Francisca Alvarez-Figueroa

The University of Manchester · Work and Equalities Institute

Digital platforms for Domestic Workers (DW) are widespread, entailing work management and employment challenges. In Chile, DW has inherited colonial and class dynamics that are still present. Besides, this role has shown a significant occupation rate where one out of 10 women is DW; from this, one of every three are migrants. This study aims to ana...

Latin American countries have experienced an increase in the number of international organizations, especially Chile and Brazil. However, frequently, the specialized literature analyzes the Latin American cluster comprising all its countries as an undifferentiated entity, without acknowledging the particu- lar local characteristics or exceptional c...

The presentation of posters at scientific conferences to visually represent research projects is a widespread international practice. The main purpose of this paper is to offer reflections relating to posters as visual representations of research studies conducted by PhD candidates. As the basis for our reflections, we consider the main purposes an...

El rol del nivel intermedio en la definición de estrategias para mejorar la convivencia escolar en los estable-cimientos escolares ha sido escasamente explorado. Este artículo expone el diseño y la validación de una escala que evalúa la gestión de la convivencia escolar a nivel intermedio. Posterior a una revisión de la literatura y evaluación de j...

Several research have studied how school management impacts cognitive and non-cognitive components of students’ lives. However, less is known about what district level administrators do when dealing with issues concerning school climate. This study aims a comprehensive review of the literature on school district level involvement in school climate,...

Traditionally, the school malaise has been understood as an intra-school, individual or interactional phenomena. The contribution made by Bronfenbrenner (1989) y followed by international research (Berger & Lisboa; 2009; Khoury-Kassabri, Astor & Benbenishty, 2009) has allowed to widen the understaing of malaise, interpreting it as a complex, multiv...

[English] We examine the relationship between conflict management and school climate styles in two Chilean public schools. It is hypothesized that the type of administration implemented will influence the form and characteristics of the school life. Through microethnographies, and content analysis, we distinguished two forms of conflict management:...