Latin American Scholars of Comparative Education

Jason Beech is an associate professor in Global Policies in Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne and a visiting professor at Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, where he holds a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Chair in Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship.Cristina Alarcón López is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Education, University of Vienna, Austria.

• 1 – The development of comparative education in Latin America: biographies, histories, and transnational forcesPart 1: Travellers and reformers2 - Simón Rodríguez, Venezuela: 1771–1854 3 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentina: 1811–1888 4 - José Pedro Varela, Uruguay: 1845–1979 5 - Valentín Letelier, Chile: 1852–1919 Part 2: Progressive scholars and reformers who compare6 - Amanda Labarca Huberston, Chile: 1887–19757 - Lourenço Filho, Brasíl: 1897–1970 8 - Francisco Larroyo, México: 1912–19819 - Anísio Teixeira, Brazil: 1900–1971 Part 3: Expert Comparativists connected to International Organisations10 - Gregorio Weinberg, Argentina: 1919–2006 11 - Ángel Diego Márquez, Argentina: 1923–2001 12 - Cecilia Braslavsky, Argentina: 1952–2005 13 - Juan Carlos Tedesco, Argentina: 1944–2017

"This book of essays on Latin American comparativists of education is quite simply a wonderful read from beginning to end. Refreshing in its focus on leading comparativists as scholars, public intellectuals and political activists, compelling in its framing of their engagement with, and advancement of, a revolutionary tradition in the region, and insightful in being able to point to comparison as method, mode of reflection, and act of contemplation. This book advances comparative education scholarship in new and significant ways."Susan L. Robertson, 2024-2025 CIES President, University of Cambridge, UK"Latin American Scholars of Comparative Education is a groundbreaking book reclaiming the overlooked contributions of 12 Latin American forceful intellectuals who framed educational perspectives, systems and policies in the region and beyond. Spanning two centuries and interweaving individual stories of influential thinkers and doers within the broader tapestry of Latin American educational histories, this book not only fills a critical gap in the historiography of comparative education but also overcomes significant shortcomings of the field's traditional Anglo-American centrism."Gustavo E. Fischman, Professor & Director Scholarly Communications Group, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College/Arizona State University, US"This volume, excellently edited by two outstanding representatives of comparative education, makes a significant contribution to a deeper understanding of this field of research. The twelve biographies of Latin American scholars of comparative education included in the volume, written by a clever selection of experts, show the wonderful complexity of this field of research, which becomes visible when the essence of comparative education itself is not dictated by a cultural area, but itself reconstructed historically and comparatively. This timely volume has achieved this in an impressive way."Prof. Daniel Tröhler, University of Vienna, Austria