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Research Areas

Research interests focus on education policies and practices in Latin America and political sociology of adult education. Dr. Torres has conducted a variety of studies of education policies and programs in Tanzania, Mozambique, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, including investigations on cognitive, social and political returns of literacy training, and state policies as compensatory legitimation. Other policy research has focused on issues of equality, equity and efficiency of educational provision in America, including elementary, secondary and higher education. Dr. Torres' theoretical and empirical research has resulted in the development of a political sociology of nonformal education with a particular focus on state's policies in Latin America and industrialized countries. Most recent research extends to comparison with Pacific Rim Countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Mexico.

Fellowships and Grants

Spencer Foundation. Teachers' Unions and the State: Value Conflicts and Collaborative Strategies in Educational Reform in Japan, Korea, Mexico, United States, Canada, and Argentina. Principal Investigator.
Tenure: 7/00-7/01 $29,000

Hewlett, William & Flora Foundation. Democracy and Social Policies: Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. Principal Investigator
Tenure 6/99-6/00 $200,000.00

Title VI, U.S. Department of Education, Latin American Latin American National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Principal Investigator.
Tenure 6/98-6/00 $ 608.544

Funding for support research and teaching in Latin American issues. Title VI, U.S. Department of Education, Funding for support research and teaching in Latin American issues Principal Investigator.
Tenure 6/95-6/98 $ 252,577

Pacific Basin Research Center-SOKA University, Principal Investigator Research Project on Teacher Unions and the State in Argentina, Mexico, Canada, United States, Korea and Japan: A Focus on Values. Principal Investigator
Tenure 6/97-6/99 $157,000

Hewlett, William & Flora Foundation. Decentralization and Privatization in the New Latin American Democracies. Principal Investigator Tenure 6/98-6/99 $100,000.00

Ford Foundation. Culture and Globalization in North America: 21st Century Challenges. Principal Investigator.
Tenure 6/98-6/02 $94,500.00

Tinker Foundation. Institutional Research Grant. Principal Investigator
Tenure 6/97-6/00 $15,000.00

Pacific Rim Center, University of California, Principal Investigator, Research Project on Teachers Union and the State in the Pacific Rim.
Tenure 6/97-6/98 $25,000

Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIFSE), U.S. Department of Education, Project "Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education", Academic and Exchange Program for graduate students in the US, Canada, and Mexico to study the implications of NAFTA. Directors Professor Carlos Alberto Torres, Latin American Center, and Professor José Ramon de la Torre, Center for International Business and Research (CIBER).
Tenure 6/95-6/98 $150,000

North-South Center, Project "Teachers Unions and the State in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico: Conflict or Consensus?."
Tenure 7/95-6/96.$13,500

California Council for the Humanities, Principal Investigator for the development of a script for a documentary film titled "The Transforming Spirit: The Pentecostal Movement in Hispanic Los Angeles."
Tenure 1996-1997. $12,000

Secretariat of Public Education, Mexico City, and Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales-UNAM, Mexico. "Teachers Unions and the State in Mexico."
Tenure 12/94-12/96. $30,000

UCLA-Academic Senate Research Award. Project "Teachers Unions and the State in Latin America: Conflict or Consensus?."
Tenure 7/94-6/95.$2,000

UCLA-Academic Senate Research Award. Project "Structural Adjustment and Educational Policies in Latin America".
Tenure 7/93-6/94. $2,000


	UCLA-Academic Development. Career Development Award. Tenure: 1991-1992. $2,500 UCLA-International Studies and Overseas Programs (ISOP) Small Grants. Project "Paulo Freire's Pedagogy and Nonformal Education Policy Implementation in São Paulo". Tenure 9/91-6/92.$3,500 UCLA-Academic Senate Research Award. Project "Nonformal Education Policy Implementation in São Paulo, Brazil". Tenure 11/90-6/91.$2,500 UCLA-Latin American Center Research Grant. Project "Literacy Training Campaign (MOVA-Sao Paulo): A Study of Policy Planning, Implementation and Lerners' Outcomes". Tenure 7/90-6/91.$3,000 National Academy Education Spencer Fellowship. Research on "Freire�s Pedagogy and Literacy Training in Brazil: A Policy Study of the Literacy Training Campaign (NOVA) in the City of São Paulo, Brazil.". Tenure 6/90-6/92 $ 30,000 Central Research Fund-University of Alberta. Research project on MOVA-São Paulo Literacy Movement. Tenure 9/89-3/90 $3,000 SAS-Faculty of Education Grant-University of Alberta. Research project on Critical Pedagogy. Tenure 1/89-3/90 $3,000 FSIDA Grant-Vice-President for International Development. University of Alberta, collaborative research project in Argentina, Tenure 1989. $2,000 Central Research Fund-University of Alberta. Political Pedagogy. Tenure 9/87-9/88. $2,500 International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Grant Ottawa, Canada, for a "Comparative Study of Adult Education in Tanzania, Mexico and The Province of Alberta, Canada." International Coordinator of the Research Project; Co-Director of the Research in Canada and Principal Investigator. Tenure 10/87-4/90 $225,000 Fulbright Grant-Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIED): Teaching at World College West, Petaluma, California, September-December 1986. National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), Mexico. Research grant on "The Profile and Scientific Productivity of Graduates from M.A. Programs in Social Science" Director of the research project. Tenure: 9/84-12/85. $15,000 National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), Research Grant to on "Adult Education and Urban Labor Markets in Mexico" (Flacso-Conacyt PCEDCNA-021619). Director of the research project. Tenure 5/85-5/87. $30,000 Latin American Studies, Stanford University Faculty/Students Field Research Summer Grants for research in Nicaragua, April 1983. Center for Research in International Studies (CRIS), Stanford University, Summer research grant, Ph.D. dissertation, 1982. Inter-American Foundation (IAF), Ph.D. Fellowship in Latin American Studies, academic year of 1982-83. Organization of American States (OAS), PRA-Fellowship, 1980-1982, for Ph.D. studies at Stanford University. Stanford University, Ph.D. Fellowship, 1980-1981. National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), Mexico, Ph.D. Fellowship for pursuing a M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Interantional Development Education, Stanford University, 1980-1984. The Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO). Graduate Fellowship for graduate studies in political science (M.A. Political Science), Mexico City, 10/76-6/78.