ABSTRACT
The introduction clarifies the principal objective pursued by the book: to explore the role attributed to education in the profound, structural or revolutionary transformation of Latin American societies during the third-quarter of the 20th century (also known as the revolutionary years of Latin America). It explains in detail that this object is achieved by studying the contributions of three of the most widely recognised left-wing Latin American intellectuals of that period: Iván Illich, Paulo Freire and Ernesto Guevara. And it points to the fact that the contributions of these intellectuals are studied in their context, in other words by understanding the questions, dialogues, challenges and struggles in which they would acquire meaning.
