Por: Jorge Mahecha Quiero abordar el tema de estándares en la profesión docente desde la perspectiva de dos conceptos superficialmente similares pero en el fondo muy diferentes: profesionalización y profesionalismo. Hablar de profesionalización, involucra hacerlo desde el estudio que la sociología ha hecho de las características de las profesiones, como estructuras en el … [Lee más...] about Profesionalización y profesionalismo en la docencia escolar
Enseña por Colombia
Professionalization and Professionalism in School Teaching
by: Jorge Mahecha I want to address the issue of standards in teaching as a profession from the perspective of two concepts that are superficially similar but very different at their core: professionalization and professionalism. Speaking of professionalization involves doing so from the study sociology has carried out on the characteristics of occupations as social order … [Lee más...] about Professionalization and Professionalism in School Teaching
Is teaching a profession?
Written by: Jorge Mahecha Neither medicine, nor engineering, nor law came into being with a professional status. The same clearly holds true for teaching. These modern elite professions acquired their status during the 20th Century, and in a few cases even earlier. Through their rise, these former occupations became professions, not in the narrow dictionary meaning of the … [Lee más...] about Is teaching a profession?
Structural solutions
written by: Jorge Mahecha. It's true: There is an epidemic of “enseñas,” or alternative teacher training programs, in Latin America, as Marcelo Cabrol correctly noted in an earlier blog. Enseña por Colombia (ExC), launched early 2011 after a year and a half of initial development, is a young organization going full steam ahead, its first group of teachers set to deploy in … [Lee más...] about Structural solutions
Soluciones estructurales
Escrito por: Jorge Mahecha*. Es cierto: si hay una epidemia de “Enseñas” en Latinoamérica, como acertadamente señala Marcelo Cabrol en una entrada previa de este blog. Enseña por Colombia (ExC), en existencia desde inicios de este año, y después de un año y medio de desarrollo previo, es una joven organización que marcha a todo vapor para tener su primera cohorte de … [Lee más...] about Soluciones estructurales