Formación de docentes en América Latina

Formación de docentes en América Latina
Author: Denise Vaillant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Las reformas llevadas adelante durante la década de los años 90 en la mayoría de los países latinoamericanos apenas tuvieron en cuenta a los docentes. En algunos casos se pretendió sustituir a los maestros por tecnología, en otros el énfasis se puso en los factores institucionales. Uno de los puntos centrales para mejorar la actual situación es considerar muy de cerca la estructura y contenido de la formación de los docentes. Gran parte de lo que se haga o se pueda hacer en materia de reformas depende de la preparación que reciben los hombres y mujeres que día a día están en las aulas. Pero entender bien la naturaleza de la formación de docentes y los problemas que la acompañan no es tan fácil como parece. Variables de distinto tipo, realidades problemáticas, concurso de diversas disciplinas, hacen de la formación un escenario de cambio muy complejo. ¿Cuál es la red de factores que interviene en la preparación inicial de maestros y profesores? ¿Qué características tiene este proceso? ¿Qué mecanismos de la estructura institucional alientan o traban los proyectos innovadores? Es sabido que en América Latina la docencia no es la elección de carrera más frecuente de los jóvenes más talentosos. Los bajos salarios y el deterioro de las condiciones materiales de vida explican, entre otras cosas, el bajo interés por la profesión. El tema de maestros y profesores, sus sueldos y su formación constituyen un círculo vicioso que tiene como consecuencia la existencia de educadores con preparación insuficiente. Apoyándose en una sólida evidencia empírica, la autora muestra cómo es posible cambiar el modo tradicional de pensar y de hacer reformas en formación inicial de docentes logrando transformaciones significativas, efectivas, y ante todo sustentables en las prácticas profesionales y la cultura de trabajo de los docentes.

Education in South America

Education in South America
Author: Simon Schwartzman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2015-07-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472592484

Education in South America is a critical reference guide to development of education in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The chapters, written by local experts, provide an overview of the education system in each country, focusing particularly on policies and implementation of reforms. Key themes include quality and access, multicultural education and the management of education systems. Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole and guides to available online datasets, this book is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers.

The Making of Indigeneity, Curriculum History, and the Limits of Diversity

The Making of Indigeneity, Curriculum History, and the Limits of Diversity
Author: Ligia (Licho) López López
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-10-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1315392402

Conceptually rich and grounded in cutting-edge research, this book addresses the often-overlooked roles and implications of diversity and indigeneity in curriculum. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the development of teacher education in Guatemala, López provides a historical and transnational understanding of how "indigenous" has been negotiated as a subject/object of scientific inquiry in education. Moving beyond the generally accepted "common sense" markers of diversity such as race, gender, and ethnicity, López focuses on the often-ignored histories behind the development of these markers, and the crucial implications these histories have in education – in Guatemala and beyond – today.

The Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School Development

The Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School Development
Author: Christopher Day
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2012-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136715967

The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from eighteen countries across seven continents, the forty chapters are grouped into ten themes which represent key aspects of teacher and school development: Issues of Professionalism and Performativity What Being an Effective Teacher Really Means Reason and Emotion in Teaching Schools in Different Circumstances Student Voices in a Global Context Professional Learning and Development Innovative Pedagogies School Effectiveness and Improvement Successful Schools, Successful Leader Professional Communities: their practices, problems & possibilities Each theme expertly adds to the existing knowledge base about teacher and school development internationally. They are individually important in shaping and understanding an appreciation of the underlying conditions which influence teachers and schools, both positively and negatively, and the possibilities for their further development. This essential handbook will be of interest to teacher educators, researchers in the field of teacher education and policy makers.

International Handbook of Leadership for Learning

International Handbook of Leadership for Learning
Author: Tony Townsend
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1311
Release: 2011-07-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9400713509

The International Handbook of Leadership for Learning brings together chapters by distinguished authors from thirty-one countries in nine different regions of the world. The handbook contains nine sections that provide regional overviews; a consideration of theoretical and contextual aspects; system and policy approaches that promote leadership for learning with a focus on educating school leaders for learning and the role of the leader in supporting learning. It also considers the challenge of educating current leaders for this new perspective, and how leaders themselves can develop leadership for learning in others and in their organisations, especially in diverse contexts and situations. The final chapter considers what we now know about leadership for learning and looks at ways this might be further improved in the future. The book provides the reader with an understanding of the rich contextual nature of learning in schools and the role of school leaders and leadership development in promoting this. It concludes that the preposition ‘for’ between the two readily known and understood terms of ‘leadership’ and ‘learning’ changes everything as it foregrounds learning and complexifies, rather than simplifies, what that word may mean. Whereas common terms such as ‘instructional leadership’ reduce learning to ‘outcomes’, leadership for learning embraces a much wider, developmental view of learning.

The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research

The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research
Author: Ian Menter
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1761
Release: 2023-03-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031161939

This handbook presents a timeless, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource covering major issues in the field of teacher education research. In a global landscape where migration, inequality, climate change, political upheavals and strife continue to be broadly manifest, governments and scholars alike are increasingly considering what role education systems can play in achieving stability and managed, sustainable economic development. With growing awareness that the quality of education is very closely related to the quality of teachers and teaching, teacher education has moved into a key position in international debate and discussion. This volume brings together transnational perspectives to provide insight and evidence of current policy and practice in the field, covering issues such as teacher supply, preservice education, continuing professional learning, leadership development, professionalism and identity, comparative and policy studies, as well as gender, equity, and social justice.

Great Teachers

Great Teachers
Author: Barbara Bruns
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464801525

This book analyzes teacher quality in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the key to faster education progress. Based on new research in 15,000 classrooms in seven different countries, it documents the sources of low teacher quality and distills the global evidence on practical policies that can help the region produce "great teachers."

La formación doctoral en América Latina... ¿más de lo mismo?, ¿una cuestión pendiente?

La formación doctoral en América Latina... ¿más de lo mismo?, ¿una cuestión pendiente?
Author: Eugenia Trigo
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-01-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1291683011

La actitud competitiva e individualista de la "sociedad capitalista del conocimiento" ha generado y sigue generando una carrera loca en la apertura de programas doctorales en Colombia y América Latina. Estos programas, en su generalidad, están ofreciendo más de lo mismo en el sentido de repetir los modelos extranjeros con una visión colonialista de mantener el status quo. Consideramos que el libro "La formación doctoral en América Latina... ¿más de lo mismo?, ¿una cuestión pendiente?" aspira a desvelar los entresijos de esta formación y proponer otras visiones que intentan ofrecer respuestas posibles a los numerosos interrogantes que nos planteamos para la región. Invitamos a los lectores a participar del desafío.

Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean

Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean
Author: D. Brent Edwards Jr.
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2024-02-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1529231744

Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC). The book covers all Spanish-speaking countries of the CALC region and examines the effects of macro-economic pressures, geopolitical intervention, neo-colonial relationships, global pandemics, transnational gang networks, and the influence of international organizations. Chapters analyse the challenges and opportunities these global forces present to education systems in the region as well as highlighting the local efforts to address, mitigate, and counteract them. In doing so, the book illuminates how education can contribute to either maintaining or challenging inequalities and exclusion in the face of pressures from the global to local levels.