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Brazil

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...Country overview Brazil is a federation with 26 states, one federal district, over 5,500 municipalities, and more than 200 million people. Education is decentralized, but the federal government centralizes national data gathering and core...

Chile

Country overview

...Country overview Chile The majority of text in this page is sourced from S. Schwartzman , Education in South America ( London : Bloomsbury, 2015). was part of the Spanish colonial empire until 1818 when it became independent. Under...

Teaching with the Test: Experimental Evidence on Diagnostic Feedback and Capacity Building for Public Schools in Argentina

Rafael de Hoyos

Rafael de Hoyos

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Alejandro J. Ganimian, Peter A. Holland

Alejandro J. Ganimian, Peter A. Holland

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World Bank Group, 2017

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...Despite the recent growth in the number of large-scale student assessments, there is little evidence on their potential to inform improvements in school management and classroom instruction in developing countries. This study conducted...

South American Perspectives

Candido Alberto Gomes

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Candido Alberto Gomes

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Alexandre Ventura

Alexandre Ventura

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Magali de Fátima Evangelista Machado

Magali de Fátima Evangelista Machado

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Successful School Leadership : International Perspectives

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Debt crisis in South America led to education policies founded on the tripod of decentralization, funding diversification and external evaluation. At the same time, democratization led to increasing social actors’ participation and school...

The Production of Socio-economic Segregation in Chilean Education: School Choice, Social Class and Market Dynamics

Cristián Bellei

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Cristián Bellei is Associate Researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Education and Professor in the Sociology Department, both at the University of Chile, Chile. He previously worked at the Chilean Ministry of Education and UNICEF in Chile; he has also been a consultant for UNESCO, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is the author of The Great Experiment: Market and Privatization of Chilean Education (2015). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Mariana Contreras

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Mariana Contreras

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Manuel Canales

Manuel Canales

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Víctor Orellana

Víctor Orellana

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Understanding School Segregation : Patterns, Causes and Consequences of Spatial Inequalities in Education

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Chile: a highly socially segregated market-oriented educational system Estimates show that Chile has the lowest level of social inclusion in their schools among OECD countries, which implies a low degree of variation in student...

Addressing Mass Atrocity in Chile: Learning and Unlearning as a Function of Social Memory

Irving Epstein

Irving Epstein is the Ben and Susan Rhodes Professor of Peace and Social Justice at Illinois Wesleyan University, USA, where he is Chair of the Department of Educational Studies and Director of the Center for Human Rights and Social Justice. Apart from Affect Theory and Comparative Education Discourse, he has published four books and over fifty journal articles and book chapters. In addition, he has served as an associate editor of the Comparative Education Review, and parliamentarian to the Board of Directors of the Comparative and International Education Society. He also is a longstanding member of the Board of Directors of the Scholars at Risk Network, an international organization of over 500 universities around the world, dedicated to protecting scholars in danger while promoting academic freedom advocacy. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Affect Theory and Comparative Education Discourse : Essays on Fear and Loathing in Response to Global Educational Policy and Practice

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Introduction: Historical, Collective, and Social Memory How societies address events of mass atrocity is indicative of the ways their members express their sense of collective identity and ethical compass. Schools and educational...

Brazil: Towards the consolidation of music as a mandatory curriculum subject

Jusamara Souza

Jusamara Souza

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The Origins and Foundations of Music Education : International Perspectives

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Introduction The chapter illustrates the struggles and negotiations that have characterized the relationship between music education and government policies in Brazil. Five distinct historical eras provide the focus...

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Erica Colmenares

Erica Colmenares is a doctoral researcher in the department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Daniel Friedrich

Daniel Friedrich is Associate Professor of Curriculum at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. He is the author of Democratic Education as a Curricular Problem (2014) and co-editor of a special issue of Education Policy Analysis Archives on the global network Teach For All (with Rolf Straubhaar). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood, Schooling, and Societies

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...How does one conclude a book that eschews fixed and stable meanings, whose attention wanders in multiple directions, and whose expressions are indeterminate, indefinite, and provisional? Is such a task even possible, or do we face...

Reconciliation Through Educational Reform? Recommendations and Realities in Peru

Julia Paulson

Julia Paulson is Lecturer in the School of Education at Bath Spa University, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Education and Reconciliation : Exploring Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

Continuum, 2010

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...Introduction In Peru, education has been widely identified as a factor that contributed towards a violent conflict that lasted 20 years, from 1980 to 2000 (CVR 2003, 2004; Ansión et al., 1993; Degregori, 1990). The conflict in Peru...

‘Prefigurative’ approaches to participatory schooling: experiences in Brazil

Tristan McCowan

Tristan McCowan

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Children as Decision Makers in Education : Sharing Experiences Across Cultures

Continuum, 2010

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...Recent interest in increasing pupil participation in school decision-making has had diverse motivations. Participation can be seen as a right, as enshrined in the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet...