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Carlos Alberto Torres

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Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor, and former Director of the UCLA-Latin American Center, is a political sociologist of education who did his undergraduate work in sociology in Buenos Aires, Argentina (B.A. honors and teaching credential in Sociology, Jesuit Universidad del Salvador), his graduate work in Mexico (M.A. in Political Science, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO) and the United States (M.A. and Ph.D. in International Development Education, Stanford University), and post-doctoral studies in educational foundations in University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (1986-88), and a Spencer post-doctoral Fellowship at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA (1990-92). He is also the Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute in São Paulo, Brazil with Paulo Freire (1992); Buenos Aires, Argentina (2003); and UCLA (2002). 

Dr. Torres has been a Visiting Professor in universities in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has received three Fulbright fellowships. He is the inaugural holder of the UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, Department of Education, UCLA (2016-2024; 2024-2028), past President the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 1997; past President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), 2013-2016.

He received on October 25, 2016 the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal. Has been nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education (see http://brockprize.org/nominees2018). Has received the ANAHEI- Association of North America Higher Education International-- ANAHEI Research Leadership Award - Global Issues, 2018. Has been elected CIES Honorary Fellow (vested in San Francisco, in the CIES Annual Meeting of 2019).

Member of the International Relations Committee of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2018-2021, and Chair Professor, National Chiao Tung University, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, (2016-2020). Expert Team, Misk Foundation (Saudi Arabia); Advisory Board Member, Sustainable Development Goals Online Site, Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Member of the International Committee, UCLA Academic Senate.

Áreas de interesse académico e científico Areas of academic and scientific interest

  • Political Sociology of Education
  • Global Citizenship Education
  • Political Philosophy of Education
  • International and Comparative Education

Publicações Selecionadas Selected Publications

  • Torres, C. A., Misiaszek, L.I., & R. Arnove (2022). Comparative Education: The Dialectics of the Global and the Local (5th edition). Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Misiaszek, L.I., Arnove, R.F., & Torres, C. A. (2023). Emergent Trends in Comparative Education: The Dialectics of the Global and the Local. Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Torres, C. A., (2017). Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Critical Global Citizenship Education. Routledge/Taylor and Francis. 
  • Tarozzi, M., & and Torres, C. A. (2016). Global Citizenship Education and the Crisis of Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives. London & Oxford, Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Torres, C. A., (2014). First Freire: Early Writings in Social Justice Education (Multicultural Education Series). New York, Teachers College Press. This book received the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education in 2015.