Sociology of education in la

WHICH EMPHASIZES ON DIFFERENT FACTS, SCANNED FROM THE ECUADORIAN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

By. Williams Maldonado.

Quito, Ecuador 2012

Textbook Title: Sociology of Education-ESL Williams Vicente Maldonado.

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Printed in Quito, Ecuador 2012

INDEX Presentation General Objectives SECTION ONE: The Ecuadorian education. General overview Definition ofsociology X-ray on today‟s educational crisis Educational formation Profile of the Ecuadorian educator Education and technology Educational technology.- other reflections The Self-learning process in Ecuador Reading one Self-evaluation SECTION TWO: Emphasis on the National curriculum
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Preview Toward the globalization in education What isglobalization in economic terms? Postulates of the United Nations‟ letter Conclusion about the external debt Globalization in education Latin-American countries from Basic education Reading two Self-evaluation SECTION THREE: The educational system on target. Overview Public sector of education in Ecuador.. The educational sector Descriptive table about the educational sector The Country‟s GeneralBudget Comparative chart: investment in education Comparative chart: investment in health Reading three Self-evaluation

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SECTION FOUR: Education and the local economy Synopsis What it‟s said about the education of children The Incidence of higher education in the local economy Brief analysis about the professional employment Rate The educational level and unemploymentReading four Self-evaluation SECTION FIVE: The communication.- an educational trend
Previous analysis Technological revolution is affecting all type of Information Positive tendency Information speed Contents do not have any edge Teacher and student open their own cyberspace Teacher and student versus the social network Negative tendency Reading five Self-evaluation General conclusions GlossaryBibliography and websites 51 52 52 52 53 56 57 59 60 61 62 67 68 69 41 42 43 43 44 44 46 49 50

PARTICULAR THANKS TO

KATHA AFFELT A GERMAN TEACHER WHO ENCOURAGED ME IN THE POSSIBILITY TO SUPPORT THE EDUCATION, THIS WAY!.

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Sociology of Education

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Read each section thoroughly and then reflex on their contents. 2. Do not pass on the following section unlessyou‟ve decided on leaving some facts out you don‟t care about. 3. Use the glossary, placed to the end of the book; otherwise get a pocket dictionary. 4. Revise the complementary readings at the end of every unit, as well as the data attachment at the end of the textbook, so you can enlarge your knowledge about the topic. 5. Use the self-evaluations, which will allow you to advance in the knowledgeabout the Sociology of education. 6. Enjoy every little reading.

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INTRODUCTION

Ecuador is a country in South America which possesses a variety of natural resources. It‟s one of few countries on earth that has an unrivaled geographical position none compared to other countries around the world. Unfortunately, this geographical circumstance is not consideredreally useful from the government and it does not see it as strength for both programming and planning the Educational Curriculum. The present text is a result of a serious and sensible analysis of the crisis which the educational system is going through; and how to figure out such crisis ingeniously. In such a way, inside section one, you will find information about: a general overview of theEcuadorian Education, the profile of the new educator, the education and technology, the self-learning process, etc., for section two, the author analyses the function of the globalization, the role of the United Nations, the impact caused by the foreign debt. In section three you'll see an overview of the public sector, a description of the educational public sector, the investments in Health and...