Education Reform, Teacher Resistance, and Social Media Activism in Mexico, 2013–2016

Plascencia, David Ramírez

doi:10.1080/00131725.2018.1457748

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“…We conducted participant observation and talked to some of the leaders of the different sessions and workshops. Our data sources also include documents shared by the organization or available via their website (Libros Para Pueblos, 2017, 2018Marcial & Hernandex, 2016;True Roots International, 2018). Our work is informed by the knowledge shared by anthropologists and informal meetings with a library supporter.…”

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Libros Para Pueblos: An Exploratory Case Study

2020

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This article is the result of an introductory two-year case study project that investigated community libraries supported by the not-for-profit organization Libros Para Pueblos (LPP) in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Libros Para Pueblos (LPP) is a largely volunteer-run library organization based in the capital city of Oaxaca de Juarez. In order to analyse the work of LPP we used Mostert & Vermeulen's (1998) nine areas for evaluation of community libraries. Over the past 20 years, the number of libraries the organization supports has grown from two to more than 70 throughout the state. The work that has facilitated this growth is carried out by a small Mexican staff, along with an Executive Committee and a Board of Directors made up of Americans and Canadians living in Mexico. The work is both time consuming and demanding, but it is fuelled by a positive reading ideology that is a result of memories of childhood reading. This motivation is shared by a network of 11 Mexican Regional Volunteer Coordinators who train and support local library workers. The local workers are often doing their tequio, which is a social requirement of working for one or two years in public service. We argue that the success of LPP libraries is influenced by: 1) an organizational structure that mandates Mexican leadership at the Executive level and in paid staff positions; 2) initiation from local representative; 3) the unique and complex socialist community configurations of the Oaxacan region; 4) a community of retirees who volunteer at many levels; and 5) national and international donations.

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Libros Para Pueblos: An Exploratory Case Study

2020

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“…Users usually engage with social media through computer, tablet or smartphone via webbased software or web applications (Arshad & Akram, 2018;Rosenberg, Terry, Bell, Hiltz, & Russo, 2016;Wiebesiek, 2015). Besides an important means of communication and entertainment, social media have gradually been used in and had an impact on education (Ainin, Naqshbandi, Moghavvemi, & Jaafar, 2015;Halligan, 2010;Ramírez, 2018), and the tools include Facebook (Chugh & Ruhi, 2018;Gorghiu, Pribeanu & Lamanauskas, 2016), Twitter (Forgie, Duff & Ross, 2013;Halpin, 2016;Luo & Xie, 2019), YouTube (Reynolds, Platt, Malone & Foster, 2017;Sweeny, 2009), Instagram (Al-Bahrani & Patel, 2015), Blog (Muñoz & Culton, 2016;Roland, Johnson & Swain, 2011), LinkedIn (Collins, 2010;Lofgren, Shultz & Shea-Porr, 2015), Toolkit (Gülbahar, Rapp, Kilis, & Sitnikova, 2017), Snapchat and a variety of other tools (Forman, 2017). 21st century's learners are featured as a generation of learner-centered and media driven learners (Arquero, del Barrio-García, & Romero-Frías, 2017;Bagarukayo, 2018;Gray, 2018;Heick, 2015).…”

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Social Media in Dynamic Learning: Logistics and Influential Factors

Liu

Li-ting

2019

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Educators have been using social media to enrich learning activities and promote interactive and collaborative learning. Under the context of dynamic learning-the way that 21st century's learners learn, the new challenges are: how educators design such a setting to effectively integrate certain social media tools to improve learning, and what the influential factors might be that educators need to focus during the design. In this article, we employ the concept "logistics" to explain and redefine dynamic design, dynamic learning, and dynamic thinking, which furthermore formulate the framework of the study. This article presents a critical content review of current literature, and an analysis of 276 cases located from the literature on seven factors (

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