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Download full textMaría 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
Direct linkSalas-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
Silva, Heslley M.; Peñaloza, Gonzalo; Tomasco, Ivanna H.; Carvalho, Graça S. – Journal of Biological Education, 2019
Despite scientific evidence suggesting close phylogenetic relationship between chimpanzees and humans, the inclusion of these apes in the genus "Homo" is controversial. Several tools have been used to analyse this issue such as fossils, molecular clock and genome. This work intended to understand the biology teachers' conceptions about…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Latin Americans, Genetics
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
Longman-Mills, S.; Gonzalez, W. Y.; Melendez, M. O.; Garcia, M. R.; Gomez, J. D.; Juarez, C. G.; Martinez, E. A.; Penalba, S. J.; Pizzanelli, E. M.; Solorzano, L. I.; Wright, M. G. M.; Cumsille, F.; De La Haye, W.; Sapag, J. C.; Khenti, A.; Hamilton, H. A.; Erickson, P. G.; Brands, B.; Flam-Zalcman, R.; Simpson, S.; Wekerle, C.; Mann, R. E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2013
Objectives: Research from developed countries shows that child maltreatment increases the risk for substance use and problems. However, little evidence on this relationship is available from developing countries, and recognition of this relationship may have important implications for substance demand reduction strategies, including efforts to…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Evidence, Addictive Behavior, Drug Abuse
Cole, David R. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
This article examines qualitative data from a two family case study in New South Wales. Both families are from South America and have recently moved to Australia. This study demonstrates that an understanding of the ways that the families are becoming literate in Australia necessitates moving beyond linguistic analyses of the changes that are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Immigration, English (Second Language)
Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe; Lugo, Maria Ana; Santos, Maria Emma – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper studies multidimensional poverty for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay for the period 1992-2006. The approach overcomes the limitations of the two traditional methods of poverty analysis in Latin America (income-based and unmet basic needs) by combining income with five other dimensions: school attendance for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sanitation, Heads of Households, Income
Viola, Laura; Garrido, Gabriela; Rescorla, Leslie – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
Comparisons of Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) scores from 31 societies (Rescorla et al. "Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders" 15:13-142 2007) supported the instrument's multicultural robustness, but none of these societies was in South America. The present study tested the multicultural robustness of the 2001 CBCL using data…
Descriptors: Health Services, Check Lists, Mental Health Programs, Developmental Disabilities
Luschei, Thomas F.; Carnoy, Martin – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
In this paper we discuss results from an analysis of a large dataset that includes virtually all sixth-grade students in Uruguay in 1996. We analyze the relationship between teacher attributes and student achievement scores and we explore the distribution of teachers according to characteristics identified as important by this analysis. We find…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Latin Americans
