Gustavo Fischman

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at Arizona State University

This article describes teachers’ beliefs about the pedagogical approaches of very good teachers. Our exploratory factor analysis and analysis of variance based on the data from an online survey of K-12 public school teachers (N = 179) revealed two main findings. First, the teachers distinguished between relationship-emphasized and content-emphasize...

Este libro analiza las bases del proyecto de ciencia abierta al tiempo que plantea interrogantes respecto de la participación de las ciencias sociales y humanas en dicho proyecto, así como del lugar de América Latina en la oportunidad de desarrollar una ciencia abierta no comercial y gestionada por la comunidad académica. Plantea, también, la neces...

In this article, we describe public beliefs about the pedagogical approaches of very good teachers. Using an online survey of 334 adult participants and conducting an exploratory factor analysis, an analysis of variance, and multiple regression analysis, along with descriptive statistics, we found that participants believed that very good teachers...

En las últimas décadas se ha visto un resurgimiento del compromiso académico con la investigación decolonial, poscolonial, anticolonial y perspectivas teóricas del sur global como un recurso intelectual para enfrentar los persistentes legados coloniales en la educación. Este número especial presenta nueve trabajos orientados a contestar dos pregunt...

The last several decades have seen a global resurgence of academic engagement with decolonial, postcolonial, anti-colonial, and southern scholarship as a way to confront the persisting modern/colonial legacies in education. This special issue brings together a collection of nine articles to critically interrogate (de)colonial entanglements in compa...

This article describes critical disability intersectional qualitative approaches aimed to not just analyze but also contribute and transform special education policy research. We specifically examine the shortfalls of education policies that construct race and disability as essentially separate and distinct characteristics, failing to consider stud...

In this article, we draw on qualitative data from the experiences of five schools during the Covid-19 crisis in Aotearoa, New Zealand, where the word 'safety' has become paramount in educational debates (Sullivan, 2014). The study explores the educational and political tensions created by concerns about safety at schools in these unprecedented time...

En el Informe de la Comisión Gulbenkian, publicado en español por primera vez en 1996, Immanuel Wallerstein propuso una reestructuración de las ciencias sociales. El informe cuestionaba el desarrollo de estas disciplinas en el siglo XIX, cuando se vincularon al crecimiento de los estados europeos coloniales, basando sus teorías en experiencias part...

O artigo analisa a remuneração de professores no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos da América (do Norte) a partir de uma proposta de diálogo comparado não valorativo e em sintonia com perspectivas pós-coloniais. A ideia de (quase) antropofagia justifica-se na percepção que é possível um diálogo internacional a partir de um olhar dos problemas do Sul Glob...

In this essay, we argue that colleges of education, particularly those at research-intensive institutions, favor simplistic notions of scholarly impact and that this trend has concerning implications for the field, for researchers, and for the public at large. After describing the challenges and shortcomings of the current models of research assess...

Racial disproportionality in special education is an ongoing injustice in schools in the United States. In this article, we investigate the key relationships among education policy, context, and racial disproportionality in special education. We examine this nexus by analyzing one U.S. school district’s response to federal citations for disproporti...

• Understanding the continuities and transformations in Teacher Education in Argentina during the period 1985-2015 requires to simultaneously recognize two longstanding key dynamics: First, the ideological, political and pedagogical debates about who could and should be a teacher and closely linked which institution should be in charge to educate/p...

This article presents data from 1,751 survey responses on how adults remember their share of very good teachers in K-12 education and their characteristics. Participants remembered most of their teachers as good or very good and typically just over 15 percent as bad or worse. Further, participants remembered their very good teacher as predominantly...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented conditions in all areas of social life and as the suspension of schooling became “the new normal,” numerous experts and opinion-makers rushed to voice their recommendations to governments and educational organizations for normalizing schooling operations. In light of this worldwide crisis, we re-evalu...

La pandemia del COVID 19 ha creado condiciones sin precedentes en todas las áreas de la vida. A medida que la suspensión de las actividades escolares se ha convertido en "la nueva normalidad", numerosos expertos y formadores de opinión se han apresurado en lanzar sus recomendaciones a gobiernos y organizaciones educativas para normalizar las operac...

