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Finnish vocational education and training in comparison: Strengths and weaknesses
2014
International journal for research in vocational education and training 1 (2014) 2, S. 81-106
Early marriage and cultural constructions of adulthood in two slums in Dar es Salaam.
2018
This study examines under-18 marriage in urban Tanzania from an ethnographic perspective. Due to poverty and high unemployment, some girls aspire to early marriage. Two pathways to early marriage are identified: first, poverty and gendered economic disparities motivate girls to begin transactional sexual activity at an early age, leading parents to favour early marriage as a risk-reduction measure. Second, educational opportunities are often closed off to girls before marriage, as a result of which early marriage becomes the only culturally approved pathway that allows girls to present themselves to others as a self-sufficient agent. These pathways are reinforced by cultural and religious c…
Evaluación docente vs. evaluación de la calidad
2014
Resumen basado en el de la publicación Título, resumen y palabras clave en inglés y español Artículo originalmente presentado como ponencia en el III Congreso Virtual de AIDIPE Se presenta una revisión sobre los instrumentos y dimensiones que utilizan las distintas universidades españolas para evaluar a los profesores a partir, fundamentalmente, de encuestas a los alumnos. A partir de los items que se repiten en las pruebas utilizadas en cuatro o más universidades, se ha creado un nuevo instrumento que se ha validado con 334 alumnos de la Universidad de A Coruña. A raíz de los resultados obtenidos, este instrumento podría servir tanto para la evaluación del profesorado desde la autoridad ac…
Access to Higher Education: An Instrument for Fair Societies?
2019
Access to higher education (HE) has a long history. To offer a view on the current debates and worldwide issues regarding access to HE, this editorial depicts how the control of educational access has historically been used as an instrument of governance at the interface of two processes: social stratification and the territorialisation of politics. Access to HE has remained embedded in these large structural processes even though HE has expanded from a highly elitist institution into mass education systems with equity of educational opportunities having become a desirable goal across societies. Analysing these processes helps understand the complex mechanisms producing inequalities in HE t…