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Mejía-Cáceres, María Angélica; Huérfano, Alejandra; Reid, Alan; Freire, Laísa María – Environmental Education Research, 2021
This article explores how an environmental education policy text comes to be constituted by discursive strategies that reproduce or challenge particular ideologies of environmentalism in relation to education. Using a qualitative analysis of discourses in the National Policy of Environmental Education of Colombia (NPEEC), we examine how these can…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Pineda, Pedro; Celis, Jorge – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Previous work has not yet comparatively studied which forms of peace education (PE) have been adopted in national laws. Through content analysis of policy documents, we seek to find out why the Colombian Congress established PE as mandatory content across all educational levels in 2014 in a postwar phase, while the German Standing Conference of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Peace, Educational Change
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Rivas, Axel; Sanchez, Belen – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
During the first years of the new century, Latin America went through significant political changes in a period of economic growth. In education, we identify a 'regulatory governance turn' characterised by the emergence of four policy instruments: 1-New performance-based teaching career regulations with teachers' evaluations, 2-Curricular…
Descriptors: Governance, Accountability, High Stakes Tests, Foreign Countries
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De Poorter, Jana; Aguilar-Forero, Nicolás – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Colombia has joined the international movement of countries which, under the impulse of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), are looking to integrate global citizenship education (GCED) into their educational system. However, being a recently emerging initiative, the characteristics and possible effects of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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Fierro-Evans, Cecilia; Fortoul-Ollivier, Bertha – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2021
This article presents a comparative analysis of educational policy documents on leadership and teacher development in Spain, Colombia, and Mexico, countries that are represented in the International Study of Teacher Leadership (ISTL) (Webber, 2018). We are comparing public policies in three participating countries that do not declare an explicit…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Cross Cultural Studies, Faculty Development, Educational Policy
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Astrid, Ramirez Valencia; Katherine, Gonzalez Ocampo Diana; Heberth, Caicedo Saldaña – English Language Teaching, 2019
The last events developed in the dimension of teachers' training have defined new rules which they must be trained in. This article points out some aspects and considerations that emerged from the resolution 2041, on February 3rd, 2016, which introduces different perspectives that must be taken carefully into account, and an analysis, specially…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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García Botero, Gustavo; García Botero, Jacqueline; Questier, Frederik – The EUROCALL Review, 2017
In June 2015, the Colombian government via the Labor Ministry announced a project for young workers called "40.000 Primeros Empleos". In the framework of this project, the Ministry of Labor signed an alliance with the language platform Duolingo as a strategy to provide participants with English learning opportunities and a free language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Language Acquisition, English (Second Language)
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Guerrero-Nieto, Carmen Helena; Quintero-Polo, Álvaro Hernán – HOW, 2021
This article presents our narration of the emergence and development of a research area about the teaching and learning of the English language in Colombia and the creation of a research group named Critical Studies of Colombian Education Policies. The narration includes a description of the bilingual education policy in Colombia and a literature…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Peláez, Oscar; Usma, Jaime – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
Drawing on the concept of policy appropriation, this study investigates how different education stakeholders in a rural region of Colombia perceive foreign language education policies, and how these perceptions shape the way they recreate these reforms at the ground level. Contributing to the field of language policy analysis in Colombia and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Case Studies, Educational Change
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Bernasconi, Andrés; Celis, Sergio – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
This article introduces a special issue of EPAA/AAPE devoted to recent higher education reforms in Latin America. The last two decades have seen much policy development in higher education in the region, examined and discussed by scholars in each country, but dialog with the international literature on higher education reform, or an explicit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Higher Education, Educational Change
Uribe Correa, Lina – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research analyzes a set of national policy initiatives, 2002-2010, regularly referred to as Colombia's "Educational Revolution". Together these policies constitute a Colombian effort to increase access to higher education, an effort in partnership with the World Bank. The dissertation presents findings on policy goals, efforts,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Higher Education, Public Policy
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Correa, Doris; Wilches, Jaime Usma – HOW, 2013
In the context of the National Bilingual Program 2004-2019, currently called "Program for Strengthening the Development of Competencies in a Foreign Language," the Colombian government has implemented a series of actions to raise the level of English proficiency of teachers and students and insert the country into globalization…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Bilingualism
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Rabossi, Marcelo – Policy Futures in Education, 2009
The neoliberal reform arrived at the market of higher education with the intention of introducing private dynamics into public organizations. Through this strategy, the objective was to improve efficiency by promoting intra- and intersectoral competition. The introduction of performance funding shifted the concept of accountability for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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McEwan, Patrick J. – Comparative Education, 2008
This paper describes three multigrade school reforms in Latin America: (1) Colombia's "Escuela Nueva", (2) Guatemala's "Nueva Escuela Unitaria", and (3) Chile's MECE-Rural. Each reform endowed primary teachers and students with special training and instructional materials, and encouraged new kinds of instruction in rural…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Assessment
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Sauve, Lucie; Brunelle, Renee; Berryman, Tom – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
This article presents and discusses some results of the authors' analysis of international and national institutional documents related to environmental education from the 1970s to the present day. The aim of the study is to present a critical characterization of how environmental education is conceptualized and introduced through the ongoing…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Change, Sustainable Development, Educational Policy