In this chapter, Gustavo Fischman summarizes the relevance of critical pedagogy today.

Education leaders consistently make quick decisions that have substantial impacts on the students and educators, with whom they work, often based on ambiguous and incomplete information. Thus, in this fast-paced, imperfect decision-making environment, implicit, unconscious biases can influence their decisions. To become better decision-makers, educ...

• Entender as continuidades e transformações na Formação de Professores na Argentina durante o período 1985-2015 requer reconhecer simultaneamente duas dinâmicas chave de longa data: Primeiro, os debates ideológicos, políticos e pedagógicos sobre quem poderia e deveria ser um professor e de que instituição deveria estar encarregado de educar / prod...

This study examines emerging efforts by three colleges of education to contribute to and benefit research use through public systems of knowledge exchange among researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and other education stakeholders. Often labeled knowledge mobilization (KM), such organization- and individual-level agendas seek to enhance, expan...

Much of the work done by faculty at both public and private universities has significant public dimensions: it is often paid for by public funds; it is often aimed at serving the public good; and it is often subject to public evaluation. To understand how the public dimensions of faculty work are valued, we analyzed review, promotion, and tenure do...

A prática de medir o impacto da pesquisa usando métricas indiretas como o fator de impacto das revistas no campo das Ciências Sociais e, mais especificamente, no campo da educação, tem ganhado força no Brasil e no mundo. Esses processos de avaliação produzem distorções que denominamos de simplimetrificação, já que mensuram a qualidade das pesquisas...

Nosotros realizamos una revisión exploratoria de la literatura de investigación y de políticas públicas relativa a las evaluaciones internacionales a gran escala (ILSA en inglés) e hicimos dos encuestas con expertos, creadores de políticas públicas y educadores para entender si, hasta qué punto y cómo tales evaluaciones influenciaron la producción...

Why bother thinking about Freire today? Who cares about the accuracy or lack of it in the translation of his books? In 2018 after 50 years of the original publication of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, there is a large industry of people profiting from translating and repeating Freire’s ideas – we are well aware that this text is another small contribut...

This paper examines whether, to what extent, and how international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) have influenced education policy-making at the national level. Based on an exploratory review of the research and policy literature on ILSAs and two surveys administered to educational policy experts, researchers, policymakers, and educators, our rese...

This article explores faculty perspectives at three colleges of education regarding strategies of knowledge mobilization for scholarship in education (KMSE), with consideration for the opportunities and challenges that accompany individual and organizational capacities for change. Faculty surveys (n = 66) and follow-up interviews (n = 22) suggest t...

The purpose of this essay is to describe key dimensions of contemporary Latin American Public Universities (LAPUs), especially pertaining to access, equity, and quality. Analyses of LAPUs must be contextualized within the great diversity of organizational models, as well as the accelerated process of economic and institutional expansions and contra...

Nesse trabalho, apresentamos os resultados de uma pesquisa sobre a Educacao de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) nos Cursos de Pedagogia do estado do Rio de Janeiro, a partir de uma revisao de uma revisao das grades curriculares dos cursos e de entrevistas em profundidade com professores que ministram disciplinas de EJA em IES publicas e privadas. Na analise...

The year 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the American Educational Research Association and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Equality of Educational Opportunity, known as the Coleman Report. These key moments in the field’s history ushered in important paradigm shifts in the practice of education research; in how the relationships amon...

The Citizen School Project (Escola Cidadã) was implemented from 1993 to 2004 in Porto Alegre, capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. This article presents the conception behind the Citizen School Project, the basic mechanisms created to implement and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, and some of its contradictions. After contextu...

As sociedades contemporâneas demandam a capacidade de compreender e seguir regras implícitas da cultura visual, as quais são desenvolvidas por meio de múltiplas, heterogêneas e, frequentemente, efêmeras imagens. Este fenômeno tem sido denominado “virada pictórica”. Este artigo aponta a discutir que: os efeitos da virada pictórica parecem ser mais l...

