Download or read book The Research System in Transition written by Susan E. Cozzens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which stretched from science policy practitioners, through research scientists and engineers, through academic observers of science and science policy. It was this diversity, along with the opportunities for infonnal discussion provided by long meals and remote location, that made the conference a special learning experience. Except at lecture time, it was impossible to distinguish the "students" at this event from the "teachers," and even the most senior members of the teaching staff went away with a sense that they had learned more from this group than from many a standard conference on science policy they had attended. The flavor of the conference experience cannot be captured adequately in a proceedings volume, and so we have not tried to create a historical record in this book. Instead, we have attempted to illustrate the core problems the panicipants at the conference shared, discussed, and debated, using both lectures delivered by the fonnal teaching staff and summaries of panel discussions, which extended to other panicipants and therefore increased the range of experiences reponed.

Download or read book The Architecture of Innovative Apprenticeship written by Ludger Deitmer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benefiting from the support and involvement of two major international research networks, this collection features the latest research findings in TVET. Members of INAP, the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship, and VETNET, the Vocational Education and Training Network, have contributed key research findings to this detailed survey of the field. Featuring the inclusion of the internationally recognized memorandum released in April 2012 by the INAP Architecture Apprenticeship Commission, the volume covers a wealth of issues relating to technical and vocational education and training, including exemplar architectures such as successful school-to-work transitions, competence assessment and development models, and governance, including the role of stakeholders. The book provides many opportunities to explore in depth the scholarly debate on TVET, as well as to learn from positive international experiences. It aims to inform the practice of TVET professionals as much as the decision making of administrators.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching written by Javier Muñoz-Basols and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2, provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the main methodologies, contexts and resources in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT), a field that has experienced significant growth world-wide in recent decades and has consolidated as an autonomous discipline within Applied Linguistics. Written entirely in Spanish, the volume is the first handbook on Spanish Language Teaching to connect theories on language teaching with methodological and practical aspects from an international perspective. It brings together the most recent research and offers a broad, multifaceted view of the discipline. Features include: Forty-four chapters offering an interdisciplinary overview of SLT written by over sixty renowned experts from around the world; Five broad sections that combine theoretical and practical components: Methodology; Language Skills; Formal and Grammatical Aspects; Sociocultural Aspects; and Tools and Resources; In-depth reflections on the practical aspects of Hispanic Linguistics and Spanish Language Teaching to further engage with new theoretical ideas and to understand how to tackle classroom-related matters; A consistent inner structure for each chapter with theoretical aspects, methodological guidelines, practical considerations, and valuable references for further reading; An array of teaching techniques, reflection questions, language samples, design of activities, and methodological guidelines throughout the volume. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching contributes to enriching the field by being an essential reference work and study material for specialists, researchers, language practitioners, and current and future educators. The book will be equally useful for people interested in curriculum design and graduate students willing to acquire a complete and up-to-date view of the field with immediate applicability to the teaching of the language.

Download or read book The Extent of Poverty in Latin America written by Oscar Altimir and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work originated in a research project for the measurement and analysis of income distribution in the Latin American countries, undertaken jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the World Bank. The present paper presents estimates of the extent of absolute poverty for ten Latin American countries and for the region as a whole in the 1970s, on the basis of available household surveys and population censuses. They are based on country-specific poverty lines representing minimum acceptable levels of private consumption, drawn according to a food-based method. Such poverty lines - ranging from 150 to 250 dollars of annual household consumption per capita - express a normative definition of the absolute dimensions of poverty, partly based on expert appraisals and partly reflecting the actual behavior of low income households facing the life style projected by Latin American development. According to these estimates, 40 percent of Latin American households were poor at the beginning of the 1970s, the incidence of poverty being 26 percent in urban areas and 60 percent in rural areas. Urban poverty extended to more than one-third of urban households in some countries (Brazil, Colombia, Honduras) while affecting between 20 and 30 percent in others (Peru, Mexico, Venezuela), about 15 percent in Costa Rica and Chile and less than 10 percent in Argentina and Uruguay. The extent of poverty in rural areas would not be less than 20 percent in any case and would reach more than 60 percent in some countries. The corresponding poverty gaps were also estimated; in terms of total household income, they may represent manageable proportions (around 2-3 percent) in the better-off countries, but are in the 4-8 percent range in the bigger countries of the region and reach as much as 12 percent in Peru and 17 percent in Honduras.

