/library/oar/handle/123456789/36571 2025-12-26T07:58:11Z 2025-12-26T07:58:11Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/113490 2023-10-04T06:25:30Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Paulo Freire : a critical encounter and politics of liberation : paths from Freire [Books review] Abstract: 1997 has had its share of commemorative events worldwide. And a number of these centred around personalities who have made an impact in the area of education, including personalities whose work, though influential in different parts of the globe, is rooted in a Mediterranean context. One should mention here the Italians, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967). The fonner's ideas are very influential in the field of education and, this year, there have been a number of symposia and conferences marking the 60th Anniversary of his death. 1997 also marks the 30th anniversary of Lorenzo Milani's death. Like his compatriot, Danilo Dolci, Milani is one of Italy's better known critical pedagogues who, among other things, set up a radical school for working class students (mainly 'drop outs' of the formal educational system) at the remote village of Barbiana in Tuscany. One hopes that the work of these two figures, particularly that of Lorenzo Milani, who is certainly not as well known internationally as Gramsci, will feature prominently in future issues of this journal.

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Title: L' Arabisation dans les Sciences Sociales: le Cas Algerien [Book review] Abstract: In Algeria, the publication of a book has become a rather unusual event. Instead of being a somehow normal activity, publishing seems like attempting the impossible. 'That's one published and saved', we always say after each birth. Saved from oblivion. Another book which will help re-establish our memory in the face of the overall amnesia. We have become oblivious of what we were: a people full of contradictions, of hope and history, but also a people unable, at the threshold of the third millennium, to extricate itself from the ascendancy of orality. But which vernacular are we talking about, when one knows that the country is still struggling against real/false linguistic problems it wants to solve with profuse government decisions, decrees and laws, away from the socio-cultural, linguistic and psycholinguistic realities of the country?

1997-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/112990 2023-09-07T08:21:40Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Financiacion de la educacion superior en Espana: Sus Fimplicaciones en el terreno de la equidad [Book review] Abstract: A substantial part of the current debate about the relationships between government and higher education is concerned with the impact of the funding of higher education on the distribution of income. This book describes the regressive effect of the Spanish method of funding, although the modifications introduced during the last decade have slightly reduced the regressivity of the system. The study by Calero begins with a theoretical and methodological outline of the main components of a thorough analysis.on the redistributive effects of the funding of public higher education (Chapters 1 and 2). In these chapters, the author examines the specific nature of the analyses carried out from the area of the Economics of Education and the possible options between which the researcher can choose in undertaking a research of this type. Among these options, Calero examines the way families are classified, the treatment of taxes, the intergenerational transfer problem or the use of age group limitations with the purpose of identifying the potential users of higher education. The third chapter introduces the main traits and results of the analysis. Here, Calero confirms the regressivity of the current method of funding public higher education, showing that, during the past decade, there has been a slight decrease in the regressive effect. According to the author, the regressivity arises mainly from the lack of a private higher education sector in Spain, from the difficulties of access to higher education of lower income groups and from the limited effects of the grant system. In the nineties, however, there has been an improvement in the access of lower income families, but it has been accompanied by a greater participation of middle classes in public educational services. The author, then, demonstrates that his initial hypothesis, that there has been a growing use by the middle classes of educational services, has been supported by the evidence, and that the grant system has only slightly alleviated the regressivity of the method of funding. In that sense, the fact that the cover rate of the grant system is between 22% and 42% for the lower income groups and around 16% for the highest income classes suggests that there are problems with the design and application of the system, which interfere with the equity objective of making the distribution of income more equal.

1997-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/112989 2023-09-07T08:14:03Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: II Pedagogista Scalzo [Book review] Abstract: Is it possible, given the complex society in which we live, to find a new way of educating and conceiving of a new philosophy of education? This is the poser that Pampanini grapples with in his essay, fl Pedagogista Scalzo. This is not an easy book. On the contrary, it presupposes a sound philosophical background on the reader's part, but it is to this book's credit that it encourages the reader to problematise western culture and to explore the basis for a meaningful encounter between Western values and those of 'the other'.

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