Unless you spent this spring sequestered in your office fervidly transforming your research results into acceptable scholarly languages on the off chance they will be published in some High Impact Factor journal, you are probably quite familiar with the academic debate following Nicholas Kristof''s lamentation over the state of the (university) pro...

In this blog post, we are suggesting to move the debate about the role of the academic as a public intellectual one step forward, from whether or not institutionally based researchers are engaging in the dissemination and wider discussion of their research to how we can recognize and assess the diverse ways in which research, and other types of kno...

Resumo Este artigo discute a importância de continuar incluindo de maneira crítica o trabalho de Paulo Freire nos programas de formação de professores. Apresentamos e discutimos dez “razões” elaboradas pelos estudantes inseridos no processo de reflexão sobre a utilidade e a adequação de se estudar Pedagogia do oprimido e outros textos de Paulo Frei...

The purpose of this commentary is to argue that a better way of addressing the centuries old criticisms about the ivory toweresque model is to stop complaining and engage with knowledge mobilization strategies (KM). Scholars engaging in knowledge mobilization seek to understand and increase the impact and usability of research by means of multi-dim...

The purpose of this commentary is to argue that a better way of addressing the centuries old criticisms about the ivory toweresque model is to stop complaining and engage with knowledge mobilization strategies (KM). Scholars engaging in knowledge mobilization seek to understand and increase the impact and usability of research by means of multi- di...

Since the 1990s scholarly journals produced in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have experienced an impressive quantitative and qualitative growth. In the late 1990s there were 15,049 ISSNs registered in Latin America, and the Latin American Journal Collection included 2,488 scientific journals. The expansion of the regional capacity to produc...

The main goal of this article is to provide conceptual guidelines to move the pedagogical debate in the field of citizenship education beyond idealistically narrow models. We begin by providing an overview of key shortcomings presented in most citizenship education programs, specifically in the United States of America. The second section presents...

In this introduction we reflect on two key questions that initiated this special issue on qualitative inquiry: What can qualitative researchers do to regain their post-paradigm-wars cache? How do we avoid distracting "science wars" in the future? We suggest that the strong tendency to narrow the research methods accepted as "scientific" - because t...

Este artigo discute a importância de continuar incluindo de maneira crítica o trabalho de Paulo Freire nos programas de formação de professores. Apresentamos e discutimos dez “razões” elaboradas pelos estudantes inseridos no processo de reflexão sobre a utilidade e a adequação de se estudar Pedagogia do oprimido e outros textos de Paulo Freire em p...

Para Nietzsche las cosas no son neutras, no hay hechos, no existe un saber último predeterminado, por el contrario, es necesario una búsqueda interpretativa de la cual, se obtendrán múltiples “verdades”, así es como surge esta publicación, de la preocupación por comprender de un modo complejo los procesos de investigación en política educativa y la...

This paper proposes that the relationship between schooling, citizenship and democracy--so often taken for granted and discussed using idealistic perspectives--is better understood when using the lens of “embodied cognition” (Lakoff, 2008) and a focus on metaphorical and prototypical ways of thinking. Our goal is to examine the always conflictive a...

With this article we want to contribute to moving the pedagogical debate about citizenship education beyond what we characterized in previous work as the impasse of idealized perspectives (Fischman; Haas, 2012). Our argument rests on two main ideas: First, the notion of citizen informing citizenship education programs is narrowly defined based on n...

Universities engaged in producing high quality research have been in existence for centuries in Latin America, but only in the last two decades has the research-intensive model become the standard to be achieved by most public universities in the region. The increased emphasis on scholarly publication in the region has coincided with the rise of th...

El objetivo principal de este artículo es proporcionar orien - taciones conceptuales que trasladen el debate pedagógico en el campo de la educación para la ciudadanía (EC) más allá de modelos idealizadores y simplistas. Tras un esbozo general de las principales deficiencias que se reflejan en la mayoría de los programas de educación para la ciudada...

En este trabajo sostenemos que al tomar la decisión de apoyar o rechazar ciertas políticas de educación superior, la gente tiende a aplicar formas prototípicas de pensamiento que sobrepasan la mera racionalidad cartesiana, utilizando asimismo formas prototípicas de comprensión. Estudios recientes en varias disciplinas sostienen que, para comprender...

