SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

Author: MARTINEZ SAMPLON M. VISITACIÓN.
Year: 2003.
University: ROVIRA I VIRGILI.
Place of defense: CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN Y PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA.

Summary: The dissertation analyzes the results of adults who reached the Graduate School in Lleida regions between courses ranging between the years 1977 and 1995. At findings of this research shows that the number of immigrants had a significant weight in the entire pool of students, the number of women who tested exceeded that of men, the age profile was largely between the 20 and 30 years and for which the aspirants primaba was adopted, far beyond getting a good note, a point that was secondary for most. The thesis also includes numerous graphic comparative data crossing the four options that have been analyzed by emptying reports of examinations -lugar of birth, age, gender and calificación- with different establishments in which took place evidence (Lleida capital, in classrooms counties, in prison workshop in the classroom and through what is known as evidence-free). This study also includes a synthetic version of which would be the history of adult education Lleida, sbore all, in the period from 1963 to 2003, which also reviews the evolution of these lessons at the level of Catalonia. There have also been pioneers in Lleida experiences compared with those of other provinces, such as the introduction of CENEBAD, which took place at the same time on the demarcation leridana and in Zamora. At the level of general contents, there are separate chapters devoted to the historical setting of adult education in Spain (from the year 1875 until 2000) and the theoretical framework, which analyzes the current situation in which it finds education adults, a subject who lives immersed in a continuous renewal. The investigation also includes a chapter methodology, which outlines the working method employed, the material used and the sources consulted, and explains in detail how they had carried out the systematic and statistical data collected. The paper concludes with a bibliography and an annex which has been attached all data emptying the records of the Department of Ensenyament, which are the basis of this research, covering nearly 4,500 students approved.

Author: SANTA CRUZ AYO IGNACIO.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES UB.

Summary: In this thesis posed the following objectives: To examine the changes of today's society and its repercursión, in the form of remnants, in educational institutions superior.Ver the answers that are being proposed from the university and from the states, especially analyze aspects related to the quality and equality. Review policies and practices of the university system and describe that Spanish relations are established between quality and equality. Exposing European policies and international higher education that it is linking quality and igualdad.Describir through a case study, the existing inequalities in relation to prersonas older than 25 years in their access to college Spanish, identifying the major obstacles.

Author: BUENO DELGADO GEORGINA.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.

Summary: This research consisted of 3 phases: 1 - Develop a socio-demographic profile of students without academic progress and find the reasons for not obtained academic progress. 2-To develop a model psychosocial support addressed to university students in the first year with the aim of avoiding his academic failure. 3-To implement this model to a group of 20 subjects and assess their effectiveness compared with other control group of 20 subjects. In the first phase found that 65.9% of subjects were females and 34.1% male, which relates to the population at the University of Puerto Rico, where 69.8% of students are female. The 41.9% of the male subjects was 24 years or more and 34.9% of females were between 22 and 23 years. The 69% came from public schools and 31% of private schools. The 65% cursaba between the second and fourth year of studies. The 43.7% aspired to doctoral degree and 52% a master. Most of their parents, regardless of gender, had a college degree and 27% reached high school. The 52.1% were receiving scholarships for studies. The 54% worked and studied further. The 65.1% of the subjects did not approve the minimum credits required for their years of study: why was on probation. The remainder did not receive the required minimum of the average of 2.00. The 53.2% indicated family difficulties and 53.2% personal difficulties as a reason for not obtaining academic progress. Other difficulties also indicated clustered between academic, economic, adjustment to college life and sociocultural. In developing the model for psychosocial support explored various alternatives to meet the needs presented by the subjects. It was considered the concept of resilience as through its approach helps to strengthen skills in the individual, through various support of the environment, which trained to deal without necessarily be affected by them. This model provides support and guidance counseling, academic, peer, family, economic and socio-cultural. We evaluated effectiveness of the model for three consecutive semesters achieved positive results in favor of the group before the intervention program in variables: academic index, neglect of the university. The subjects evaluated the efficacy of support as excellent and good dominate the category of excellent. This descriptive study was considered exploratory. In the last phase were evaluated rigorously scientific results academic subjects, but not the effectiveness of aid, however they have a quantitative value which was demonstrated in the results of the pre-assessment.

Author: MENDOÇA SILVA VERA LUCIA DE.
Year: 2004.
University: SALAMANCA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES.

