PARTICIPACIÓN COMUNAL EN EL DESARROLLO DE BIBLIOTECAS Y SALAS INFANTILES

Al referirse a una biblioteca infantil, muchas veces se imagina un cuarto pequeño con muchos muñecos o peluches, y algunos libros para niños y niñas. En realidad, esta imagen no dista tanto de la verdad, pero una biblioteca o sala Infantil es más que eso, incluso, hasta en lo que su nombre significa.

Participación comunitaria y legislación en El Salvador. Análisis de la legislación identificada

Community participation has been considered strategic in order to achieve effectiveness in political, economical, social, educational and cultural change processes as a mean of guarantying effectiveness, quality and sustainability in social policy. Accordingly, this participation must be stimulated and promoted through national legislation since it has traditionally and historically been imposed and undemocratic. Education, as an essentially human act, is a first order instrument that societies must take advantage of in order to develop and stimulate democratic participation. Therefore, education may represent a new culture: one of democratic participation as a fundamental way to empower and develop a Peace culture.

La participación y su viabilidad en Costa Rica

This article is intended to discuss about existent national legislation concerning community and student participation. It is focused on rural communities because of their serious limitations as well as their great potential for development. An education for effective participation of the rural citizens is necessary since their first learning processes, in order to achieve their full and effective insertion inside the national and global market.

Las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) desde una perspectiva social

The intention of the article is to announce the needs of a curriculum Identified in the NicaraguanThis article analyses the potential of information and communication technologies from a rural social context approach. The author approaches the advantages of the social incorporation of this resource, its menaces and risks as well as the aspects that have to be valued when an impact on social development is expected. This perspective allows tackling the relation between ICTs and social concerns such as social inequality, gender equity, and community participation, among others. The article ends up presenting a reflection about some challenges in this matter.