Educational Background
B.A. in Sociology with teaching
credentials, Universidad del Salvador, Argentina (1974)
M.A. in
Political Science, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Mexico (1978)
M.A. in
International Development Education, Stanford University, Unites States (1982)
Ph.D. in
International Development Education, Stanford University, United States (1983)
Post-doctoral
studies in Education Foundations, University of Alberta, Canada (1988)
Professional Background
Professor of Social Sciences and
Comparative Education, UCLA,1990-present
- Professor and Director of the UCLA Latin American Center (1995-2005)
- Director of the Paulo Freire Institute (2002-present)
- Chair of the Commission on Education and Society of the Latin American
Council of Social Sciences (1998-2003)
Division
Head of the Social Sciences and Comparative Education, Department of Education,
UCLA (1994-1995)
Assistant
Dean for Student Affairs, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies,
UCLA (1992-1995)
Chair of
Comparative and Topical Programs, Latin American Center, UCLA (1991-1994)
Visiting
Professor, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Adult
Education, Toronto (1988-1989)
Assistant
Professor, Department of Educational Foundations, University of Alberta
(1988-1990)
Affiliations (associations, organizations, institutions)
Comparative and International
Education Society (CIES)
World
Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES)
American
Educational Research Association (AERA)
Asociación
Latinoamericana de Sociología (ALAS)
International
Political Science Association (IPSA)
Selected Publications
Torres, C.A. (in process). The
Political sociology of education: Collected works. New York. Teachers
College Press. [many of Torres' most notable works]
Herrea,
L. & Torres, C.A. (Eds.). (2006). Cultures of Arab schooling:
Critical ethnographies from Egypt. New York. Suny Press.
Torres,
C.A. (2005). La praxis educativa y la educación cultural liberadora de
Paulo Freire. Xátiva, Valencia. Institute Paulo Freire D'Espanya.
Torres,
C.A. & Morrow, R. (1999). Social theory and education: A critique
of theories of social and cultural reproduction. Albany. State University
of New York Press.
Torres,
C.A. (1998). Democracy, education, and multiculturalism: Dilemmas of
citizenship in a global world. Lanham. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Inc.
Created: 8/21/2008
Updated: 8/21/2008
Contributed By: Renée Timberlake, Loyola University Chicago