scholarly journals As práticas discursivas do Banco Mundial: Políticas educacionais na América Latina e no Caribe. The discursive practices of the World Bank: Educational policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 731
Author(s):  
Andréa Villela Mafra da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Improve Student Learning

Resumo Neste trabalho, utiliza-se como referencial teórico e metodológico a Análise Crítica do Discurso formulada por Norman Fairclough para caracterizar as práticas discursivas nas quais a publicação mais recente do Banco Mundial se inscreve. Trata-se do livro Professores Excelentes: Como melhorar a aprendizagem dos estudantes na América Latina e no Caribe de autoria de Barbara Bruns, Javier Luque e outros colaboradores. Esta publicação trata do desempenho dos professores da educação básica na América Latina e no Caribe, e como decorrência, busca compartilhar as políticas de formação docente que estão sendo implementadas nesses locais. A conclusão da pesquisa é que os baixos padrões para o ingresso no magistério têm produzido resultados inexpressivos na educação.AbstractIn this work, it is used as theoretical and methodological reference the Critical Discourse Analysis formulated by Norman Fairclough to characterize the discursive practices in which the most recent World Bank publication falls. This is the book Great Teachers: How to improve student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean authored by Barbara Bruns, Javier Luque and other employees. This publication addresses the basic education teacher performance in Latin America and the Caribbean, and as a result, search share the teacher training policies being implemented at these sites. The conclusion of the research is that low standards for entry into teaching have produced unimpressive results in education.

Natural disasters may boost Latin America remittances

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
World Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Money Transfer ◽  
The Caribbean

Subject Remittance inflows in 2017. Significance Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will enjoy a high rate of remittance growth this year, with many LAC migrants benefiting from an improving labour market in the United States. Impacts Remittances will support reconstruction efforts in areas hit by natural disasters in recent months. LAC will continue to benefit from money transfer costs that are lower than in several other regions. For 2018, the World Bank predicts lower remittance growth for both developing nations and globally, at 3.5% and 3.4% respectively.

scholarly journals La Guardia Nacional y la militarización de la seguridad pública en México/ The National Guard and the militarization of public security in Mexico

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Gerardo Hernández ◽  
Carlos-Alfonso Romero-Arias
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
World Bank ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Public Security ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Peace ◽  
The Government ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Federal Administration

La amenaza que representa la inseguridad pública en América Latina ha conllevado que muchos de los gobiernos asolados por ella recurran a las políticas de militarización. En el caso de México, el gobierno creó la Guardia Nacional para pacificar el país. El objetivo del artículo es responder la pregunta ¿por qué, pese a los argumentos y posturas de diferentes actores nacionales e internacionales, la Administración Federal en México (2018-2024) decidió crear una Guardia Nacional para combatir y reducir los índices de violencia? El estudio emplea un método explicativo y utiliza información del Banco Mundial, el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), el Fórum Brasileño de Seguridad Pública, World Prision Brief, el Índice de Paz Global, y el Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública (SESNSP). La teoría de las políticas públicas en democracia permite explicar la importancia del desarrollo de esta última para comprender el diseño y los resultados de las primeras. Se toman como referencia los casos de Brasil y Colombia, países que han recurrido a estrategias de militarización (pero con resultados distintos), donde la variable ha sido el gasto militar. En ese ámbito, México está muy por debajo de los dos países aludidos. Abstract The threat posed by public insecurity in Latin America has led many of the governments affected by this problem to resort to militarization policies. In the case of Mexico, the government created the National Guard to pacify the country. The purpose of this article is to answer the question why, despite the arguments and positions of different national and international actors, the Federal Administration in Mexico (2018-2024) decided to create a National Guard to combat and reduce the rates of violence? The study uses an explanatory method and bases on information from the World Bank, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the Brazilian Public Security Forum, the World Prision Brief, the Global Peace Index, and the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP). The theory of public policies in democracy allows to explain the importance of the development of the latter to understand the design and results of the former. The cases of Brazil and Colombia, countries that have resorted to militarization strategies (but with different results), where the variable has been military spending, are taken as reference. In that area, Mexico is well below the two countries mentioned.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis of the World Bank’s Report on Teacher Status in Morocco

