Publication Date
| In 2025 | 1 |
| Since 2024 | 3 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 3 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 7 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 15 |
Descriptor
| Developing Nations | 58 |
| Latin Americans | 58 |
| Foreign Countries | 48 |
| Latin American Culture | 15 |
| Higher Education | 13 |
| Females | 12 |
| Educational Development | 9 |
| Educational Policy | 8 |
| Youth | 8 |
| Sex Role | 7 |
| Social Studies | 7 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
| Elementary Secondary Education | 6 |
| Early Childhood Education | 2 |
| Elementary Education | 2 |
| Higher Education | 2 |
| Postsecondary Education | 2 |
Location
| Brazil | 7 |
| Argentina | 6 |
| Mexico | 6 |
| Uruguay | 5 |
| Guatemala | 4 |
| Chile | 3 |
| El Salvador | 3 |
| Honduras | 3 |
| Panama | 3 |
| South America | 3 |
| United States | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Bayley Scales of Infant… | 1 |
| Home Observation for… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkIsabella Rega; Andrea Medrado; Paula Callus – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
This article discusses the interplay between artivism and media literacy in plural Global South(s) and its fight against marginalisation. It reflects on the production of an experimental animation "Portrait of Marielle" by Kenyan and Brazilian young media activists and artivists. This animated film honours the legacy of Marielle Franco,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Media Literacy, Developing Nations
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
Mauro Marino-Jiménez; Inés Liliana Ramírez-Durand; Antonio Pareja-Lora; Augusto Cieza-Esteban – Cogent Education, 2024
Research is a common feature in developed countries. Those who dedicate themselves to this activity produce important tools for individual, community, and national development. However, developing countries suffer the opposite situation. In these nations, little investment is devoted to research, and they lack dissemination mechanisms, while…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Higher Education, Research, Research Opportunities
Melina Porto – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This article describes how a group of language undergraduates in a local university in the periphery in the Global South conceptualised and enacted the notion of the 'ecological university'. Theoretically grounded in critical and post-humanist perspectives on education, and language education in particular, and notions of the ecological and the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Universities, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Pineda, Pedro; Gregorutti, Gustavo; Streitwieser, Bernhard – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
Analyzing the number of publications and proportion of corresponding authors of Latin American scholars and scholars from the German Max Planck Society (MPS) and the Leibniz Association (LA; 1954-2018), this article asks if North-South partnerships continue to represent power imbalances. Our bibliometric analysis indicates that (a) in comparison…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Scientific Research, Faculty Publishing, Authors
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
Strasser, Katherine; Rolla, Andrea; Romero-Contreras, Silvia – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
Educational results in Latin America (LA) are well below those of developed countries. One factor that influences how well children do at school is school readiness. In this article, we review studies conducted in LA on the readiness skills of preschool children. We begin by discussing contextual factors that affect what is expected of children…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, School Readiness, Preschool Children, Oral Language
Hanson, Mark – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book focuses on the questions of: why do some economically disadvantaged nations develop significantly faster than others, and what roles do their educational systems play? As case illustrations, in the early 1960s Mexico and South Korea were both equally underdeveloped agrarian societies. Since that time, the development strategies pursued…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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
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
Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar; van Ewijk, Reyn – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2012
We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are 0.05 to 0.08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in early pregnancy. These estimates are downward biased to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pregnancy, Eating Habits, Islam
Davidson-Harden, Adam – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2008
Using Latin America as a broad context and drawing on evidence from some of its most heavily indebted states as cases, this paper considers the example of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and education as a means of exploring the question of whether poverty reduction strategies of the Bretton Woods Institutions (the World Bank and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Poverty, Developing Nations
Silva, John de Oliveira E – 1987
The twin emigration sagas of Ferreira de Castro (1898-1974), "Emigrantes" (1928) and "A Selva" (1930) embody what has been described as the primary driving forces of emigration: hunger and injustice. The main protagonists of "Emigrantes" and "A Selva," Manuel and Alberto, illustrate these forces. Manuel, a…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations
Commission for Educational Exchange between the United States and Brazil, Brasilia. – 1994
This book contains a review of the 1994 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program along with lesson plans from 13 of the participants. The curriculum projects contained in this book include: (1) "The Brazilian Cinema: A Critical Appreciation of An Industry in Turmoil" (Aaron Braun); (2) "Reflections on the Relationship between…
Descriptors: Climate, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Developing Nations
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which Latin American countries consistently perform at the…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Indigenous Populations, Self Determination, Racial Differences
