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

As it is known there are several teaching methodologies, including the Significant Learning Theory, which can be associated with the Dale Learning Pyramid, which consists of a model that describes how people learn and generate meaningful and lasting knowledge. In this model passive and active actions are considered, linked to the degree of depth of learning that the students obtain. Dale proposes that the level at which students can learn more, is where they perform actions linked to "teaching others", therefore, it follows that those students who perform tasks of assistants should obtain deeper learning. The questions asked to answer this work are: Is being an assistant/preparer implies a higher academic performance? And Is being an assistant/preparers generates oral communication skills? To answer this, the qualifications of 155 graduates of the civil engineering career of the PUCV were reviewed, some of whom had worked as assistant/preparers and others had not. With this information we found a fairly high positive correlation (academic performance, 0.9535 and oral presentation 0.8235), between the relative average of the students' scores with a certain number of assistants (with respect to the average of all) and the amount of assistantships that realized.

The present work was aimed to implement the program of Health Promoting Schools in the Fiscal School of the Republic of Cuba, in the Payanchi neighbourhood of the city of Loja, in order to promote individual and collective initiatives and actions to achieve wellness and suitable conditions for a healthy life in the educational community. We worked with the methodology of logical framework, which initially allowed us to identify the main causes for which this school did not work as a health promoter;  from which the actions to be developed throughout the investigation were established to fulfill the objectives. The results obtained were aimed to strengthening four basic areas associated to the proper functioning of the school: public management and participation, development of healthy environments and environmental conditions, health training and provision of health services. Taking into consideration that the school is the ideal place to create a health culture involving personal and social responsibility, highlighting the integrality of the person and the need to provide it with knowledge and tools to reach their possibilities of realization.  

La zona de estudio comprende el área costera de la localidad de Santa Clara del Mar, ubicada en el sector sudeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires, en el partido de Mar Chiquita. El entorno natural del área de estudio ha sufrido modificaciones, producto principalmente del rápido crecimiento urbanístico y turístico, incrementando la erosión de playa y el retroceso de los acantilados de manera considerable. El objetivo del presente trabajo radica en analizar la morfodinámica y el retroceso costero entre 1958 y 1975 cuando la costa mostraba condiciones naturales, y las variaciones morfológicas registradas luego de la implementación de estructuras de protección entre los años 1975 y 2009.Las tasas de retroceso natural obtenidas entre los años 1958 y 1975, para la localidad de Santa Clara del Mar, variaron desde 1,7 m/año en el sector sur hasta 5,8 m/año en el norte.El análisis histórico de vulnerabilidad a la erosión permitió diferenciar a la costa de Santa Clara en tres sectores con distinta magnitud: alta, media y baja, correspondientes a un sector norte, central y sur, respectivamente.La tasa de acumulación de arena en la playa entre 1958 y 2009 fue de 0,9 m/año promedio para toda la costa.Entre los principales factores que modificaron las condiciones hidrodinámicas del sistema litoral en la ciudad de Santa Clara del Mar se destacan: la destrucción y degradación del campo de dunas colgado, la canalización del Arroyo Los Patos, la instalación de paredones verticales y la construcción de una serie de espigones en ´J´ a partir de la década de 1950. Por otro lado, las estructuras de protección costera ubicadas en Mar del Plata han influenciado indirectamente en la subsaturación de la deriva litoral, incrementando la erosión costera hacia el sur.

This work accounts for research carried out at independent theaters in the city of Córdoba, and at the Department of Theater, School of Arts, National University of Córdoba. The inquiry aimed at surveying on-stage procedures and techniques, considering them as lines of force which cross through the contemporary theatrical device. It also aimed at establishing connections between academic and independent circles. Interviews were conducted with directors, actors and different theater makers. More than a hundred plays were seen and recorded, both independent productions and final projects from different classes at the Theater Department, School of Arts, National University of Córdoba.. Furthermore, theatrical productions and theoretical approaches by the authors of this paper were also taken into account. The data yielded by this survey was analyzed against the backdrop of relevant theories and philosophy of drama and aesthetics .It is concluded that some of the problems that appear most strongly in the current theatricality is the crisis of the reality-fiction relationship and the question of art about itself. It is noticed that this weak limit between reality and fiction that is perceived in the social dynamics, is assumed by the theater, which in turn erases its own limits, as a critical view on the web of power that constructs reality.

The study of the intersubjective processes of construction and formation of social identities, as a symbolic and material place of socialization of particular worldviews, idioms of language, gastronomy and, in short, specific ways of life that differentiate people and places in the relational network of near and distant alterities occupies a prominent place in contemporary social theory, with special emphasis on the domains of socio-cognitive, socio-constructionist and language models. The methodology takes place through dialogical reflection, together with the elaboration of percentages on the recurrence of certain cultural practices in different areas of Ecuador.   This article aims to unveil the scope and meaning, both in theory and in concrete reality, of the processes of construction of identities based on language.   All this on the differential perspective of some authors and sociocultural, psychological and anthropological theories. It is argued that to think about the process of identity formation is to focus on the development of learning that urges people to be able to feel, think and act in an educated way, consciously engaging in the economic, political, social and cultural activities of their country. This research concludes that the Province of El Oro is characterized by its cultural diversity, which is a determining factor in the construction of diverse identities composed of three essential elements: subjectivity, language and culture with their varied interrelations.  

