Diversidad e igualdad en educación


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Este texto se ha elaborado de forma específica como documento de estudio para la asignatura Diversidad e Igualdad en Educación, que forma parte del plan de estudios del Grado de Educación Social impartido por la UNED. Las autoras han pensado prioritariamente en los y las estudiantes del Grado y, por tanto, los contenidos y enfoque son los que se derivan de los objetivos, competencias y contenidos propuestos en dicha asignatura, también de las condiciones propias del estudio a distancia. No obstante, esperamos que el libro resulte de interés para toda persona que comparta con nosotras algunas de las cuestiones planteadas en el texto en torno a cómo miramos y entendemos la diversidad en educación; a cómo esta mirada determina lo que esperamos y hacemos como educadores, y a las complejas relaciones entre diversidad e igualdad en educación. La premisa de la que partimos es que la diversidad es normalidad, basta con reconocerla; mientras que la igualdad implica un compromiso ético por parte de los educadores, un compromiso que requiere visibilizar los mecanismos que mantienen y legitiman las desigualdades, así como la búsqueda y puesta en marcha de estrategias educativas para la transformación social hacia un mundo más equitativo y justo. Entre las autoras hay profesoras e investigadoras de distintas universidades y centros de investigación: el Departamento de Antropología, Grupo de Antropología Social del Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CCHS-CSIC), el Departament de Filosofia i Treball Social de la Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Departament de Mètodes d’Investigació i Diagnòstic en Educació de la Universitat de Barcelona (UB) y por supuesto de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED); del Departamento de Antropología Social y Cultural de la Facultad de Filosofía y del Departamento de Métodos de Investigación y Diagnóstico en Educación I de la Facultad de Educación. Todas ellas tienen perfiles y bagajes diversos que enriquecen esta obra, y todas ellas forman parte del Grupo INTER de investigación en Educación Intercultural (www.uned.es/grupointer) que lleva realizando su labor desde 2002 en distintos proyectos nacionales e internacionales sobre diversidad e igualdad en educación, racismo, participación ciudadana y formación de docentes y educadoras.




Intercultural Education in the European Context


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This book offers a comparative analysis of the intercultural theories and practices developed in the European context. Bringing together work on the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, The Netherlands and Sweden, it examines specific approaches to intercultural education. Structured around a series of core questions concerning the main features of diverse groups of migrants present within a country and within schools, the major issues raised by scientific research on the presence of migrant students, and the adoption of relevant educational policies and practices to address these issues - together with examples of best practice in each case - Intercultural Education in the European Context explores the strengths and weaknesses of the intercultural education approach adopted in each context. Offering a broad framework for the study of intercultural education as adopted in European settings, the book highlights the contribution of education to the development of a fair, democratic and pluralistic Europe. As such, it will appeal to scholars and policy makers in the field of sociology, migration, education and intercultural relations.




Anthropologies of Education


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Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world. Linguistic barriers constrain the flow of ideas, which results in a vast amount of research on educational anthropology that is not published in English or is difficult for international readers to find. This volume responds to the call to attend to educational research outside the United States and to break out of “metropolitan provincialism.” A guide to the anthropologies and ethnographies of learning and schooling published in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Slavic languages, Japanese, and English as a second language, show how scholars in Latin America, Japan, and elsewhere adapt European, American, and other approaches to create new traditions. As the contributors show, educators draw on different foundational research and different theoretical discussions. Thus, this global survey raises new questions and casts a new light on what has become a too-familiar discipline in the United States.




Encyclopedia of Disability


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Presents current knowledge of and experience with disability across a wide variety of places, conditions, and cultures to both the general reader and the specialist.




Innovation and Evolution in Higher Education


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Higher education fulfills vital functions in talent cultivation, scientific research, social service, and innovation. Its innovation and transformation play a critical role in societal development. In recent years, countries around the world have been actively exploring effective pathways for the innovation and transformation of higher education. This book capitalizes on this momentum, summarizing the theoretical and practical advancements concerning higher education reform and innovation in various countries and regions. It emphasizes the significance of higher education in regional development, how the learning sciences lead to talent cultivation in higher education, and the theories and practices of student development in higher education, providing valuable insights into higher education reform and innovation.




