineries of Persuasion: European Soft Power and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War, and published various articles in journals such as Cold War History, International History Review, Contemporary European History and Democratization, among others.

Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla is currently a Senior Scientific Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid, Spain. He has extensively researched Spanish foreign policy in the twentieth century, American public diplomacy, and the educational, scientific and military assistance of the United States towards Spain. He has published his research in leading academic journals and is the author or editor of several books on these subjects, such as Westerly Wind. The Fulbright Program in Spain, US Public Diplomacy and Democratization in Spain: Selling Democracy?, and La apertura internacional de España. Entre el franquismo y la democracia (1953-1986).

Óscar J. Martín García is currently a tenure-track researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. His research has focused mainly on social movement and democratization studies and international Cold War history. He has authored two monographs, co-edited the collection Machineries of Persuasion: European Soft Power and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War, and published various articles in journals such as Cold War History, International History Review, Contemporary European History and Democratization, among others.

Reviews

“Teaching Modernization fills a gap in Cold War scholarship by examining the impact of US modernization theory and developmentalist thinking on educational reform in Hispanic countries. The coherent contributions to this volume, based on thorough research and new archival material, give original accounts of the intricacies of US intellectual, political and financial support for educational reform.” • Tobias Rupprecht, University of Exeter

“This interesting study provides an in-depth analysis of educational reform in Spain and Latin America by interpreting educational reform within the wider context of modernization during the 1950s and 1960s. In particular, it traces the efforts of the United States to promote global policies that would lead to economic growth, social stability, and a rejection of communist alternatives.” • Giles Scott-Smith, Leiden University

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Chapter 1 Educational Reform, Modernization, and Development: A Cold War Transnational Process Óscar J. Martín García and Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 US Assistance to Educational Reform in Spain: Soft Power in Exchange for Military Bases Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla and Patricia de la Hoz Pascua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter 3 Forerunners of Change? The Ford Foundation’s Activities in Francoist Spain Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter 4 Educational Transfer and Local Actors: International Intervention in Spain during the Late Franco Period Mariano González-Delgado and Tamar Groves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 5 Much Ado about Nothing? Lights and Shadows of the World Bank’s Support of Spanish Aspirations to Educational Modernization (1968–1972) David Corrales Morales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 6 US Foreign Policy toward Spanish Students: Youth Diplomacy, Modernization, and Educational Reform Óscar J. Martín García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter 7 How a Cold War Education Project Backfired: Modernization Theory, the Alliance for Progress, and the 1968 Education Reform in El Salvador Héctor Lindo-Fuentes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter 8 “Passing through a Critical Moment”: The United States and Brazilian University Reform in the 1960s Colin M. Snider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Chapter 9 Between the Eagle and the Condor: The Ford Foundation and the Modernization of the University of Chile (1965–1975) Fernando Quesada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter 10 Between Modernization and University Reform (1957–1973): Technical Assistance from UNESCO to the University of Concepción Anabella Abarzúa Cutroni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265