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Dalila Andrade Oliveira; Myriam Feldfeber – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
The article investigates the Estrado Network, which has united academics, trade unionists, and teachers in resistance against neoliberal globalisation while fostering educational alternatives for over twenty years. We utilise Bhabha's 'third space' concept to examine the network's role in the 'hybridization of various discourses and perspectives.…
Descriptors: Unions, Teachers, Resistance to Change, Educational Change
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Jason Beech; Pablo Del Monte; Jennifer Guevara – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
The influence of the International Baccalaureate (IB) has grown impressively on a global scale. In Latin America, the IB has been mainly introduced in private schools that cater for the most affluent sectors of society and, consequently, has been mostly interpreted as contributing to processes of social reproduction and the widening of…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Foreign Countries, Advantaged
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Patricia Ames – Ethnography and Education, 2024
Applying an ethnographic approach, this study examines recently implemented scholarship programmes for Indigenous people in private higher education (HE) institutions in Peru. Interviews with students and staff, participant observations, and participatory activities reveal distrust of scholarship holders by government staff and programme…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Indigenous Populations, Scholarships
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Johanna Thomas-Maude; Sharon McLennan; Vicky Walters – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
In recent years, English-language voluntourism (EVT) has grown in popularity, with many conceptualizing it as a form of cultural exchange between English speaking volunteers and members of a non-English speaking host community. This article explores relationships between and within volunteers and host groups of an EVT program in Lima, Peru. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Volunteers, Tourism, Language Teachers
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Natalia Lopez-Hornickel; Diego Carrasco; Siugmin Lay; Ernesto Treviño – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Promoting adhesion to attitudes toward gender equity is critical to achieving more equal societies, yet endorsement of gender equality among Latin American adolescents remains lower than global averages. This study investigates the role of school environments, civic knowledge, and authoritarianism in shaping gender equity attitudes among 8th-grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Grade 8, Middle School Students
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Jessaca Leinaweaver; Jeanine Anderson – Ethnography and Education, 2024
This article is based on a team ethnographic study in the province of Yauyos in the Peruvian Andes. It focuses on rural education and the inequalities surrounding it. Teachers and parents exchange mutual recriminations as they seek to explain why some children have greater difficulties than others and why urban schools achieve superior results as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Education, Equal Education