OECD Reviews of School Resources: Colombia 2018


Book Description

This country review report offers an independent analysis of major issues facing the use of school resources in Colombia from an international perspective. It provides a description of national policies, an analysis of strengths and challenges, and a proposal of possible future approaches.




Guía Inter. Una guía práctica para aplicar la educación intercultural en la escuela


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La Guía INTER se ha concebido como una herramienta útil para el lector a la hora de analizar, aplicar y mejorar la Educación Intercultural en la práctica educativa. La guía ofrece desafíos para replantear y reformular las ideas y prácticas educativas. El grupo que ha escrito la guía comparte una filosofía próxima a la educación inclusiva para todos en las escuelas. Esto implica que el profesor tiene que atender de forma individual a las necesidades de todos sus alumnos en el contexto de una escuela inclusiva en la que todos los alumnos tengan el derecho de pertenecer por igual. La guía se divide en ocho módulos: Educación obligatoria ¿Por qué y para qué?; Diversidad versus homogeneidad en la escuela; Escuela, familia y comunidad; Presupuestos teóricos; Políticas educativas; Evaluación y calidad; Estructura y organización escolar; Estrategias de enseñanza y aprendizaje. Además cuenta con un directorio de recursos.










Teaching and Learning in Digital World


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Many reports over the last few years have analysed the potential use of games, videogames, 3D environments and virtual reality for educational purposes. Numerous emerging technological devices have also appeared that will play important roles in the development of teaching and learning processes. In the context of these developments, learning rather than teaching becomes the main axis in the organisation of the educational process. This process has now gone beyond the analogue world and face-toface education to enter the digital world, where new learning environments are being produced with ever greater doses of realism. Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds examines the teaching and learning process in 3D virtual environments from both the theoretical and practical points of view.




OECD Reviews of School Resources: Chile 2017


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The effective use of school resources is a policy priority across OECD countries. The OECD Reviews of School Resources explore how resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education.




Universal Design for Learning


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Anne Meyer and David Rose, who first laid out the principles of UDL, provide an ambitious, engaging discussion of new research and best practices. This book gives the UDL field an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years. In the 1990s, Anne Meyer, David Rose, and their colleagues at CAST introduced Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework to improve teaching and learning in the digital age, sparking an international reform movement. Now Meyer and Rose return with Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice, an up-to-date multimedia online book (with print and e-book options) that leverages more than a decade of research and implementation. This is the first significant new statement on UDL since 2002, an ambitious, engaging exploration of ideas and best practices that provides the growing UDL field with an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years. This new work includes contributions from CAST's research and implementation teams as well as from many of CAST's collaborators in schools, universities, and research settings. Readers are invited to contribute ideas, perspectives, and examples from their own practice in an online community of practice. --




Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context


Book Description

This 2003 book comprehensively covers all major topics of Vygotskian educational theory and its classroom applications. Particular attention is paid to the Vygotskian idea of child development as a consequence rather than premise of learning experiences. Such a reversal allows for new interpretations of the relationships between cognitive development and education at different junctions of the human life span. It also opens new perspectives on atypical development, learning disabilities, and assessment of children's learning potential. Classroom applications of Vygotskian theory are discussed in the book. Teacher training and the changing role of a teacher in a sociocultural classroom is discussed in addition to the issues of teaching and learning activities and peer interactions. Relevant research findings from the US, Western Europe, and Russia are brought together to clarify the possible new applications of Vygotskian ideas in different disciplinary areas.




The United Nations world water development report 2019


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Access to water and sanitation is internationally recognized human right. Yet more than t wo billion people lack even the most basic of services. The latest United Nations World Water Development Report, Leaving No One Behind, explores the symptoms of exclusion and investigates ways to overcome inequalities.