Thinking about future challenges of education in Catalonia
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School selection. Middle class strategies
Agnès Van Zanten
2007
The choice of school is a very important part of young people’s lives and something that has been analysed in terms of a wide range of aspects. One of these aspects are the...
School careers of foreign students in the United States
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
2007
In today's world, there is a migratory movement that is without precedent for humankind, with some 185-200 million transnational immigrants, without taking into account internal...
Education in the world of the diasporas
Zygmunt Bauman
2008
Liquid-modern culture, unlike the culture of the nation-building era, has no 'people' to 'cultivate'. It has instead clients to seduce. And unlike its 'solid modern' predecessor,...
Education and immigration: the socio-educational challenges for second generations from a transnational perspective
Peggy Levitt
2006
In the lecture on education and immigration, professor Levitt presents her research with respect to the issue of immigration and transnationality. Her work is based in the USA,...
Bottom of the Class
Daniel Pennac
2008
Daniel Pennac was a student with a disability known as dysorthographia which hindered his ability to remember information and he had difficulties when it came to learning...
Can education be improved?
Jordi Pujol
2007
Making positive changes to education is not at all easy, whether in Catalonia or Europe. It requires political bravery. This has been the case in Scandinavian countries, but not...
How education can change Brazil. The current situation and prospects for the future
Cristovam Buarque
2005
Brazil is the world's fifteenth economic power, but only 71st in terms of educationBrazil has had a tumultuous history, with 200 years of slavery, 70 years of dictatorship and a...
Educating on the border between intuition and comprehension
Jorge Wagensberg
2004
Intuition involves relating one fragment of reality with another perceived in the past. Comprehension involves relating a fragment of reality with one of its intelligible...
Keys to the success of education in Finland
Reijo Laukkanen
2006
The OECD's PISA reports have given rise to a tremendous debate all over the world. The title of the most recent report, <i>Learning for tomorrow's world</i> (OECD...
Education and economics
Martin Carnoy
2005
We should not accept the myth that lifelong learning is now possible, as according to empirical studies, only a certain group of people have access to ongoing learning: it is the...
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