LA VALORACIÓN DIAGNÓSTICA GRUPAL: UNA EXPERIENCIA CON ESTUDIANTES DE LA UNA

En este artículo se presentan los resultados, recomendaciones y la evaluación de una experiencia de valoración grupal en el servicio de atención psicológica a estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional. Esta valoración se formuló con un doble propósito: en primer lugar, ofrecer a la comunidad estudiantil universitaria que lo requiriera la posibilidad de contar con una modalidad de tratamiento grupal; así mismo, dar una respuesta pronta a las solicitudes de atención psicológica y procurar disminuir el tiempo de espera, logrando, además, una mayor cobertura del servicio.

STUDY ON THE USE AND QUALITY OF INFORMATION BY INTERNET DOCUMENTARY OF STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY, COSTA RICA: CASE LABORATORY LIBRARY ROOM Joaquin Garcia Monge

It is no secret that computer services came to revolutionize the world. More than a service, have since become an indispensable tool for humanity, because they simplify and make life easier in many of his orders, through its various support options. These advances are added Internet services, so that by the mid 1980's assessed the need for such a research tool in order to apply it in various fields of human knowledge.This research, based on the use and quality of documentary information from the Internet, with application to the students of the Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, if the Library Board Laboratory Joaquin Garcia Monge, develops in the form of theses.

La enseñanza comunicativa del inglés en el ciclo diversificado en Costa Rica: imágenes de algunas realidades

Análisis sucinto de una investigación de campo efectuada con estudiantes de 10 grado y 11 grado de colegios urbanos y rurales, públicos y privados, de Heredia. La investigación explora las metodologías empleadas por el profesorado y la aplicación del enfoque de la enseñanza comunicativa de la lengua y su relación con el Examen de bachillerato.A field study was carried out with tenth and eleventh grade students in private and public, urban and rural high schools in Heredia. The research focused on exploring the methodologies used by the instructors as well as on the implementation of the Communicative Language Teaching Approach and its relationship with the Standardized English Test.

Creencias y prácticas de autoevaluación del aprendizaje vigentes en los procesos de formación profesional desarrollados en el CIDE durante el 2007

This article identifies beliefs and practices of self-learning existing processes developed in the CIDE during 2007. It is based on a research project with two groups of informants both academics from CIDE, that during the decade of the 90 participated in the experience of self-learning, some of themas teachers and other as students. Current practices being carried out by academics in the field of self-reporting of apprenticeships in the CIDE, show that they attach great importance to this process in the lesson and agree on the necessity to implement this process in concrete terms, that because, experiences become isolated initiatives that do not fall within any policy, guideline or orientation openly raised by the community CIDE. The beliefs of the participants with regard to the possibility of implementing self-evaluation processes of learning in the training that develops the CIDE, highlight the need for scholars to train group of academics and students in this field and also create more spaces for student involvement. Moreover, scholars believe that the self-assessment of learning is a strategy for developing metacognitive processes and reflective, which is considered a core importance in the training provided by the Centre.

Environmental Education Experience with Students from One Costa Rican Rural School

This article describes a teaching experience developed in Environmental Education in a Costa Rican rural school with students from ninth year, characterized by the dynamics of a workshop in which stresses the participation in the construction of initiatives to address environmental problems detected by the youth in their communities. The article aims to contribute to the construction of a pedagogical model of self-management training and education of young people in environmental sectors, tourism and agriculture, in the conviction that education constitutes a vital alternative for understanding and solving environmental problems.

A Pedagogical Strategy for Integrated Education of Spanish in the 4th to 6th Grades of the General Basic Education

Language teaching has become a priority in the Costa Rican educational system, considering it as a tool for communication and development of thought. Without language, there is no access to other curriculum disciplinary knowledge. A successful experience conducted some years ago, with students from 4th to 6th grade, was the basis for the design and implementation of a professional development activity addressed to promoting an integration strategy previously adjusted according to the Ministry’s requirements and the existing national regulations. This study is developed in the framework of a qualitative paradigm including research-action and systematization. A purposive sample was selected based on a suitability factor, through which individuals are informed about the strategy, and then the strategy is applied to a group of students from urban-marginal areas. The techniques used include literature review, analysis of curriculum and Ministry’s regulations, application of an in-depth interview, discussions from the course’s participant in a portfolio, and discussions from students to whom the strategy was applied. We analyzed the considerations of teachers and students, as well as the theoretical and regulatory information by triangulation. The study’s conclusion is the necessity of a communicative approach in language teaching and our recommendation is to implement the strategy developed in the Costa Rican classrooms as provided in this paper.

De la queja al conflicto o a la responsabilidad

En este artículo se exponen los planteamientos de Annie Marquier (1998) respecto a dos paradigmas alternativos para percibir la realidad: el primero es el de la víctima, que constituye un filtro perceptivo muy generalizado a nivel planetario y a través del cual responsabilizamos a factores externos de lo que nos ocurre. Lo contrapone al principio de la responsabilidad que consiste en asumir la responsabilidad por nuestra propia manera de percibir la realidad. Asentado en estos postulados se presenta una propuesta metodológica para abordar el tema en talleres con estudiantes que cursan la carrera de Gestión de Recurso Humanos.(UNA). Abstract This article presents Annie Marquier’s approach of two alternative paradigms of perceiving reality: the victim’s, which constitutes a highly generalized perceptive filter through which we blame external factors for what happens to us. She opposes it to the responsibility principle which consists in assuming our responsibility for the way in which we perceive reality. Based on this assumptions a methodological proposal for working this issue with students of Human Resources Management (UNA) is presented.

