Desde un análisis sociológico de las prácticas relacionales en la escuela primaria pública, en esta investigación se procura desentrañar qué caracteriza a las prácticas sociales que conforman la convivencia cotidiana en la escuela primaria de la Zona Metropolitana de Gudalajara. Para ello, se develan las dinámicas de interacción recurrentes entre los miembros de la escuela en el contexto del aula y del recreo. El campo de estudio se aborda desde un diseño etnográfico, cuya recolección de información se apoya en la teoría del habitus de Pierre Bourdieu, y se analiza desde la concepción de Anthony Giddens sobre las prácticas relacionales. Los hallazgos apuntan a que las prácticas de convivencia aluden a temas como: el movimiento, la plática, el juego, la disciplina y la violencia, constructos que provocan tensiones -o que surgen de ellas- entre las prácticas de niños y niñas, docentes y directivos; mientras que los niños y niñas quieren divertirse, los docentes y directivos procuran guardar la disciplina, eso genera diferentes tipos de violencia. Asimismo, la reflexión y la socioafectividad de los agentes se presentan como las posibilidades para mejorar la convivencia escolar.

This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.

Based on a long term qualitative study of four 'ordinary' secondary schools, and working on the interface of theory with data, this book explores how schools enact, rather than implement policy.

Education is a hot-button political issue across the globe. It is seen as a crucial factor in ensuring economic productivity and competitiveness and in generating social mobility and tackling social inequality--but are these goals feasible or compatible? Focusing on education policy in the United Kingdom, Stephen J. Ball, in this fully updated third edition of The Education Debate, guides us through the flood of government initiatives and policies of the past twenty years. Ball looks at how policy interventions have changed the landscape and meaning of education, turned children into "learners" and parents into "consumers," and played their part in the reformation of contemporary governance.

This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the author examines and illustrates the multiple threads that connect the local expression and negotiation of identity to the wider social contexts that frame the experience of migration, from material conditions of life in the United States to mainstream discourses about race and color. The analysis reveals how identities emerge in discourse through the interplay of different levels of expression, from implicit adherence to narrative styles and ways of telling, to explicit negotiation of membership categories.

The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.