Carlos Alberto Torres
  • President of WCCES
    • Letter
    • Vision for WCCES
      • English – Vision
      • Spanish – Vision
      • Portuguese – Vision
      • French – Vision
    • Short Bio
      • English – Short Bio
      • Portuguese – Short Bio
      • Spanish – Short Bio
    • Research Agenda
    • Application – Presidency
  • Curriculum Vitae
    • Overview
    • Research Agenda
    • Education
    • Publications
    • Academic/Professional
    • Part-Time Teaching
    • Fellowships/Grants
    • Audio-Visuals
    • Meetings/Congresses
    • Associations – Editing
    • Consulting
    • Honors – Languages
    • PDF formatted CV
  • UCLA
    • School of Education
    • Comparative/Intl. Ed.
    • Associate Dean
    • Distinguished Professor
    • Research Apprenticeship
    • Carlos’ UCLA webpage
    • Contact Information
  • Books/Media
    • New Book: First Freire
    • SangSaeng Spring Issue 2015
    • English
    • Spanish
    • Portuguese
    • other languages
    • Fiction & Poetry
    • Huffington Post
    • truth-out.org
  • Paulo Freire
    • Freire’s Letter on Carlos
    • Invitation as Advisor
    • Paulo and Carlos
    • Institute – São Paulo
    • Institute – UCLA
    • Institute – UK
  • Awards
    • Mexican Academy of Sciences
    • Royal Society – Canada
    • Sudikoff Family Institute
    • Top 20 in California
    • Distinguished Teaching
  • Gardening
  • Woodworking
    • Woodwork Projects
    • Workshop
  • – Video Documentary –
    • Part 1: Introduction
    • Part 2: Political/Socio Ed
    • Part 3: Critical Topics
  • Other Videos
    • Keynote: University of British Columbia 5/12/15
    • CSSE Plenary: Global Citizenship Ed.

Overview

Carlos Alberto Torres, Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education, and former Director of the UCLA-Latin American Center, is a political sociologist of education who did his undergraduate work in sociology in Argentina (B.A. honors and teaching credential in Sociology, Universidad del Salvador), his graduate work in Mexico (M.A. in Political Science, FLACSO) and the United States (M.A. and Ph.D. in International Development Education, Stanford University), and post-doctoral studies in educational foundations in Canada (University of Alberta). He is also the Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute in São Paulo, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and UCLA. Dr. Torres has been a Visiting Professor in universities in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has lectured throughout Latin America and the United States, and in universities in England, Japan, Italy, Spain, Tanzania, Finland, Mozambique, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, Portugal, Taiwan, Korea, Sweden and South Africa.

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