Download or read book Tradici n y reforma en la educaci n occidental del siglo XXI written by María José García Ruiz and published by EDITORIAL SANZ Y TORRES S.L.. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nadie discute hoy la extrema importancia del siglo XX en un particular capítulo de la Historia de la Educación: la expansión cuantitativa de la escolaridad, que, en los primeros niveles y abstrayendo por el momento de situaciones deficitarias en determinadas zonas de la tierra, ha llegado a la universalización. Por hirientes y hasta escandalosos que puedan resultarnos estos últimos casos, la realidad es que la inmensa mayoría de los niños del mundo han pasado al menos algunos años por la escuela y han tenido la oportunidad de contactar sus beneficios. Ésa es a mi juicio –y no digo por supuesto nada original– la gran aportación de un siglo que, en otros capítulos igualmente educacionales, podría merecer comentarios no siempre tan favorables, derivados a veces, indirectamente, de esa atención prioritaria e intensiva a la escuela, con descuido de otros ámbitos tanto o más importantes que la escuela misma en lo que hace al desarrollo integral de la persona, léase, por ejemplo, la familia. Una atención prioritaria e intensiva que, como he dicho y es casi un tópico, ha incidido particularmente en aspectos cuantitativos. Les philosophes, las grandes figuras del Siglo de las Luces, soñaron que la Ilustración cambiaría el mundo. Ciertamente lo ha hecho en gran parte, aunque no siempre para mejor. Y el instrumento institucional que ellos mismos dirigieron a esa finalidad, la escuela, no siempre consiguió no digamos ya los objetivos transformadores previstos, sino tampoco otros más modestos y elementales, como es simplemente el de alfabetizar verdaderamente al conjunto de la población humana. Asistimos hoy, con tanta preocupación como sorpresa, a una creciente producción de «analfabetos escolarizados» incluso en los países de mayor desarrollo cultural; jóvenes que, tras permanecer en la escuela un considerable número de años, con el coste económico y social que eso supone, apenas han sido capaces de adquirir y aplicar conocimientos mínimos, elementales. La baja calidad de la educación escolar, por mucho que afecte especialmente a países como el nuestro, constituye un problema y una preocupación que no excluye a ningún país, por rico que sean sus recursos económicos e incluso culturales, independientemente de su mayor o menor lucimiento en las evaluaciones internacionales de resultados. Quizá por eso, el cometido fundamental que parecen haberse echado encima la mayor parte de las políticas educativas del siglo XXI –en algunos países con extrema lentitud, todo hay que decirlo– es el de «repensar» el inmenso aparato educativo que ha ido creándose especialmente durante el siglo anterior. La maquinaria educacional es hoy, en nuestras sociedades, una inmensa consumidora de recursos que sólo muy modestamente logra traducir en resultados. Y no es que se hayan evitado esfuerzos por mejorar. Por el contrario, llevámos décadas intentando descubrir, desde la pedagogía, la psicología y en general las ciencias sociales, cuáles deberían ser las claves de esa mejora; la investigación en estos ámbitos no se ha reducido, sino que ha aumentado poderosamente. Con el curioso resultado de que, hoy día, todo ese considerable esfuerzo no sólo ha sido puesto en cuestión, sino que para muchos –léase docentes, padres, medios de opinión, clase política…– ha sido culpabilizado en gran parte de la deficiente situación en la que nos encontramos. Para muchos, las reformas educativas que han ido tejiéndose en los últimos años, promovidas en gran parte por los nuevos enfoques, en vez de arreglar las cosas, las han complicado cada vez más. No es de extrañar, por tanto, que las tendencias actuales nos marquen ese creciente afán de «repensar» lo hecho, huyendo tanto de tentaciones reformistas como de posturas de puro conformismo. Es curioso que entre los países que hoy gozan de mayor prestigio educacional, en virtud de sus relativamente mejores resultados escolares (por lo demás, bastante discutibles), predominen aquellos que siguen dando entrada en sus aulas a metodologías bien tradicionales, que quizá podríamos concretar en unas pocas: fomento del esfuerzo, refuerzo de la autoridad docente, técnicas de repetición, entrenamiento de la memoria, atención individualizada, abundancia de controles y exámenes, exigencia de buenos resultados a centros, profesores y alumnos, etc.; y esto incluso por encima de un uso cada vez más generalizado de los apoyos informáticos y de costosos recursos materiales Todo esto está ayudando a configurar un nuevo escenario institucional, en educación, que no va a ser ya pura continuación del establecido en el siglo XX. El lector encontrará interesantes pistas de estas nuevas tendencias en los capítulos que componen el libro que tiene entre sus manos. Se trata sólo de unos pocos capítulos, pero muy acertadamente elegidos por cuanto desarrollan temas fundamentales, de largo alcance, como pueden ser el de, precisamente, los nuevos paradigmas que se otean en el horizonte o el de los cambios profundos –aparentemente espasmódicos– que están fraguándose en el ámbito de la educación superior, pasando por otros igualmente interesantes de los que se ofrece ya un sucinto relato en la presentación inicial del libro. Es un honor para mí que las autoras me hayan pedido estas breves líneas proemiales. Llevo ya bastantes años trabajando junto a ellas y sé bien de su competencia y de su probidad investigadora, que sin duda resultarán de gran beneficio a quienes se adentren en tan sugerentes páginas. José Luis García Garrido
