Las reformas educativas en los países del Cono Sur
Las reformas educativas en los países del Cono Sur

Author: Pablo Gentili

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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Participan: Confederación de Trabajadores de la Educación de la República Argentina, Colegio de Profesores de Chile, Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (Brasil), Asociación de Funcionarios de la Universidad del Trabajo de Uruguay, Federación Nacional de Profesores de Enseñanza Secundaria (Uruguay), Laboratorio de Políticas Públicas, LPP, Río de Jainero/Buenos Aires. Participan: Confederación de Trabajadores de la Educación de la República Argentina, Colegio de Profesores de Chile, Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (Brasil), Asociación de Funcionarios de la Universidad del Trabajo de Uruguay, Federación Nacional de Profesores de Enseñanza Secundaria (Uruguay), Laboratorio de Políticas Públicas, LPP, Río de Jainero/Buenos Aires.

Politics of Education in Latin America
Politics of Education in Latin America

Author: Carlos Ornelas

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9004413375

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Politics of Education in Latin America: Reforms, Resistance and Persistence portrays complex situations of education change policies in Latin America from Argentina and Chile, the southernmost part of the continent, to Mexico, the northernmost. The analyses tour through Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Cuba to conclude with a chapter that scrutinizes why the big teacher unions reject most attempts at education reforms. In these, teachers are the target of criticism and, at the same time, the focus of the expectations for progress and better educational quality. Readers will find a variety of contentious issues such as inclusion, equity, privatization, uses of power, and dialectics between the indications of intergovernmental organizations and the rejection of their recommendations by local political actors. They will also find narratives to raise public education participation, improve the quality of life of teachers, and put local education systems to dialogue with the global world. The politics of education in Latin America is a territory that groups and institutions continue to dispute since the establishment of their education systems.

The Peculiar Revolution
The Peculiar Revolution

Author: Carlos Aguirre

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1477312129

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Bringing much-needed historical perspectives to debates about an idiosyncratic period in modern Latin American history, scholars from the United States and Peru reassess the meaning and legacy of Peru's left-leaning military dictatorship.

The Cold War in the Classroom
The Cold War in the Classroom

Author: Barbara Christophe

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-23

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 3030119998

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point to ambivalence, vagueness and contradictions in textbook narratives understood to be echoes of societal and academic controversies. Others focus on teachers and the history classroom, showing how unresolved political issues create tensions in history education. They render visible how teachers struggle to handle these challenges by pretending that what they do is ‘just history’. The contributions to this book unveil how teachers, backgrounding the political inherent in all memory practices, often nourish the illusion that the history in which they are engaged is all about addressing the past with a reflexive and disciplined approach.

Towards Universal Social Protection
Towards Universal Social Protection

Author: Simone Cecchini

Publisher: UN

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13:

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This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. Its discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with technical and programmatic insights for assembling and coordinating public policies within consistent and sustainable social protection systems. The combination of normative orientations and stock of technical knowledge, together with advances regarding the rights-based approach to social protection within a life cycle framework, afford the reader not only a tool box of specific social protection instruments, but also an in-depth examination of related political economy aspects.

Secret Judgments of God
Secret Judgments of God

Author: Noble David Cook

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780806133775

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In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had no immunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and anthropologists, "Secret Judgments of God" discusses how diseases with Old World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.

Democracy in Chile
Democracy in Chile

Author: Silvia Nagy-Zekmi

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1837641951

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In the 1990s, Latin America emerged from the horror of massive human rights violations as it returned to civilian-elected regimes. This volume aims to explore the lasting legacy of the transformations brought about by the oppressive regimes of the '70s and '80s as they are experienced in the cultural, social and intellectual life of the region.