Intercultural
Title | Intercultural PDF eBook |
Author | Yolanda Onghena |
Publisher | |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2000 |
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Summaries of Projects Completed
Title | Summaries of Projects Completed PDF eBook |
Author | National Science Foundation (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | |
Genre | Engineering |
ISBN |
Audacious Education Purposes
Title | Audacious Education Purposes PDF eBook |
Author | Fernando M. Reimers |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020-04-23 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3030418820 |
This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal and Russia and yields original and important insights on the process of educational change. The analysis of these 21st century skills reforms shows that reformers followed approaches which are based on the five perspectives: cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political. Most reforms relied on institutional and political perspectives. They highlight the systemic nature of the process of educational change, and the need for alignment and coherence among the various elements of the system in order. They underscore the importance of addressing the interests of various stakeholders of the education system in obtaining the necessary impetus to initiate and sustain change. In contrast, as the book shows, the use of a cultural and psychological frame proved rarer, missing important opportunities to draw on systematic analysis of emerging demands for schools and on cognitive science to inform the changes in the organization of instruction. Drawing on a rich array of sources and evidence the book provides a careful account of how education reform works in practice.
The Organization of American States as the Advocate and Guardian of Democracy
Title | The Organization of American States as the Advocate and Guardian of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Rubén M. Perina |
Publisher | UPA |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2015-09-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0761866450 |
As democracy has become the preferred system of government in the hemisphere in the past thirty years or so, its promotion and defense have also become the cornerstone and raison d’être of the Organization of American States (OAS)—the central and principal inter-governmental institution in the Western Hemisphere. Perina’s book presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of its new role in promoting and defending democracy in the Americas from an insider’s perspective; examines how exactly it performs its role among its member states; points out the tensions, weaknesses and shortcomings that constrain its performance; and suggests ways of strengthening it. This unique perspective offers substantive information, insight, and theoretical and empirical analysis that provide readers with greater knowledge and understanding of the complex workings of the Organization. The book echoes the author’s belief in its usefulness, relevance and potential as the most important hemispheric multilateral organization for the promotion and defense of democracy and human rights.
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Xóchitl Bada |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 905 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0190926554 |
The essays included in this volume provide both an assessment of key areas and current trends in sociology, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies. The volume serves as an effective bridge of communication allowing sociological academies to mobilize and disseminate research dynamics from Latin America to the rest of the world.
Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge
Title | Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Hebe Kuhn, Michael Vessuri |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3838208943 |
In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as “indigenous” knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the European social science world, but the indigenization of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of “peripheral” social sciences to join the theories of the “centers”. This book offers contributions to the discourses about alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge. However, in order to make this decision, the reader must know what the nature of the European concepts of science and of scientific knowledge is; this might be a motivation to read a book that presents thoughts claiming to be alternative concepts of knowledge, alternative to the European concept of science.
Summaries of Projects Completed in Fiscal Year ...
Title | Summaries of Projects Completed in Fiscal Year ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 486 |
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Genre | Engineering |
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