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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
Direct linkDiana 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
King Miller, Beverly A. – SAGE Open, 2017
This article explores issues related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), participation and underrepresentation specifically in regard to women of African descent. Drawing from a larger qualitative, grounded case study, the article examines the experiences of Panamanian Afro Caribbean women in STEM and their successful…
Descriptors: Females, Barriers, STEM Education, Latin Americans
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
Kliewer, Wendy; Murrelle, Lenn; Prom, Elizabeth; Ramirez, Melva; Obando, Patricia; Sandi, Luis; Karenkeris, Maria del Carmen – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2006
Associations between witnessing serious violence and drug use, and the protective influences of family cohesion and parental monitoring, were investigated among 9,840 adolescents (50.5% female, M age=15.29 years, SD=1.76) living in Panama and Costa Rica. After accounting for demographics and parental and sibling substance use, witnessing serious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Drug Abuse, Violence
Jaramillo, Maria Clara – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
Over the past several decades, Latin American countries have supported processes of bringing public policy decisions on education closer to the people concerned. Participation at all levels of decision-making processes has generally been highly valued. Nonetheless, these decentralization efforts came about without governments taking the necessary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Refresher Courses, Conflict Resolution
