Contents

pp vii-viii

Series Editor Preface

pp ix-ix

List of Figures and Tables

pp x-xi

Notes on Contributors

pp xii-xix

Preface

pp xx-xxii

PART I - Introduction, Context, and Framework

pp 1-2

1 - Neglect of Central America and the Latin Caribbean

pp 3-22

2 - The Political Economy of Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean: Regional Dynamics and a Framework for Analysis

pp 23-42

PART II - Central America

pp 43-44

3 - Comparative Analysis of Education Reform in Central America: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, 1990– 2010

pp 45-77

4 - Deconcentration of Education in Honduras: Restriction and Ritualization of a Chimeric Reform

pp 78-97

5 - Locally Driven Innovation Through Teacher Peer Mentoring in Times of COVID-19: A Professional Learning Community in Rural El Salvador

pp 98-117

6 - Learning Convivencia at School: Lessons on Peaceful Coexistence Policy Enactment from El Salvador

pp 118-139

7 - When Schools Become Gang Turf: Schools and Government-Sponsored Prevention Programmes in El Salvador

pp 140-160

8 - Bridging the Curricular Divide: Open Educational Resources and the Digitization of Guatemala’s National Basic Curriculum

pp 161-185

9 - Balancing Global Education Policy and Inclusive Education in Costa Rica: Capitalist Pressures, Social-Democratic Tendencies, and Technological Responses

pp 186-205

10 - Edtech and Equity in Panama: Mobile Technology for Levelling the Learning Playing Field

pp 206-229

11 - Education as an Antidote to Underdevelopment, and the Epistemicide That It Has Entailed

pp 230-250

PART III - The Latin Caribbean

pp 251-252

12 - The Impact of the Opening of the Market Economy on Education and Teachers in Cuba: An Analysis of the Special Period

pp 253-272

13 - Contrasting Trends of Low-Fee Private Schools in the Dominican Republic and Honduras: Dialectical Relationships and the Ethos of Privatization

pp 273-291

14 - Educational Policies on Gender Perspective in Puerto Rico in the Face of the Transnational Anti-Gender Crusade

pp 292-312

PART IV - Conclusions and Future Directions

pp 313-314

15 - The Dialectics of Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean

pp 315-345

16 - Whither Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean? Dialectical Reflections, Decolonial Options

pp 346-354

Index

pp 355-357