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Labate, Hugo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
The article documents the complex process of changing Argentina's science curriculum and implementing those changes over the last 15 years. It recounts how reformers tackled the challenges of balancing national (federal) unity in education with local (provincial) autonomy from the political, social and pedagogical points of view. It also analyzes…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Curriculum
Acedo, Clementina; Gorostiaga, Jorge M.; Senen-Gonzalez, Silvia – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
Over the past decade, Argentina created and implemented a compulsory lower-secondary education level, within an ambitious educational reform programme. This article addresses the reform at the national level, diverse provincial responses, and the particular way that the powerful province of Buenos Aires appropriated the structural change. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Researchers, Educational Policy
Abadzi, Helen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
Studies have shown that the amount of time students spend engaged in learning tasks is related to learning outcomes. However, schools often offer to the students only a fraction of the time that governments pay for, and schools in lower-income areas often offer less time than governments plan for students. Instructional time ought to be an…
Descriptors: Accountability, Time, Time Blocks, Time Factors (Learning)
Cox, Cristian – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
It can be said that the curriculum was the greatest passion of the exceptional intellectual and educational reformer, Cecilia Braslavsky. The selection and organization of knowledge for educational purposes, condensing relationships between society and education, attracted her natural inclination towards a broad and profoundly political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design
Gvirtz, Silvina – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
In this article, the author describes Cecilia Braslavsky's pioneering work in the training of academics and technical-professional teams in Argentina. She divides the paper into two parts. The first one covers a period (between 1983 and 1993) in which Cecilia, along with other intellectuals from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Ideology, Social Sciences
Vaillant, Denise – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
In this article, the author pays tribute to Cecilia Braslavsky by reviewing writings, interviews, and articles authored exclusively by her. Cecilia was a source of inexhaustible inspiration, not only because of her ideas and writings, but because of the force of her convictions and passion with which she tackled the work of researching, teaching,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching (Occupation), Work Environment, Primary Education
Southwell, Myriam – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
This article profiles Juana P. Manso, who was a writer, translator, journalist, teacher and precursor of feminism in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. In 1840 she moved with her family to Montevideo (Uruguay), exiled under the regime of Juan Manuel de Rosas, who was governing the territory of the United Provinces of the River Plate. During Rosas'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Females, Politics of Education
Gvirtz, Silvina; Beech, Jason – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
In this paper, the authors offer an analysis of the relation between the intended and the implemented curriculum for primary education in Argentina, from the origins of the Argentine education system to the present day. They introduce the concept of "curricular regulation" as a method of analysis that includes not only the processes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Educational Change