Doing multicultural education for achievement and equity.

Escrito por dos de los fundadores y más eminentes estudiosos que trabajan en la educación multicultural, este libro ofrece, desde una perspectiva constructivista del desarrollo personal y del aprendizaje, ayuda a los profesores para desarrollar herramientas con las que aprender de sus alumnos, y de sus comunidades y contextos de procedencia. Se anima al lector a interactuar con el texto a través de ejercicios de reflexión, diálogos y críticas. También, adopta un papel activo en la promoción de la igualdad en la educación y ayuda a los profesores a convertirse en profesionales cualificados y humanitarios.

Effective schools, equity and teacher effectiveness : a review to the literature. 'Escuelas eficaces, equidad y eficacia docente : una revisión de la literatura'.

Monográfico con el título: 'Eficacia escolar y equidad'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Rhetoric, best wishes and reality : education in Latin America : the challenge of equity and quality. 'Retórica, buenos deseos y realidad : educación en Latinoamérica : el desafío de la equidad y la calidad'.

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Equity in the higher fees era : a case study of English universities

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The equity aspect within the framework of the assessment of the quality of Higher Education : developing indicators to identify students with a higher risk of failure at university with a view to improving equality of chances of succes

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Efficiency and Equity in Learning Communities and schools

Traditionally, school efficiency has been measured as a function of educational production. In the last two decades, however, studies in the economics of education have indicated that more is required to improve school efficiency: researchers must explore how significant changes in school organization affect the performance of at-risk students. In this paper we introduce Henry Levin’s adoption of the X-efficiency approach to education and we describe the efficient and cost-effective characteristics of one Learning Communities Project School that significantly improved its student outcomes and enrollment numbers and reduced its absenteeism rate to zero. The organizational change that facilitated these improvements defined specific issues to address. Students’ school success became the focus of the school project, which also offered specific incentives, selected teachers, involved parents and community members in decisions, and used the most efficient technologies and methods. This case analysis reveals new two elements—family training and community involvement—that were not explicit parts of Levin’s adaptation. The case of the Antonio Machado Public School should attract the attention of both social scientists and policy makers

Entrepreneurship, ties and relational networks: the case of a public-private cross-border tourism product

The thesis aims to understand the processes of entrepreneurship that try to create businesses or products with a high degree of complexity. This complexity comes from the fact that these products or initiatives can only be viable with the concurrence of a large number of heterogeneous actors (public, private, from different regions, etc..) which interact in a relational context. A case with these characteristics is the Camí dels Bons Homes. The thesis analyzes the evolution of the relational network from the point of view of its structure and content of its links. The results show and explain the observed changes in the network structure and the changes in the ties content. This analysis of the content of ties contributes to a new systematization and operationalization of ties’ content. Moreover this analysis takes in account negative ties, a less discussed issue in literature.

Parents as advocates for their hearing impaired children transitioning from a private setting to a mainstream setting

This project studied the experiences of parents whose hearing impaired children moved from private education settings into mainstream education.

An evaluation of private speech

This literature review examines the use of private speech among typically developing and hearing impaired children. This paper supports the view that private speech provides a self-regulatory function and guides behavior and problem-solving.

Las disposiciones legales que desarrollan los preceptos constitucionales sobre la inversión privada extranjera en el Ecuador (Tema Central)

El presente artículo presenta un análisis del régimen vigente en materia de la inversión privada extranjera, partiendo de las disposiciones pertinentes incorporadas en el código orgánico de la Producción, comercio e Inversiones (dic. 2010), cotejando las mismas frente a los preceptos establecidos por la constitución de la República del Ecuador relativos al sistema económico y otros ámbitos pertinentes. La evaluación se complementa contrastando las disposiciones legales de reciente vigencia, a los criterios de consistencia de los correspondientes lineamientos del esquema de planificación gubernamental y a varios principios del sistema de reglas internacionales sobre la inversión. Se aportan, finalmente, conclusiones sobre probables líneas de ajuste normativo futuras, resultantes de dicho proceso de comparación analítica.

La concepción de propiedad privada en los arbitrajes internacionales en materia de inversión: reflexiones a partir del caso argentino (Coyuntura)

El artículo se propone escrutar, a la luz del caso argentino, la concepción de propiedad privada subyacente en las respuestas de las instituciones internacionales de arbitraje en el marco de las controversias entre Estados e inversores transnacionales. Se entiende que el análisis del caso argentino puede echar luz en la materia al tratarse del país con mayor número de demandas en su contra.

Public and Private Regulation: Mapping the Labyrinth. CEPS Working Document No. 370, October 2012

Private governance is currently being evoked as a viable solution to many public policy goals. However, in some circumstances it has shown to produce more harm than good, and even disastrous consequences as in the case of the financial crisis that is raging in most advanced economies. Although the current track record of private regulatory schemes is mixed, policy guidance documents around the world still require that policy-makers give priority to self- and co-regulation, with little or no additional guidance being given to policymakers to devise when, and under what circumstances, these solutions can prove viable from a public policy perspective. With an array of examples from several policy fields, this paper approaches regulation as a public-private collaborative form and attempts to identify possible policy tools to be applied by public policy-makers to efficiently and effectively approach private governance as a solution, rather than a problem. We propose a six-step theoretical framework and argue that IA techniques should: i) define an integrated framework including both the possibility that private regulation can be used as an alternative or as a complement to public legislation; ii) involve private parties in public IAs in order to define the best strategy or strategies that would ensure achievement of the regulatory objectives; and iii) contemplate the deployment of indicators related to governance and activities of the regulators and their ability to coordinate and solve disputes with other regulators.