Social Panorama of Latin America 2008

Includes bibliography

Social Panorama of Latin America 2010

Includes bibliography

How to drag with a worn-out mouse? Searching for social justice through collaboration

We consider what a concern for social justice in terms of social inclusion might mean for teacher education, both practising and prospective, with particular reference to the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in mathematics education taking place at a borderland school. Our discussion proceeds through the following steps: (1) We explore what a borderland position might denote to address what social inclusion might mean. (2) We consider the significance of mathematics education and the use of ICT for processes of social inclusion. (3) We briefly refer to the Interlink Network, as many of our observations emerge as reflections on this project. (4) We present different issues that will be of particular importance with respect to teacher education if we want to establish a mathematics education for social inclusion. These issues concern moving away from the comfort zone, establishing networks, identifying new approaches, moving beyond prototypical research, and getting in contact. This brings us to (5) final considerations, where we return to the notion of social justice. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009.

A decade of social development in Latin America, 1990-1999

Includes bibliography

A system of indicators for monitoring social cohesion in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Aproximaciones y desencuentros en la configuración de una autoridad social en Costa Rica: relato e interpretación de una reforma inconclusa

Incluye Bibliografía

Beneficio de prestação continuada - um instrumento de inclusão social

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Repositório digital como ambiente de inclusão digital e social para usuários idosos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Infrastructure, integration and equity: The social impact of the health and public transportation infrastructure.

Academicians and practitioners generally agree that there is a positive correlation between more and better infrastructure and economic growth. From the broader perspective of development, attempts have been made in the literature to identify the different theoretical connections and the empirical patterns that link infrastructure to productivity, on the one hand, and those that link it to social inclusion and equity, on the other hand. Infrastructure contributes to development in different ways. The capital involved is not homogeneous, nor is its effect on the distributive aspects. Water and sanitation have a particularly strong association with the health of the general population and with infant mortality, early childhood health, learning abilities and the acquisition of labour skills. With respect to transportation, the reduction of costs and travel times has a direct economic impact on economic activities of production and domestic and international distribution. That infrastructure also has a social and distributive role to play by reducing the number of fatal accidents and serious injuries in the sectors that are naturally most susceptible to them, namely, the poor. Under the broad umbrella of infrastructure, we can include a number of facilities that make possible the provision of certain services. Some of these facilities require very significant fixed capital investments; some of them are residential, while others are not necessarily. What they all have in common is the existence of networks (transportation, wiring, pipelines) and a strong convergence of physical capital and/or technology, as well as the need for major investments in periodic maintenance.

Ensino de arquitetura e concepção de professores sobre acessibilidade, inclusão social, desenvolvimento humano e deficiência

Pós-graduação em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento e Aprendizagem - FC

Horizons 2030: Equality at the centre of sustainable development. Summary

The world is living a change of era. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals represent the international community’s response to the economic, distributive and environmental imbalances built up under the prevailing development pattern. This document, presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to its member States at its thirty-sixth session, provides an analytical complement to the 2030 Agenda from a structuralist perspective and from the point of view of the Latin American and Caribbean countries. The proposals made here stem from the need to achieve progressive structural change in order to incorporate more knowledge into production, ensure social inclusion and combat the negative impacts of climate change. The reflections and proposals for advancing towards a new development pattern are geared to achieving equality and environmental sustainability. In these proposals, the creation of global and regional public goods and the corresponding domestic policies form the core for expanding the structuralist tradition towards a global Keynesianism and a development strategy centred around an environmental big push.

Horizons 2030: Equality at the centre of sustainable development

The world is living a change of era. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals represent the international community’s response to the economic, distributive and environmental imbalances built up under the prevailing development pattern. This document, presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to its member States at its thirty-sixth session, provides an analytical complement to the 2030 Agenda from a structuralist perspective and from the point of view of the Latin American and Caribbean countries. The proposals made here stem from the need to achieve progressive structural change in order to incorporate more knowledge into production, ensure social inclusion and combat the negative impacts of climate change. The reflections and proposals for advancing towards a new development pattern are geared to achieving equality and environmental sustainability. In these proposals, the creation of global and regional public goods and the corresponding domestic policies form the core for expanding the structuralist tradition towards a global Keynesianism and a development strategy centred around an environmental big push.

A minha vida seria muito diferente se não fosse a matemática: o sentido e os significados do ensino de matemática em processos de exclusão e de inclusão escolar e social na educação de jovens e adultos

A presente investigação se configura em termos qualitativos de pesquisa como um estudo de caso dos alunos de uma escola estadual integrante do programa especial de Educação de Jovens e Adultos EJA. Tais alunos estavam matriculados na 3 e na 4 etapas do programa, cujo formato curricular corresponde às quatro últimas séries do Ensino Fundamental de 5 a 8 séries, cuja operacionalização concentra conhecimento, espaço e tempo uma vez que cada etapa é desenvolvida em um ano letivo. A escola escolhida se localiza em área geográfica de ocupação cuja comunidade vive na condição de exclusão social, justamente no entorno de duas universidades públicas. Os jovens e adultos originados desse contexto, que estudam nessa escola, vivenciaram uma trajetória escolar marcada por impedimentos de estudar, reprovações e interrupções escolares que os impediram de concluir o Ensino Fundamental. Por essas razões, me propus investigar para conhecer, no âmbito do ensino da Matemática, elementos que contribuem para a (re)inclusão escolar com sucesso desses alunos, bem como elementos que acabam por incidir na sua (re)exclusão escolar, um fenômeno que retroalimenta o processo inevitável de exclusão social desses alunos. Para tanto, assumi a construção de uma trama narrativa relativa ao contexto dessa escola, envolvendo e interagindo dialogicamente os seus sujeitos nesta pesquisa, quais sejam, alunos, professores e funcionários da escola. Considerei suas historicidades e suas interpretações dos eventos pedagógicos vividos por eles em relação ao ensino de Matemática, objetivando produzir outros sentidos, relações e nexos que respondam ao como e ao por que os elementos de análise destacados contribuem e incidem no processo de inclusão ou exclusão escolar. As análises por mim procedidas possibilitam evidenciar os termos da indiferença escolar e do despreparo docente quer pela desconsideração da história do alunado quer pela visão distorcida de currículo justo e igualdade de oportunidades na comparação com os alunos legalmente ditos vinculados ao ensino regular.