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.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Educational Reform, Modernization and Development: A Cold War Transnational Process
Óscar J. Martín García and Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla
Chapter 2. U.S. Assistance to Educational Reform in Spain: Soft Power in Exchange for Military Bases
Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla and Patricia de la Hoz Pascua
Chapter 3. Forerunners of Change? The Ford Foundation’s Activities in Francoist Spain
Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez
Chapter 4. Educational Transfer and Local Actors: International Intervention in Spain during the late Franco Period
Mariano González-Delgado and Tamar Groves
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
Chapter 6. US Foreign Policy toward Spanish Students. Youth Diplomacy, Modernization and Educational Reform
Óscar J. Martín García
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
Chapter 8. “Passing Through a Critical Moment”: The United States and Brazilian University Reform in the 1960s
Colin M. Snider
Chapter 9. Between the Eagle and the Condor: The Ford Foundation and the Modernization of the University of Chile, 1965–1975
Fernando Quesada
Chapter 10. Between Modernization and University Reform (1957–1973): Technical Assistance from UNESCO to the University of Concepción
Anabella Abarzúa Cutroni
About the author
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.
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