Enseñanza secundaria, clases sociales y relaciones internacionales en los países del tercer Mundo desde 1945 Authors Ettore Gelpi Abstract Secondary Education, Social Classes and International Relations in the counties of the Third World from 1945. In view of the economic, labour and information dependence Third World countries have on the developed nations, the author affirms that even today there exist conditions which have a negative influence on extended secondary education in the countries of the South (Africa, Latin America, Asia). In spite of the efforts of these countries to conserve their language and culture, a neo-colonialist process is underway which restricts the possibilities of real linguistic pluralism. Furthermore, apart from the language problem, difficulties of integration into the workplace, the exploitation of child labour and unemployment amongst the more highly qualified are just some of the challenges facing secondary education in the Third World which are being debated on the international stage, moreover, in the midst of a conflict of political and social interests. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2005-10-21 Issue No. 3: 1997-1998 Section Secondary Education since 1945 License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.