El tema central de este libro es la calidad de la educación escolar. Se habla mucho de calidad, pero hay poca explicación sobre “qué hacer” al respecto. Simultáneamente, la educación enfrenta un siglo XXI complejo, muy cambiante y de alta incertidumbre. En cambio, la educación del siglo XX se desenvolvía en un entorno bastante estable: proporcionaba conocimiento y competencias que servían para los empleos existentes; la metodología de enseñanza consistía en repetición, memoria y resolución de problemas conocidos. La educación escolar del siglo XXI tiene que estar orientada a la resolución de problemas desconocidos, pues este es el entorno que van a encontrar los egresados. ¿Quién lo enseña y cómo hacerlo? Gran parte de este libro está focalizado en el pensamiento crítico y la creatividad, que aparecen como las claves de la educación del futuro. ¿Cómo se enseñan y cómo se evalúan? ¿Cuál es el objetivo de la educación actual cuando la información y el conocimiento están disponibles por doquier? ¿Se necesitan escuelas en la era de Internet? Para poder responder estas preguntas en forma realista, el autor considera indispensable tener una visión histórica de la evolución de la educación. Importantes capítulos del libro están dedicados a la problemática chilena y de América Latina, con evidencias empíricas de la brecha educacional que tienen respecto de los países desarrollados. Realidades acuciantes que necesitan ser conocidas y reflexionadas por autoridades responsables, profesores y padres que se propongan encarar adecuadamente la inminente educación del futuro.

Modern societies tend to demand innovative learning modalities in which foreign languages are used to teach content subjects from very early educational stages. Education authorities in different geographical areas of the world are currently working to determine how bilingual teaching should be developed depending, along with many other factors, on the initial training of bilingual education teachers. On this basis, it is necessary to review how tertiary education institutions deal with the theoretical foundations and practical approaches necessary for this learning modality to train bilingual education teachers for primary schools. The Handbook of Research on Training Teachers for Bilingual Education in Primary Schools includes international experiences of teacher training for bilingual education in primary schools in which educators should be able to recognize themselves and identify concrete working formulas to apply in their daily work. Covering key topics such as teacher training, language learning, and primary education, this reference work is ideal for administrators, teacher trainers, policymakers, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

When María's father mysteriously disappears, many needs beset her family. Facing this reality, María and her brother go to work on the streets. Bit by bit, all kinds of obstacles and wrong decisions erase her self-esteem and dreams. María's story reflects the reality of thousands of Latinas. The difference is that the end of her story breaks the mold. Discover how this single mother decides to leave the cycle of self-destructive acts and spiritual poverty into which she had fallen. The narrative, frank and confrontational, will help the reader to consider their own life and find the strength to succeed.

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