F. Javier Murillo

Bio: F. Javier Murillo is an academic researcher from Autonomous University of Madrid. The author has contributed to research in topics: Latin Americans & Primary education. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 190 publications receiving 1779 citations. Previous affiliations of F. Javier Murillo include University of Zaragoza.

School Infrastructure and Resources Do Matter: Analysis of the Incidence of School Resources on the Performance of Latin American Students.

Abstract: The purpose of this investigation is to determine the incidence of school infrastructure and resources and its impact on the academic performance of primary education students in Latin America. A 4-level multilevel model was applied to the data of the Second Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (SERCE) conducted by UNESCO, which researched 180,000 students in the 3rd and 6th grades of primary education at 3,000 schools from 15 countries in Latin America. Results show that the availability of basic infrastructure and services (water, electricity, sewage), didactic facilities (sport installations, labs, libraries), as well as the number of books in the library and computers in the school do have an effect on the achievement of primary education students in Latin America, but their relative weight varies significantly from country to country. These results indicate the need to continue investment in resources and facilities and to incorporate this factor into school effectiveness models that are meant ...

Liderando Escuelas Justas para la Justicia Social

Abstract: Based on Social Justice concept understood as Redistribution, Recognition and Representation (the three Rs), in this article is justified the necessity of schools that work for social justice are, concurrently, schools that broach issues and approaches an education in social justice, and schools with an organization and a fair inner functioning (schools for social justice). Since there, it is focused from own and others' researches how these schools are.Principals´ behaviours and values who are leading those schools is the subject of the second part of the text: Thus, issues such as the significance of dreaming, of working for cultural change from school, to foster the development are discussed of all members of the school community, to promote fair teaching and learning and in social justice, to develop the creation of professional learning communities, to nurturing collaboration between school and family, and expand the social capital students.

El Covid-19 y las Brechas Educativas

Abstract: Resulta practicamente imposible en estos momentos dificiles abstraerse de la situacion que monopoliza todos nuestros pensamientos y acciones cotidianas y no dedicar esta breve reflexion al Coronavirus y sus efectos en la educacion de los mas vulnerables. A un lado y al otro del charco, vivimos en estado de emergencia, lo que significa confinamiento en las casas y, con ello, suspension de toda actividad educativa presencial.

Liderazgo en las instituciones educativas. Una revisión de líneas de investigación

Abstract: Ante el fracaso –o los efectos muy limitados- de muchas de las reformas externas intentadas en las ultimas decadas, el liderazgo educativo es percibido como un elemento clave para generar mejora desde abajo, creando condiciones institucionales que hagan mas eficaces las organizaciones escolares. A partir de una revision de la literatura internacional actual, este articulo se propone delimitar algunos de los enfoques relevantes de la investigacion sobre liderazgo educativo. Particularmente, nos centramos en tres grandes dimensiones actuales de la investigacion sobre el liderazgo: el liderazgo pedagogico o para el aprendizaje, el liderazgo distribuido y el liderazgo para la justicia social. A su vez, estas dimensiones constituyen el interes principal de cada uno de los tres proyectos “vivos” del Plan Nacional de I+D+i que dirigen respectivamente los autores del articulo. La comprension actual del liderazgo se aleja de la vision del director como unico agente con poder, para adoptar una perspectiva distribuida o compartida. A su vez, se busca un liderazgo pedagogico capaz de incidir en la mejora de los aprendizajes, creando condiciones para que el profesorado pueda hacerlo mejor. Y tambien, por ultimo, un liderazgo para la justicia social, que asegure una buena educacion a todos los alumnos, desde una perspectiva inclusiva y equitativa. Con el proposito de mantener conectadas dichas perspectivas, los autores del articulo han formado recientemente la “Red de Investigacion sobre Liderazgo y Mejora Educativa (RILME)”. Abstract As most of top-bottom educational reforms failed or had a very limited impact on school improvement, educational leadership is increasingly perceived as the key factor to promote such improvement, facilitating the conditions for more successful schools. Starting from a review of current international literature, this paper suggests and discusses three of the relevant research approaches on educational leadership, including: leadership for learning, distributed leadership, and leadership for social justice. Such dimensions are respectively the core interest of each of the three current research projects (funded by the National R&D&I Plan) led by the authors of the paper. On the one hand, the current understanding of leadership is far from the vision of the principal as the only agent that exerts power and influence at school and close to a shared o distributed perspective. On the other hand, only instructional leadership will be capable to improve learning, building conditions for teachers to improve their teaching. Finally, schools need leadership for social justice in order to ensure a good education for all students, from an inclusive and equitable perspective. Bearing in mind the purpose of conencting such perspectives, the authors of the article have recently launched the “Network of Research on Leadership and School Improvement”.

