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This article shows the findings of a study that attempted to describe the perceptions of students from a public university after the transitions from classroom to remote teaching mediated by ICT. The methodological horizon was oriented from the quantitative-descriptive paradigm with field design, the sample was made up of 503 students from the Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities of a northern Santander university. A questionnaire with 29 questions with various answer options was used. The results determined that 84,7% of the lectures were transferred to the conference in real time; 53,7% of the students said they had seen recorded lessons. It was concluded that the transition in the educational emergency was under the concept of the modality mediated by ICT to be teachable the contents and to transmit the information by the separation between teachers and students, but not by knowledge, values, philosophies, and pedagogical strategies that the teacher has on ICT-mediated education.

The objective of this article is to identify the social representations of the body of Colombian women in the 60s and 70s, built from the objectification and sexualized discourses, and the way in which these generate the naturalization of everyday life governed by patriarchal practices. The importance of this proposal lies in the need to analyze the factors that have historically reinforced the discourses of marginality about women in Colombia, and thus generate proposals focused on identifying the problems and enabling solutions and alternatives. On this investigative perspective, the graphical representation that appears annually during the Christmas season is analyzed, in whose album covers of publicly distributed production and called 14 Cañonazos Bailables; For the past 60 years, the colombian record house Discos Fuentes has continuously hypersexualized and objectified the body of women on its covers as a commercial strategy. From the methodological perspective, this article addresses the problem of the reification of women, from a qualitative documentary analysis that observes the patriarchal discourses imposed on the social role of women; In the same way, as both primary and secondary research sources, the analysis of graphic documents and the bibliographic review are worked on. The semiotic analysis of the album covers is used 14 Cañonazos Bailables, with the purpose of interpreting the implicit and explicit messages projected by the images that set the covers. This observation process contributes to the decoding of the messages that through codes of domination of the woman’s body are legitimized in Colombian society, translated into sexualized discourses that normalize daily micro-violence.

En la actualidad la demanda de energía aumenta de forma progresiva debido al crecimiento económico a nivel global, dando como resultado un incremento en el consumo de recursos fósiles. Lo anterior, produce un aumento en los precios de los combustibles y preocupación ambiental. A lo largo de los años, los investigadores han propuesto diversos tipos de tecnologías para el aprovechamiento del calor residual de los gases de escape en los motores de combustión interna con el objetivo de mejorar la eficiencia de los procesos de combustión. Este tipo de estrategias son alternativas con un alto potencial para mejorar la eficiencia de los motores y reducir las emisiones contaminantes. Entre las principales tecnologías investigadas se encuentran: los turbocompresores, los ciclos orgánicos de Rankine, recirculación de gases de escape y generadores termoeléctricos. Cada una de estas tecnologías presenten ventajas y desventajas particulares que afectan su beneficio económico, ambiental y técnico. La intrusión de este tipo de tecnologías, generalmente produce una contrapresión en el sistema de escape, lo cual ocasiona una reducción en la potencia mecánica del motor. Entre las tecnologías existentes, se destaca los generadores termoeléctricos debido a sus diversas ventajas y capacidad de minimizar la contrapresión en el sistema de gases de escape mediante rediseños de los generadores. 

Interpersonal relationships between adolescents are relevant in learning and school coexistence. The individual and contextual dimensions that influence interpersonal relationships among adolescents were analyzed. Participants were 1084 adolescents (52.8% women) from Colombia, aged between 11 and 19 years (M= 14.9, SD= 1.89). The psychometric properties of the scales used were analyzed. A model of structural equations informed the relationships and influences of empathy, prosociality, social goals, social self-efficacy and normative adjustment on social adjustment. Optimal psychometric properties were found for the scales and adequate adjustments of the explanatory model; this indicated that empathy, prosociality and social self-efficacy with peers predict the quality of interpersonal relationships. It highlights the negative influence of social selfefficacy with teachers towards the quality of relationships, and of the normative adjustment on social performance with peers. Guidelines for the development of prosociality and empathy are discussed.

The main objective was to identify the capacities of entrepreneurship in educational institutions in the Municipality of Riohacha, Department of La Guajira in Colombia. The study is quantitative with descriptive modality, the design is nonexperimental and transectional, the population includes 100 study subjects. The information collection was carried out based on the survey technique and a questionnaire with closed Likert-type responses was selected as an instrument. It is necessary to reinforce dialogue, openness, delegation and knowledge; as well as the stability of the social system, the levels of intrapersonal and intragroup conflicts, especially all the processes that are handled for the resolution of conflicts in Educational Institutions should be impacted.