     This essay has the purpose of analyzing the university social responsibility from a prospective vision from the functions of teaching, research and extension at the Centroccidental University Lisandro Alvarado. It was conducted a review of documents and other referential intellectual productions that condenses the responsible actions carried out by higher education as a result of the execution of its institutional project in the coherence of its ethical values in the pursuit of happiness through ( a) teaching, not only aimed at training professionals, but also at integrating people into society; (b) research, aimed at developing knowledge, both scientific and technical, that will allow a better quality of life for humanity; and (c) extension, to provide a service to the community with solid ethical and humanistic criteria of solidarity from the academic excellence. These functions with high social standards, from which they will cover the needs and emergencies of the dynamics of emerging changes immersed in the training of future professionals.  It was concluded that the strategic rationality of the university functions should be a transversal axis in the academic formation, with a view to developing a systemic prospective, without disciplinary barriers to assume an unstructured attitude given the complex dynamics of the scientific, technological, organizational and labor advances, in search of greater competitiveness in the context that is glimpsed within the XXI century

 The article analyzes the construction and representation of spaces and subjects in the modern Caribbean tourism imaginary and its relationship with the production and circulation of images, civilizing processes, and the development of capitalism, which date from the beginnings of the European presence in the basin, during the 16th century.  The analysis is built around William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, mostly on the metaphor of the relationship between Prospero and the island, and with its native inhabitants in particular with Calibanon.  By making use of the Shakespearean work of the colonial historical processes of the Caribbean in the first European descriptions of the area protrayed in the dairies of Columbus, the development of the slave plantation, and the establishment of modern tourism, this article proposes that the vast majority of colonial dynamics still persist in the perception and use of the Caribbean as a tourist destination.

En este trabajo se analizan sedimentos provenientes de las unidades mesozoicas y cenozoicas en cercanías de la localidad de Guandacol, mediante los ensayos de consistencia de Atterberg, difracción de rayos X y microscopía electrónica de barrido (MEB-EDS), con la posibilidad de encontrar la fuente de aporte de la materia prima utilizada en la confección de cerámicas de las culturas originarias correspondiente a los alrededores de la Tambería de Guandacol, en la provincia de La Rioja. La información obtenida por estos métodos, estaría sugiriendo que un amplio grupo de recipientes cerámicos, tendrían una producción local o micro-regional, unos 15 km a la redonda del sitio estudiado, lo que podría vincularse su fuente de aprovisionamiento, a los sedimentos alojados en los estratos mesozoicos del Grupo Agua de la Peña, que presentan en su material fino, arcillas inorgánicas de baja plasticidad del tipo CL según la Clasificación Unificada de Suelos (S.U.C.S.), y que corresponderían a arcillas de la clase illita según los ensayos realizados.

El área de influencia de la localidad de San Agustín, en la Provincia de Córdoba, comprende llanuras de uso fundamentalmente agropecuario, y montañas en las que se registran actividades de ganadería y minería. Su ubicación a menos de ochenta kilómetros de la ciudad de Córdoba, le viene generando además una fuerte presión demográfica.Con el objetivo de determinar la calidad para la conservación y definir los usos más adecuados del suelo en la zona de estudio, se aplicó una metodología desarrollada por Centeno (Centeno et al., 1994), que fuera utilizada para la confección del Mapa Geocientífico de la Provincia de Valencia (Cendrero, 1986), y el Plan General de Ordenación Urbana de Ador (Adhara, 2008) en la Comunidad Valenciana, entre otros planes de desarrollo regional.  La metodología se basa en la definición de unidades con diversos grados de calidad y se toma como punto de partida el análisis geomorfológico. De esa manera se definieron las siguientes unidades: Unidad Geomorfológica 1: Plataforma Basculada; Unidad Geomorfológica UG2: Depresión Periférica; Unidad Geomorfológica UG3: Piedemonte Serrano; Unidad Geomorfológica UG4: Montañas.En cada una de las unidades se determinaron las condiciones geológicas, del agua superficial y subterránea, suelos, vegetación y paisaje, a fin de efectuar una categorización que permita establecer su valor para la conservación.Una vez efectuada la categorización, se analizó el impacto ambiental de una de las canteras existentes en la zona de estudio, determinándose que el mismo era fundamentalmente de tipo paisajístico.Como conclusión del estudio se efectúan una serie de consideraciones atinentes a la remediación paisajística de los frentes de canteras que afectan a las zonas de mayor calidad para la conservación.