Promotion and diffusion of tha career Bachelor and Licenciature of Mathematics Teaching in rural areas of Costa Rica project: effects and results

This article describes the purpose and activities of the project Promoting Mathematics Education in Rural Areas of Costa Rica. The activity has focused on two objectives. First, supporting and monitoring students who have expressed interest in studying a mathematics teacher. To achieve this, it has been working with students who have an ideal profile for the career, mainly from rural areas. The second objective is to conduct training workshops for high school in-service teachers, to strengthen and improve their knowledge in the area of mathematics. Among the results of the project, it can be highlighted a significant increase in the enrollment of students in the career of Mathematics Education in 2010 and 2011, and the training processes in the field of Real Functions of Real Variable and Geometry at different regional areas mostly rural as Aguirre, Sarapiquí, Coto, Buenos Aires, Limón, Cañas, Pérez Zeledón, Nicoya, Los Santos, Turrialba, Puriscal, Desamparados, San Carlos, Puntarenas, Limón, Liberia, Santa Cruz y Upala.

RESULTADOS DE LOS EVENTOS REALIZADOS EN LA ESCUELA

Este artículo muestra los resultados del estudio realizado en la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica con estudiantes de grado y egresados de la carrera de bibliotecología y documentación.La propuesta se basa en el estudio teórico, el análisis del currículo aplicado, principios del modelo pedagógico de la Universidad Nacional y en la gestión curricular de la Escuela, durante los últimos cuatro años.

Skills in the XXI Century Guidance: An Approach to the Costa Rican Reality

During a long time, the term competence has been used in different fields. Among those fields, and one of the most important, we can mention the educational system, from preschool to university levels. The term has to be understood as one person integral behavior, making him/her able to enter the labor force in the most competitive way. Within the university realm, experts have tried to include the model of competences as a transversal axle into the teaching-learning process. In European universities, such model has been implemented in most of them. In Latin America universities, on the other hand, it has been used in a good number of countries. The importance of early detection of competences among target populations in education has been widely discussed. However, it has been highlighted the necessity of considering romantic or subjective competences, which seem to lack of value in this complex and competitive actual world. The term competence has been classified as genetic competence, or common and specific competence. The latter is related to the knowledge scope. Within the counseling field, specifically, the general and specific competences are deemed highly appropriate for good a work performance. This article focuses on the main antecedents of competences and analyzes this approach from counseling field perspective. In regards to this specific aspect, a survey with professionals in counseling was carried out. Such a survey ends up dealing with some of the competences considered unavoidable for an accurate performance of professionals in counseling. It is important to mention that the competences of the survey mainly point out to genetic competences rather than to specific competences.

ENTRE LA ACCIÓN TERRITORIAL DIRECTA Y LAS “PIEDRAS DE PAPEL”: MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES Y MODELO DE DESARROLLO EN LA ARGENTINA

Para los movimientos sociales de la Argentina iniciados en el ciclo de protestas abierto en 1996 lo territorial pasó a constituirse en un objeto de disputa evidenciable en la elaboración de narrativas en torno al desarrollo además de continuar siendo, según el caso, un escenario, un instrumento, o un ámbito de inscripción de los colectivos tras las mutaciones institucionales de fines del siglo XX. De esta manera, los procesos de acumulación por desposesión, característicos de esta fase de expansión del capitalismo -expresados en la Argentina a través de la consolidación de un modelo económico centrado en la extracción de materias primas para su exportación- instalan nuevamente la centralidad de la reflexión sobre la dificultad para efectivizar la mutación de las herramientas de los repertorios de acción directa territorializada –piquetes, cortes de ruta, ocupación de puentes- en “piedras de papel” -según la expresión acuñada por Adam Przeworski- utilizables para disputar significados en el marco de la democracia representativa. El objetivo de esta ponencia es detallar el carácter de esta centralidad tomando como referencia empírica los resultados del trabajo de investigación con trabajadores desocupados del norte Salta realizado en los últimos nueve años.

RELATOS DE EXPERIENCIAS EDUCATIVAS EN TERRENO: EXCLUSIÓN E INCLUSIÓN DE INMIGRANTES, CENTROS SOCIALES Y OKUPAS EN LA CIUDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE

Desde la comprensión de una Geografía construida por los seres humanos en permanente relación con el mundo, se torna un desafío reconocer las expresiones de espacialidad y las dinámicas sociales que las originan. Así, la Ciudad se constituye desde las contradicciones socio-espaciales, que son expresión y representación de las mismas. Por ello, la Educación Geográfica debe asumir el desafío de introducir en sus prácticas las diversas expresiones que enriquecen y significan el espacio desde esferas formales e informales. Para ello la Metodología conocida como Trabajo en Terreno se presenta como posibilidad para que los sujetos involucrados en el proceso educativo reconozcan las dinámicas que dan vida a diversos espacios a través de las expresiones que los identifican. Con este objetivo, hemos tomado como escenario la Ciudad de Santiago de Chile desarrollando algunas experiencias de Trabajo en Terreno con estudiantes de educación media regular y de adultos y envolviéndolos en el reconocimiento de espacios de exclusión e inclusión producidos en la dinámica diaria de grupos de Inmigrantes, Centro Sociales y Okupas.