ESE:O is planning a new academic writing workshop for the 7th cohort of CARTA fellows, to be inaugurated in March 2017 at the University of Makarere, Kampala, Uganda. CARTA is the flagship research-training initiative of the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), based in Nairobi, Kenya. ESE:O has run writing workshops for first year [...]
OCDE presenta Diplomado para docentes: “Competencia Lectora: Un enfoque para la vida y el aula
ESE: O participated in the 43rd International Cervantino Festival, FIC 2015 in Guanajuato, Mexico, on October 10, 2015. Together with Pedro Pablo Zegers presented "Gabriela Mistral Intima," in tribute to the 70th anniversary of the Nobel Prize for Literature by Gabriela Mistral. Reference: https://www.accioncultural.es/es/festival_internacional_cervantino_fic_guanajuato_2015
"Women Mobilizing Memory," is a working group that emerged from Columbia's Center for the Study of Social Difference, which for three years explored memory policies following the atrocities of the 20th and 21st centuries with a comparative global perspective and an emphasis on the effects of social difference. Focusing on the role of gender in [...]
The aim of the Peer Review Project is to promote publication of academic research from the global South in international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of gender and sexuality, human and sexual rights, and reproductive health. The program was implemented with Ford Foundation support in conjunction with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the [...]
Description: he main goal of this project is the development of an online capacity building methodology to validate the experiences and achievements of activists to impact local and international academia and policy makers. The project also aims to evaluate this methodology and test its replicability. The first phase of this project was to produce an [...]
Description: Numerous studies describe the inadequate preparation, in terms of certain cognitive skills, of students entering higher education in Latin America. This deficiency is especially noteworthy in the area of academic writing (of reports, summaries, papers, presentations, research outcomes, etc.) Students are required to respond to writing requirements despite lack of skills and competencies in [...]
Description: The Ford Foundation partnered with ESE:O and Asian, African and Latin American academics committed to teaching in the areas of sexualities and gender and including these in university curricula. This consisted of evaluating the institutional capacity of universities to academic research, teaching and the production of knowledge in the sexualities fields with gender perspectives [...]
Description: This ESE:O writing workshop was developed in the context of the National Survey on Political Culture and Good Citizenship (ENCUP) Summer Course “Introduction to Quantitative Analysis in Social Sciences.” The main topic was analysis of the Interior Ministry 2009 National Survey on Political Culture and Good Citizenship. The Ministry presented a statistical analysis of [...]
Description: This program was designed for selected IFP scholarship recipients in order to prepare them for postgraduate studies of academic excellence in Chile and abroad. Participating scholars at the graduate and undergraduate levels developed the competencies in academic writing, critical thought and intercultural skills necessary for academic success. Methodology: The Program was conducted through a [...]
