Social inclusion in University Education in The Latin America

Alternativas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Carlos Garcia Vacacela
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
University Education ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Brighter Future

This article analyzes the scope of inequality and ethnic division in the Spanish-speaking nations in the America. The influence of disparity in the region through shared rights by the Afro-Latin and indigenous groups have been experienced in Universities in for an extended period. One of the first consequence of non-inclusion has seen all disadvantaged groups being cut off from accessing university education. Communal rights are adjudicated on specific ethnic groups. The governments have progressively played a significant role to ensure that their economic goals are given power through empowering of the youths by training. The postgraduate education has given the region incredible hope of a brighter future. They argue that that social recognition in the society will come through success in collective rights. The era is of multicultural political prowess, and ethnic discrimination will lead only to political mobilization. Postgraduate and Doctorate Education has created political analysts that have been identifying disconnections in the political process that built inclusion. Their role has been un-seemingly valuable in the development of non-discrimination laws.

Reinforcement Theory and Study of the Impact of Internet Technologies on Political Participation of Modern Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59
Author(s):  
Nikolay Vladimirovich Grishin
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Reinforcement Theory ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Further Development

The article examines the methodological possibilities of reinforcement theory in the field of studying the influence of Internet technologies on political behavior. The prospects of the theory of reinforcement are considered in the context of the changing role of Internet technologies in the political process since the beginning of the 2010s and the growing popularity of competing methodological directions, first of all, the theory of mobilization. It is revealed that the rivalry between the theory of reinforcement and the theory of mobilization at the present stage turns into a state of methodological dualism. Reinforcement theory not only retained its significance in the context of the growth of political mobilization in the period of the 2010s, but also received further development: the new concept of selective avoidance supplemented its theoretical apparatus. Reinforcement theory retains its significance for the study of political leadership among Russian youth, the activities of radical youth organizations. One of the factors in preserving the methodological potential of reinforcement theory in the study of the political activism of Russian youth is the practical combination of its principles with the network approach.

scholarly journals Challenge of Sport Towards Social Inclusion and Awareness-Raising Against Any Discrimination

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salomé Marivoet
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination

AbstractSport presents itself as a social configuration that enhances social inclusion by promoting tolerance, respect for others, cooperation, loyalty and friendship, and values associated with fair play, the most important ethical principles of sport. However, intolerance and exclusion can also be expressed in sport, certainly even more so the bigger the social inequalities and the ethnic, religious, gender, disability, and sexual orientation prejudices are in society. The processes of social exclusion, integration, and inclusion are research areas in the social sciences with consolidated knowledge, namely in the study of the problems of poverty, social inequalities, racial and ethnic discrimination, disability, and education. However, it is necessary to discuss the existing theoretical approaches and conceptions seen as explanatory principles of the reality of these fields of analysis, look at how they can frame the reality on the sports field, and then confirm them through empirical research in order to produce knowledge based on the reality of social facts. Despite the broad consensus on the potential of sport in promoting social inclusion, in this paper I stress that this potential can only become real if the orientation of sport includes strategies aimed at achieving these goals. I intend to show how the –social issue‖ in the field of sports has gained relevance in the institutional context, and thereby a new field of research for the social science of sport has been opened and needs to be deepened.

scholarly journals Studying Higher Education Internationalization: New Methods and Approaches

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Hong Xu ◽  
Jiahui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
University Education ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
University Management ◽  
Visualization Technology ◽  
Higher Education Internationalization

This research paper studies trends and hotspots of management internationalization in the sphere of higher education. The survey is based on CiteSpace visualization technology and on the corpus approach to studying keywords and annotations for 2010–2021 publications in 25 major higher education journals. Keywords analysis by CiteSpace showed that the hotspots of the management internationalization research are focused on postgraduate education management, on the projects «Double First Class University Plan», «Greater Bay Area», «Cooperation in Running Schools», etc. The future possible areas of investigation are the «local internationalization» of university management, the internationa lization of management in terms of international-level specialties and first-class universities’ nationalization, as well as the contradiction of the «spillover effect» between university management and cross-university cooperation. The corpus-based analysis showed that over the past 12 years the studies of internationalization of higher education and its mana gement have been carried out within the large-scale project «One Belt – One Road» and economic globalization. These studies include the modules of universities’ development, university education, academic research, school management strategy, etc. To effectively address the challenges faced by higher education internationalization management, the aut hors propose to take advantage of consistent teaching quality and to leverage regional and local resources, so as to create a multidimensional platform that would interconnect talents and ways to use them. Of no less importance, when summarizing such experience, is it to take into account the historical background, so that this platform, certainly engaging state policy, would allow a reform of higher education globalization for its further development.

scholarly journals University Mergers in Lithuania: A Media Discourse Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 149-162
Author(s):  
Rūta Bružienė
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Mergers ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Media Discourse Analysis ◽  
Rational Arguments