In this work we maintain that upon making the decision to support or reject certain policies on higher education, people tend to use archetypal ways of thinking that go beyond mere Cartesian rationality, also applying archetypal forms of understanding. Recent studies in a variety of disciplines support that in order to understand decision-making pr...

Recent developments in cognitive science and linguistics provide strong evidence that understanding decision-making processes in higher education requires close attention to not only rational and consciously controlled dynamics but also those aspects that are less consciously controlled than previously assumed. When deciding to favor or reject high...

The amount and continuity of publications on and about Paulo Freire provides evidence about his persistence and global relevance. At times where books on pedagogy are forgotten almost as soon as they are printed and considering that Freire’s most important works were published in the decades 1960 and 1970, and the myriad of disputes that accompanie...

O artigo apresenta reflexões sobre a pedagogia crítica como narrativa redentora nos cursos de formação de professores. Quando se usa a pedagogia crítica adotando essas narrativas, as escolas são apresentadas de maneira dualista, ou seja, como vítima e, ao mesmo tempo, causadora de muitos problemas educacionais e sociais. A ironia é que, além disso,...

This article discusses Critical Pedagogy as a redemptive narrative in teacher education. When using Critical Pedagogy adopting such narratives, it presents schools in a dualistic form, as a victim as well as the cause of many educational and social problems. Ironically in this type of narrative, schools and teachers also appear as the best resource...

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Located in the south of Brazil, Porto Alegre is the largest urban district and the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The city has a population of 1,400,000 and from 1989 to 2005 it implemented the Escola Cidadã (Citizen School Project), an educational reform project.1Escola Cidadã stands out as one of the most innovative urban educational...

Throughout this article we argue that many scholars and scientific systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) share the ethical and epistemological motivations about the importance of increasing the "public presence" of academic research and lay out that many scholars and that many scholars and scientific systems in LAC are well positioned to...

Abstract Throughout this article we argue that many scholars and scientific systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) share the ethical and epistemological motivations about the importance of increasing the "public presence" of academic research and lay out that many scholars and that many scholars and scientific systems in LAC are well posi...

This essay analyzes the notion of "crisis" among Public Research Universities (PRUs) across different eras and national cultures. To clarify the contemporary state of the PRU and its critics, the history of PRUs is examined, both as a model and an ideal that crystallized in the middle of the twentieth century-and then seemingly began to falter. Nex...

This essay analyzes the notion of “crisis” among Public Research Universities (PRUs) across different eras and national cultures. To clarify the contemporary state of the PRU and its critics, the history of PRUs is examined, both as a model and an ideal that crystallized in the middle of the twentieth century—and then seemingly began to falter. Nex...

La incorporación de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TICs) en los sistemas educativos de América Latina ha sido, al igual que en otros países de condiciones de desarrollo similares, un proceso desigual y complejo, marcado por numerosos problemas de eficiencia, acceso, equidad y justicia (Cuban, 2001; Demo, 2005; Everett, 1998; T...

Este artículo propone el uso de las fotografías escolares como “analizadores” de instituciones educativas. Después de una breve discusión sobre las limitaciones de los enfoques teóricos que consideran las fotografías como contenedoras transparentes de fácil e inapelable lectura sobre sus significados, este artículo introduce la noción de las fotogr...

This article argues that in order to understand the feminization of the teaching profession in Argentina, it is essential to examine two key dynamics: (1) the historical and institutional life of teacher education programs and the social representations about what teachers ought to be advanced by those programs; and (2) the symbolic, economic and s...

A basic framework for popular education is elaborated as an emerging action technology and pedagogical alternative. This framework is based on the key ideas of Paulo Freire's works and illustrated by two experiences at the grassroots level.

This article presents the results of a study done with a group of 178 Master’s Degree students in the city of Buenos Aires. The principle objectives of the project were: a) to explore the dynamics of gender in teacher-training institutes; b) to investigate the pedagogical images and the imagination of future teachers; and c) to explore what senses...