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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
Aghaei, Mohammad B. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is always keen on presenting to the people the various facets of their history. His literary language acts as effective means for describing the critical historical aspects of Latin America because the legacy of colonialism had destroyed so many important traces of the native culture of that area. This has led him to search…
Descriptors: Latin American Literature, Latin American History, Latin American Culture, Foreign Policy
Direct linkSalom, Andrée – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2017
Long-posed questions about art therapy's artistic and psychological polarity are revisited when the profession is introduced into a new country. In a symposium dedicated to the process of advancing the profession in Colombia, attendees who were unfamiliar with art therapy raised questions that resonated with the historical polarity of art versus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Therapy, Art, Psychology
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
Alarcón, Cristina – European Education, 2015
This paper analyzes the activities, members, and effects of an inter-American expert network for the diffusion of psychometric knowledge, specifically of standardized aptitude testing for university admission in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Within the framework of educational transfer studies, the role of international,…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, College Admission, Standardized Tests, Aptitude Tests
Medina-Jerez, William; Middleton, Kyndra V.; Orihuela-Rabaza, Walter – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
The way in which students view science and its practitioners, particularly during their late elementary and early secondary grade levels, has been at the core of numerous studies dating back to research by Mead & Metraux (Science 126:384-390, "1957"). In this study, we used the Draw-a-Scientist Test Checklist developed by Finson,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Check Lists, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Sinharay, Sandip; Powers, Donald E.; Feng, Ying; Saldivia, Luis; Giunta, Anthony; Simpson, Annabelle; Weng, Vincent – Language Testing, 2009
In order to facilitate the interpretation of test scores from the TOEIC[R] "Bridge" as a measure of English language proficiency, one form of the test was administered to more than 6000 test takers in three South American countries--Colombia, Chile and Ecuador. The appropriateness of the TOEIC "Bridge" test as a measure of…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Skills, English (Second Language)
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
