Carlos Torres

Carlos Alberto Torres

Moore Hall 2018
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

P: (310) 206-5791

W: https://www.pfigce.org/

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Curriculum Vitae

Carlos Alberto Torres

Distinguished Professor

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, 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 Edmonton, Canada (University of Alberta). He is also the Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute in São Paulo, Brazil with Paulo Freire; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and UCLA. Dr. Torres has been a Visiting Professor in universities in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He was the inaugural holder of the UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, Department of Education, UCLA (2016-2020), past President the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), 1997, past President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), 2013-2016.

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Titles and Positions

  • Director, UCLA Paulo Freire Institute

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

  • Killam Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Alberta (12/86-06/88)
  • National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship held at UCLA (1990-1992)
  • Two Fulbright fellowships
  • 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 in 2018.
  • Has received the ANAHEI (Association of North America Higher Education Internationa) ANAHEI Research Leadership Award – Global Issues, 2018.
  • Has been elected CIES Honorary Fellow (vested in San Francisco, in the CIES Annual Meeting of 2019).
  • Chair Professor, National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
  • Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada
  • Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences
  • Editor in Routledge/Taylor and Francis (New York) of a new series on Critical Global Citizenship Education, and editor jointly with Richard Van Heertum and Liliana Olmos of e-Books on Educating the Global Citizen, with Bentham Books.
  • Editor of The Wiley Handbook of Freire.
  • Editor of Global Commons Review (online) and Editor of Social Theory, Education and Cultural Change, Routledge, New York, and London.
  • Editor with Greg Misiaszek, of the new series Freire in Focus, London, Oxford, and New York, Bloomsbury.
  • Periodically writes op-ed pieces in the Huffingtonpost.com and other outlets.

Education

  • 12/86 – 6/88 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-Doctoral Scholarship. Department of Educational Foundations-Centre for International Education and Development (CIED).
  • 9/80-11/83 Stanford University, Stanford, California. Ph.D., International Development Education. Stanford International Development Education Committee (SIDEC), School of Education.
    Title of Ph.D. Dissertation: Educational policy formation and the Mexican corporatist state: a study of adult education policy and planning in Mexico (1970-1982)
  • 9/80-10/82 Stanford University, Stanford, California. M.A., Stanford International Development Education. Stanford International Development Education Committee (SIDEC), School of Education.
  • 10/76-6/78 Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO), Mexico City, Mexico. M.A., Political Science.
    Title of Master’s Dissertation: La Economía Política de Argentina: Análisis del proceso político y económico en la coyuntura argentina de 1973-1974
  • 3/73-12/74 Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Teaching Credential in Sociology, Faculty of Science Education and Social Communications.
  • 3/70-12/74 Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. B.A., Sociology, Faculty of Social Science with Distinction (honors diploma)

Select Publications

  • Carlos Alberto Torres, Education for Critical Consciousness and Deliberative Democracy:
    A Critical Reading of Paulo Freire’s Hermeneutic Contributions. Introduction to Paulo Freire, Education for Critical Consciousness. London Bloomsbury, (2021).
  • Carlos Alberto Torres, Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Critical Global Citizenship Education. New York, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2017. This book was published in the new Series of Routledge/Taylor and Francis New York, entitled Critical Global Citizenship Education. Carlos Alberto Torres is the Series Editor
  • Massimiliano Tarozzi and Carlos Alberto Torres, Global Citizenship Education and the Crisis of Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives. London & Oxford, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. Translated into Chinese by the Center for Global Citizenship Education, National Chiao Tung University (2019) Hsinchu, Taiwan. With a new preface for the Chinese edition.
  • Torres, Carlos Alberto. First Freire. Early Writings in Social Justice Education. New York, Teachers College Press, 2014. This book received the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education in 2015. Translation to Chinese by Pro-Ed Publishing Company, Taipei, Taiwan, 2017.
  • Torres, C. A., and R. Arnove, eds. Comparative Education: The Dialectics of the Global and the Local. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Second edition, 2003. Third edition, 2007. Fourth edition (with Robert Arnove and Stephen Franz), 2013, fifth edition with Robert Arnove and Lauren Misiaszek (in progress) Chinese translation (2010), Japanese translation (2014), Spanish translation (2014).
  • Torres, Carlos Alberto. Globalizations and Education. Collected Essays on Class, Race, Gender, and the State. Introduction by Michael W. Apple, Afterword by Pedro Demo. New York, and London: Teachers College Press-Columbia University, 2009. Italian translation, L’ Scola, Brescia, Italy, 2014. Spanish traslation by Tirant le Blanch, Valencia, Spain (2017).
  • Carlos Alberto Torres, ed. The Wiley Handbook of Paulo Freire. (Hoboken, NJ, Wiley Blackwell, 2019). 600 pages, 275,000 words, with 31 chapters and an introduction. (2019).
  • Torres, Carlos Alberto and Pedro Noguera, eds. Social Justice Education for Teachers. Paulo Freire and Education as a Possible Dream. The Hague, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers, 2009.
  • Robert Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres, eds. The University, State and Markets. The Political Economy of Globalization in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
  • Torres, C. A. Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism: Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Multicultural Society. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
    Armenian translation: The Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, Yerevan, Armenia, 2005.
    Chinese Translation: Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwanese Association for Sociology of Education, 2010.
    Italian Translation: Italy: Manuscript in negotiations with publishers.
    Korean Translation: Seoul, Korea: Seoul National University, in progress.
    Portuguese Translation: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Editora Voces, Persepolis, 2001.
    Spanish Translation: Mexico City, Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2001.
    Valencian translation: CREC, Xativa, 2002.
    Georgian translation: Georgia, 2011.