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Download full textOsiobe, Ejiro U. – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
Latin American countries have evolved over the years. Still, after years of military reign, socioeconomicinstability, and civil wars, the region has been known for its anti-hegemonic economic growth (educationalpolicies) strategies. Central and South America's educational system has long been under investigation by researchers both theoretically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Latin Americans, Educational Practices
Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Mendez, María-Eugenia; Valdez-Jiménez, Liliana; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Zúñiga, Luz-María; Fonseca-Ramirez, Oscar-Hernan; Alvarez, Maria-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquin; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodriguez-Ramirez, Sergio-Esteban; Alvarez-Gomez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesus; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
The intention of the present paper is to show that people have a series of educational needs in the era of information, so that they can become competent digital citizens. These educational needs are evident in the policies promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which were well known to Latin American…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Needs, Educational Change, Latin Americans
Direct linkAcerenza, Santiago; Gandelman, Néstor – Education Finance and Policy, 2019
This paper characterizes household spending in education using microdata from income and expenditure surveys for twelve Latin American and Caribbean countries and the United States. Bahamas, Chile, and Mexico have the highest household spending in education and Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay have the lowest. Tertiary education is the most important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Heads of Households, Expenditures
Kattan, Raja Bentaouet; Székely, Miguel – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
This study examines recent trends and factors in school dropout at the upper secondary education level across Latin America. The methodology employs repeated cross sections of data to track the life cycle path of cohorts of individuals in 18 countries. A key finding is that while upper secondary enrollment rates increased in the region, dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cohort Analysis, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
Bernasconi, Andrés; Celis, Sergio – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
This article introduces a special issue of EPAA/AAPE devoted to recent higher education reforms in Latin America. The last two decades have seen much policy development in higher education in the region, examined and discussed by scholars in each country, but dialog with the international literature on higher education reform, or an explicit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Higher Education, Educational Change
Peer reviewedSomers, Marie-Andree; McEwan, Patrick J.; Willms, J. Douglas – Comparative Education Review, 2004
In 1997, the Santiago office of UNESCO implemented an assessment of student achievement in Latin America, working in collaboration with 13 Latin American ministries of education. Using a common sampling methodology and survey instruments, researchers in each country collected representative samples of data on third- and fourth-grade achievement in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Peer Groups
Menanteau-Horta, Dario – 1983
Interviews with high school seniors in Bolivia (n=1,100) and Chile (n=2,460) demonstrated that individuals with international contacts hold more positive attitudes toward others than those individuals without this type of exposure. The study examined the students' opinions about other countries of the Latin American region, opportunities for…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Interrelationships, Culture Contact
Peer reviewedSanchez, Ana Isabel; Wray, Alberto – Update on Law-Related Education, 1994
Describes cultural attributes of Latin America and Latin American youth and how law-related education can be used effectively in Latin American cultures. Provides a definition of justice and asserts that Latin America is an area where there are generalized situations of injustice. Includes brief overviews of six Andean nations. (CFR)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civil Liberties, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits
Peer reviewedSehlinger, Peter J. – International Journal of Oral History, 1984
The oral history activities in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia are not yet near the point where they can rival the impressive oral history projects carried out in Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Latin American Culture
Halpern, Robert; Fisk, David – 1978
This report records survey results of preschool education programs serving children ages 3 through 6 and their families in Bolivia, Chile, and Colombia. Programs surveyed were primarily designed to reach the poorest sectors of the population, focused on improving the young child's psychomotor and social development, and utilized various…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Involvement, Cost Effectiveness, Cross Cultural Studies
