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María Goñi Mazzitelli; Bianca Vienni-Baptista – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2023
This article is inspired by a recent call for the establishment of "alliances for inter- and transdisciplinarity" issued by Julie Thompson Klein (2021) in this journal. Previously, in 2016, "Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies" published a Special Section devoted to Latin American experiences in interdisciplinarity and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Partnerships in Education
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Osiobe, 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
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María Angela Prialé; Angela Vera Ruiz; Agustin Espinosa; Joanna Noelia Kamiche Zegarra; Gustavo Adolfo Yepes López; Adrián Marcelo Darmohraj; Carlos Ivan Flores Venturi – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to present the development and validation of a scale to measure the attitudes of Latin American business students toward sustainable management practices in the economic, social and environmental dimensions. Design/methodology/approach: Using a nonprobabilistic sample, the appreciation for sustainable practices in students…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Student Attitudes, Business Administration Education, Measures (Individuals)
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Diana Milstein; Regina Coeli Machado e Silva; Maria Dantas-Whitney – Ethnography and Education, 2024
The present ethnographic study was conducted in collaboration with thirty-five Latin American children from different countries during the period of school closures precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through exchanges of multimodal texts (letters, text messages, photos, drawings, audios, videos) and virtual encounters, we sought to understand…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, COVID-19, Pandemics, Family Environment
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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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Torres-Gastelú, Carlos Arturo – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
One of the educational challenges faced by Latin American universities is the development of digital citizenship competence in their students on issues of digital identity, security and privacy online. The aim of the study was to identify the perception of Mexican and Colombian university students towards the preventive measures of online privacy.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Prevention, Privacy, Information Security
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Lugo-Armenta, Jesús Guadalupe; Pino-Fan, Luis Roberto – Education Sciences, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic generated a new scenario in education, where technological resources mediate teaching and learning processes. This paper presents the development of a virtual teacher training experience aimed at promoting inferential reasoning in practicing and prospective mathematics teachers using inference problems on the Chi-square…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Statistical Inference, Probability, Thinking Skills
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Cortina, Regina; Earl, Amanda – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
This article uses Southern theories to analyse education programmes in Latin America that promote Indigenous knowledges and languages at the university level. Applying de Sousa Santos' concepts of 'pluriversity' and 'subversity' to four cases of programme models, in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and one regional network, the authors describe the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, American Indian Languages, Global Approach, Program Evaluation
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Weinstein, José; Azar, Ariel; Flessa, Joseph – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
Latin American educational policy has relied on the assumption that better preparation can help school leaders improve their professional performance, thus improving quality of schools. Training programs for present or future school leaders have proliferated in the region, often publicly financed, but without enough evidence of their impact. Using…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Elementary Schools, Principals, Instructional Leadership
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Trigos-Carrillo, Lina – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the literacy practices of the families and communities of first-generation college students in Latin America, and how community and family literacies can inform the understanding of first-generation college students' identity and cultural values. Design/methodology/approach: This transnational…
Descriptors: Literacy, First Generation College Students, Latin Americans, Family Literacy
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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
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Martínez-Fernández, J. Reinaldo; Vermunt, Jan D. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The aim of this study was to analyse and compare the learning patterns of higher education students from Spain and three Latin-American countries (Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela). For this purpose Vermunt's Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS) was translated into Spanish and tested. The participants were 456 undergraduates enrolled in a teacher…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Guidelines, Latin Americans, Cognitive Style
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Hennes, Heather – Hispania, 2011
In the past two years, several Latin American nations have begun celebrating their bicentennials of independence, turning attention to questions of national identity and the legacy of independence in the twenty-first century. This reflection is sure to continue into the coming decade. This article offers a few practical suggestions for bringing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Latin American Culture, Spanish
Lara, Margaret A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study discusses the results of a content analysis of 75 Latina biographies for primary and pre-adolescent students that were published over a 16-year period, spanning from 1995 to 2010. Significant to this study was how Latinas were represented in the biographies and what changes can be seen over time. Using a rubric based on research by…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Biographies, Females, Elementary School Students
Murakami, Yuki; Blom, Andreas – World Bank Publications, 2008
This paper examines the financing of tertiary education in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, comparing the affordability and accessibility of tertiary education with that in high-income countries. To measure affordability, the authors estimate education costs, living costs, grants, and loans. Further, they compute the participation rate,…
Descriptors: Income, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Student Financial Aid
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