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Mohamed BENHIMA
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

This study aims to investigate some linguistic features of the SABEER report on Moroccan Teachers by the World Bank (2017) as educational development discourse. The approach adopted is that of Critical Discourse Analysis and the Hallidayan Functional framework.  More specifically, the report was analysed in terms of labelling, nominalization, passivation, and modality. The results show that the report uses special vocabulary to portray that teachers' situation is in crisis and needs reform. Hence, it is recommended that reports on development discourse should not be taken for granted. It is used to justify the needs for loans granted by some international organizations.

scholarly journals Importancia de la educación ambiental en la gestión del riesgo socio-natural en cinco países de América Latina y el Caribe

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Martha Melizza Ordóñez-Díaz ◽  
Luisa María Montes-Arias ◽  
Giovanna Del Pilar Garzón-Cortes
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Legislative Organization ◽  
Natural Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Post Disaster

Considering environmental education as a social tool allowing individuals to achieve a significant knowledge of the inhabited environment, to reduce the probability of occurrence of a disaster, and to respond to the presence of natural phenomena to which people are vulnerable, this article aims to generate a space for reflection on the importance of environmental education in the management of the social and natural risk in five countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. For this purpose, the paper presents a descriptive review of primary and secondary bibliographical sources referring to the performance of the management of social and natural risks related to environmental education in Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile, and Jamaica between 1994 and 2015. In this period, a solid administrative and legislative organization of this management and environmental education is evident, but these two themes are clearly separated when implementing citizen projects: a situation that has generated shortcomings in the management of natural disasters, specifically under the principles of precaution and prevention. For this reason, this article offers a series of recommendations that include the dissemination of information, the creation of centers for the management of risk reduction, the strengthening of communication strategies, and the establishment of response plans and post-disaster recovery. 

scholarly journals Las diferencias en las calificaciones entre estudiantes primarios según la situación de pobreza de cada cual: Análisis de descomposición para 17 países de América Latina y del Caribe

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Jorge Augusto Paz
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Many

This paper describes one of the ways in which poverty and economic inequality is reproduced in Latin America. This study analyzed certain mechanisms of educational social exclusion among children attending the sixth grade of the primary education in 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study shows the intergenerational transmission of poverty and inequality through education is one of the mechanisms that slow convergence towards decent living standards, while uncovering one of the many processes of the violation of rights of children contemplated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. On the other hand, this study seeks to identify relevant variables to enumerate public policy actions, such as Conditional Transfer Programs aimed at breaking the cycle of–or reducing the intensity of–the reproduction of the poverty and the inequality. To this end, the conditioning opportunities are distinguished (called "endowments") from those that operate independently, so that identical opportunities generate different results.

Heavy Metal in “Global” Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hoad
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Music ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Metal Music ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The Caribbean

This chapter uses critical discourse analysis and textual analysis to offer a general overview of metal as a multi-sited, multi-modal genre. While acknowledging the centrality of metal’s ostensible “birth” in the United Kingdom, and rapid spread to the United States and Western Europe, to the genre’s identity, this chapter also discusses metal’s positionality in discrete studies from Northern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. In examining how metal is experienced in these contexts, this chapter thus seeks to problematize the discourse of metal’s “true” birth in the Anglosphere, and elucidate a critique of the scholarly literature of the “global metal” model, which has permeated metal music studies over the last decade. Such a model, as the author concludes in this chapter, potentially replicates many of the problems—Othering, exclusive, non-agentic—with “world music” as a discourse, and thus it is necessary to assert the ways in which scholars and scene members alike are speaking back to these characterizations.

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