Carlos Torres Professor Social Sciences and Comparative Education 2018 Moore Hall (310) 206 5791 torres@gseis.ucla.edu personal page

Education

Post-doctoral scholarship, Department of Educational Foundations, University of Alberta, Canada, 1988
Ph.D., International Development Education, Stanford University,1983
M.A., International Development Education, Stanford University, 1982
M.A., Political Science, Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO), 1978
Teaching Credential, Sociology, Faculty of Science Education and Social Communications, Universidad del Salvador, 1974
B. A., Sociology (honors diploma), Faculty of Social Science, Universidad del Salvador, 1974

Research Interests

The political sociology of education; the impact of globalization on K-12 and higher education; the intersection of area studies, ethnic studies, and comparative international education; the political seconomy of adult education; social theory; and the life and work of Paulo Freire

News

From 1995 to 2005 he served as Director of the UCLA Latin American Center, and continues as Director of the UCLA Paulo Freire Institute.

Recent Publications

Rhoads, Robert A. and Carlos Alberto Torres, eds. The Political Economy of Globalization: The University, The State and Market in the Americas. Stanford University Press, expected in September, 2005

Torres, Carlos Alberto. El Manuscrito de Sir Charles. (novel, "The Manuscript of Sir Charles") Lisbon, Don Quixote, 2005 (in Portuguese).

Torres, Carlos Alberto. Poesía perdida al atardecer. (book of poetry entitled "Poetry Lost at Sunset").Valencia, Spain, Set I Mid, Germania, 2004.

Torres, Carlos Alberto. Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte. (book of short stories entitled "Short Stories of Love, Madness and Death") Valencia, Spain, Deges, Colección Cantábrica, 2004.

Torres, C. A. and Ari Antikainen, Editors. The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education An International Assessment of New Research and Theory. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Torres, C. A., ed. Teoria Crítica e Sociologia Política da Educaçao. Translation by Maria Josá do Amaral Ferreira. Sao Paulo: Cortez: Instituto Paulo Freire, 2003

Morrow, R., and C. A. Torres. Reading Freire and Habermas: Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Social Change. Teachers' College Press, Columbia University, NY. 2002

Arnove, R. and C. A. Torres, eds. Comparative Education: The Dialectics of the Global and the Local. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Second edition, 2003. Third edition in press.

Torres, C. A. with A. Antikainen. International Handbook on Sociology of Education. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD. 2003

Torres, C. A. Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism: Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Valenciano. Chinese translation in press; Korean, Armenian, and Italian translations in progress.

Links

International Baccalaureate World Magazine (article)