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Former Professor at the University of La Plata and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Argentina. His research deals with the sociology of education and the development process. Author of Educación y sociedad en Argentina (1971, reprinted 1979, 1981), Conceptos de sociología de la educación (1980, published in Portuguese in 1982) and El desafío educativo: calidad y democracia (1986).     

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The findings of the first section of this study clearly show that technical progress is not a major factor on which to base school reform, unless such reform is aimed merely at adapting the educational system to training requirements rooted in technical considerations.     

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It is no easy matter to map out in a few dozen pages all the recent technological and educational developments in the teaching of modern languages. Radical transformations have taken place in less than a quarter of a century and, thanks to the acceleration of technical progress, innovations have followed one another more and more rapidly in the last few years.