Queer Epistemologies in Education


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This edited collection brings together the work of researchers and educators from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Costa Rica, Portugal,and Mexico on education, pedagogy, and research from a queer perspective. It offers a space for the dissemination and development of new lines of analysis and intervention in the field of Queer Pedagogies in the region, relevant to the present and future of the field both in our countries and beyond. Chapters provide perspectives aware of the regional context but relevant from a theoretical and practical perspective beyond Ibero-America. The volume covers elementary, middle, and higher education, formal and informal, and includes theoretical and applied contributions on a variety of topics including public policies on education, queer youth, sex education, and conservative attacks against "gender ideology" in the region.




Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education


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Marketization and privatization in compulsory education have spread around the globe. School choice is seen by many to be the panacea to develop the quality of schools and improve school systems worldwide. Additionally in many countries several types of private schools expand and change the school landscapes. The articles of the anthology analyse and discuss these changes in several countries and ask to what extent and in which ways school choice and the growth of private school play a role for education policies and education systems. Which political and civil society actors are active in formulating and promoting school choice and private schooling? And to what extent does the expansion of private schools and school choice address questions of educational inequality and social segregation.




Mapping the Broad Field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education Worldwide


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The issues which are discussed in the 29 chapters of this volume address core matters with respect to modern diverse societies. The most important relate to the following: the societal needs of migrant populations and the educational needs of their children; the exclusivist policies which usually impact upon migrant groups; the need to enrich school texts and curricula with new intercultural and citizenship dimensions; the importance of integrating the notion of Paideia within the school ethos and educational programmes. This volume has a dual aim. The first aim is to envisage the field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education from different disciplines at the international level, describing the new educational and social conditions that have been created by recent migration and identifying new trends in the field. The second aim is to highlight the importance of Multicultural and Intercultural Education in the development of a new citizen, who moves around the world, interacting with different people, and has a dynamic and flexible identity with polymorphic personal, social and cultural characteristics – a new intercultural persona. To sum up, this volume highlights that authors coming from different continents share some common ideas and tend to believe in the notion of Intercultural/Multicultural Education as a useful new dimension within the dynamics of many disciplines, as a new inter-disciplinary approach that is embedded within them and which characterizes modern societies.




Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio-Economic Systems and Social Work


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The main purpose of this book is not only to present recent studies and advances in the field of social science research, but also to stimulate discussion on related practical issues concerning statistics, mathematics, and economics. Accordingly, a broad range of tools and techniques that can be used to solve problems on these topics are presented in detail in this book, which offers an ideal reference work for all researchers interested in effective quantitative and qualitative tools. The content is divided into three major sections. The first, which is titled “Social work”, collects papers on problems related to the social sciences, e.g. social cohesion, health, and digital technologies. Papers in the second part, “Education and teaching issues,” address qualitative aspects, education, learning, violence, diversity, disability, and ageing, while the book’s final part, “Recent trends in qualitative and quantitative models for socio-economic systems and social work”, features contributions on both qualitative and quantitative issues. The book is based on a scientific collaboration, in the social sciences, mathematics, statistics, and economics, among experts from the “Pablo de Olavide” University of Seville (Spain), the “University of Defence” of Brno (Czech Republic), the “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) and “Alexandru Ioan Cuza University” of Iaşi (Romania). The contributions, which have been selected using a peer-review process, examine a wide variety of topics related to the social sciences in general, while also highlighting new and intriguing empirical research conducted in various countries. Given its scope, the book will appeal, in equal measure, to sociologists, mathematicians, statisticians and philosophers, and more generally to scholars and specialists in related fields.




Linguistic Perspectives on Sexuality in Education


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This book brings together leading academics and practitioners working in the area of language, gender, sexuality and education, consolidating recent developments and moving the field forward in a contemporary context. This unique and timely volume captures current themes, debates, theories and methods in the field, and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working around the world in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Education, Sociology and Discourse Studies.