Las reformas educativas y su financiamiento en el contexto de la globalización
Las reformas educativas y su financiamiento en el contexto de la globalización

Author: Margarita Noriega Chávez

Publisher: Plaza y Valdes

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9789688567685

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En muchos países, desde mediados de los años setentas, el financiamiento de la educación comenzó a perfilarse como un problema que tendía a agudizarse. Actualmente ha ganado fuerza laidea de que se han agotado las posibilidades de incrementar los recursos públicos que se destinan a este servicio. Idea a la que se le agrega la opinión, discutible pero generalizada, de que la educación ha registrado en las últimas décadas una baja en la calidad y la convicción de que la abundancia financiera no resuelve por sí misma ese problema

Crisis and Hope
Crisis and Hope

Author: Gustavo Fischman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1135951241

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This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region.

Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Author: K. Staudt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-09-27

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0230112919

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The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state.

Comparative Education: Views from Latin America
Comparative Education: Views from Latin America

Author: Marco Aurelio Navarro Leal

Publisher: Palibrio

Published: 2013-05-09

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1463355882

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Although in Latin America there are no educational programs specialized in comparative education, as there are in some European, Oriental and North American universities, there are scholars who cultivate this field. With the production of this book, the authors -most of them affiliated to member organizations of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies- are walking towards a Latin American network of researchers with an interest in establishing a dialogue with non-Spanish speaking colleagues from the rest of the world. This is the reason of our effort in writing most of the chapters in English. Comparative education, as all disciplinary fields, has evolved with different ways of thinking, approaching and constructing its objects of research and analysis, which are nurtured by different epistemological traditions living together in our times, enriching and bringing complexities. From Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Mexico, the authors of the book pose questions, historical descriptions, reflections, discussions and cases to set forth their views.

Structural Reforms, Productivity and Technological Change in Latin America
Structural Reforms, Productivity and Technological Change in Latin America

Author: Jorge M. Katz

Publisher: United Nations Publications

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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In the last ten to fifteen years, profound structural reforms have moved Latin America and the Caribbean from closed, state-dominated economies to ones that are more market-oriented and open. Policymakers expected that these changes would speed up growth. This book is part of a multi-year project to determine whether these expectation have been fulfilled. Focusing on technological change, the impact of the reforms on the process of innovation is examined. It notes that the development process is proving to be highly heterogenous across industries, regions and firms and can be described as strongly inequitable. This differentiation that has emerged has implications for job creation, trade balance, and the role of small and medium sized firms. This ultimately suggests, amongst other things, the need for policies to better spread the use of new technologies.

Networks, New Governance and Education
Networks, New Governance and Education

Author: Stephen J. Ball

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1847429793

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This topical book uses network analysis and interviews with key actors to address the changes in education, with a focus on education and the role of new philanthropy.

Schooling as Violence
Schooling as Violence

Author: Clive Harber

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-26

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1134287313

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Asking fundamental and often uncomfortable questions about the nature and purposes of formal education, this book explores the three main ways of looking at the relationship between formal education, individuals and society: * that education improves society * that education reproduces society exactly as it is * that education makes society worse and harms individuals. Whilst educational policy documents and much academic writing and research stresses the first function and occasionally make reference to the second, the third is largely played down or ignored. In this unique and thought-provoking book, Clive Harber argues that while schooling can play a positive role, violence towards children originating in the schools system itself is common, systematic and widespread internationally and that schools play a significant role in encouraging violence in wider society. Topics covered include physical punishment, learning to hate others, sexual abuse, stress and anxiety, and the militarization of school. The book both provides detailed evidence of such forms of violence and sets out an analysis of schooling that explains why they occur. In contrast, the final chapter explores existing alternative forms of education which are aimed at the development of democracy and peace. This book should be read by anyone involved in education - from students and academics to policy-makers and practitioners around the world.

Gender and Education
Gender and Education

Author: Madeleine Arnot

Publisher:

Published: 2012-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415803328

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Understanding the field of gender and education today requires thinking more critically about paradigmatic models of gender and their goals for educational and social reform. It involves recognizing that the international project of the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s has had a deep influence in many countries, not just in those which are income rich. In this context, it is important to think critically and analytically about how gender is conceptualized in both international and national policy making and research and the ways in which gender analysis in education can now contribute to the creation of emancipatory forms of gender relations, and global gender justice. The aim of this introductory text from international authority Madeleine Arnot, is to understand where the field of gender and education is located at present, its strengths and weaknesses in terms of foci, its theoretical advance, its methodological sophistication and its policy relevance and impacts. It provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the progressive discussions in feminist theory and the role of education in relation to the structuring of familial, institutional, political and economic sites. The book concludes by considering some of the contemporary challenges which gender and education as a field of scholarship and political action face in the context of international and global developments. Ideal for courses in education studies, sociology, gender studies, women’s studies, development studies, this valuable teaching resource is essential reading for anyone who wishes to read more about the controversies associated with gender issues in education and society.

Campaigning for “Education for all”
Campaigning for “Education for all”

Author: Antoni Verger

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9460918794

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Civil society organizations have risen up the global education agenda since the international community adhered to the 'Education For All' Action Framework in the 'World Education Forum' that was held in Dakar in 2000. With the foundation of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) civil society advocacy has sought to ensure that national governments, donors and international organisations make the necessary efforts to guarantee quality education for all children in the world. This book explores the strategies and actions, as well as the challenges and impact of civil society organizations in the achievement of the 'Education For All' international commitments. It does so by specifically focusing on seven national coalitions affiliated to the GCE. From Africa, to Asia to Latin America the book shows how these coalitions work and manage the differences between their different types of constituencies, explores their varied tactics and strategies, and explains their successes and failures after more than a decade of coordinated action. The book also provides a concise and comprehensive synthesis of findings from the distinct case studies and offers a series of lessons learned that are vital for education practitioners, academics, activists and policy-makers committed to more equitable and relevant education systems around the world.