Gender Dimensions in Education in Latin America


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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 Dimensions in Education in Latin America


Book Description

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.




Unequal Family Lives


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This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.




Gender and Sustainability


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Gender and Sustainability deals with women's struggles to contend with global forces—environmental change, economic development, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women, and diminishing access to natural resources—not in the abstract but in everyday life. It addresses the lived complexities of the relationship between gender and sustainability.




Comparative Education


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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.




The Structure and Agency of Women's Education


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Offers research on educational policies, programs, and practices for adolecent girls and adult women, from both comparative international perspectives.




Comparative Education


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Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local, Third Edition brings together many of the outstanding scholars in the field of comparative and international education to provide new perspectives on the dynamic interplay of global, national, and local forces as they shape the functioning and outcomes of education systems in specific contexts. Various chapters in the book call for a rethinking of the nation-state as the basic unit for analyzing school-society relations; provide new ways of conceptualizing equality of educational opportunity and outcomes; call attention to the need to study social movements in relation to educational reform; emphasize the value of feminist, postcolonial, and culturally sensitive perspectives to comparative inquiry into the limitations as well as potential of education systems to contribute to individual development and social change; and provide detailed critical accounts of how various international financial and technical assistance agencies shape educational policy and practice in specific regions of the world.




Gender, Innovation and Education in Latin America


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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.




Women at Work


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Imagining Teachers


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This book calls for a different understanding of the professional preparation of pre-service teachers, critically reflecting on issues of caring and gender, and challenging the dominance of 'words only' educational research methodologies. Using conceptual tools from visual anthropology, cultural studies, feminism and critical pedagogy, Fischman focuses on the educational dilemmas that students and professors in teacher education programs face within institutions that reinforce, rather than challenge, oppressive class, racial, ethnic and gender dynamics. He pays special attention to the transmission of models of teaching that are invested of essential masculine and feminine patterns that potentially lead to two very distinctive professional careers: one that is associated with 'dedication' and 'care', and a second that emphasizes 'order' and 'command'.