Going to School in Latin America

Silvina Gvirtz is director of the School of Education, Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires, researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, director of the annual publication of the Argentine Society for the History of Education, and a series editor at Granica Publishing. In 2003 she was a Guggenheim Fellow, in 2001 she was a visiting professor at the University of Liepzieg, Germany, and in 1999 she was a visiting professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She publishes in professional journals around the world in English and Spanish. Jason Beech is director of the BA in Education and professor, Univ. de San Andres, Buenos Aires. His PhD and MA are from the Institute of Education, University of London.