Proyecto de tesis de maestría : La producción discursiva de los organismos internacionales en América Latina y el Caribe

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo fundamental realizar un aporte a las discusiones político-intelectuales del campo educativo en América Latina y el Caribe en el período que media entre los años 1976 y 1992. Desde una perspectiva del estudio de las ideas político-pedagógicas interesa explorar los contenidos, categorías teóricas, temas y problemáticas que caracterizaron la producción discursiva de los organismos internacionales, en tanto segmento constitutivo del campo intelectual de la educación. En términos empíricos, se estudiarán desde una perspectiva comparada y contrastativa tres producciones documentales fundamentales para América Latina y el Caribe llevadas a cabo por un conjunto de organismos internacionales: el Proyecto Desarrollo y Educación en América Latina y el Caribe (UNESCO-CEPAL-PNUD) de 1976-1981, el Proyecto Principal de Educación para América Latina y el Caribe considerado entre los años 1981-1989 (UNESCO) y por último; el Documento Educación y Conocimiento: ejes de la transformación productiva con equidad de 1992 (UNESCO-CEPAL). En suma, este trabajo pretende efectuar una contribución a la historia reciente del campo intelectual de la educación -que ciertamente cuenta con muy pocas investigaciones al respecto-, partiendo del presupuesto de que el abordaje de los procesos de producción discursiva e innovación conceptual aporta a la comprensión de la conformación y desarrollo del campo educativo.

Proyecto de tesis de maestría : La producción discursiva de los organismos internacionales en América Latina y el Caribe

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo fundamental realizar un aporte a las discusiones político-intelectuales del campo educativo en América Latina y el Caribe en el período que media entre los años 1976 y 1992. Desde una perspectiva del estudio de las ideas político-pedagógicas interesa explorar los contenidos, categorías teóricas, temas y problemáticas que caracterizaron la producción discursiva de los organismos internacionales, en tanto segmento constitutivo del campo intelectual de la educación. En términos empíricos, se estudiarán desde una perspectiva comparada y contrastativa tres producciones documentales fundamentales para América Latina y el Caribe llevadas a cabo por un conjunto de organismos internacionales: el Proyecto Desarrollo y Educación en América Latina y el Caribe (UNESCO-CEPAL-PNUD) de 1976-1981, el Proyecto Principal de Educación para América Latina y el Caribe considerado entre los años 1981-1989 (UNESCO) y por último; el Documento Educación y Conocimiento: ejes de la transformación productiva con equidad de 1992 (UNESCO-CEPAL). En suma, este trabajo pretende efectuar una contribución a la historia reciente del campo intelectual de la educación -que ciertamente cuenta con muy pocas investigaciones al respecto-, partiendo del presupuesto de que el abordaje de los procesos de producción discursiva e innovación conceptual aporta a la comprensión de la conformación y desarrollo del campo educativo.

Proyecto de tesis de maestría : La producción discursiva de los organismos internacionales en América Latina y el Caribe

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo fundamental realizar un aporte a las discusiones político-intelectuales del campo educativo en América Latina y el Caribe en el período que media entre los años 1976 y 1992. Desde una perspectiva del estudio de las ideas político-pedagógicas interesa explorar los contenidos, categorías teóricas, temas y problemáticas que caracterizaron la producción discursiva de los organismos internacionales, en tanto segmento constitutivo del campo intelectual de la educación. En términos empíricos, se estudiarán desde una perspectiva comparada y contrastativa tres producciones documentales fundamentales para América Latina y el Caribe llevadas a cabo por un conjunto de organismos internacionales: el Proyecto Desarrollo y Educación en América Latina y el Caribe (UNESCO-CEPAL-PNUD) de 1976-1981, el Proyecto Principal de Educación para América Latina y el Caribe considerado entre los años 1981-1989 (UNESCO) y por último; el Documento Educación y Conocimiento: ejes de la transformación productiva con equidad de 1992 (UNESCO-CEPAL). En suma, este trabajo pretende efectuar una contribución a la historia reciente del campo intelectual de la educación -que ciertamente cuenta con muy pocas investigaciones al respecto-, partiendo del presupuesto de que el abordaje de los procesos de producción discursiva e innovación conceptual aporta a la comprensión de la conformación y desarrollo del campo educativo.

Institutional history of Virginia in the seventeenth century; an inquiry into the religious, moral and educational, legal, military, and political condition of the people based on original and contemporaneous records,

Bibliography: v. 1, p. xi-xiii.

An illustrated history of the state of Indiana : being a full and authentic civil and political history of the state from its first exploration down to 1875; including an account of the commercial, agricultural, and educational growth of Indiana; with historical and descriptive sketches of the cities, towns and villages ... together with biographical sketches and portraits of the prominent men of the past and present, and a history of each county separately /

Mode of access: Internet.

Design for inspiration : children, personal connections and educational technology

The project is working towards building an understanding of the personal interests and experiences of children with the aim of designing appropriate, usable and, most importantly, inspirational educational technology. kidprobe, an adaptation of the technology probe concept, has been used as a lightweight method of gaining contextual information about children's interactions with 'fun' technology. kidprobe has produced design inspiration which focuses primarily on the social and emotional connections children made. The use of kidprobe has generated some important ideas for improving the use of probes with children. It is an important first step in understanding how to effectively adapt probing techniques to inspire the design of technology for children.