Download or read book Changing Educational Landscapes written by Dimitris Mattheou and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing educational landscapes – the fundamental values, principles and institutions of the sector – is a highly complex and demanding task for any researcher. Like shifting desert sands, these aspects of education are in a constant state of flux, changing according to the unpredictable economic, social, cultural and geo-political circumstances of late modernity. Key aspects of the intricate, fluid and multifarious contemporary setting can always escape the researcher’s necessarily selective observation. The contributors to this book share the view that it is wise, therefore, to take note of other people’s ideas, perceptions and perspectives, to compare notes and reflect critically on them. Thus the papers presented here are a critical and comparative analysis of today’s changing educational landscapes. They are an exploration of some of the forces and factors that induce these changes, and also examine some of their most significant implications. The work takes a fresh look at received ideology and institutional practices and delineates the increasingly internationalized educational discourses and policies. Among other things, the book discusses the obsession with quality in education and the alternative perceptions of educational equality; the rising concern at the obstacles to truly multicultural education, and the debate about the epistemological foundations both of knowledge and knowledge production. Underlying all of the papers in the book is the authors’ intention to enhance our understanding of educational change in this era of transition and to further our appreciation of its multifaceted expressions across the world.
Download or read book International Education Politics and Policies written by Ma José GARCÍA RUIZ and published by Editorial UNED. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book aims to analyse key features of the field of International Education. It also intends to study crucial elements of the relevant dimensions of the dichotomy Politics versus Policies. Educational policy and politic together constitute a vast field of research and intellectual endeavour. 'Policy' and 'Politics' are two words that are often confused with regard to their connotations. There is in fact some difference between the two words. 'Policy' is a 'principle'. 'Politics' is all about organizational process.
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Download or read book Disciplined Mind written by Howard Gardner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant and revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences reexamines the goals of education to support a more educated society for future generations. Howard Gardner’s concept of multiple intelligences has been hailed as perhaps the most profound insight into education since the work of Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, and even John Dewey. Here, in The Disciplined Mind, Garner pulls together the threads of his previous works and looks beyond such issues as charters, vouchers, unions, and affirmative action in order to explore the larger questions of what constitutes an educated person and how this can be achieved for all students. Gardner eloquently argues that the purpose of K–12 education should be to enhance students’ deep understanding of the truth (and falsity), beauty (and ugliness), and goodness (and evil) as defined by their various cultures. By exploring the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the lessons of the Holocaust as a set of examples that illuminates the nature of truth, beauty, and morality, The Disciplined Mind envisions how younger generations will rise to the challenges of the future—while preserving the traditional goals of a “humane” education. Gardner’s ultimate goal is the creation of an educated generation that understands the physical, biological, and societal world in their own personal context as well as in a broader world view. But even as Gardner persuasively argues the merits of his approach, he recognizes the difficulty of developing one universal, ideal form of education. In an effort to reconcile conflicting educational viewpoints, he proposes the creation of six different educational pathways that, when taken together, can satisfy people’s concern for student learning and their widely divergent views about knowledge and understanding overall.
Download or read book Introducci n al Nuevo Testamento AETH written by Dr. Aquiles E. Martinez and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Estudiante avanzado del Nuevo Testamento podrá encontrar en esta introducción un análisis sobrio del estado actual de la disciplina, y los pastores y pastoras, al igual que los maestros y maestras de escuela bíblica—descubrirán en sus paginas buenas ideas para elaborar estudios que ayuden a las congregaciones a entender y disfrutar la importante literatura bíblica veterostestamentaria. Written in Spanish, this work highlights the importance of understanding the New Testament, broadly defining it in a simple, yet organized, concrete manner. Martinez investigates the contents, purpose and context of each book of the New Testament, explaining how they became part of the canon and exploring the realities of geography, history, politics, economics, culture, philosophy, and religion in biblical times. The book includes other helpful suggestions for examining the New Testament and is ideal for classroom or personal study.
Download or read book Democracy in Mexico written by Pablo González Casanova and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Keys to the 21st Century written by Jérôme Bindé and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since September 1997, UNESCO's Analysis and Forecasting Office has been arranging a series of "Twenty-First Century Talks," each of which brings together two or three leading scientists, intellectuals, creators or decision-makers from all parts of the world. The Office also organized the first "Twenty-First Century Dialogues" in September 1998, in which 60 international participants took part in discussions on the general theme of "Will the Twenty-First Century Take Place?" This text represents an anthology of the contributions made to these future-oriented discussions, up to the ninth session of the "Talks" held in June 1999. Topics include population, biotechnologies, pollution, energy, the food supply, culture, pluralism, education, democracy, human rights, women, childhood, work, urban living, globalization, poverty, and human conflicts. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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