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Zuluaga, Blanca; Ortiz, Marianella; Vergara-Figueroa, Aurora – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
This article explores Belman and Heywood's sheepskin effect hypothesis using a modified Mincerian wage equation to test the sheepskin effect of returns on education in Colombia. This analysis is based on the 2014 Living Standards Survey from the National Department of Statistics. It includes variables that capture the possession of different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Blacks, Females
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García-Vita, Ma del Mar; Medina-García, Marta; Polo Amashta, Giselle Paola; Higueras-Rodríguez, Lina – Education Sciences, 2021
Psychosocial factors have a direct impact on the academic achievement of university students, especially when they belong to diverse human groups. This article shows the results of a project developed in a Colombian university with the aim of finding out the identity traits, situations of discrimination, and risk factors faced by students…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Academic Achievement, Social Influences, Foreign Countries
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Serrano-López, Federico Guillermo; Somoza-Rodríguez, Miguel – History of Education, 2017
This article analyses the manner in which the physical and sexual energy of the white, native South American and black populations was represented in reading books for elementary school children in Spain and Colombia between 1900 and 1960. Ninety reading books from representative authors were examined. It was found that the ideal of extraordinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Whites, Blacks