Markus Daniel Meier

Externado University of Colombia · Faculty of Sciences of the Education

The supervision of education as a Constitutional issue in the young Republic

Articles about the effects of the (missing) Reformation in Latin America

The article centers on the underlying promise of "salvation through work" (as worked out by Max Weber) in her Capabilites Approach

Previous research has shown how peace education (PE) mutates according to socio-political and curricular/didactic traditions, but we still need to know how PE disseminates at the school level. We surveyed teachers from 12 rural schools of the violent Amazon region of Colombia where a national Law made PE mandatory in schools and universities. Teach...

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Últimamente se ha puesto la cuestión de la corrupción en el centro del debate sobre la "buena gobernanza", pero la corrupción no solo es sinónima de malversación, sino también de estrategias de supervivencia. Así, el objet8vo general es considerar las potencialidades corruptivas de los procesos transformativos sociales, precisamente el proceso de h...

The OECD’s Programme of International Student Assessment known as PISA, including the Gender Report published in 2015, is a well-received project and its findings keep being transferred into educational policy development. Its quantitative methodology and the sheer volume of data gathered from around 5,100,000 students from 65 countries seem to gua...

This article deals with the role of education for peace building in the context of the Colombian post-conflict. It locates the former in the context of pragmatist and legalist approaches to post-conflict phases and analyses its “buffer role” between the two. A brief introduction to the history of the Colombian conflict is followed by theoretical co...

The abundance of pedagogical and educational literature on the term “gender” can hardly be overlooked any longer. Approaches which thematically group the variable “gender” exclusively under aspects of social construction dominate the educational discourse on “learning and gender.” In comparison, this article stresses the relevance of sociobiology f...

Lange Zeit war die aufklärerische Überzeugung von der Gleichheit aller auch für die erziehungswissenschaftliche Geschlechterdebatte unhinterfragbar eine gerechte Schule sollte gleiche gleich behandeln, also auch Jungen und Mädchen. Das hinderte Bildungspolitik nicht daran, jahrzehntelang einseitig Mädchen und junge Frauen zu fördern. Empirisch-stat...

Bildungsreform im Westen und Polytechnische Oberschule im Osten schienen die Frage nach Koedukation endgültig beantwortet zu haben: Deutschland hatte mit flächendeckender Koedukation modernisierend nachgeholt, was in z.B. USA und Frankreich längst Standard gewesen war. Dahinter setzten seit den 90ern v.a. feministische Autoren wieder ein Fragezeich...