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Direct linkCastillo, José Antonio; Powell, Michael A. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2020
Ecuador's research output relative to other Latin American countries has been low historically; however, over the last 10 years, the government has put various policies in place to help remedy this situation. This is an analysis of Ecuadorian research productivity from 2006 to 2015. The scientific productivity of Ecuador has increased 5.16 times…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Productivity, Public Policy
Noemí Suárez Monzón; Vanessa Gómez Suárez; Sonnia Alexandra Heredia Gálvez; Maritza Librada Cáceres Mesa – Cogent Education, 2024
This study analyzed the current state of education for gifted students in Ecuador using the Educational and Learning Capital Model (ELCM) to propose improvements in the development of programs and services. A mixed research approach was employed, addressing two key questions: (a) How is the education of gifted students currently managed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Gifted, Gifted Education
Yasmany García-Ramírez; Vera Bijelic – Cogent Education, 2024
In the realm of academia, the workload of professors varies widely depending on the institution, department, and specific roles they undertake. With many faculty members exceeding a fifty-hour workweek, the balance between teaching, research, administrative duties, and personal life becomes a challenging endeavour, potentially leading to high…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Task Analysis, Job Analysis, Faculty
Salas-Pilco, Sdenka Zobeida; Yang, Yuqin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
This study presents several Latin American research initiatives in the field of learning analytics (LA). The study's purpose is to enhance awareness and understanding of LA among researchers, practitioners and decision makers, and to highlight the importance of supporting research on LA. We analyzed case studies of LA research conducted at four…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Latin Americans, Educational Research, Decision Making
Ouyang, Yuxia; Van Hoof, Hubert; Sharma, Amit; Cueva Navas, Ana; Estrella Duran, Mateo; Maldonado, Gabriela; Velez Calvo, Ximena; Gavilanes Valle, Julio – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2020
A study into reading behavior and reading compliance among 2,600 students in five universities in Ecuador found that their reading behavior and reading compliance were better than among students in the United States, despite the challenges that exist in Ecuadorian higher education. Suggestions for future research, in particular with regard to…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Attitudes, Compliance (Psychology), Time Management
Download full textTyson, Lorena Sanchez; Vega, Valerie Watson – London Review of Education, 2019
This article explores whether and how contemporary discourses in lifelong learning (LLL) can support intercultural universities in Latin America. Since the late twentieth century, LLL has primarily been seen through a Eurocentric lens, with a strong focus on the development of skills for knowledge-based economies and societies. As this discourse…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Latin Americans, Multicultural Education, Indigenous Knowledge
Johnson, Ethan – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
The present moment represents a high point in the efforts of Afro-Ecuadorians to challenge their systematic exclusion from mainstream institutions and resources. This article examines anti-blackness in and outside of schooling in Ecuador. In the first section, I show that anti-blackness is a fact in Ecuador. Since the colonial era, Black people in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Racial Bias, Equal Education
Giraldo, Frank; Yan, Xun – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
In this article, we report the results of a study through which we collected English language teachers' needs and wants to design an online language assessment course. Through a mixed-methods approach, we asked 20 teachers from four Latin American countries what they wanted to learn in the course. The teachers wanted a course in which they could…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Ramos, Juan G. – Hispania, 2016
This current study explores the relationship between visual technology (cinema and photography) and a metanarrative preoccupation with the craft of literary narration in two texts by Pablo Palacio (Ecuador, 1906-47). In his novella "Débora" (1927), Palacio employs the language of cinema (e.g., the cinematograph, the cinema, references to…
Descriptors: Authors, Films, Photography, Narration
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
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
Walsh, Catherine E. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
Catherine Walsh is senior professor and director of the doctoral programme in Latin American Cultural Studies at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Ecuador. Her present work is focused on the political, epistemic and ethical project of critical interculturality, and on concerns of decoloniality, taking as key the themes of knowledge,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Education, Politics of Education, Educational Philosophy
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
Santana Paredes, Matias – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The replication of the U.S. cultural models in business and social organizations is a common practice in Latin America. In Ecuador, a university operates under the liberal arts model, understanding it as a replication of an U.S. cultural model, in an environment where the Ecuadorian cultural beliefs and values constitute the national cultural…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Latin Americans, Biculturalism, Social Systems
