CONTRIBUTIONS FROM HIGH-PROFILE PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN MEXICO

Author(s):  
Martha Aguilar-Trejo ◽  
Ana Cuevas-Romo
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Milton Raul Licona Luna ◽  
Elizabeth Alvarado Martínez

Institutions from basic to higher education in Mexico that offer courses of English as a Foreign Language rely heavily on the administering of assessment, usually a formal type of assessment. However, the literature shows how important it is the involvement of other types of assessment in the classroom for effective language learning to take place. For instance, assessment for learning, which consist of a continuous assessment where learners receive feedback so greater learning occurs, what is more, it enables teachers to modify their teaching ways as they reflect on the learners’ progress. To show how assessment is carried out in our context, this research project focuses on a case study within the CAADI from FOD in the UANL.


Author(s):  
Jimena Hernández‐Fernández ◽  
Ixchel Pérez‐Durán ◽  
Bolivar Portugal‐Celaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. e209247
Author(s):  
Luan Viana Faria ◽  
Yuri de Lima Medeiros ◽  
Danielle Fernandes Lopes ◽  
Eduardo Machado Vilela ◽  
Neuza Maria Souza Picorelli Assis

Aim: The aim of this study is to offer an overview of the MedicalEmergencies (ME) discipline offer in Dentistry graduations insoutheastern Brazil and to observe the curricular characteristicsof the discipline when present. Methods: This cross-sectionaldocumentary study analyzed the available curricular frameworksin the official websites of Higher Education Institutions (HEI)in southeastern Brazil registered on the Ministry of Education’se-MEC website. The data were analyzed and tabulated using theGraphPad Prism 8.1.2 software, being described by absolute andrelative frequencies. Fisher’s exact test was used to compare theproportions between public and private institutions. Results:Of the 176 courses in the Southeast, 144 were included in thestudy for providing access to the curriculum, 19 (13.19%) werepublic and 125 (86.81%) were private. Only 27 (18.75%) of the HEIpresent the discipline of ME, with a greater tendency of supply inprivate HEIs (20.80%) when compared to public HEIs (5.26%),but this difference was not statistically significant (p> 0.05).As a positive aspect, the discipline is predominantly mandatory(88.88%), and the with regard to the teaching methodology ispredominantly theoretical (68.18%). The average workload is50.14 hours (SD=19.54). Conclusions: In only 18.75% of thedental institutions in Southeast Brazil, ME discipline were offered.When offered, the discipline is predominantly theoretical andmandatory. This study raises an important discussion regardingthe need to include specific and mandatory subjects on ME inthe dentistry curricula in Brazil and reflects the need to updateand standardize the national curricular guidelines for dentistry.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Mira

Insertar una perspectiva sociocultural sobre las juventudes indígenas contemporáneas en el campo de relaciones entre juventud, escuela y socialización, permite establecer nuevas vetas de análisis para comprender cuál es el vínculo que se teje entre la expansión aún activa de sistemas en educación superior en regiones históricamente relegadas de esta infraestructura escolar en México, y la producción social y cultural de nuevas y diferenciadas formas de ser joven indígena. Partiendo del reconocimiento de que al día de hoy las llamadas nuevas ruralidades están experimentando un proceso de desvinculación paulatina de las estructuras sociales del mundo agrario y tradicional, y se perfilan como una generación culturalmente más próxima a las prácticas sociales de las juventudes urbanas, el presente trabajo analiza las interacciones que mantiene la juventud otomí o ñöñho de San Ildefonso Tultepec en Querétaro, frente a una de la de las instituciones de mayor perdurabilidad histórica en la construcción de las identidades juveniles: la escuela. Específicamente se explora a partir de datos etnográficos, cómo la entrada de la educación superior de corte intercultural a esta zona indígena en Querétaro, contribuye a extender y dinamizar los atributos juveniles de este sector de la población ñöñho a partir de su condición estudiantil, al otorgarles nuevas cuotas de organización del tiempo individual - que postergan sus compromisos laborales y familiares -, oportunidades de construir nuevos lazos afectivos juveniles dentro y fuera del espacio comunitario, de ampliar sus gustos y capitales culturales, y de constituirse como un profesionista emergente con perspectivas diferenciales sobre su entorno comunitario.EXTENSION AND NEW DINAMICS OF THE YOUTH CONDITION IN THE ÑÖÑHO OF SAN ILDEFONSO TULTEPEC: links of indigenous youth to intercultural higher education in Mexico  ABSTRACTInserting a sociocultural perspective on contemporary indigenous youth in the field of youth relations, school and socialization, allows to establish new veins of analysis to understand the link that is woven between the still active expansion of systems in higher education in historically relegated regions of this school infrastructure in Mexico, and the social and cultural production of new and differentiated ways of being indigenous young. Based on the recognition that to this day the so-called new ruralities are experiencing a process of gradual disengagement from the social structures of the agrarian and traditional world, and are emerging as a generation culturally closer to the social practices of urban youth, this work analyzes the interactions maintained by the otomí o ñöñho youth of San Ildefonso Tultepec in Querétaro, compared to one of the institutions with the greatest historical durability in the construction of youth identities: the school.Specifically it is explored from ethnographic data, how the entry of intercultural higher education to this indigenous area in Querétaro, contributes to extend and energize the youth attributes of this sector of the ñöñho population based on their student status, by granting them new quotas of organization of individual time -that defer their work and family commitments- , opportunities to build new youthful affective bonds within and outside the community space, to expand their social tastes and cultural capitals, and to establish themselves as an emerging professional with differential perspectives on their community environment.KeyWords: Youth condition. Indigenous young. Intercultural higher education. New rurality. Otomíes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 602
Author(s):  
Antar A. Tichavakunda

In this conceptual essay, the author argues that bad faith is a valuable concept in understanding and challenging racism in higher education. The philosopher Lewis Gordon argues that racism is a manifestation of bad faith. For the actor who sees Black people as less than human, for example, no evidence will allow the actor to see otherwise. Bad faith is the disavowal of any disconfirming evidence which allows actors to maintain their worldviews. The author draws from high profile examples of racism in higher education as conceptual cases to make his argument. Specifically, the author demonstrates how attacks upon Critical Race Theory in education, the currency of critiques of microaggressions research, and the perennial difficulty to name racist violence on campus as hate crimes operate upon a logic of racism through bad faith.


2021 ◽  

This Handbook tells the story in 25 chapters of how Japan’s HE system has become what it is now, ending with a very tentative glimpse into the rest of the 21st century. A variety of themes are covered by scholars—both established, senior figures and younger researchers with their own fresh look at current circumstances. Chapters that concentrate on governance look at the distinction between "national," "public," and "private" institutions; others consider important topics such as internationalization, student recruitment, faculty mobility. More innovative topics include "Women of Color Leading in Japanese Higher Education." All provide copious references to other authorities, but rather than just toe the conventional line they include opinions and proposals that may be contentious or even revolutionary. The editor provides an overview of the subject and its treatment in an Introduction. -- Rights Statement: Amsterdam University Press has exclusive rights to sell the print Handbook in all territories excluding Japan, Taiwan and Korea. --


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