Imagining Teachers
Imagining Teachers

Author: Gustavo Fischman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780847691821

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This book calls for a different understanding of the professional preparation of pre-service teachers, critically reflecting on issues of caring and gender, and challenging the dominance of 'words only' educational research methodologies. Using conceptual tools from visual anthropology, cultural studies, feminism and critical pedagogy, Fischman focuses on the educational dilemmas that students and professors in teacher education programs face within institutions that reinforce, rather than challenge, oppressive class, racial, ethnic and gender dynamics. He pays special attention to the transmission of models of teaching that are invested of essential masculine and feminine patterns that potentially lead to two very distinctive professional careers: one that is associated with 'dedication' and 'care', and a second that emphasizes 'order' and 'command'.

School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective
School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective

Author: Aaron Benavot

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-06-20

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1402057369

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In this special edited volume, scholars with diverse backgrounds and conceptual frameworks explore how economic, political, social and ideological forces impact on school curricula over time and place. In providing regional and global perspectives on curricular policies, practices and reforms, the authors move beyond the conventional notion that school contents reflect principally national priorities and subject-based interests.

Educational Planning
Educational Planning

Author: Jacques Hallak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1136517766

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It 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.

Educación y biografías
Educación y biografías

Author: Francesc Jesús Hernàndez i Dobon

Publisher: Editorial UOC

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 8490649324

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Las teorías constructivistas sobre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje, los estudios desde la perspectiva de género, las investigaciones sobre el aprendizaje narrativo, las teorías sobre la formación de personas adultas y sobre la formación continua, el entrecruzamiento de perspectivas didácticas auspiciado por las aproximaciones sistémicas, las investigaciones sobre narrativas e historias de vida... Todos estos elementos convergen en la reelaboración del vínculo entre educación y biografías, una aportación que afecta al núcleo mismo de la práctica docente. En este libro se presentan algunas de las contribuciones más notables y recientes de Austria, Alemania y Gran Bretaña, que combinan elaboraciones teóricas e investigaciones cualitativas.

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.

Reforming Chile
Reforming Chile

Author: Patrick Barr-Melej

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2002-11-25

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0807875619

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Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural and political landscapes. He shows how a diverse collection of middle-class intellectuals, writers, politicians, educators, and bureaucrats forged a "progressive" nationalism and advanced an ambitious cultural-political project between the 1890s and 1940s. Together, reformers challenged the power of elite groups and sought to quell working-class revolutionary activism as they endeavored to democratize culture and fortify liberal democracy. Using sources that range from archival documents and newspapers to short stories, novels, and school textbooks, Barr-Melej examines the reform movement's cultural ideas and their political applications, especially as they were articulated in the areas of literature and public education. In the process, he provides a new framework for understanding Chile's cultural and political evolution, as well as the complicated place of the middle class in a society experiencing the swift changes inherent in capitalist modernization.