Summary: Current educational policies in Spain seeking to implement changes in higher education in order to combine theoretical knowledge with practical aspects of the learning experience of work extending the scope of the company, now considered as a further stage of its process. For the launch of the new orientation, the centers have tried hard to strengthen ties with companies so that academics can meet their education in the theoretical and practical knowledge. The University of Salamanca seeks to reconcile his academic project with a national perspective. For its realization, the powers have been involved in discussions on the new orientation. They have stimulated the necessary reforms in their qualifications to bring to the new situation. This has meant more flexible careers and tornarlas more practical to obtain a professional preparation efficient. Vocational training is the approach flow. The trend is to reform the academic and scientific measures to intervene in accordance with the organizational model of the company. This is the practice. The study analyzes the effort of the University of Salamanca to launch the project of the university training for the performance of activities in the productive sector. Such a process is identified through the consideration of practical experience in companies of students (first and second season) of the University of Salamanca and the recent graduates who perform their practices through the Department of the same university.

Author: RAMIREZ CUICAS TULIO ALFONSO.
Year: 2005.
University: NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA.
Place of defense: EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN DPTO HºDELA EDUCACIÓN Y EDUC. COMPARADA..

Summary: Being the area of school textbooks a relatively virgin field research in Venezuela, the existence of areas known little or nothing about the subject abound. So far, few efforts have focused on teaching character analysis assessments and analysis of cutting ideological content. These studies have aroused the curiosity of teachers, students and research educational pedagogy, which in itself speaks of its impact. Within this concern intelectural fits the study whose report presented in the form of Doctoral Thesis. We propose to address two areas known in Venezuela hands on the issue of textbooks. On the one hand, the analysis of public policies on these teaching materials, designed and implemented by the Venezuelan government since the fall of the Dictaruda Marcos Perez Jimenez in 1958 to the year 2004. Moreover, the estu since the submission of Social school textbook by teachers of the first and second phase of the Basic Education in Venezuela. In regarding public policy on the textbooks say that the results can show two different times, which occupies approximately the first eight years of democracy 1960-1969, characterized by a policy aimed at the development, production and free distribution of textbooks and state control of the quality of instruction in these teaching resources, and a second time from 1969 to 2004, marked by a policy erráctica directed only to control the prices of texts in the hands of genetic parents and teachers. The latter, according to the results, most of maintaining a social representation of the school texts undertaking it as essential, with unquestionable teaching skills, useful for being the center of the teaching profession and without any ideological content of a discriminatory nature, contradicting the latter appreciation from studies in Venezuela on discriminatory content of the texts. The statistical analysis shows that younger teachers are, without a university education, less experienced teachers who are more inclined to have a social representation of the school textbook textocentrisa.

Author: GONZÁLEZ ÁLVAREZ LISSETTE CAROLINA.
Year: 2006.
University: DEUSTO.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.

Summary: This research is proposed as a general objective address the relationship between the educational changes experienced by the Venezuelan population and the processes of social mobility between generations, using for this purpose information from the Survey of Cultural Determinants of Poverty, conducted by the Institute of Economic and Social Research at the Catholic University Andres Bello (Caracas, Venezuela). While this survey was not designed specifically to measure mobility, information on education and occupation of the interviewees and their parents in a broad representative sample at the national level allows an estimate to this phenomenon. The work begins with a statement of the theoretical discussion between different conceptions of social classes and stratification, and then describe the various ways of conceiving the relationship between education and inequality, both referring to studies of this issue in Latin America and Venezuela. The following is the major economic and demographic changes have taken place in Venezuela over the twentieth century, then focusing on education and job changes. This description served as a context of the analysis that is done later on intergenerational mobility recorded. In the second part of the work are presented in detail the characteristics of the source of information used and the procedure for the design of the indicators used in the analysis, specifically, how the scheme was adapted from John Goldthorpe according to the information available. The third part presents and analyzes the results of the investigation. First presents the estimation of the extent of social mobility and recorded their patterns according to age cohorts, gender and size of the town residence of the interviewee. It finds that mobility is recorded high, but shows variations: greater mobility in urban settings and in the cohort of people who took advantage of the process of mass public education (from 1958). Subsequently begin testing the relationship between education and mobility, checking first the relationship between the class of origin, education of origin (education and occupation of parents) with the educational attainment of respondents found that the first seems have more influence than the latter. In succession, switched to prove the relationship of education attained by respondents on their achievements in the workplace, showing the broad benefits of those who reach university education. The relationship between education and mobility will be addressed in different ways: firstly, the calculation of the rates of mobility (occupations) as educational level of the interviewee, and then test the model selection meritocratic through analysis loglinear and finally through an analysis of multiple correlation to verify this relationship together with the influence of other variables such as sex, age, size of the town, type of school sector and occupation. The results show that the rise in manual occupations related to the promotion of education in relation to the father's education, secondary education and work in the public sector. By contrast, higher education is related to the maintenance of white-collar occupations and private education, so that the latter has not been primarily a channel for promotion, but a strategy for the upper middle classes to maintain their advantages. The big question with which closes the work is the sustainability of the processes of opening recorded by Venezuelan society before the economic crisis and public services, since the eighties, processes that could explain the decline in mobility recorded in the younger cohort.