METÁFORAS DE LOS DOCENTES ACERCA DEL APRENDIZAJE: DEL LENGUAJE SIMBÓLICO A LA PRÁCTICA CONCRETA

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Acerca del rigor metódico en la gnoseología de Leonardo Polo

Leonardo Polo ́s method is shown as a constitutive aspect of gnoseology as a rigorous philosophical discipline. This work approaches some of the difficulties of polian gnoseology that could weaken its methodical rigor. Furthermore, it is argued that some of these difficulties come out of the misinterpretation of Polo ́s ideas.

¿Por qué es esencial discutir acerca del liderazgo en la gestión escolar?

The purpose of this article is to analyze some aspects of vital importance to educational organizations: Educational Leadership. Leadership is a big issue that has being an interest for many authors. The term gives a connotation of images that include powerful, dynamic and intelligent people. The majority of leadership analysis recognizes the fact that it can occur in all the organizations. This article suggests a brief explanation of what leadership means, and it explains two theories that have been developed and have an impact in the educational system: the transactional theory and the transformational theory. Therefore, this article mentions some basic elements about transformational leadership in a school´s principal. Finally, there is an explanation about the vision of an educational organization and how this one links its leadership with the educational organizations in general.

La literatura de mediados del siglo XX (1950- 1970). Un ojo desnudo que observa a América Latina diferente

El presente trabajo interpreta textos de la literatura latinoamericana (1950-1970) desde la perspectiva ecocrítica, apoyándose en una mirada sistémica de pensadores del paradigma emergente que proporciona una lectura renovadora en torno al discurso literario desde un enfoque de ecología profunda. Esta literatura indaga sobre la génesis propia haciendo dialogar elementos sagrados de la cultura con todo lo demás, de esta forma, lo indígena, lo africano, lo europeose expresa desde las voces de los persona- jes con una mirada neoparadigmática, que transgrede la visión tradicional del paradigma de la modernidad en cuanto lectura de la identidad latinoamericana.AbstractThe following article analyzes on Latin American literature texts (1950-1970) from an ecocritical perspective. It is based on a systemic look from the emergent paradigm thinkers. This paradigm gives a new kind of reading regarding literary texts focusing on deep ecology perspective. Latin American literature explores its own genesis bringing together sacred and non sacred elements from culture. In this sense, Indigenous, African and European cultures sets up a dialogue. Cultures express themselves throughout the characters’ voices in texts embracing a neo-paradigmatic look that trespasses the traditional vision of modernity in regard to Latin American identity.