Beliefs, Teaching Practice and Proposals for the Attention of Cultural Diversity: the Case of a Costa Rican Teaching and Three Nicaraguans Infants

This article presents data from a research that studied a teacher belief regarding three Nicaraguan students. Specifically, presents findings related to teaching practice and its relation to diverse education proposals. It includes an analysis of four subcategories: daily dynamic of a teacher who works with infants of another culture, students’ assessment in the classroom, discipline strategies to children, and diverse beliefs and proposals. The data shows that, in the classroom, the teacher does not demonstrate different treatment to Nicaraguan and Costa Rican children, suggesting that equal treatment is the strategy per se used by the teacher to solve the issue of cultural diversity in the classroom. On the other hand, discipline is assumed by the teacher with scolding criteria, using a loud tone of voice and aggressive vocabulary.

La identidad costarricense ante la diversidad cultural: ¿un reto posible?

Resumen Reflexiona sobre los procesos históricos de forja de la diversidad cultural costarricense y de los sentidos de identidad nacional, y discuten su vigencia. Abstract The author reflects on the historical process through which Costa Rican Cultural Diversity and the meanings of national dentity were forged, and discusses their current relevance. Sección crítica bibliográfica

Internet y educación en América Latina

El desarrollo tecnológico posibilita el desarrollo de la educación y de América Latina. Internet ha generado una universidad de nuevo tipo, impulsando un desarrollo cultural y social sin precedentes, que debe ser universal y equitativo con pleno respeto a la diversidad cultural y a los derechos humanos.AbstractThe technological development enables the development of education and development of Latin America. Internet has generated a University of new type, prompting an unprecedented social and cultural development that should be universal and fair, with full respect to the cultural diversity and human rights.  

El grito de Calibán. Del cinematógrafo al proyecto teleSur: la construcción de lo latinoamericano en la comunicación audiovisual regional

This essay analyzes on the importance of TeleSur TV Station (founded in 2005), in the historical context of the development of audio-visual means of communication in Latin America, as well as the debates about the influence of mass media in the process of cultural identity raising-up. It proposes the thesis that the project of Tele- Sur plays a key role in the shaping of a new international order on communication that allows the protection of the cultural diversity of Latin American nations and democratizes the world’s information flows in the neoliberal globalization stage.