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In this article, readers are going to see how foreigners’ children have been treated in the Japanese educational system. Until now, Japan does not have a specific principle idea in their policies; therefore, those are not stable and concrete. In order to investigate how national policies and its doctrine are important in the educational system, this article has examined Australia as a nation introducing the principles of multiculturalism and France as a nation introducing the republicanism in their integrated politics by doing a literature research. The literature that was used in this paper include the policies and critical papers written by experts that has allow us to analyze the pros and cons of their policies. As a result, the Japanese government is urged to create a concrete policy that would support foreign students to better adapt to the society and become a productive human resource to improve the country’s wellbeing.

Homo Ludens, a work written by Johan Huizinga is another alternative for the conceptualization and use of the term ludic in mathematical education, with a significant contribution to the pedagogical practice involving children’s mathematical literature or children’s literature with mathematical content, replacing the recurrent use of the terms »play» and »playful» from the field of educational psychology. From the bibliographic method, the study allowed three general conclusions: the first is the presence of philosophy in mathematics education with the use of children’s literature; the second, arising from the first is the possibility of philosophy to enter the contents of mathematics by encouraging logical reasoning, from early childhood education; and, lastly, that there are many gains in teacher training, in pedagogy courses, especially in the promotion of learning and knowledge in mathematical education, under the play, which are part of a philosophically based perspective present in the work Homo Ludens of the Huizinga.

This study aims to identify public schools teacher’s perceptions of the Good Teaching Practices, especially the use of technology in the classroom. Additionally, the study identify teacher’s perception concerning the use of a mobile app to teach mathematics. The study begins with a theoretical review that delimit the concept.From this review, an interview guide was designed to identify teacher’s perceptions of good teaching practices and the use of technologies in the classroom. The results suggests that teachers identify Good Teaching Practices in a conceptual approach, but not in a practical approach. In addition, they acknowledge the benefits of technologies for their teaching practices, recognizing the importance for teaching mathematics.

The universities have among their responsibilities, providing high quality education that benefits students, alumni, organizations and society in general.Alumni monitoring becomes an important source for curriculum feedback, assessing the quality of the training and their consistency with the requirements for professional performance in different companies. However, there are many difficulties in establishing and maintaining a relationship of mutual benefits between educational institutions and their alumni. In this article, a Model for Alumni Monitoring and Supporting is presented. The model was designed from a holistic, ensuring that all involved actors get benefits. The model has been validated and can be adopted and/or adapted by educational institutions to create or strengthen the relationship with their alumni.

When discussing the professional aspects of the work of women teachers, it is usual to include the vocational factor as a main element. The question of vocational education incorporated progressively in the training period progresses. Teachers themselves talk about this as something that already appears in their childhood as an explicit desire to dedicate to teaching. With the project «Peruvian Women Teacher’s» we approach the opinions on this and other issues. The process of preparation of the project in Lima initiated includes interviews with twenty-one women. Most teachers insist on their vocational precocity, especially those who working in poverty environments. We use case studies incorporating video through Arts Based Research. Art Education try to make visible the identities of the female teaching group. It is a tribute, but also a professional claim. Participants are teachers of different ages and particular situations. We have again verified that the vocational component is present in personal narratives.

This study focuses on the thoughts provided by students in their last year of a Bachelor degree at a university institution of Uruguay. The research is part of the professional skills that these young people put into action within the framework of the workshops of applied research offered during the last year of their career, in which they perform a diagnostic approach and a proposal for improving a practice center.The study lasted a total of eight months, during which various techniques were applied (online survey, focus groups, interviews and document analysis), aimed at students and key informants whose contributions allowed comparing points of view and supplementing information. It was sought at all times to articulate specific records of each experience with other global contributions from the multicase methodology in order to analyze the processes of change management. The document closes resuming the study objectives that seek to generate critical reflection on the professional practices put into action presenting the main findings achieved, in dialogue with theoretical contributions that guided the process of analysis.

The article presents the results of a research aimed at revealing the representations that parents have on the family-school relationship in the rural context of Quillón, Chile. Qualitative methodology is used, using in-depth interview. Twenty subjects are interviewed. Some results indicate that families give teachers a key part to establish a proper family-school relationship. This representation is based on the recognition of the bureaucratic nature of the school. How the family involvement is modelled is determined by the relevance assigned to the school success of their children. Indeed, moments, instances and ways in which families participate are related to the value assigned to them to enhance academic results.

The article presents a selective review of the literature that exposes and analyzes the results of ten empirical studies on the consequences of the application of economic incentives in academia in a context of global transformation of the university. The first part presents a brief description of incentive systems known as merit pay plans, their main characteristics and the objectives of their implementation. The second part presents the main research findings developed in the USA, Germany, Australia, Estonia, Pakistan, Argentina and Mexico, and the reported effects on productivity, motivation and teacher satisfaction. Concludes with the discussion of critical aspects in the implementation and evaluation of merit-based payment systems.

In this article, a study that analyzes the legislation for teacher training in Peru and Brasil is presented. We aim to understand the approximations and differences between these educational systems for the formation of higher education teachers in both countries. The research developed was qualitative, performed through documentary analysis. We found that there is more detailed legislations on teacher training in Brasil when compared with Peru. In recent years, educational laws of both countries have been exhibiting alterations in regards to the new demands of modern society which is constantly changing as well. Furthermore, it is noticed that the educational laws in both countries address the orientations of educational policies which are being implemented in Latin America.