Publications
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Post-structuralism, realism and the question of knowledge in educational sociology: a Derridian critique of social realism in education
This article engages with a current debate in the sociology of educational knowledge which seeks to dispel the alleged relativism of social constructivist influences in education.
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The school governance study
This study analysed the policy and research literature relevant to school governing. It carried out 43 in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, undertook a large scale random on-line survey of over 5000 school governors and elicited the views of 42 headteachers.
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La gestión escolar en el marco de la autonomía: una mirada desde el cotidiano a cinco instituciones educativas estatales de Lima
Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
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Factores asociados al rendimiento escolar y sus implicancias para la política educativa del Perú
Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
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Promoting educational reforms in weak states: the case of radical discontinuity in Peru
The present article explores the making of education policies in weak states, particularly in the context of developing nations and in view of the increasing influence of international organisations, such as the World Bank, in definition of education reform agendas
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El esquivo desarrollo social en las localidades mineras / ¿Tiene algún efecto la titulación de tierras en la inversión agrícola?
El esquivo desarrollo social en las localidades mineras / ¿Tiene algún efecto la titulación de tierras en la inversión agrícolas?
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Más crecimiento, más equidad: Prioridades de desarrollo en Guatemala
La estructura y selección de temas de la presente publicación responde, en su mayor parte, a un diagnóstico de crecimiento para Guatemala realizado en 2007, donde se identificaron un conjunto de factores que afectan las posibilidades de desarrollo del país. A lo largo de las páginas hay un reconocimiento tácito de que, si bien todos […]
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Outsiders?: The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
This report raises a number of fundamental questions about the multidimensional and interrelated nature of social exclusion and moves beyond the traditional emphasis on outcomes and groups to view exclusion as a process that results from societal traits that limit the functionings of the excluded. Using the tools of experimental economics, the report shows the […]
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The Mystery of Discrimination in Latin America
In the paper the authors focus on a particular family of studies, namely, wage gaps decompositions. Numerous efforts have focused on documenting earnings differentials between females and males, indigenous and nonindigenous people, or Afro-descendants and whites. As the pieces of the literature that the authors survey in this section show, comparisons of hourly labor earnings (wages or […]
