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The art of building wooden boats is a secular cultural heritage of the Amazonian peoples, which has lost importance over the last few decades, resulting in a loss of knowledge about the cultural practice of building wooden boats. Thus, our aim was to know the craft shipbuilding carried out in the municipalities of Porto de Moz and Altamira. As a methodology, we used a semi-structured interview, direct and indirect observation and the use of a camera. We found a predominance of men, with a mean age of 43.2 years. Most traditional marine carpenters have little education. Generally, labor begins in childhood or adolescence. Seventeen tree species were cited for building boats, but the Itaúba and Piquiá species are the most versatile and sought after by carpenters. The scarcity of certified wood, professional devaluation and competition with industrially manufactured boats are limiting factors for the commercialization of artisanal wooden boats, contributing to the loss of knowledge about the art of know-how in the activity in the region. Besides, the decrease in activity causes a set of economic, social and cultural impacts observed in the municipalities of Altamira and Porto de Moz.

Monthly and annual changes in rainfall and air temperature may favor the occurrence of forest fires, which can be associated with fire focus observed via satellite. The objective of this study was to evaluate the annual variability of rainfall and air temperature and relate them to the fire focus observed in Jataí, Goiás, Brazil, between 2008 and 2021. Microclimatic data (rainfall, and minimum, mean and maximum temperature) and the number of daily fire focus from 2008 and 2021. According to the climatological normal (1981-2010) of Jataí, the mean values of rainfall (Pmm) and air temperature (Tar) were, respectively, 1,648.9 mm and 22.4 oC. In the period studied, Pmm ranged from 1,108.4 mm (2019) to 1,868.0 (2008), ant Tar presented in 2021, 22.1 oC, and in 2014, 23.72 oC. The driest months were from May to October, especially July and August, however the hottest were September and October. Between 2008 and 2021, were observed 1,270.0 fire focus, with greater concentration in the driest months. Although there was a correlation between the microclimatic variables and fire focus, they were not significant (p > 0.05). This allows us to infer that the low annual variability of Pmm and Tar (minimum, mean, and maximum) meant that there was no significant correlation with the number of hot spots observed in Jataí between 2008 and 2021.

El reciente libro de Yolanda Blasco Gil incluye, como lo dice el subtítulo, la edición y el rescate del Libro de la primera reunión de Profesores Universitarios Españoles Emigrados que se editara en La Habana, en 1944. Si bien éste había sido mencionado en diversos trabajos sobre el exilio, no se había vuelto a editar de manera íntegra. La autora, especialista en Historia del Derecho e Historia de las Universidades, sitúa en su contexto al Libro y estudia un episodio de la historia del exilio español al que da como título 1943: la transición imposible. Su estudio se divide en ocho apartados: “La reunión de La Habana, programa para una España mejor”; “Hacia un nuevo orden internacional”; “Académicos y republicanos”; “Organización, propuestas y actividades”; “El desarrollo de las secciones”; “De La Habana a San Francisco, 1943-1945: repercusiones”, “Releer el libro”, “Fuentes y bibliografía”.

This article focuses on three moments in the modernization of higher education in Mexico from the perspective of institutional change and public policies. Its purpose is to identify the elements that make up the phases through which universities have gone through in the last three decades. Using a qualitative methodology with an analytical descriptive method, the authors present the main factors inherent to the processes of change; on this basis, they formulate three assumptions based on institutional isomorphism as an imaginary, which intertwine the processes, rituals and routines generated in the university spaces in their relationship with the State.

The public university in Brazil has faced, since the economic crisis that began in 2014, many questioning and cutbacks. The criticisms use to be administrative and have taken over the social imaginary with the adhesion of public opinion. The current Brazilian government has potentiated this picture, expanding cutbacks and intensifying criticism with ideological elements and moral judgments regarding the university. To respond to this "assault" on the university, the authors carry out an analysis based on the book Public University: Reform or Revolution?, written in another historical context, but with theorizations and analyses that are applicable to the present moment. They make use of a bibliographical analysis and a survey of the media as well to highlight the public manifestations of the government about this issue. In conclusion, this article visualizes the contribution of Florestan Fernandes to the analysis of today's public university.

The current educational context requires ethically qualified teachers to detect and/or deal with difficult educational situations. The series are a privileged way to access ethically controversial issues as they produce and reproduce current social imaginaries. This article presents the revision and redesign of a conceptual scheme that brings together the major organizing principles of ethics in education based on the series Merlí (2015-2018). A content analysis of the 40 episodes is carried out to identify the ethically controversial situations featured in the series. The results show that these dilemmas occupy a relevant place in the series and that it is necessary to update the conceptual framework on the main principles that organize ethics in education. This is a key resource for the elaboration of a diagnostic device of ethical sensitivity and a tool for teacher training in professional ethics based on contemporary series.

During the last decades, Chilean universities have developed student aid programs at the undergraduate level in response to the increasing diversification of their students in a context of massification. Based on information gathered from a group of traditional universities (members of the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities), this study analyzes the different available programs. This study not only documents the evolution of the existing programs and their relationship with public policy, but also observes that the path followed by these programs does not correspond to the categories and paradigms of change documented in the academic literature. In fact, this evolution suggests a sui generis process of modernization of Chilean universities whose outcome is still difficult to fully observe but that, nevertheless, are reconfiguring their internal dynamics and giving rise to innovative academic management experiences.

Based on Sen's human development approach, the authors propose to understand the quality of life of young university students by constructing a specific list of abilities. A three-step methodology is applied: first, building an archetypal list through consolidated lists; then, carrying out empirical research to include the insiders' point of view; and finally, validating the list by means of a Delphi test. As a result, we obtained a specific list of abilities with 11 dimensions, whose value is its validity, reproducibility, and potential to provide feedback for studies and public policy in the field of development.

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