Download or read book La internacionalizaci n de la educaci n superior en Am rica Latina y Europa retos y compromisos written by Luis David Prieto Martínez and published by Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. This book was released on 2012-06-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En los albores del siglo XXI la globalización ha permeado todas las esferas de la sociedad y su impacto ha llegado a las puertas de nuestras universidades. Por ello es cada vez más importante el papel que juega la educación superior en la tarea de enseñar a vivir juntos en la aldea global y a desear esta convivencia. La formación de ciudadanos del mundo con competencias para desempeñarse con éxito en cualquier parte del globo es preocupación permanente de las universidades: la internacionalización se ha posicionado en el mundo académico y ya no se puede dar marcha atrás. Desde la perspectiva de la globalización, Europa ha jugado un papel muy importante. Podemos afirmar, sin temor a equivocamos, que el desarrollo de la educación superior europea ha impactado la internacionalización de la educación superior en todo el mundo. América Latina no ha sido ajena a los fenómenos mencionados. Sus universidades de calidad han realizado ingentes esfuerzos por estrechar los nexos con universidades europeas y por desarrollar interesantes proyectos de internacionalización potenciando la movilidad estudiantil, realizando programas de doble titulación, alimentando la colaboración para el desarrollo de la investigación mediante la implementación de redes de cooperación, y participando en proyectos de la Unión Europea como ALFA y ERASMUS. Este libro es un esfuerzo de un puñado de colegas europeos y latinoamericanos por analizar temáticas relevantes, examinar las tendencias y compartir experiencias exitosas que invitan a la reflexión sobre los retos de las universidades con el fin de hacer realidad su internacionalización.

Download or read book La internacionalizaci n de la Educaci n Superior written by Elspeth Jones and published by Narcea Ediciones. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Para que las instituciones de educación superior puedan competir en el mercado global de nuestros días, deberán adoptar un enfoque diferente que valore las aportaciones que hace el número cada vez mayor de estudiantes internacionales. El libro reúne, analiza y expone el pensamiento actual sobre la internacionalización de la educación superior, examinando hasta qué punto las buenas prácticas orientadas a los estudiantes internacionales, lo son también para todos los estudiantes. Cuestiona la idea de que el estudiante internacional es un estudiante problemático, y propone situarle en el centro de la universidad como una fuente de capital cultural y de diversidad internacional, que enriquece la experiencia de aprendizaje, mejora la experiencia del profesorado y construye una comunidad de aprendizaje más fuerte. Presenta el pensamiento académico acerca de cuestiones clave relativas a la implementación de una estrategia transcultural, abordando temas como las perspectivas institucionales, organizativas y éticas de la internacionalización; cuestiones sobre la mejora de la calidad de la enseñanza, la evaluación del aprendizaje, la empleabilidad y el modo de internacionalizar el currículo. Este práctico volumen, con ejemplos reales de universidades del Reino Unido y de otros países, e ilustrado con Estudios de Casos de EE.UU., Europa, Canadá, Australia y sudoeste de Asia, constituye una lectura obligada para todas las personas que, ante el imperativo global actual de la educación, quieran ampliar sus enfoques acerca del aprendizaje y la enseñanza, en el entorno de la educación superior y la postsecundaria.

Download or read book La internacionalizaci n de la educaci n superior Una apuesta y una oportunidad del presente written by Oscar Jorge Comas Rodríguez and published by ANUIES. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En México se vive desde hace décadas un pausado avance en la consolidación de sus políticas de educación superior en el ámbito internacional. El tema ha ido cobrando una importancia cada vez mayor, dado el crecimiento en la demanda del nivel superior de estudios y, consecuentemente, la urgencia de nuevos modelos para la movilidad tanto de estudiantes como de profesores-investigadores. En esta sociedad del conocimiento, es indiscutible que la internacionalización representa un objetivo que debe atender se por las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES) de manera urgente, pues de lo contrario se corre el riesgo de quedar marginados del escenario global. La presente publicación reúne el análisis y la reflexión de diversos especialistas para entender las nuevas dinámicas a las que deben responder las universidades, así como las oportunidades que esta materia representa para que las IES sean reconocidas en la esfera mundial. La internacionalización de la educación superior, como un proceso que va más allá de las fronteras nacionales, precisa del aumento de la calidad educativa, de la creación o el fortalecimiento de redes, de la expansión de espacios de investigación, de la movilidad de estudiantes e investigadores, de una burocracia ampliamente cualificada y de homologar, en la medida de lo posible, los parámetros académicos que faciliten la movilidad para un aprendizaje recíproco y la generación de nuevos conocimientos que permitan a la Universidad aportar perspectivas novedosas en la construcción de soluciones a problemas sociales.

Download or read book La calidad en la educaci n superior en M xico written by Salvador Malo and published by Coordinacion de Humanidades Unam. This book was released on 1998 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los diferentes ensayos que constituyen este libro se han organizado de la siguiente manera: en primera instancia se muestran aquellos que ofrecen un panorama de la situación de algunos países y regiones (el sistema de aseguramiento de la calidad de Estados Unidos, Europa y Francia); después, los que describen los principales métodos utilizados en México para la evaluación de personas, programas e instituciones de educación superior; y concluye con los trabajos de México y del extranjero que se refieren a las prácticas que se siguen en el interior de las instituciones.

