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Demand for Primary Schooling in Rural Mali : Should User Fees Be Increased ?
1996
International audience; This paper presents estimates of the price elasticity of demand for primary schooling, using household and school survey data from rural Mali. The elasticity of enrolment with respect to the local school fee is compared with the effects on enrolment of distance to the school and various indicators of school quality, including books per classroom and the number of grades offered. Fees have a negative effect; however, certain improvements in school quality could easily offset in terms of enrolment any negative effect of higher fees to finance such improvements. For example, the astonishingly low average of two books per classroom could be doubled for a 10 per cent incr…
The cultural dimension of music in the written curriculum: nationalism and ethnocentrism in primary education
2020
En el actual mundo global, donde los movimientos humanos y la permanente interconexión desdibujan el concepto tradicional de cultura vinculado a la nación, se hace necesario el desarrollo de políticas educativas multiculturales que ofrezcan la posibilidad de pensar críticamente la diversidad cultural. El currículum oficial constituye uno de los espacios desde donde abordar dicha transición, especialmente en lo relativo a la educación musical, la cual es frecuentemente utilizada para transmitir ideologías nacionalistas y de legitimación del orden político dominante. El objetivo del presente trabajo es el estudio del tratamiento cultural que recibe la música en el currículum de educación musi…
La música como instrumento de interculturalidad. Una propuesta didáctica a través del folklore
2015
El presente artículo presenta diferentes propuestas musicales para trabajar la interculturalidad en el aula de primaria a través de la canción como elemento canalizador del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Así, el futuro maestro de primaria, utilizando canciones y juegos provenientes de otras culturas, adquiere un repertorio de recursos didácticos válidos para su aplicación en el aula y alcanza una comunicación intercultural eficaz. This article puts forward a number of musical suggestions aimed at working on interculturality in the primary school classroom, using songs as a channelling element in the teaching-learning process. This way, the primary school teacher-to-be, through the use of…
Education for Health in Spanish education laws: comparative between the LOE and the LOMCE
2018
RESUMEN Fundamentos: La actual Ley Orgánica para la Mejora de la Calidad Educativa (LOMCE) incorpora cambios sustanciales con respecto a la ley anterior, especialmente una nueva configuración del currículum con mayor optatividad, que puede afectar al desarrollo de las competencias de Salud por parte del alumnado. El objetivo fue evaluar el tratamiento de la Educación para la Salud (EpS) en las dos últimas leyes educativas españolas, en base a la variabilidad y cantidad de términos relacionados con Salud que recogen. Métodos: Se realizó un análisis cuantitativo comparativo basado en la presencia de 281 términos relativos a ocho ámbitos de la EpS en ambas leyes y para las dos etapas de educac…
Analysis of digital competence in future teachers through a mixed design
2022
Digital competence is not only a desirable skill for any citizen, but also a responsibility for the training of future teachers. Using a mixed methodology combining a questionnaire based on the Common Framework for Digital Competence in Teaching and open items, this paper aims to analyse the level of digital competence of 230 future teachers (Primary and Secondary Education), as well as to explore possible differences based on some basic variables. A study is also carried out on the perceived level of digital competence and the true level of digital competence, exploring, finally, the perceptions of the uses of technology in the educational environment. The results show that the level of di…
Training of future STEAM teachers: Comparison between primary degree students and secondary master's degree students
2022
In recent years, the presence of the acronym STEAM has been growing in the educational field. All around the world we are faced with a growing demand for professional STEM skills, however, who has the responsibility to train future STEAM teachers? In this article, we explain the results of an investigation with university students pursuing a degree in primary education and Master’s degree students in secondary education, with technology speciality, participating in a seminar about STEAM projects design in two consecutive academic calendar years (18/19 and 19/20). We analyse the responses to a questionnaire which was specifically designed to discover their knowledge about STEAM and the pred…
La qualité de l'éducation de base en Afrique francophone : contexte, constat et facteurs d'efficacité
2003
03050 - Coll. "Cahiers de l'Académie des Sciences morales et politiques"; L'auteur s'interroge sur l'aspect qualitatif de l'école primaire africaine francophone. Trois questions principales sont abordées : i) dans quel contexte général faut-il apprécier la qualité des systèmes ? ii) quels résultats sur la qualité des apprentissages des élèves ? et iii) sur quels facteurs peut-on agir pour améliorer la qualité de l'école ? C'est ce dernier point qui sert de conclusion.
From discrete to transformed? Developing inclusive primary school teacher education in a Finnish teacher education department
2010
This paper describes the primary school teacher education curriculum reform currently under way in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. A general overview of the Finnish context and relevant inclusive education policy issues are presented. The process of developing inclusive education in the curriculum and the organisational culture of the department of teacher education is discussed in relation to the collaborative teacher education research framework developed by Pugach and Blanton. Areas for future development are identified.
A laboratory for education reform or a battlefield of donor intervention?
2010
Abstract This article deals with the politics of aid partnerships in the education sector of Benin following an anthropological policy research approach based on empirical data. I present local debates on primary education and the New Study Programmes, the latest education reform introduced nationwide in 1999. The different perceptions of the reform content, its implementation process and its outcomes, articulated by education experts, policy makers, donors, intellectual critics, teachers and parents, illustrate the complexity of educational policy making and, implicitly, of state-building in transnationalised arenas.
Questions d'alphabétisation dans le contexte africain
2012
Despite the proportion of illiterate people in sub-Saharan Africa having declined between 1985 and 2008, the number of illiterates has actually increased during the period. It is within this context, that since April 2000, the international community has been committed to six Education for All goals. One of these goals is to achieve a 50 per cent improvement in adult literacy levels by 2015. This thesis aims to analyse how primary education and literacy programs (two processes on which educational policy can intervene) enable the populations of sub-Saharan Africa to acquire basic reading skills. In the vast majority of African countries, the analysis based on household surveys shows that sc…