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

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of the program “Mothers in Movement” in the promotion of physical activity, the improvement of self-esteem, and the use of social support strategies, with the objective of providing tools to mothers to promote the practice of physical activity in their families. This is a quasi-experimental study with a sampling of 15 mothers in the experimental group and 15 in the control group. The results of this study show that the women of the experimental group who were classified in average self-esteem showed an increase to a high ranking self-esteem, a significant increase in practice and enjoyment of physical activity. When analyzing the adoption of new social support, important changes were shown in the use of emotional, instrumental, support and modeling support in mothers. This study showed that an intervention program based on the ecological model, using the practice of physical activity as an instrument, contributes to the increase of self-esteem and to the use of social strategies to support the participants’ families towards active lifestyles, which is hopeful in the use of multilevel interventions in the fight against overweight-obesity and the sedentary lifestyle of childhood.

This paper aims to show the experiences arising from the development of a proposal for educational innovation in an urban center of the city of Segovia (Spain). The purpose of the proposal is to achieve an inclusive classroom model in which all students feel part of the learning process. To achieve this, we have decided to unite the pedagogical model of Cooperative Learning (CL) together with the work with Information, Relationship, and Communication Technologies (IRCT). The reason why both elements are combined is the inclusive potential that they arise separately, as well as the interest in this type of educational practices. In order to assess whether this classroom proposal accomplished the stated objectives, a case study was carried out to verify its veracity empirically. This was elaborated from a qualitative analysis based on observation techniques. All the information collected leads us to the disclosure of some interesting conclusions about this field.

In the Argentine education system today, we live a crisis situation, which becomes evident when high school graduates must face a college degree: they do not have the basic skills of reading and writing, which results in a high dropout rate in their freshman year. In turn, there are ideas that affirm a decrease in these competences throughout the years and the new cohorts. In this article, we will test this hypothesis. Hence, the scores obtained in a vocabulary test will be compared to four cohorts of new students, and the changes in the scores will be observed. The results suggest a slow but constant decrease in the means of the results, although there is no statistically significant difference between the cohorts and the scores.

This memoir is based on a semi-structured interview conducted with Lic. Guillermo Ramírez Saravia (1949-2018), in order to offer an analysis of educational value about his outstanding and interesting student, work, teaching and intellectual experience as a writer of textbooks. This work takes into account the context of the teaching of cost accounting in the last 5 decades for the Costa Rican case and the weight of the figure of Ramírez in this technical field of specialization.

Se presenta aquí un reporte de un proyecto de investigación cuyos objetivos se centran en el estudio del potencial de las imágenes de los reptiles para provocar experiencias estéticas. Esta búsqueda se inspira en el uso de la iconografía reptil en los lenguajes visuales mesoamericanos, donde las serpientes se asocian con frecuencia a los mitos cosmogónicos, a las divinidades y al poder señorial. Sus representaciones son ubicuas en la arquitectura, la escultura y la pintura de la época Prehispánica. La metodología combina la investigación histórica, el aprovechamiento de estudios científicos que explican las bases biológicas de la ofidiofobia, así como la exploración plástica. Se reporta sobre los primeros resultados del proceso de la exploración de la serpiente mediante el dibujo figurativo y su abstracción por medio de formas reptilianas esenciales, distribuidas en una serie de superficies pictóricas.

Electrolysis was the first acid-free method in the era of non-toxic etching, which is simple and efficient. However, in its traditional form involves the use of specific salts, according to the metal used for etching. This requirement, together with the need for a power source increases the cost of the process. In this paper a simple and inexpensive solutions to those obstacles is described. For the former, a 25% solution of table salt is proposed as universal electrolyte for any of the metals used in etching. Then, for the second problem, the response is the use the power supply of personal computers discarded. Both options make the process of electro-etching in one of the cheapest and efficient methods of etching.

The theoretical – critical approaches applied to museology, along with the contributions made by different areas such as design, communications and business management, allow us to come closer to the transformations in the direction-man- agement of a museum today. In this regard, the profile of direc- tor-manager of an art museum is addressed in order to reflect on the organizational, social and technical performance based on the artistic requirements in the present juncture of global capitalism. Furthermore, from a methodology that appeals to the general readings of the museum phenomenon, without ne- glecting the relevance of the particular view, it is possible to run through indicators that suggest another form to conceptualize a type of cultural institution called “author museum”.

This essay analyzes the historical context in which, at the end of the eighties, a generation of artists created a multidisciplinary genre in which they mixed performance, music, theater and poetry. Today this genre is called Political Cabaret or Mexican farce. They also created independent theatrical spaces free of official censorship and the constraint of acting drama, the supremacy of the literary text and the authoritarian will of the director. The article demonstrates how the Mexican theater became a battlefield of different forces and antagonisms of power. It assumes the political cabaret as an imaginary counter symbolic to the official Mexicanness, which could be divided in two stages. A counterhegemonic stage (late seventies to 1990), which is the one that is studied in the essay, and alternative hegemony (1990 onwards), second part of this investigation.

In this work the functions of language from Jackobson will be used as a key tool for the interpretation as the foundation to develop qualitative methodology research. Taking into account the references and the methods to collect information, an interpretative function will be proposed as essential to the qualitative methodologies, and as a new approach to the epis- temology of the known subject proposed by Vasilachis. The a research-creation methodology will be proposed to use it as an audiovisual research-divulgation tool.