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World’s Best B-School Professors: Sheena Iyengar. Columbia’s Sheena Iyengar is one of the world’s best business school professors Age: 41 Claim to Fame: Expert, the art of choosing Discipline: Management Education: Stanford University, PhD, Psychology University of Pennsylvania, BS, Economics University of Pennsylvania, BA, Psychology At Columbia Since: 1998 Before Columbia: Sloan School of Management at MIT Fun Fact: I like my coffee with four sugars If I wasn’t teaching, my dream job would be: No idea, this is my dream job Best part of the job: Getting to talk about and create new ideas Worst part of the job: Not enough hours in the day for everything With her research that explores the factors of good and bad decision making, Sheena Iyengar is considered one of the leading experts on choice.

Iyengar dissects the beauty and ugly truths about decision making. Although these accomplishments are impressive, what’s more inspiring is how this 41-year-old professor was drawn to the art of choosing in the first place. Students Say: We Are Teachers - Free Teaching Resources - Tips, Ideas & More. Divulgación y Cultura Científica. Hace ya dos años que la Conferencia Iberoamericana de Educación aprobó el proyecto «Metas Educativas 2021: la educación que queremos para la generación de los Bicentenarios», que sería posteriormente refrendado por la Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno celebrada a comienzos de diciembre de 2010 en Mar del Plata (Argentina).

Se ha reiterado muchas veces que se trata de un proyecto ambicioso, que aspira a mejorar la calidad y la equidad en la educación para hacer frente a la pobreza y a la desigualdad y así contribuir a lograr la inclusión social. Como se ha insistido en diversas ocasiones, su propósito consiste en superar los desafíos educativos que Iberoamérica tiene aún pendientes del siglo XX al tiempo que se afrontan los nuevos retos que plantea el siglo XXI. A ese objetivo corresponde un plan de actuación exigente y de amplia perspectiva. Más información [+] Este informe inicia el compromiso asumido de acompañar y comunicar el desarrollo del proyecto Metas Educativas 2021. O. SITEAL | Sistema de Información de Tendencias Educativas en América Latina.

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