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Munoz Cantu, Luisa Margarita – ProQuest LLC, 2019
From a sociocultural perspective, identity is understood as constructed through active negotiations with others (Gee, 2006; Lantolf, 2009). Language constitutes a mediation tool used to create meanings in new social and cultural contexts as individuals become members of new communities of practice (CoP). In doing so, an ongoing process of sharing…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Professional Identity, Sociocultural Patterns, Teaching Methods
Moreno, Carlos Ivan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores and explains the organizational responses of Mexican public state universities to an ambitious incentive-based policy created by the federal government in 2001: "The Integral Program for Institutional Strengthening" ("PIFI"). Drawing upon literature on organizational-environmental relationships and on…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Governance, Observation, Interviews
Montero Hernandez, Virginia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Since the 1990s, the federal government required public state universities in Mexico to recruit full time faculty members with doctoral degrees and research productivity to increase the academic competitiveness of higher education. After two decades of the implementation of federal mandates, public state universities have not improved their…
Descriptors: Productivity, State Universities, Participant Observation, Federal Programs