scholarly journals El papel del profesorado y el entorno de aprendizaje en el rendimiento de los estudiantes costarricenses: un análisis a partir de PISA

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 1127-1145
Author(s):  
Gregorio Gimenez ◽  
Beatriz Barrado ◽  
Rafael Arias
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Role Of Teachers

The role of teachers and the learning environment in academic achievement of Costa Rican students: An analysis from PISAA pesar de que la literatura ha señalado que la calidad del profesorado y el ambiente escolar son factores clave en el rendimiento académico, los estudios que cuantifican empíricamente en qué medida contribuyen al desempeño estudiantil en los países latinoamericanos son escasos. En este artículo, utilizamos datos de PISA-Costa Rica y la técnica de descomposición Shapley-Shorrocks para cuantificar qué porcentaje de la variabilidad de los resultados escolares puede ser explicada por el profesorado y el entorno de aprendizaje. Los resultados muestran que la mayor parte de las diferencias en notas se debe al esfuerzo de cada estudiante (parte no explicada por la función de producción educativa). Del resto de factores, las características de la escuela y del profesor explican más variabilidad en rendimiento (36% para el promedio de Matemáticas, Lectura y Ciencias) que el efecto conjunto de las circunstancias individuales y familiares (12,5%). Dentro de los factores de escuela, dos elementos tendrían especial relevancia. Por un lado, el comportamiento de los alumnos, destacando los problemas de absentismo e impuntualidad. Por otro, el nivel de autonomía del profesorado y la dirección de la escuela en el diseño de los planes de estudio y las evaluaciones.

scholarly journals Un pájaro azul en Costa Rica: la función de la traducción de L’Oiseau bleu en la Costa Rica de 1912

LETRAS ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 201-217
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Vargas Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Costa Rican

El estudio procura desvelar la función de El pájaro azul (traducción de Roberto Brenes Mesén) dentro del contexto histórico en que surge. Tras describir y analizar las especificidades ideológicas, sociales y literarias de contexto, individuos y textos involucrados, se concluye que la traducción pudo haber funcionado como un instrumento para promover cambios ideológicos, sociales y estéticos dentro de la sociedad costarricense de principios del siglo veinte.This study seeks to describe the role of El pájaro azul (translated by Roberto Brenes Mesén) when it first appeared in Costa Rica in 1912. A description is provided of the ideological, social and literary features present in the context, and of the agents and texts involved in the production of El pájaro azul. The analysis of these features makes it possible to state that the text is likely to have been an instrument used to promote ideological, social and aesthetic changes within the 20th century Costa Rican society.

The Presidents of Costa Rica

1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Busey
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Presidential History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military

Writers have long claimed that Costa Rica has achieved standards of popular, constitutional government unusual for Latin America. A few recent commentators have attempted to modify the unstinted praise which others have been prone to lavish upon Costa Rican political institutions and processes.To evaluate properly the assumption that Costa Rica is somehow more “democratic” than her neighbors, there must be examination of a number of elements of Costa Rican political life—that is, press and public expression, individual rights, political parties, roles of judicial and legislative bodies, role of the military, and the like. Some studies have touched upon a few of these elements. Scholarship has yet to cover all of them. The present paper will confine itself to a further aspect of Costa Rican political life—that is, the presidential history of the country. By what means and under what circumstances have presidents secured and left office? How many have been long-term dictators? What have been the backgrounds and characteristics of leading Costa Rican presidents? How many have come from the military profession, and how many from civilian life?

scholarly journals Making sense of experience in preschool: Children’s encounters with numeracy and literacy through inquiry

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Marjorie Ann Henningsen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
Authentic Inquiry ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Of Teachers ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Education Conference

<br />Opening up space for authentic inquiry in preschool can influence the extent to which children can make use of their growing mathematical and linguistic understandings to make sense of themselves and the world around them. Authentic inquiry here refers to investigation that arises naturally from the interests and questions of the children as they experience the learning environment. Three authentic examples are presented from the work of four- to five-year-old children in the domains of mathematics and literacy development to illustrate how the two domains need to be viewed as intertwined at the preschool level. Reflections are also offered on the role of the learning environment, the role of curriculum and the role of teachers and other adults in the learning process. This manuscript is based on a plenary address given in Grahamstown, South Africa at the SARAECE Research and Development week: “Strengthening Foundation Phase Education” conference at Rhodes University in September 2012.

scholarly journals Defining religion, defying tradition? Concord and conflict about the role of religion in a Costa Rican indigenous community

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 374-392
Author(s):  
Bjørn Tafjord
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Role Of Religion

When approaching the issue of power, some fundamental questions always arise: Who is in a position to define? When, where, for whom, and why? These are also underlying questions in the particular case that is discussed in this article: Discourses about the role of religion among Bribris in Talamanca, the indigenously dominated area in south-eastern Costa Rica. The author looks at how ‘religion’ is defined by different actors, and into how the same actors understand religion in relation to what they see as other aspects of society and culture – in particular what the Bribris refer to as siwá, a concept they often translate into Spanish as tradición. In doing so, the it is highlighted how different actors discuss and negotiate the role of ‘religion’ in a particular cultural and historical context. For analytical purposes, it is proposed that defining should be seen as a practice that delimits something and gives it a certain place or space in relation to something else. To define is then to exercise power. As a consequence, discourses about the definition and role of religion in Talamanca are seen as both practices of, and contests about power.

ICT INTEGRATED EDUCATION: SHIFTING ROLE OF TEACHERS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukhraj Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Integrated Education ◽  
Role Of Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Effective Use

Teaching-learning process is in the transition phase due to the rapidly changing global scenario where Information Technology (ICT) is playing a very important role.Presently our class rooms are not simply designed to feed the brains of the students, these are designed and equipped with higher level technology. Like other aspects of life, the teaching- learning environment among the educational institutions also came under the influence of highly digitalized techniques of ICT. It is generally believed that ICTs can empower the teachers as well as the learners to contribute their best in sustainable development of the nations. Its effective use can bring efficiency in teaching-learning process and also make excellent contributions towards the achievement of educational targets. This paper aims to identify the effective roles and uses of ICTs in teaching-learning process and also discusses the challenges and limitations that are imposed by the increasing use of ICTs.

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