Download or read book The Future of Evaluation written by Wolfgang Meyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation has become an important instrument for rational governance and is used in an increasing number of countries and policy fields. Recent developments at the global, national and local level are changing the conditions and functions of evaluation worldwide. This book examines current global development trends and changing demands for evaluation. It addresses issues surrounding professionalisation and globalisation, examining the need to strengthen accountability for social development in various different policy fields, regions and countries to improve governance and its impacts on social betterment. It also considers issues of quality, utility and further education and the upgrading of evaluation in a broad variety of different organisations, such as multilateral donor organisations, national public administrations, private consultancies, civil-society organisations, universities, and research institutes. With contributions from 30 different countries, this book combines a broad variety of viewpoints to examine the global future of evaluation.
Download or read book Germinal Democracia written by Raúl Manuel Flores Rodriguez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El sistema político electoral mexicano ha tenido una evolución notable a partir de 1988 con procesos de transformación y cambio, que involucraron a diferentes actores de gran importancia y provocaron la quiebra del sistema de partidos que rigió la mayor parte del siglo XX. Sin duda alguna en esta obra intentamos mostrar un resumen analítico y conceptual de todas y cada una de las reformas en la materia desde 1946 a la última reforma político electoral del año 2007, sin dejar de lado lo que consideramos necesario y urgente para el desarrollo de ésta germinal democracia.
Download or read book Mobilizing Resources in Latin America written by O. Sanchez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of institutional strength (not just design) as well as informal institutions (in addition to formal ones) for policy reform.
Download or read book Researching Violence Democracy and the Rights of People written by John Schostak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what is at stake methodologically for researchers seeking to expand opportunities for people to become visible upon the public stages of debate, decision making and action, making audible their experiences of wrongs and injustices.
Download or read book Teaching the World s Teachers written by Lauren Lefty and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining teacher education in an international context, this book captures the diversity of the world's educators. Many countries confront surprisingly similar challenges in preparing K–12 educators for success, while national contexts also make for surprising differences. In Teaching the World's Teachers, education historians Lauren Lefty and James W. Fraser and their contributors make a convincing case for approaching these shared challenges from a more global and historically minded perspective. Written by education scholars from eleven different countries—Argentina, Brazil, Catalonia-Spain, China, England, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States—this book provides histories of teacher education reforms between roughly 1980 and 2020. The authors show how international trends that emerged during this period collided with national and regional contexts to produce unique teacher education systems in different nations. While in some countries the embrace of markets and competition led to a deregulation of the teacher preparation field, in others teaching became a highly regulated and centralized affair. At the same time, ideas and structural models cross borders and education leaders borrow from each other while reshaping plans in each place. Opening with a broad historical overview of global teacher education models beginning in the late eighteenth century, Teaching the World's Teachers argues that the field has long been characterized by cross-border connections—but shaped by geopolitical hierarchies of power. In an era when teacher quality is widely recognized as one of the most important factors in a child's education, this volume encourages dialogue among teacher educators and policymakers around the world. By understanding the context and contingency of where we have been, the authors hope that readers will walk away with a more empowered sense of where we are headed in the all-important task of teaching the world's teachers. Contributors: Kwame Akyeampong, Richard Andrews, Azeem Badroodien, Maria Inês G. F. Marcondes de Souza, Gustavo E. Fischman, James W. Fraser, Guangwei Hu, Arie Kizel, Jari Lavonen, Lauren Lefty, Wei Liao, Jason Loh, Silvana Mesquita, Hannele Niemi, Lily Orland-Barak, Paula Razquin, Carol Anne Spreen, Eduard Vallory, Yisu Zhou
Download or read book The Developing World and State Education written by Dave Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines neoliberal policy impacts on schooling/ education in the Developing World, analysing the latest developments in Latin America, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Pakistan, India, Burkina Fasso, South Africa, Mozambique, and China.
Download or read book Los juegos artesanos de la educaci n social written by Núñez Pérez, Violeta and published by Editorial UOC. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro recoge algunas cuestiones con las que Violeta Núñez ha ido tramando sus recorridos docentes: teorías pedagógicas y experiencias como enseñante. El texto postula que inventar es transgredir, y recurre al bricolaje para que cada cual ensamble fragmentos y objetos culturales y a la postproducción como actividad resultante de esa apropiación de elementos de la cultura plural. Dada la movilidad de los sujetos de la era digital y su atención dispersa en diversas fuentes simultáneas, se trata de incorporar esas modalidades a los espacios de educación, posibilitando que la atención dispersa se transforme en atención flotante. Desde esta perspectiva se plantea revisitar, en clave contemporánea, viejas teorías y experiencias pedagógicas: desarchivarlas.
Download or read book A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power written by Julio F. Carrión and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between populism and democracy is contested among scholars. While some propose that populism is inherently harmful for democracy because it is anti-pluralist and confrontational, others argue that populism can reinvigorate worn-out democracies in need of greater popular participation. In A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power, Julio F. Carrión advances this debate by examining the empirical relationship between populism in power and democracy. Does populism in power always lead to regime change, that is, the demise of democracy? The answer is no. The impact of populism on democracy depends on the variety of populism in power: the worst outcomes in democratic governance are found under unconstrained populism. Carrión presents the permissive and productive conditions for why and how populism becomes unconstrained, as well as a dynamic theory of change that shows how the late victories of populists build on early ones, resulting in greater power asymmetries. A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power provides an analysis of five Latin American populist presidencies, all located in the Andes. In four of them (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela), populism became unconstrained and regime change followed. In one case, Colombia, populism in power was successfully contained and democracy survived. The concluding chapter places the Andean cases in comparative perspective and discusses how unconstrained populism in other cases (Nicaragua and Hungary) also led to the end of electoral democracy. Where populism in power was constrained (Honduras and the United States), regime change did not materialize. Carrión advances a theory of populism in power that helps us understand how democracies transition into non-democracies. To that extent, the book illuminates the processes of democratic erosion in our time.
