Educational Reform and Administrative Development: The Cases of Colombia and Venezuela
Author: E. Mark Hanson
Publisher: Hoover Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780817982638
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Education and Cultural Differences
Author: Douglas Ray
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-04-28
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1351812157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1992, this book looks at the interaction between ideals and reality, with the focus upon social inequality and education in modern society, as well as the possibilities for education to lessen the related problems. The essays in this volume examine three forms of inequality in global society: aboriginal societies in modern industrial states; long-established communities that have been denied full status; and differences arising from recent population migrations. In doing so, it considers how education might support the efforts of all members of society to pursue the goal of equal status for all.
Decentralization of Education
Author: Ketleen Florestal
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780821339336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn practice, most education systems have both centralized and decentralized elements. Planners involved in a decentralizing reform must identify which components of the system are more appropriately managed at the central level and which at the local level. This book is intended to inform education policymakers, planners, and practitioners about international experience in the legal aspects of decentralizing basic education. It also provides a basic understanding of how laws and regulations can be used for education reform. For purposes of the discussion, decentralization is used to describe efforts to transfer decision making power in basic education from the administrative center of a country to authorities closer to users. The term is also used in a more technical sense to describe one of the many forms this type of reform can take, and in this sense it is contrasted with deconcentration and devolution as educational reforms. The first section examines the general legal aspects of decentralization, and the second looks more closely at decentralization laws and regulations. The third section is, in effect, a checklist of items that should be included in decentralization laws, and the fourth section provides a road map to help the planner prepare and implement the laws required for reform. Although an effort has been made to keep the discussion general enough for use in many countries, the analysis is based on the legal systems of the Western world or those that they inspired. (Contains 35 references.) (SLD)
School Management and Effectiveness in Developing Countries
Author: Clive Harber
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-02-08
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780826479105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is quite different from existing 'Western' books on school effectiveness. It describes and analyses the way in which schools operate in developing countries and also tries to explain why they are as they are. Examining them at three levels - the macro, the meso and the micro - the authors use a theoretical framework that they have termed 'post-bureaucracy.' The book has four interlinked sections. First the authors examine the existing economic and theoretical contexts around school effectiveness, including an analysis of the causes of economic crisis and its impact on school management. In the second section the analysis of schools as bureaucratic facades is proposed. The reality of school life, from which any theory of school effectiveness must derive, is illustrated by an ethnographic account of the job of the headteacher in developing countries. The third section explores different ways to understand this reality, operating on three levels: global relationships, national and community cultures, and individual agency. In the final section Haber and Davies draw these levels and realities together. They argue for the democratization of schools as the only way forward for effective education fordevelopment.
Crisis and Hope
Author: Stephen J. Ball
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415935357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Cambridge History of Latin America
Author: Leslie Bethell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 944
ISBN-13: 9780521266529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnth.: Bd. 1-2: Colonial Latin America ; Bd. 3: From Independence to c. 1870 ; Bd. 4-5: c. 1870 to 1930 ; Bd. 6-10: Latin America since 1930 ; Bd. 11: Bibliographical essays.
Going to School in Latin America
Author: Silvina Gvirtz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-12-30
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0313081336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatin America has tremendous diversity geographically, politically, and demographically. Some countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile, enjoy a time of peace and growing prosperity, while other countries such as Bolivia and Columbia are struggling with government and economic issues. This volume examines the history and present educational systems, both public and private, of approximately 15 countries in the Latin American region, along with a day in the life feature that shows what the school day is like from the students' point of view.
Restructuring Schools
Author: W. Lowe Boyd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-17
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1135721998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation reform has become part of a political imperative in a number of developed countries around the world. The simultaneous movement to reform schooling and the administrative structures which deliver educational services therefore needs to be studied in order to lay bare its fundamental assumptions. This movement has been labelled "restructuring" and "reform", although the words carry different meanings in different countries.; The authors question why this reconstruction occurred at the same time in different places. What common themes are emerging in the restructuring movement? And in the 1990s, where will the movement lead schooling and what essential changes will it effect? They explore these questions by examining developments in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
Educational Planning
Author: Jacques Hallak
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1136517839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was in a context of unprecedented economic growth that educational planning developed in the 1960s. At the time, educational planners were entrusted with orchestrating the tremendous expansion of schooling, with the aim of both universalizing education and providing national economies with the qualified manpower needed. Such rigid mandatory planning is not suited to today's world, but other forms of planning such as policy analysis, policy dialog, labor market analysis, and strategic management are still valid. The following is a complete list of reprinted essays collected for this book.
Coming of Age in Times of Crisis
Author: J. Hurtig
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-12-08
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0230617247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComing of Age in Times of Crisis is an anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis. Strongly grounded in local detail while speaking to larger comparative issues and the crises that surround globalization, the study enables us to see how gender roles and social class are reproduced in a culture experiencing profound upheaval, and to see how rural Venezuelans have managed to reproduce and change their culture in these circumstances. This book is based on two-and-a-half years of ethnographic field research Hurtig conducted in the Andean region of Venezuela between 1991 and 1993, and again briefly in 1996.
