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

This article analyzes the role of gender roles and the industrial products supply for domestic consumption, specifically, processed foods, clothing and household appliances during the years 1953-1984. The aim of this analysis is to demonstrate the changes in the way of advertising these products and their relation to the traditional gender roles assigned in the home. The transformations experienced by women in education and paid work caused a tension in the traditional gender roles conception at this time, focused especially at women -who continue- in charge of the majority housework, under the discourse of facilitating household chores with the implementation of industrial products.

The publication of the prolegomena of the investigation of the 1921 war between Costa Rica and Panama invites the reader  to inquire about this scarcely known war. These prolegomena introduce the reader to a series of primary sources that shine a different light on the conflict. It defines it not only as a violent conflict, but as a forgotten war, with fallen soldiers, forgotten by the government. For example, it mentions that it wasn’t until 1961, that a plaque and a monument to commemorate their feat was unveiled at Morazan Park in San José.  These prolegomena analyzes the 1921 war from different perspectives including the literature that developed in the area as a result of the event. It also examines the role of the border and the southern area of the country. Press articles are abundant and take a privileged part in the investigation. In conclusion, these brief reviews of the writings of the war reveal the infinity of documents examined for a bigger investigation project, which goal is to recognize the significance of these events which haven’t been addressed with the importance they deserve. 

The objective of this research consists of determining the technological innovations that were necessary to implement in the administrative management of entrepreneurships and micro-enterprises as a result of COVID-19 in order to maintain operations during the pandemic. In this descriptive study with a mixed approach, a survey was applied to determine the main training needs of the entrepreneurs in relation to technological innovation. As a result of this research, the Professional Secretariat School of the National University designed and developed the training called Basic Office Management for Entrepreneurs from which 91 entrepreneurs graduated. This initiative facilitated inclusive, equitable and quality education and promoted lifelong learning opportunities for all, especially to access employment, decent work and entrepreneurship, as indicated in target 4.4 of the fourth sustainable development goal of the ONU.

The curricular pivot of investigation integrated to a practical-pedagogical approach in the development of a college study plan of professor formation; constitutes an educational experience that points towards a conceptualize and contextualize pedagogy. This one, from the construction process of integrated learning present in actions, relations, and reflections that are produced in the various pedagogical spaces in which the educational task with children is developed. On the basis of the complexities of reality and the requirements of transformation, improvement, educational innovation, and production of new knowledge related to pedagogical procceses. It is assumed that the abilities and investigative competences constitute an inherent knowledge to the teaching practice, as a consequence, its development from the point the student enters the first level of initial formation. In this essay suggestions are presented in regards to how this integration could be developed in the formation of professionals in the areas of Preescolar Education and Early childhood from the undergraduate to the graduate bachelor degree.

From the Administration and Human Resources Management career and for the Administrative Analysis and Job Classification courses, based on the pedagogical strategy of authentic task-based learning, students are presented with "Challenge 1", where four products are located of learning in the work of today's human resources professional. For this, the theoretical knowledge of the courses converges, the exchange of technical and soft skills of the student body is promoted, the collaborative work of the learning communities is strengthened from the planning and organization of various resources, they assume an active and participative role where you appropriate your learning. From the academy, the purpose of bringing the student closer to the demands of a human resources department in response to needs, challenges, and demands in a current environment is achieved.

The multidisciplinary experience is based on project-based learning (PBL), focused on the search for solutions and taking into account as a central axis the circular economy. The project focuses on identifying environmental problems in the communities of Alajuela and Heredia, favoring the search for solutions. The project involves students of the careers of Administration and Industrial Chemistry, forming research teams (7-8 students). The project is structured in 4 stages: Planning, Information Collection, Design and Final Report. From the information collected, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data is performed. Videos and posters are produced and shared on the official pages and social networks of the communities involved. It is concluded that PBL allows students to assume the leadership role, encouraging critical thinking, and decision-making, which have an impact on society.

enrique Lihn's novels mask behind a culture of show business, latent repressive acts. The author's narrative is crossed by the presence of intolerable situations generated by a fascist regime, which uses ideological rhetoric and simulation, to create cults for personality and forms of cultural vassalage. Batman in Chile is built as an artifact that shows the national locus horridus. Through kitsch, as a textual strategy, the author appropriates the language and formats left by the detritus of the mass media, while seeking to evade an environment of censorship and control over discourses. The world of the novel is a simulacrum of ideologies that fit the American model of life. A representation of the Chilean reality of the cold war period that exposes the spectacle and the mass media as ideological apparatuses at the service of the deformations of power and its rhetoric.

During the 16th century, Spaniards in Yucatán found a significant number of codices, or pieces of rough materials worked to produce the Mayan manuscripts. Most of these writings were burnt by Fray Diego de Landa, but before proceeding with their final destruction, he transcribed the necessary amount of information that centuries later gave Yuri K. Knórozov the clues to decipher the Mayan hieroglyphs. Throughout Spanish dominion, the Maya learned how to write its own language using the Latin alphabet while they forgot its own scripture system. At the beginning of the 19th century a large number of Mayan ruins of ancient cities were discovered, and soon Scholars started to wonder how to read the inscriptions sculpted in its monuments. This did not would occurred until the middle of the 20th century, when Knórozov discover the way to understand Mayan hieroglyphs.

This text shows the metaphoric manifestation of rain in The rain’s language (2000) by Julieta Pinto, as a direct correspondence with Lucia, the main character´s being and her becoming, and how the symbolism of her name is related with encounters and discounters surrounding her life. The girl/woman´s life is posed in a harmonic relation with nature and her existing divergence with the city´s world.