Acceso a la Información para los Prisioneros

Cuando se menciona la frase "Bibliotecas de las prisiones" se piensa en un lugar frío y triste. Probablemente en un lugar que tiene unos estantes con libros y revistas. Sin embargo, las bibliotecas de las prisiones son instituciones que juegan un papel importante en la educación y rehabilitación de los prisioneros. Los bibliotecólogos son el elemento más importante de éstas y su misión es convertir ese lugar en uno dinámico con servicios apropiados para sus usuarios, en este caso, los prisioneros.El propósito de este artículo es discutir la importancia de las bibliotecas de las prisiones como una institución educativa y de rehabilitación, el derecho de los prisioneros a los servicios bibliotecarios, las barreras que afectan el acceso a la información y, finalmente, la censura de este tipo de institución.

Un estudio de caso de la estrategia administrativa basada en comités

The theory of curricular administration is applied in order to explain the use of the strategy of management committees in institutions of elementary and high school education. A case study is carried out in an educational institution of the metropolitan area; an institution known for organizational features that are common in a national reality that affects the malpractice of this strategy. It is established within the case study, some of causes of its abuse in the particular context of the educational institution “Unidad Pedagógica José Rafael Araya Rojas” located in the “Tibás, La Florida” community and in the light of these results, some recommendations are suggested in order to improve the use of the administrative strategy based on committees.

Aportes de la administración moderna a la gerencia educativa

Nowadays, the educative manager or principal has a series of tools of modern administration that allow him/her to guide the educational institution towards quality. Thus, he/she must fulfils a series of functions that are framed within the administrative process, such as planning, organizing, directing and controlling activities in the educational institution. This article´s main objective is to present some of these contributions and the way in which the principal can use them to improve the educational institution. The modern administration puts at the disposal different conceptions that help to visualize the way in which the institution must be managed. The main conclusion that is extracted is that a unique theoretical framework does not exist that can ensure the success of a principal, instead, there must be a use of the best aspects that each of the conceptions that the modern administration have in order to adapt them, according to the circumstances.

The Acknowledgment of the Education in the Construction of the School Project

This article collects the main ideas constructed during a research process that allowed an approach to the study of the construction of school identities. The approach undertaken starts off not only from an analysis of the way in which the identities that converge in the dynamics of an educational institution and their relationship with the national educational proposal are constructed and articulated, but also the identification, starting from that analysis, of some possible lines of action on the formation of education professionals.