Download or read book Latin America and Contemporary Modernity written by José Maurício Domingues and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, renowned author José Maurício Domingues places Latin America within the third phase of global modern civilization and offers a general theoretical approach to contemporary Latin America. He sees modernity as configured by episodic modernizing moves which, when counting on strong identity and organization as well as clear-cut projects, may assume the aspect of modernizing offensives. Highlighting subjects as law, rights and justice as well as globalization and development, Dominguez places Latin America in the uneven, combined and contradictory development of modern civilization and offers a final assessment of its possibilities and limits. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of modernity, globalization, Latin America, sociological theory and its key concepts.
Download or read book Token law and markets written by Ibáñez Jiménez, Javier Wenceslao and published by Editorial Reus. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta monografía sobre derecho de tokens y tokenomics muestra los avances en el derecho de tokens americano y europeo, haciendo hincapié en las cuestiones esenciales que plantea la nueva Estrategia de Finanzas Digitales para DeFi y para los mercados de tokens, englobando las tres Propuestas de Regulaciones.
Download or read book Solo a los beb s les gusta que les cambien written by José Manuel Gil and published by Editorial Almuzara. This book was released on 2012 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En un entorno en el que lo único constante es el permanente cambio, las organizaciones se enfrentan a la necesidad de afrontar procesos de transformación que les permitan sobrevivir, especialmente en una situación de profunda crisis económica. Frente a las teorías que se centran en la modificación de estrategias, en la implantación de sistemas de base tecnológica, en la transformación organizativa, en nuevos sistemas de calidad, control o producción, este libro defiende que no se producirá el cambio en una organización si no se logra que las personas que la componen varíen su conducta cotidiana. José Manuel Gil proporciona ideas, métodos y herramientas para abordar la complejidad del cambio implantándolo con éxito en organizaciones empresariales, públicas y sociales, a partir de un detallado análisis de la taxonomía del cambio, realizado tras una investigación en la que han participado 83 empresas de diferentes tamaños y sectores.
Download or read book A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power written by Julio F. Carrión and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between populism and democracy is contested among scholars. While some propose that populism is inherently harmful for democracy because it is anti-pluralist and confrontational, others argue that populism can reinvigorate worn-out democracies in need of greater popular participation. In A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power, Julio F. Carrión advances this debate by examining the empirical relationship between populism in power and democracy. Does populism in power always lead to regime change, that is, the demise of democracy? The answer is no. The impact of populism on democracy depends on the variety of populism in power: the worst outcomes in democratic governance are found under unconstrained populism. Carrión presents the permissive and productive conditions for why and how populism becomes unconstrained, as well as a dynamic theory of change that shows how the late victories of populists build on early ones, resulting in greater power asymmetries. A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power provides an analysis of five Latin American populist presidencies, all located in the Andes. In four of them (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela), populism became unconstrained and regime change followed. In one case, Colombia, populism in power was successfully contained and democracy survived. The concluding chapter places the Andean cases in comparative perspective and discusses how unconstrained populism in other cases (Nicaragua and Hungary) also led to the end of electoral democracy. Where populism in power was constrained (Honduras and the United States), regime change did not materialize. Carrión advances a theory of populism in power that helps us understand how democracies transition into non-democracies. To that extent, the book illuminates the processes of democratic erosion in our time.
Download or read book Water State and the City written by A. Ioris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates the complexity of the Latin American mega cities and the multiple commitments of the apparatus of the state with a focus on the failures of the public water sector. It offers an innovative interpretation of large-scale urbanization, one of the most challenging questions affecting Latin American governments and society.
Download or read book Mexican Mural Art written by Roberto Cantú and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the work of prominent art critics, art historians, and literary critics who study the art, lives, and times of the leading Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and, among other artists, David Alfaro Siqueiros. Written exclusively for this book in English or in Spanish, and with a full-length introduction (in English), the selected essays respond to a surging interest in Mexican mural art, bringing forth new interpretations and perspectives from the standpoint of the 21st century. The volume’s innovative and varied critical approaches will be of interest to a wide readership, including professors and students of Mexican muralism, as well as the speculative reader, public libraries, and art galleries around the world.
Download or read book Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America written by M. Guerrero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America proposes, tests and analyses the liberal captured model. It explores to what extent to which globalisation, marketization, commercialism, regional bodies and the nation State redefine the media's role in Latin American societies.
Download or read book Ethnography and Educational Policy Across the Americas written by Bradley A.U. Levinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in the series Sociocultural Studies of Educational Policy Formation and Appropriation, this volume brings together scholars from North America, South America, and Europe to examine the relationship between ethnographic research and educational policy. The product of papers and discussions originally taking place at the Interamerican Symposium on Ethnographic Educational Research, the book presents both original empirical research reports and theoretical-methodological proposals for using ethnography to study and influence educational policy. After an introduction and opening chapter that highlight the different ways of conceptualizing education, education policy, and diversity across American borders, five full chapters address the relationship between ethnography and educational policy through sustained empirical attention to specific research sites and projects. The next section of the book presents shorter position statements that relate specific research or policymaking experiences and reflect on the ways that ethnography can be involved in a project of formulating or revising policy. In this section, edited transcriptions of workshop discussions give the reader a vibrant sense of the challenging issues facing educational ethnographers attempting to address policy. The book closes with a commentary by a veteran educational ethnographer. Of interest to educators, researchers, and policymakers across the Americas, this volume contributes to an ongoing dialogue about how ethnographic research can intersect advantageously with the policymaking enterprise.
