Year: 1985
Type: article
Abstract: Numerous events corroborate the view of the Latin American university as a highly politicized institution.The Cordoba university reform movement of 1918, the students' role in the overthrow of dictatorships in the 1920s and 1930s, and the Tlatelolco tragedy of 1968 in Mexico, to mention only some of the major events of the twentieth century, all underscore what seems to be a pattern of political unrest in the region's institutions of higher learning.Particularly during the 1960s, vigorous scholarly attention brought this pattern to the status of a predominant view.The Latin American university is, by almost all accounts, largely political in nature. 1 Although the volumes under review concentrate on the most political aspects of the Latin American university, it would be deceptive to conclude from them that this perspective will remain prevalent.
Source: Latin American Research Review
Author: Iván Jaksić
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4312435973