América Latina: violencia entre estudiantes y desempeño escolar

Abstract: Se estimo la magnitud de la violencia escolar en las escuelas latinoamericanas y su incidencia en el desempeno de los estudiantes de primaria Se analizaron caracteristicas sociodemograficas del estudiante vinculadas al maltrato entre pares Se utilizaron modelos multinivel de cuatro y tres niveles con los datos del Segundo Estudio Regional Comparativo y Explicativo (SERCE) de la Organizacion de las Naciones Unidas para la Educacion, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), analizandose 2969 escuelas, 3903 aulas y 91223 estudiantes de 6o grado de 16 paises latinoamericanos (excluido Mexico al relacionar violencia escolar y desempeno academico) Conclusiones: la violencia interpares es un grave problema en toda la region; los estudiantes que sufrieron violencia de sus iguales alcanzaron un desempeno en lectura y matematicas significativamente inferior al de quienes no la experimentaron; en aulas con mayores episodios de violencia fisica o verbal los educandos muestran peores desempenos que en aulas con menor violencia

Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and Their Effects on Children

Abstract: We have come a long way from the heady days of the Great Society, when most people seemed to believe that education would solve all of our problems, both intellectual and social The Coleman Report in 1966 cast the first doubts, and Jencks ( Inequality ) and Averch ( How Effective is Schooling? ) in 1972 seemed to make it official: nothing that schools do really makes any difference Considering that we spend more on schools than most other state and local governmental functions combined, this is indeed a dreary state of affairs Fifteen Thousand Hours has the temerity to question our present conventional wisdom It is a study of what things do make a difference in pupil outputs in 12 London inner-city secondary schools In many ways, it is a substantial improvement, methodologically, over previous studies First, it studies not just one output (which has usually been the score on some standardized test),

Equality and Partiality.

Abstract: This collection of essays, based on the Locke Lectures that Nagel delivered at Oxford University in 1990, addresses the conflict between the claims of the group and those of the individual. Nagel attempts to clarify the nature of the conflict - one of the most fundamental problems in moral and political theory - and concludes that its reconciliation is the essential task of any legitimate political system.

Creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities

Abstract: This report summarises the main finding from the Creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities (EPLC) project, funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the General Teaching Council for England (GTCe) and the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) from January 2002 to October 2004.

Pedagogía Del Oprimido

Abstract: Pedagogia del Oprimido , es un ensayo que muestra la importancia de la libertad del ser humano, la cual, segun el autor, solo se pude conseguir con una educacion que ayude a la gente oprimida a liberarse. Es un libro en el cual el autor te va llevando de un estado de frustracion por la deshumanizacion de la sociedad, hasta un estado en el cual te incita a imaginarte como protagonista en el trabajo de la liberacion de los oprimidos en contra de los opresores. Este es un libro que sin duda todo Licenciado en Ciencias de la Educacion tiene que leer, releer y volver a leer, ya que es un instrumento que la educacion debe tener para lograr que la humanidad vuelva al camino de la humanizacion, y sobre todo de la liberacion. Debemos de considerar al libro Pedagogia del Oprimido, como una pedagogia humanista y liberadora, la cual cuenta con dos momentos distintos, el primero en que los oprimido descubren el mundo de la opresion y se van comprometiendo en la praxis con su transformacion, y el segundo, en el que una vez que se trasforma la realidad opresora, esta pedagogia deja de ser del oprimido y pasa a ser la pedagogia de los hombres en el proceso permanente de la liberacion.

REICE. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación

Abstract: Resumen es: Este trabajo analiza la Direccion Escolar como factor de eficacia y cambio en la realidad chilena, ofreciendo, en primer lugar, una vision panoramica del...