Download or read book Internacionalizaci n y proveedores externos de educaci n superior en Am rica Latina y el Caribe written by Jorge Medina Viedas and published by ANUIES. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thinking through Children s Literature in the Classroom written by Agustín Reyes-Torres and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of understanding literature as a central part of children’s education. Fiction and nonfiction literary works constitute a source to open young minds and to help them understand how and why people – themselves included – live as they do, or to question through critical lenses whether they could live otherwise. By integrating philological, cultural, and pedagogical inquiries, Thinking through Children's Literature in the Classroom approaches the use of literature as a crucial factor to motivate students not only to improve their literacy skills, but also to develop their literary competence, one that prepares them to produce independent and sensible interpretations of the world. Of course, the endeavor of forming young readers and fostering their ability to think begins primarily by having well-read teachers who are enthusiastic about teaching and, secondly, by having students who are willing to learn. To encourage and sustain them through the critical turns of their own thinking processes, educators must surely display a sound pedagogic knowledge apart from deep literary expertise.

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition written by Mohammad T. Alhawary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition introduces major current approaches in Arabic second language acquisition (SLA) research and offers empirical findings on crucial aspects and issues to do with the learning of Arabic as a foreign language and Arabic SLA. It brings together leading academics in the field to synthesize existing research and develops a new framework for analyzing important topics within Arabic SLA. This handbook will be suitable as a reference work for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars actively researching in this area and is primarily relevant to sister disciplines within teacher training and Arabic applied linguistics. The themes and findings should, however, also be attractive to other areas of study, including theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognition, and cognitive psychology.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition written by Chuanren Ke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is the first reference work of its kind. The handbook contains twenty contributions from leading experts in the field of Chinese SLA, covering a wide range of topics such as social contexts, linguistic perspectives, skill learning, individual differences and learning settings and testing. Each chapter covers historical perspectives, core issues and key findings, research approaches, pedagogical implications, future research direction and additional references. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is an essential reference for Chinese language teachers and researchers in Chinese applied linguistics and second language acquisition.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation written by Chris Shei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation presents expert and new research in analysing and solving translation problems centred on the Chinese language in translation. The Handbook includes both a review of and a distinctive approach to key themes in Chinese translation, such as translatability and equivalence, extraction of collocation, and translation from parallel and comparable corpora. In doing so, it undertakes to synthesise existing knowledge in Chinese translation, develops new frameworks for analysing Chinese translation problems, and explains translation theory appropriate to the Chinese context. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation is an essential reference work for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars actively researching in this area.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics written by Augustine Agwuele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of African Linguistics provides a holistic coverage of the key themes, subfields, approaches and practical application to the vast areas subsumable under African linguistics that will serve researchers working across the wide continuum in the field. Established and emerging scholars of African languages who are active and current in their fields are brought together, each making use of data from a linguistic group in Africa to explicate a chosen theme within their area of expertise, and illustrate the practice of the discipline in the continent.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language written by Kim Potowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language brings together contributions from leading linguists, educators and Latino Studies scholars involved in teaching and working with Spanish heritage language speakers. This state-of-the-art overview covers a range of topics within five broad areas: Spanish in U.S. public life, Spanish heritage language use and systems, educational contexts, Latino studies perspectives and Spanish outside the U.S. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language addresses for the first time the linguistic, educational and social aspects of heritage Spanish speakers in one volume making it an indispensable reference for anyone working with Spanish as a heritage language.

Download or read book Heritage Language Education written by Donna M. Brinton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... focuses on issues at the forefront of heritage language teaching and research. Its state-of-the-art presentation will make this volume a standard reference book for investigators, teachers, and students. It will also generate further research and discussion, thereby advancing the field." María Carreira, California State University – Long Beach, United States "In our multilingual and multicultural society there is an undeniable need to address issues of bilingualism, language maintenance, literacy development, and language policy. The subject of this book is timely.... It has potential to make a truly significant contribution to the field." María Cecilia Colombi, University of California – Davis, United States This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on teaching heritage language learners. Contributors from theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, educational policy, and pedagogy specialists explore policy and societal issues, present linguistic case studies, and discuss curricular issues, offering both research and hands-on innovation. - The term "heritage language speaker" refers to an individual exposed to a language spoken at home but who is educated primarily in English. Research and curriculum design in heritage language education is just beginning. Heritage language pedagogy, including research associated with the attrition, maintenance, and growth of heritage language proficiency, is rapidly becoming a field in its own right within foreign language education. This book fills a current gap in both theory and pedagogy in this emerging field. It is a significant contribution to the goals of formulating theory, developing informed classroom practices, and creating enlightened programs for students who bring home-language knowledge into the classroom. Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging is dedicated to Professor Russell Campbell (1927-2003), who was instrumental in advocating for the creation of the field of heritage language education.

Download or read book Experiential Learning in Foreign Language Education written by Viljo Kohonen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of foreign language teaching is expanding from communicative competence towards an intercultural action competence. Essential in the new orientation is the shift towards a more balanced emphasis between the external factors in the learning environment and the personal capacity, conceptions, beliefs and assumptions inside the learner's mind. As part of the changes, assessment is seen as an important means of enhancing the elearning processes, emphasising the role of refelctive self-assessment. The text explores and integrates the necessary knowledge base and practices in foreign language education in terms of the basic concepts of experiential learning, intercultural learning, autobiographical knowledge and teacher development, together with the philosophical underpinnings of foreign language education.