"The emergence of a new radical student movement in Chile in the last decade makes this historical account of the origins of Chilean popular education very timely.[...]The book will form a valuable addition to the library of students interested in the history of radical or popular education and social movement learning, as well as to the fields of critical pedagogy, Latin American studies, and labor history."
-- Bob Boughton, University of New England, Australia, Adult Education Quarterly
"The author provides a nuanced, careful survey of Recabarrens intellectual development [] This excellent contribution is a worthwhile read for scholars and practitioners seeking lessons on the political education of the working-class, the role of the press as a tool for popular education, Marxist studies in adult education as well as adult education in Latin America."
-- Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar, Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren: Pioneering Working-Class Education in Latin America offers illuminating views about the fundamental educational role of the working-class press in the organization of the working class, amid the deplorable labor and life conditions of the workers in the context of the nitrate era in Chile. The organization of the working class in Chile unfolded in an international context where international socialism was gathering strength as an emancipatory economic alternative for society in its confrontation with capitalist exploitation, and it was traversed by a fervent proliferation of newspapers that allowed for debate, reflection, and consciousness awareness of class rights and of the presss educational role []. [It] brings back to the center stage Luis Emilio Recabarrens thought and ethics with respect to equality constituting a fundamental value to rethink politically and institutionally the aims and design of education.
-- Cristian Ceron Prieto, Pleyade
Maria Alicia Rueda has made an essential contribution to education and Marxist studies with the publication of The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren: Pioneering Working-Class Education in Latin America. By focusing on the early twentieth-century Chilean Marxist, the author showcases a lesser-known Communist leader and pioneer in working-class education. As the author states the book is not a biography, nor does it approach him as a great man but rather as an organic intellectual of the working class.
-- Gary Prevost, Postcolonial Directions in Education
"The emergence of a new radical student movement in Chile in the last decade makes this historical account of the origins of Chilean popular education very timely.[...]The book will form a valuable addition to the library of students interested in the history of radical or popular education and social movement learning, as well as to the fields of critical pedagogy, Latin American studies, and labor history."
-- Bob Boughton, University of New England, Australia, Adult Education Quarterly
"The author provides a nuanced, careful survey of Recabarrens intellectual development [] This excellent contribution is a worthwhile read for scholars and practitioners seeking lessons on the political education of the working-class, the role of the press as a tool for popular education, Marxist studies in adult education as well as adult education in Latin America."
-- Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar, Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren: Pioneering Working-Class Education in Latin America offers illuminating views about the fundamental educational role of the working-class press in the organization of the working class, amid the deplorable labor and life conditions of the workers in the context of the nitrate era in Chile. The organization of the working class in Chile unfolded in an international context where international socialism was gathering strength as an emancipatory economic alternative for society in its confrontation with capitalist exploitation, and it was traversed by a fervent proliferation of newspapers that allowed for debate, reflection, and consciousness awareness of class rights and of the presss educational role []. [It] brings back to the center stage Luis Emilio Recabarrens thought and ethics with respect to equality constituting a fundamental value to rethink politically and institutionally the aims and design of education.
-- Cristian Ceron Prieto, Pleyade
Maria Alicia Rueda has made an essential contribution to education and Marxist studies with the publication of The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren: Pioneering Working-Class Education in Latin America. By focusing on the early twentieth-century Chilean Marxist, the author showcases a lesser-known Communist leader and pioneer in working-class education. As the author states the book is not a biography, nor does it approach him as a great man but rather as an organic intellectual of the working class.
-- Gary Prevost, Postcolonial Directions in Education