University mergers could be perceived as a political process – at least during the first stages of the process, which contain discussions about common visions, goals, and measures. Therefore, a university merger could be analyzed using the methods of political discourse analysis, which allows to understand how public discourses about merging universities have been constructed, legitimized, and institutionalized.It is important to understand the process of university mergers as a political phenomenon that is constructed by stakeholders using public discourses. Public discourses, reflected in the media, form the society’s opinion about a university merger and have influence on policy decisions and the implementation process of these decisions. In this context, the purpose of this article is to analyze the written content related to university merger issues published in online media during the course of three years (2016–2018). Quantitative content analysis was made using software Hamlet II 3.0. Some trends of public discourse related to university mergers have been detected. It is noticed that a university merger is primarily related to the improvement of higher education quality and the needs of business and the state in public discourse. However, the declared political goal of seeking competitiveness and quality of research is not developed and reflected in the media. This shows a certain fragmentation of ideas in the process of merging universities, because the society, the academic community, and the government agree (as reflected in the documents (2017)) that only a unity of research and studies could assure the highest quality university education and international recognition.Also, differences between business and university mergers have been noticed. More rational arguments are used to justify business mergers than social and cultural ones (Vaara, Tienari 2002) when compared to university mergers. Stakeholders usually use a combination of social and rational arguments in public discourse to justify university mergers.

scholarly journals Interaction of higher and post-university education as a factor of the formation and development of the professionalism of young specialists

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya Victorovna Popova ◽  
Dmitry Yur'evich Narkhov ◽  
Elena Nikolaevna Narkhova ◽  
Igor Mikhailovich Dobrynin
Keyword(s):  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Statistical Data Analysis ◽  
Professional Advancement ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Career Growth

The aim of this study is to analyze interaction of university and postgraduate education as a factor in formation and development of qualification of the young specialists. Students of higher educational institutions and young employees aged 18 - 30 years at the industrial enterprises of the Urals serve as the object for empirical analysis. In order to achieve this goal, a set of complementary methods was used: theoretical and empirical (study and generalization of practical experience; questionnaires; qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results), as well as statistical data analysis. The article presents the results of modern students’ monitoring analysis displaying the issues of primary professional development, as well as the survey of young employees at the modern industrial enterprises, reflecting the problems of their professional advancement and prospects for professional and career growth. The conclusion is made about the need for interaction between higher and postgraduate education not only to ensure formation and development of professionalism of the young employees, but also the economic sustainability of enterprises.

scholarly journals Transformative education: Pathways to identity, independence and hope

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 88-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Howard ◽  
Jude Butcher ◽  
Luke Egan
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Transformative Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Community Agencies ◽  
Key Words Transformation ◽  
Socially Isolated

In 2008–2010, the Australian Government’s social inclusion agenda and the Bradley Review of Higher Education profiled the importance of education for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This education needs to be transformative in both its nature and its outcomes. The Clemente Australia program is presented here as a means of providing such transformative education for people who are disadvantaged or socially isolated. This case study of Clemente Australia shows how the program is built upon a psychology of hope and provides pathways not only to new hope but also to a new sense of identity and independence. Clemente Australia (CA) is an example of community embedded, socially supported university education (CESS). Essential elements of CA are respecting people for who they are and for where they are within their individual life journeys; building student capacity to be more proactive in reflecting upon and engaging with the world; learning with and relating to others; and promoting educative justice through the recognition of the students’ human rights to participate in tertiary education in a way that meets their personal and academic learning needs. For the students, the university (Australian Catholic University) and other partners in CA, it is evident that there has been an ongoing shift from dependence upon the provision of materials and services to empowerment and enhanced capabilities in identifying the supports and processes required to meet the personal and professional needs of students, staff and community agencies. This shift has occurred through the scaffolding processes provided, the establishment of innovative partnerships and purposeful reflection. It has involved listening to one another, welcoming people into new worlds and challenging one another in the provision of transformative education to realise the fulfilment of hope for many Australians experiencing disadvantage. key words: transformation; education; community; hope; homelessness; disadvantage

Territorial Cleavages and the Bolivian Constitutional Transition

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Gustavo Bonifaz Moreno ◽  
George Gray Molina
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Political ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Constitutional Tribunal

This chapter examines the territorial dynamics behind Bolivia’s constitutional transition of 2006–08 and the political process during that period. Evo Morales’s landslide win in the presidential election of December 2005 set the stage for a protracted constitutional transformation that is still playing out in Bolivia. The chapter first provides a historical background on Bolivian politics marked by constitutional, legal, and policy reform and periods of social unrest, political mobilization, and popular revolt before discussing the period of constitutional engagement and the outcome of the 2009 general elections. It argues that territorial cleavages played a crucial role in Bolivia’s constitutional transition, which broadened territorial support for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) from western enclaves to the eastern lowlands over a five-year period. The chapter also identifies two key institutions that secured the broad legitimacy for constitutional reform: an impartial electoral court and a functioning constitutional tribunal.

Getting Out The Vote: Women'S Democratic Political Mobilization In Ghana

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-296
Author(s):  
Kathleen Fallon
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Women's Organizations ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Women’S Organizations

Although the mobilization of women in Latin America prior to and during the transition to democracy has been well-studied, the mobilization of women in sub-Saharan Africa during this transition has received little attention. Yet, the study of women's mobilization within an emerging democratic state of sub-Saharan Africa would provide insight into how women may renegotiate their position in relation to transforming political structures, and how they may work to redefine their own rights. This article analyzes the case of Ghana to examine the mobilization ofwomen in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, multivariate analyses of a survey of 621 women and in-depth interviews with thirty-three members of women's organizations are used to explore whether women's organizations are attempting to mobilize women to participate in the formal political process during the transition to democracy, and, if so, whether their efforts are successful. The results indicate that women's organizations view the electoral process as a means to mobilize women, that they have attempted to mobilize women to participate in elections, and that their mobilization efforts influenced the political behavior of women. Implications of these findings for our understanding of women's mobilization in sub-Saharan Africa in comparison to those in Latin America are discussed.

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