Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

A social subject under construction, both in its individual and group integrity, with concrete and imaginary reference groups, is at the center of the political, economic, social and educational reflections of a country, although institutions in which it operates do little about. Today, young people represent a large percentage of the total global population. It is estimated that there are more than one billion young people between 15 and 24 years old, constituting almost one-fifth of the world's population. In our country, Bolivia, a little more than two million are between 12 and 25 years old, most of them are not able to find a source of work or a center of studies. In Bolivia, this social group known as the "ni-ni" ("neither-nor," young people who neither work nor study) reaches 200,000, but unlike big cities, they live in this situation, not by their own decision, but because they do not find an opportunity. This situation gets worst since these young people have no work experience and lack of training or formation. This political, economic and social context, added to the changes of the last decades, has a decisive influence on the behavior and decisions of young people in our country. This article is aimed at deepening into this set of interrelated phenomena.

This article refers to the UCSH students' self-perception as political subjects and to their citizen and democratic practices in relation to the secondary and higher education students' movements from the last 10 years on. In 2017, the research carried out through the strategy of discussion groups and indepth interviews worked with 38 key informants (students and graduates from various UCSH faculties) who had been delegates from their careers or participated in the student federation. From the analysis of narrations, it is clear that young people consider themselves as political agents capable of mobilizing people, ideas and projects of change around education and transformation of the country. They have understanding and action in the political area, denouncing and demanding structural changes and to do so, they use strategies that force institutions and civil society to visualize an omitted problem and include it in the public agenda. These youth movements promote a new way of understanding politics, participation and exercising citizenship for enhancing conditions of equity and social justice.

The present study aims to understand the role of music as a tool for social inclusion in a group of immigrant women working as prostitutes. From a socio-critical perspective and using the participatory diagnostic methodology with an ethnographic approach, we actively participate in rehearsals and concerts of the Dona Gospel choir to collect evidence on their individual and collective benefits from the development of a group musical activity.

In this paper, we use a critical approach in order to discuss the role of young people as social actors responsible for the development of their territories and the transformation of society, that is, from the local and national society in which they live, grow and develop. This approach is articulated with three main definition frameworks: education and critical pedagogy, citizen education according to Law 20,911 and human development according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP.) Many of the great cultural transformations of the 20th and 21st Centuries have been driven by youth mobilizations with a condition of generational collective abused, dissatisfied, violated, creative, passionate, imprinting transforming energy for society or, at least, for Chilean education. Recognizing the great heterogeneity existing within this social segment forcing to speak of "youth," there is a sector that assumes itself as an individual and/or collective social and/or political actor, as a responsible citizen through some specific expression of the construction and transformation of society. This text is focused on that group, as a reality and/or as a desire.

This article presents a proposal integrating three variables: identity process of young people, cyberculture in which they are developed and challenges that these variables impose to education. First, it is necessary to understand the concept of youth from its historical-cultural space and not as a generalized concept. Along with this, it is also a need to address the process of identity construction, in a balanced searching for the relationship between "me and others," in the environment of cyberculture, which diffuses boundaries between what is "real" and what is "imaginary," and that, in turn, constitutes a space for interaction, individual validation, and dissemination of knowledge. In addition, this study is aimed at reflecting through some phenomena addressed in this article, on how cyberculture directly impacts on the identity process of young people. This article is focused in answering the question about what are the areas of action and possibilities for educators and education systems in strengthening the bases that allow an identity construction for enhancing the value elements of today's culture on the one hand, and strengthen what young people need to develop, on the other

This study seeks to deepen into the issue of Informed Consent, as an uncommon practice in pediatric healthcare. The consent process represents moments of uncertainty and fear. This research is aimed at knowing the way in which the Informed Consent is recognized, values that arise in this process and the applicability of the informed consent in healthcare. For that end, it carried out a content analysis in three key actors in this process: young people suffering an oncological pathology, their caregiving mothers and healthcare team of the Oncology Unit in Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital, based on the matrix of ethical discernment (See - Judge - Act).

This article relates the structural segmentation of the Chilean education system to the heterogeneous subjectivities that their students develop about their lives, dreams, goals and social links. To this end, it analyzes 14 discussion groups with students in the fourth and last year of secondary education in representative schools of different segments that produce the economic and academic segregations of the education model. It is associated with a heterogeneity that covers low, middle, middle high and high social class groups, from Santiago and province. It finds a direct relationship between such structural aspects and perceptions of fear, certainty, uncertainty, confidence, anguish and individual control of future

Chile has a special governmental system to protect vulnerable children from the infringement of their rights. The Government operates a network of programs for all children and youth under protection, which configure subjectivities and power relations constructed and coordinated among different programs or projects. In the country, the study of alternatives to orphanage programs has implied State financing for Non-Governmental Organizations, thus enabling the establishment of relatively protective and stable alternative environments. This system is characterized by the circulation and intertwining of subjects, power/knowledge relationships, regulatory mechanisms and frameworks of reference. One of these is the Specialized Foster Family Program. This study, carried out through in-depth interviews, is focused on the discourse of this program's workers in order to shed light on the mechanisms, relations and configurations established in the development of their intervention work which serves as a support for the protection of at-risk children.

This article commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Declaration of the International Conference on Primary Health Care, held at Alma Ata-USSR in 1978, an international agreement that transformed health care from a formal level of attention to a national development strategy. Its original purpose was to provide specialized guidelines aimed at ensuring Health for All in allregions of the world by the year 2000. Within this framework, and using the Alma Ata Declaration as a core reference, this article presents a historical semblance to review the background of the Chilean primary healthcare system from the birth of the Republic to present day, and shedding light on the professional contributions made by Social Work within the framework of the country's healthcare system.