Carlos Vargas

Carlos Vargas
  • PhD
  • Chief of Section for Teacher Development at United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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  • Chief of Section for Teacher Development

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Publications (28)
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This chapter argues that equity and inclusion may be understood in different ways according to certain, dissimilar, philosophical traditions. This is exemplified by neoliberal interpretations of equity in education that have gained currency after the turn of the century and which construe equity as the achievement of quality an excellence in learni...
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Introduction In the past three decades, the international community has witnessed two simultaneous, albeit contradictory, developments in education. On the one hand, the formation and pursuit of various global education agendas, which establish commitments and goals for all countries, instil educational priorities and aim at promoting values and id...
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Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and be detrimental to wider social and ethical goals. D...
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Over the past two decades, a set of globally converging discourses on lifelong learning (LLL) has emerged around the world. Driven mostly by inter-governmental organizations, these discourses have been largely embraced by national and local education systems seeking to reflect local traditions and priorities. This paper argues that these discourses...
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A lo largo de las últimas dos décadas hemos asistido a la aparición, en todo el planeta, de una serie de discursos globales y convergentes sobre el aprendizaje a lo largo de toda la vida. Los sistemas de educación locales y nacionales se han apropiado en gran medida de estos discursos, que promueven sobre todo las organizaciones intergubernamentale...
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Ces vingt dernières années, une série de discours mondialement convergents sur l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie (ATLV) ont fait leur apparition à travers le monde. Portés essentiellement par des organisations intergouvernementales, ces discours ont été massivement adoptés par les systèmes éducatifs nationaux et locaux, soucieux de refléter le...
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In the last two decades, lifelong learning (LLL) has become an emerging field of study and practice, and an organizing principle of education policy world-wide. This new impetus is the result, on the one hand, of a search for new strategies to face the challenges brought forth by globalization in terms of well-being, demographic change, environment...
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The role of higher education in promoting economic growth and social cohesion has been recognised in multiple international documents, programmes and strategies. Likewise, a number of countries and higher education institutions worldwide have introduced policies that aim at fostering learners’ employability, active citizenship, personal development...
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This paper looks into the orientation and purposes of a Lifelong Learning Law that was sanctioned in the Basque Country in 2013, and whose formation process entailed a year-long consultation with different local stakeholders. Although the consideration of diverse agents - other than political players - in policy making is a very valuable element fo...
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El presente testimonio fue extraído de una entrevista más amplia entre la actual directora de la Biblioteca Pública de Vancouver, Sandra Singh, el anterior director de la misma y codirector de la iniciativa Vancouver Learning City, Paul Whitney, y el editor invitado de este número, Carlos Vargas. La edición se hizo de manera conjunta.
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La complejidad y los muchos obstáculos en Latinoamérica para hacer valer el derecho a la educación de personas jóvenes y adultas hace que positivamente se elaboren propuestas de modelos alternativos como el que desarrolla el Instituto de Alfabetización y Educación Básica del Estado de Guanajuato (INAEBA). Con él se busca satisfacer las necesidades,...
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La educación con personas jóvenes y adultas en México ha sido, por muchos años, objeto de estudio; un campo de investigación, de práctica, de acción y de intervención pero no ha sido una arena de frecuente debate público; un espacio de construcción de políticas y, menos aún, una vía de incidencia legislativa. El libro que tengo el gusto de reseñar...
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En este artículo se analizan las distintas esferas de la investigación educativa y la intersección de ésta con las políticas públicas respecto de la educación con personas jóvenes y adultas (EPJA)1 en el país. Se examinan las posibilidades de incidencia de la investigación en la toma de decisiones y en la elaboración de políticas educativas en el c...

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