Godwin, Fénelon, and the disappearing teacher

The connection between Godwin and Fénelon has traditionally been restricted to the famous and controversial moment in the first edition of Political Justice (1793) in which Godwin presents an example of the interdependence of rationality and ethical action. This paper argues, however, that Fénelon, and particularly his political and educational treatise Telemachus (1699), plays a significant role in a number of Godwin's subsequent fictional works. Employing Telemachus to explore the theories of education presented by Godwin in the various editions of Political Justice and The Enquirer (1797), this paper explores the manner in which Godwin's version of the Enlightenment transcendence of pedagogical power comes up against its limits. Reading this issue in relation to Godwin's argument, in ‘Of Choice in Reading’, that literature remains outside of socio-ethical corruption, three of Godwin's major novels are shown to demonstrate that Telemachus provides the chance for meta-textual moments in which the appeal to reason (the reader's rational capacity or ‘private judgement’) is at once reflected upon and produced. Reading educational theories and problems into Godwin's major fiction in this fashion helps to clarify aspects of the Godwinian (or ‘Jacobin’) novel.

The political and economic context of Keynes’s 1933 Finlay lecture: transforming a business practitioner’s ways of knowing

This thesis is structured in the format of a three part Portfolio of Exploration to facilitate transformation in my ways of knowing to enhance an experienced business practitioner’s capabilities and effectiveness. A key factor in my ways of knowing, as opposed to what I know, is my exploration of context and assumptions. By interacting with my cultural, intellectual, economic, and social history, I seek to become critically aware of the biographical, historical, and cultural context of my beliefs and feelings about myself. This Portfolio is not exclusively for historians of economics or historians of ideas but also for those interested in becoming more aware of how these culturally assimilated frames of reference and bundles of assumptions that influence the way they perceive, think, decide, feel and interpret their experiences in order to operate more effectively in their professional and organisational lives. In the first part of my Portfolio, I outline and reflect upon my Portfolio’s overarching theory of adult development; the writings of Harvard’s Robert Kegan and Columbia University’s Jack Mezirow. The second part delves further into how meaning-making, the activity of how one organises and makes sense of the world and how meaning-making evolves to different levels of complexity. I explore how past experience and our interpretations of history influences our understandings since all perception is inevitably tinged with bias and entrenched ‘theory-laden’ assumptions. In my third part, I explore the 1933 inaugural University College Dublin Finlay Lecture delivered by economist John Maynard Keynes. My findings provide a new perspective and understanding of Keynes’s 1933 lecture by not solely reading or relying upon the text of the three contextualised essay versions of his lecture. The purpose and context of Keynes’s original longer lecture version was quite different to the three shorter essay versions published for the American, British and German audiences.

Cultural and Educational Society of Muslims "Narodna Uzdanica" /"National Hope"/ 1923-1941

Ibrahim Kemura. The Muslim Cultural-Educational Society Narodna uzdanica from 1923/4 to 1941 One of the features of the cultural history of the Bosniacs between the two world wars (1918-1941) was a cultural and educational society named Narodna uzdanica, which was a significant institutional and cultural-intellectual centre of the Bosniac people in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Narodna uzdanica expressed the aspirations and needs of the Bosniac citizens who were its main support and axis and was aimed at fulfilling their interests. This was reflected in an ideological-cultural orientation towards the West and the adoption of positive western achievements while at the same time stressing its Slavic origins and individuality, the education of young people and the formation of a European-type civic intelligentsia, adaptation to life in capitalist society, the development of modern trade and crafts, the emancipation of women, and cultural education based on European values. Thus conceived, the programme enjoyed the support of a wider circle of members, the reading public and the cultural consumers of those particular elements such as education and economic prosperity which it sought to achieve. The political involvement of Narodna uzdanica and its use as a platform for the leading Bosniac political party Jugoslovenska muslimanska organizacija (JMO - Yugoslav Muslim Organisation) which had founded the society, played a significant role in the socio-political life and development of Bosniacs. The opposition to the ruling regime, often expressed through close cooperation with similar Croat organisations and through the pro-Croat attitude of some of the society's leading figures, offered both the regime and Narodna uzdanica's political adversaries grounds for describing it as separatist and Croat and served as a pretext for repressive measures to hinder its normal operations. This research proved these accusations to be groundless, showing that the pro-Croat orientation was primarily political and cultural and that throughout its existence Narodna uzdanica was active in the cultural and educational renaissance of Bosniacs, helping to strengthen their national identity.

Design for Inspiration: Children, personal connections and educational technology

The project is working towards building an understanding of the personal interests and experiences of children with the aim of designing appropriate, usable and, most importantly, inspirational educational technology. kidprobe, an adaptation of the technology probe concept, has been used as a lightweight method of gaining contextual information about children's interactions with 'fun' technology. kidprobe has produced design inspiration which focuses primarily on the social and emotional connections children made. The use of kidprobe has generated some important ideas for improving the use of probes with children. It is an important first step in understanding how to effectively adapt probing techniques to inspire the design of technology for children.