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Repensando la educación. Trayectoria y futuro de los sistemas educativos modernos
2019
Este artículo tiene por objetivo reflexionar sobre la doble condición de las reformas educativas requeridas en las sociedades avanzadas: como elemento de conocimiento político-sociológico y como acción reguladora social. A nivel metodológico se plantea una hermenéutica de las principales representaciones del cambio educativo, y se subraya que las reformas no deben subordinarse sólo a las necesidades sociológicas del momento. En esta línea, se exponen las demandas de cambio acaecidas a partir de PISA, así como las críticas que este modelo de evaluación ha recibido. Los principales resultados de los estudios internacionales analizados indican que comparar sistemas educativos y alumnado a part…
Educational policies in the production and distribution of digital didactic materials
2017
En este artículo abordamos el análisis de las políticas educativas de tres comunidades autónomas (CA) tan diversas geográfca, social y culturalmente como son Canarias, Galicia y Valencia. El trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto de investigación EDU-2015-64593-R, fnanciado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, titulado: «LLa escuela de la sociedad digital: análisis y propuestas para la producción y uso de los contenidos digitales educa - tivos», en el que participan las universidades de La Laguna, Santiago de Compostela y de Valencia. El objetivo fundamental es analizar la situación de los Materiales Didácticos Digitales (MDD) en las citadas CA. En la primera fase del estudio se han e…
Les modalités de changement dans le système éducatif français
2001
Dans l'Education nationale, tout se passe comme si les décisions politiques prises étaient naturelles, comme si la solution retenue s'imposait, comme si la rationalité développée par le décideur concentrait l'ensemble des vertus traditionnellement attachées au concept même de rationalité. Mais de quelle rationalité s'agit-il en réalité ? Les études effectuées sur les systèmes éducatifs français et francophones semblent montrer que les déterminants internes aux systèmes l'emportent sur les déterminants externes, comme si la logique propre et spécifique du système éducatif constituait le moteur nécessaire et quasi suffisant de toute évolution. Les différents protagonistes développent des argu…
How can countries use cross-national research results to address "the big policy issues" ? (Case studies from Francophone Africa)
2006
06058http://www.unesco.org/iiep/PDF/pubs/G117.pdf?class=IIEP_PDF_pubs&page=G117&estat_url=http://www.unesco.org/iiep/PDF/pubs/G117.pdf; The “Program on the Analysis of Education Systems“ (PASEC) was launched in 1991 at the conference of francophone education ministers (CONFEMEN) in Djibouti and carried out its first country evaluation one year later in the same country. Since then, 13 individual country evaluations have been carried out in francophone sub-Saharan Africa, including panel studies following primary students from 2nd to 6th grade within a given country. The primary objective of PASEC evaluations is not the comparison of student achievement across countries, but the analysis of …
Comparative study of the effectiveness of educational policies of inclusion in France and sub-Saharan Africa: a literature review
2013
Recommended by international bodies (UNESCO, 2006; 2008), inclusive education is based on the principle of equal opportunity. It aims to promote inclusion in the broad sense of the term by addressing specific audiences excluded or marginalized from educational systems. In recent years, regulatory frameworks have been defined for the education of certain categories excluded from educational systems including children with disabilities. Educational policies concerned with taking into account the needs of this group are also implemented. Do these policies promote effective integration of students with disabilities? To what extent can these policies be considered as effective? This paper presen…
Doit-on sélectionner ou former les élites scolaires ? Une comparaison internationale des politiques éducatives
2005
This article aims to provide a starting point for reflection about the conditions required for building up an academic elite in mandatory school systems, through international quantitative evaluation.The academic elite are defined, here, not in terms of the educational level they have reached, but through the skills levels attained: the proportion of students who have reached, in each country, the highest level of skill on the main section of the PISA 2000 test. After setting out the theoretical framework, it provides analysis showing that amongst the societal factors, once a certain level of economic development has been exceeded, the size of the academic elite population is much more a fu…
Finnish mergers : Change in the Context of Continuity
2016
This chapter focuses on three prominent university mergers in Finland which took place during the last decade. In order to understand the mergers and the developments that led to them, we highlight broader higher education policy change, most notably the making and implementation of the new Universities Act (558/2009). The changing discourse around the role of higher education (Nokkala, 2016) and the changing of the Universities Act took place in parallel to the merger processes, thus forming the broader political context which the structural development took place. In our analysis, we take as our central perspective the roles of the national actors to introduce national translations and so…
Faculty Perception of Inclusion in the University: Concept, Policies and Educational Practices
2021
European universities must face the challenge of diversity and design inclusive practices to address it as part of their social responsibility. However, not all universities are doing the same in terms of diversity practices, so it is important to gather the perceptions of the protagonists. To this end, we have analysed university faculty’s perceptions using a mixed model with a concurrent methodological strategy, including an ad hoc questionnaire validated with 880 educators, as well as 17 semi‐structured interviews. The triangulation of these two instruments allowed us to analyse three key dimensions associated with the idea of attention to diversity in the university: diversity concept o…
Special Issue on Higher education and its clients : institutional responses to changes in demand and in environment
2002
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A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Promoting Initial Literacy Development in Africa : Ongoing and Planned Research and Development at the University …
2017
A four-year research and development program at CAPOLSA (the Centre for the Promotion of Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa) was inspired by widespread dissatisfaction with poor literacy outcomes of mass basic schooling in Zambia and sought to test the generalizability of a scientifically grounded, computer-mediated instructional resource developed in Finland, for effective intervention in an African society where different linguistic and educational conditions obtain. Specific challenges and opportunities posed by the local sociocultural context included the prevalence of multilingualism, the relatively transparent orthographies of local languages, and poor infrastructure of the public school …