Gender Dimensions in Education in Latin America

Gender Dimensions in Education in Latin America
Author: Nelly P. Stromquist
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN:

En el documento se contiene una relacion de articulos relativos a la educacion y las mujeres en america latina. Se presentan estudios de los procesos internos y dinamicas politicas y medioambientales ligadas a creencias asentadas de la concepcion de genero y practicas en la sociedad. Se hace especial hincapie en el poder y relevancia de las cuestiones etnicas en el curriculo y se relatan experiencias concretas que han tenido lugar en mexico y brasil.

Distant Alliances

Distant Alliances
Author: Regina Cortina
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113678974X

In this ground-breaking study, Regina Cortina and Nelly Stromquist examine how the alliances of international agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations have strengthened public support for educating girls and women in Latin America. Bringing a timely and readable account of the strategies pursued, the authors show how the strength of the women's movement has influenced the education of women and girls, and thus has helped to reduce poverty and strengthen the citizenship of women in developing countries. The book's overview of recent initiatives, along with its illuminating case studies of developing nations, offers the reader a window into educational reform and the realities of social change in Latin America.

Gender Dimensions in Education in Latin America

Gender Dimensions in Education in Latin America
Author: Nelly P. Stromquist
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN:

En el documento se contiene una relacion de articulos relativos a la educacion y las mujeres en america latina. Se presentan estudios de los procesos internos y dinamicas politicas y medioambientales ligadas a creencias asentadas de la concepcion de genero y practicas en la sociedad. Se hace especial hincapie en el poder y relevancia de las cuestiones etnicas en el curriculo y se relatan experiencias concretas que han tenido lugar en mexico y brasil.

Gender, Innovation and Education in Latin America

Gender, Innovation and Education in Latin America
Author: Ingrid Jung
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN:

An anysis of the theoretical framework and social contexts of women's non-formal education in Latin America. It documents the varied political and social contexts which have given rise to innovative experiences in education: the legacy of the civil wars of Central America, the exclusion of indigenous communities, gender violence and the daily struggle for survival in societies where female headed households reflect the feminization of poverty levels.

Gender Issues in Latin America and Spain

Gender Issues in Latin America and Spain
Author: Victoria Pérez de Guzmán
Publisher: Critical Studies of Latinxs in the Americas
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Women
ISBN: 9781433161001

In this bilingual volume, gender issues within diverse social, labor and educational environments are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Gender Inequalities and Development in Latin America During the Twentieth Century

Gender Inequalities and Development in Latin America During the Twentieth Century
Author: María Magdalena Camou
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317130219

This book presents evidence of the evolution of the gender inequalities in Latin America during the twentieth century, using basic indicators of human development, namely education, health and the labour market. There are very few historical studies that centre on gender as the main analytical category in Latin America, so this book breaks new ground. Using case-studies from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, the authors show that there is evidence of a correlation between economic growth and the decrease in gender inequality, but this process is also not linear. Although the activity rate of women was high at the beginning of the twentieth century, female participation in the labour market diminished, until the 1970s, when it began to increase dramatically. Since the 1970s, fertility reduction and education improvements and worsening labour market conditions are associated to the steadily increase of women participation in the labour market. By gauging the extent to which gender gaps in the formation of human capital, access to resources, quality of life and opportunities may have operated as a restriction on women’s capabilities and on economic growth in the region, this book demonstrates that Latin America has lagged behind in terms of gender equality.

Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures

Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures
Author: Leila Gómez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9463000917

Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures provides a dynamic exploration of the subject of teaching gender and feminism through the fundamental corpus encompassing Latin American, Iberian and Latino authors and cultures from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The four editors have created a collaborative forum for both experienced and new voices to share multiple theoretical and practical approaches to the topic. The volume is the first to bring so many areas of study and perspectives together and will serve as a tool for reassessing what it means to teach gender in our fields while providing theoretical and concrete examples of pedagogical strategies, case studies relating to in-class experiences, and suggestions for approaching gender issues that readers can experiment with in their own classrooms. The book will engage students and educators around the topic of gender within the fields of Latin American, Latino and Iberian studies, Gender and Women’s studies, Cultural Studies, English, Education, Comparative Literature, Ethnic studies and Language and Culture for Specific Purposes within Higher Education programs. “Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures makes a compelling case for the central role of feminist inquiry in higher education today ... Startlingly honest and deeply informed, the essays lead us through classroom experiences in a wide variety of institutional and disciplinary settings. Read together, these essays articulate a vision for twenty-first century feminist pedagogies that embrace a rich diversity of theory, methodology, and modality.” – Lisa Vollendorf, Professor of Spanish and Dean of Humanities and the Arts, San José State University. Author of The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain “What is it like to teach feminism and gender through Latin American, Iberian, and Latino texts? This rich collection of texts ... provides a series of insightful and exhaustive answers to this question ... An essential book for teachers of Latin American, Iberian and Latino/a texts, this volume will also spark new debates among scholars in Gender Studies.” – Mónica Szurmuk, Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. Author of Mujeres en viaje and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature

The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2007
Genre: Educational equalization
ISBN:

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender differences in school attendance and attainment in Latin America and the Caribbean, for both adults who left the educational system and children in school. For individuals 21 years old and above the paper uses a cohort analysis of school attainment. The results indicate that the schooling gap has closed for the cohort born at the end of the 1960s. Since then, the gap has reversed such that within the cohort born in 1980, females have, on average, 1/4 of a schooling year more than males. During the four decades of birth cohorts of our analysis (1940-1980) the gender gap in attainment has moved in favor of females at a pace of 0.27 years of schooling per decade. A decomposition exercise suggests that the changes in the schooling gap are mainly explained by the educational attainment of females at the higher levels, rather than improvements in the early years of education. An analysis of attendance and attainment among girls and boys between 6 and 18, for Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru (the countries that have not closed the gap in adult schooling attainment) reveals noticeable gender differences, favoring boys, only among older children of the lowest income quintiles and indigenous ethnicity.

Comparative Education

Comparative Education
Author: Robert F. Arnove
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780742523814

Bringing together some of the leading names in comparative and international education, this second edition provides new perspectives on the dynamic interplay of global, national and local forces as they shape education systems in specific contexts.