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Author: Gene B Sperling Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 0815728611 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 321
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Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls. Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education, have written this definitive book on the importance of girls’ education. As Malala Yousafzai expresses in her foreword, the idea that any child could be denied an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist threats is just wrong and unimaginable. More than 1,000 studies have provided evidence that high-quality girls’ education around the world leads to wide-ranging returns: Better outcomes in economic areas of growth and incomes Reduced rates of infant and maternal mortality Reduced rates of child marriage Reduced rates of the incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria Increased agricultural productivity Increased resilience to natural disasters Women’s empowerment What Works in Girls’ Education is a compelling work for both concerned global citizens, and any academic, expert, nongovernmental organization (NGO) staff member, policymaker, or journalist seeking to dive into the evidence and policies on girls’ education.
Author: Gene B Sperling Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 0815728611 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls. Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education, have written this definitive book on the importance of girls’ education. As Malala Yousafzai expresses in her foreword, the idea that any child could be denied an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist threats is just wrong and unimaginable. More than 1,000 studies have provided evidence that high-quality girls’ education around the world leads to wide-ranging returns: Better outcomes in economic areas of growth and incomes Reduced rates of infant and maternal mortality Reduced rates of child marriage Reduced rates of the incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria Increased agricultural productivity Increased resilience to natural disasters Women’s empowerment What Works in Girls’ Education is a compelling work for both concerned global citizens, and any academic, expert, nongovernmental organization (NGO) staff member, policymaker, or journalist seeking to dive into the evidence and policies on girls’ education.
Author: Leandro Cahn Publisher: Siglo XXI Editores ISBN: 9876299816 Category : Education Languages : es Pages : 180
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En poco tiempo, muchas cosas que habíamos naturalizado ahora nos hacen ruido y están puestas en cuestionamiento. Desde el "Buen día, chicos", con que la maestra saluda cotidianamente y que ya no incluye a todas sus alumnas y alumnos, hasta los vínculos entre pares, atravesados por una perspectiva de género. En este nuevo escenario, la sexualidad entra a la escuela con las niñas y los niños que llegan en el nivel inicial y se queda hasta que egresan de la secundaria. Con la sanción de la Ley de Educación Sexual Integral, los educadores tenemos la responsabilidad de trabajar con la ESI en las aulas. Para abrazar este desafío con las mejores herramientas, un equipo de lujo de Fundación Huésped nos ofrece su amplia experiencia en este libro imprescindible para las familias y la comunidad educativa. ¿Cómo abordar las diferentes formas de vivir la sexualidad en la adolescencia, los embarazos no planificados, las infecciones de transmisión sexual, los abusos en la infancia o los noviazgos violentos? ¿Cómo despertar la reflexión y el diálogo? Desde una perspectiva que respeta la diversidad, promueve el cuidado del cuerpo y valora la expresión de la afectividad, este libro es una invitación a sacudirnos los prejuicios y derribar mitos. Cuando se trata de pensar, acompañar, intervenir y, sobre todo, cuidar, escuelas y familias trabajan mejor juntas. Por eso, aunque los protagonistas sean las chicas y los chicos, cada adulto tiene un papel importante en esta historia. Como dicen nuestros autores, no es posible no educar sexualmente, porque educamos con lo que hacemos, con lo que decimos y también con lo que callamos. Entonces, aunque no tengamos todas las respuestas, no podemos dejar de hacernos todas las preguntas.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264545190 Category : Languages : en Pages : 152
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The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape has evolved significantly from 1950 when Alan Turing first posed the question of whether machines can think. Today, AI is transforming societies and economies. It promises to generate productivity gains, improve well-being and help address global challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcity and health crises.
Author: Lucía Dammert Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415522110 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 191
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The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored by social sciences. However, it has a deep social, cultural and economic impact and may even contribute to define the very structures of the state. In Latin America, fear of crime has become an important stumbling block in the region's process of democratization. Lucía Dammert proposes a unique theoretical perspective which includes a sociological, criminological and political analysis to understand fear of crime.
Author: David Tavarez Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 080477739X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples—a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between the 1530s and the late eighteenth century. The author's innovative interpretation of these efforts is punctuated by three events: the creation of an Inquisition tribunal in Mexico in 1571; the native rebellion of Tehuantepec in 1660; and the emergence of eerily modern strategies for isolating idolaters, teaching Spanish to natives, and obtaining medical proof of sorcery from the 1720s onwards. Rather than depicting native devotions solely from the viewpoint of their colonial codifiers, this book rescues indigenous perspectives on their own beliefs. This is achieved by an analysis of previously unknown or rare ritual texts that circulated in secrecy in Nahua and Zapotec communities through an astute appropriation of European literacy. Tavárez contends that native responses gave rise to a colonial archipelago of faith in which local cosmologies merged insights from Mesoamerican and European beliefs. In the end, idolatry eradication inspired distinct reactions: while Nahua responses focused on epistemological dissent against Christianity, Zapotec strategies privileged confrontations in defense of native cosmologies.
Author: Barbara Knapp Herz Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations ISBN: 9780876093443 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 118
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"What Works in Girls Education" summarizes the extensive body of research on the state of girls education in the developing world today; the impact of educating girls on families, economies, and nations; and the most promising approaches to increasing girls enrollment and educational quality.
Author: Teresa Audesirk Publisher: Pearson ISBN: 9780321598462 Category : Biologie Languages : en Pages : 0
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Includes 45 case studies and essays under the topics: Earth watch; Health watch; A closer look at ...; Scientific inquiry; Links to everyday life.
Author: Mary R. Harmon Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135653534 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 248
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Beyond Grammar: Language, Power, and the Classroom asks readers to think about the power of words, the power of language attitudes, and the power of language policies as they play out in communities, in educational institutions, and in their own lives as individuals, teachers, and participants in the larger community. Each chapter provides extended discussion of a set of critical language issues that directly affect students in classrooms: the political nature of language, the power of words, hate language and bullying, gender and language, dialects, and language policies. Written for pre-service and practicing teachers, this text addresses how teachers can alert students to the realities of language and power--removing language study from a “neutral” corner to situate it within the context of political, social, and cultural issues. Developing a critical pedagogy about language instruction can help educators understand that classrooms can either maintain existing inequity or address and diminish inequity through critical language study. A common framework structures the chapters of the text: * Each chapter begins with an overview of the language issue in question, and includes references for further research and for classroom use, and provides applications for classroom teachers. * Numerous references to the popular press and the breadth of language issues found therein foreground current thought on socio-cultural language issues, attitudes, standards, and policies found in the culture(s) at large. * References to current and recent events illustrate the language issue’s importance, cartoons address the issue, and brief “For Thought” activities illustrate the point being discussed and extend the reader’s knowledge and awareness. * “Personal Explorations” ask readers to go beyond the text to develop further understanding; “Teaching Explorations” ask teachers to apply chapter content to teaching situations. Beyond Grammar: Language, Power, and the Classroom is intended for undergraduate and master’s level courses that address literacy education, linguistics, and issues of language and culture.
Author: Gene B Sperling
Author: Gene B Sperling
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