Today’s world circumstances demand new professional training strategies that improve teaching-learning practices, taking into account the characteristics of the new generation. The aim of this work is to propose a didactic strategy for software engineering courses, based on reverse engineering and problembased learning (PBL). With the participation of 86 students and 3 teachers, we apply the action research methodology using participant observation, interviews, and student work repositories. The didactic strategy is structured in a set of principles, guidelines, class activities, and recommendations. The results of the study allowed us to conclude that this didactic strategy helped to stimulate the student’s motivation and contributed to the achievement of the learning outcomes because they developed technical, cognitive, and behavioral skills.

Contemporary works of African literature often engage in the depiction of a geographical and cultural dislocation inscribed in today’s pattern of global migration. NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013) fits within this framework as a female coming-of-age novel that follows the story of Darling, from the character’s childhood in post-2000 Zimbabwe to the alienating experience of life as a migrant in the United States of America. The peculiarity of the novel lays in Bulawayo’s linguistic choices, in particular the use of irony and the practice of (re)naming, which come to represent the feelings of un-belonging and political disillusionment that define the characters’ geo-cultural displacement. Using the normative theory of literature (Cheah 2016) as a theoretical framework, this paper further analyses the use of such literary devices as tools through which the narrative opens up to alternative worlds of representation. In this sense, this paper argues that Bulawayo’s We Need New Names can be considered as a world-making narrative of cultural and linguistic resistance against the disruption of Zimbabwe’s socio-political situation.

This article provides a reading of Stefan Zweig’s auto/biography Erasmus of Rotterdam (1934) as the writer’s counteraction to a situation of vulnerability and conflict. Erasmus does not just fall within the genre of the historical biography, but it also represents a “veiled autobiography” in that, by depicting a kindred soul of his, Zweig exposes himself unreservedly to the world. In contrast to most of the studies conducted so farmainly focused on the author’s implicit confession of faintheartedness through his literary alter-egothis contribution aims to demonstrate that it is not the idea of escapism, but rather that of resistance/resilience, that underpins the text. To this end, the affinities between Zweig and Erasmus in terms of their common marginality and vulnerability will be explored, in order to better understand their personal response to this status, that is, a peaceful fight carried out by means of poetic acts. According to this perspective, Zweig’s Erasmus-biography will be presented as a re-action in two different ways: on the one hand the autobiographical references disclose the writer’s concerns about National Socialism, turning his work into an artistic form of dissidence, i.e., a practice of resistance; on the other hand, the therapeutic function ascribed by Zweig to the text composition unveils it as a testimony of resilience.

L’articolo si concentra su due romanzi norvegesi contemporanei, Alle utlendinger har lukka gardiner di Maria Navarro Skaranger (2015) e Tante Ulrikkes vei di Zeshan Shakar (2017), e approfondisce il concetto di glocalità, qui inteso come la compresenza tra un forte attaccamento al quartiere di residenza e l’identificazione nella sottocultura giovanile globale del rap e dell’hip hop. Successivamente è presa in esame la figura del gangster “wannabe”, cioè una persona che agisce o si veste come un gangster senza però infrangere la legge. Entrambi sono comportamenti che gli studi di sociolinguistica hanno associato alla comunità di parlanti kebabnorsk.

L’autoritarismo di Stato appare profondamente radicato nella società brasiliana ed è parte di uno scenario paradossale in cui all’espansione dei diritti politici si accompagna una sostanziale delegittimazione dei diritti civili. Questa eredità autoritaria ripudia il subalterno e ne perpetua l’umiliazione, prendendo di mira le fasce più povere della popolazione, che subiscono incessantemente varie forme di violenza da parte della polizia e, in generale, da parte del sistema giudiziario. La letteratura brasiliana, o almeno parte di essa, può essere, però, considerata un grande archivio di contronarrazioni non egemoniche, che si pongono come coscienza critica di una modernizzazione iniqua e della violenza dei processi di dominazione che la caratterizzano. In questa prospettiva, l’articolo analizza alcuni racconti presenti nella raccolta O sol na cabeça (2018) di Geovani Martins, scrittore emergente che traccia nell’opera un ritratto meticoloso della vita dei morros, raccontando la tirannia del crimine organizzato, ma soprattutto la violenza poliziesca, in una prospettiva che evidenzia, nella tutela dell’ordine da parte dello Stato brasiliano, un “eccesso di negatività” (Han) fondato su una logica del “supplizio” (Foucault).