Balance de la Estrategia de Acompañamiento Pedagógico en Áreas Rurales de Perú en la Lógica del Presupuesto de Resultados

This research analyzes a learning coaching strategy called Acompañamiento Pedagógico promoted by the ministry of Education of Peru since 2008 focusing in rural multi-grade (Spanish and bilingual) schools aiming to improve learning outcomes. It focuses on the learning achievements of its students and also seeks providing advice for improving functioning of the current strategy. The first goal was to determine if there is a significant difference in learning achievements in Spanish reading and comprehension and mathematics between coached and non-coached schools and were performed mixed-designed ANOVAs tests. The finding of statistically significant interactions between receiving coaching for 3-years disclosures an effective strategy in order to increase the goal of any educational system, the learning of students. The second goal of the research was analyzing if the present learning coaching strategy meets the standards set by the national results-based budgeting approach. For that purpose, a documentary review of policy design, focalization and expenditure were performed, finding a design inconsistency, some coverage problems and absence of clear standards and organization parameters

Tourisme et politique du livre et de la lecture en Bretagne : enjeux politiques d’une construction identitaire régionale

Le processus de décentralisation culturelle en marche dès les années 1970 a opéré un transfert de compétences de l’État vers les collectivités territoriales et renforcé les mécanismes de concurrence et de distinction dans la course à l’“identité” culturelle locale et régionale. Dès lors, le “tourisme”, envisagé au prisme d’une nouvelle catégorie d’intervention de l’action publique – “la politique culturelle” –, n’apparaît plus uniquement comme une ressource économique mais également comme une ressource politique mettant en évidence les stratégies régionales de réification d’une histoire et d’un territoire spécifiques. Le regard porté sur la sociogenèse d’une politique du livre et de la lecture en Bretagne – comme focale de l’analyse d’enjeux de luttes constitués, pour un ensemble d’acteurs hétérogènes, autour d’un objet culturel – tend à révéler le travail d’homogénéisation et d’imposition de représentations d’une identité culturelle ; et également à retracer le processus d’institutionnalisation des catégories de “tourisme” et de “région”.The process of cultural decentralization started in the 70’s, and carried out a transfer of competences from the State to the territorial collectivities which reinforced the competition and distinctive mechanisms in the running for local and regional cultural identity. Thereby, “tourism” is considered as a new category of intervention within the public action: “the cultural policy”; and no longer only as an economic resource, but also a political one, highlighting the regional strategies creating a reification of a history and a specific territory. The social genesis in regards of the policy of the book and reading in Brittany – as support of the analysis of struggling issues constituted, for a group of heterogeneous protagonists, around a cultural object – tends to reveal the process of homogenization and imposition of cultural identity’s representations; which can also be retraced to the institutionalized process of categories within “tourism” and off the “region”

School-level inequality measurement based categorical data: a novel approach applied to PISA

This paper introduces a new method to measure school-level inequality based on Item Response Theory (IRT) models. Categorical data collected by large-scale assessments poses diverse methodological challenges hinder measuring inequality due to data truncation and asymmetric intervals between categories. I use family possessions data from PISA 2015 to exemplify the process of computing the measurement and develop a set of country-level mixed-effects linear regression models comparing the predictive performance of the novel inequality measure with school-level Gini coefficients. I find school-level inequality is negatively associated with learning outcomes across many non-European countries

Contextos tematicos y ordenamientos funerarios en el cementerio Aguada Orilla Norte

Fil: Sempé de Gómez Llanes, María Carlota. Laboratorio Análisis Cerámico. Facultad Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Baldini, Lidia Nélida. División Arqueología; Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; Universidad Nacional de La Plat

Un estilo de panteón característico del cementerio de La Plata

Fil: Sempé de Gómez Llanes, María Carlota. Laboratorio Análisis Cerámico. Facultad Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Baldini, Marta Inés. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentin

Teaching Culture in the Argentinian EFL Classroom: Beliefs, Practice and Challenges

The need to address culture in EFL/ESL classrooms has been stressed by scholars in the SLA field for decades (see Kramsch, 1993, 2009, 2011; Byram, 1988; Liddicoat & Scarino, 2013). The original intention of working with culture in the English classes as a means to develop language proficiency –sociocultural competence– was expanded, and nowadays, the focus is on the role culture instruction has in developing empathy and respect for other ways of living and in promoting reflection about learners’ own lifestyle –intercultural competence (Byram, 1988, 2008; Deardoff, 2006). This new focus on cultural instruction is reflected in national curriculums around the globe (Lavrenteva & Orland-Barak, 2015). However, in most cases, curricula do not offer clear guidance to teachers on how to address this relevant topic in their classrooms explicitly, which is the case of the Argentinian national guidelines for the teaching of foreign languages (Ministerio de Educación de la República Argentina, 2012) and the Buenos Aires Province curriculum (Dirección General de Cultura y Educación de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, 2011). Moreover, little is known about what Argentinian teachers know about culture instruction, the objectives they perceive as underlying the need to address it, and their actual practice tackling the topic. This case study seeks to fill this gap and collaborate to the EFL field by exploring Argentinian EFL Secondary School teachers’ beliefs about culture and its teaching and the way they address it in their classrooms in Mar del Plata, Argentina, through the use of questionnaires, a follow-up interview, and written class artifacts and following a qualitative content analysis approach. The findings of this research revealed a mismatch between theory and practice when it comes to culture instruction, and the challenges teachers often face when working with it. These findings are expected to inform current EFL teacher practices as well as future teacher preparation through a localized lens

PATRIMONIALIZACION DE GRAFFITI HISTÓRICOS, PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES

Esta presentación tiene como objetivo reflexionar respecto al carácter patrimonial de las prácticas de intervención cultural consistentes en la realización de graffiti y/o grabados a lo largo del último siglo en áreas urbanas y rurales. Para este propósito, se abordan los graffiti emplazados en contextos arqueológicos rurales del Área del Sistema Serrano de Ventania ubicada en el sector sur del Área Ecotonal Húmedo Seca Pampeana -particularmente sobre los partidos del sudoeste bonaerenses de Saavedra y Tornquist-, así como también aquellos emplazados en un sector del ejido urbano de la ciudad de Mar del Plata, -partido de General Pueyrredón ubicado en el sudeste bonaerense -. En este trabajo, se aplica el concepto de patrimonio en su sentido constructivista, se lo considera una construcción social colectiva cuyo significado se relaciona a las memorias, las necesidades e intereses del presente, en el marco de los cuales diversas prácticas y bienes culturales pueden ser considerados patrimoniables. En este sentido, se propone discutir la categoría de graffiti y reflexionar acerca de su constitución como evidencia material arqueológica y como parte del patrimonio cultural histórico