Education with Ecological Roots

This paper explains how modernity develops its own form of education to achieve its objective of conquering nature, and the related environmental consequences.  In this context, this paper proposes a new education nurtured from ecological knowledge, leaving behind the fragmentary and mechanic mission of the world –a characteristic of modernity– to promote an alternative awareness focused on a new way of relationships with our natural environment and other individuals.

METADATOS PARA LA SOCIEDAD DE LA INFORMACIÓN: ENCONTRANDO LA AGUJA EN EL PAJAR

Los metadatos son llaves para la categorización de información en los servicios digitales. En esencia se trata de catalogación y clasificación de información y su uso constituye una de las mejores prácticas en la gestión de información y de la misma manera que los catálogos y OPAC’s impacta en mejores servicios a los usuarios sean éstos de bibiotecas virtuales, e-gobierno, e-aprendizaje o e-salud; asimismo son la base para futuros desarrollos como la Web Semántica.El tema es de particular interés a los bibliotecarios ya que como organizadores del conocimiento conocen los esquemas de clasificación, reglas de registro de datos como las AACR2 y vocabularios especializados. En este documento se manejan algunos conceptos básicos al respecto y se comentan los pasos que América Latina está dando en este tema global.

ACTITUDES HACIA LA ACUACULTURA EN ALGUNAS COMUNIDADES DEL GOLFO DE NICOYA, COSTA RICA

General attitudes toward aquaculture and specifically their interest in and the capture of mullet (Migil spp) was the determined by interviewing 154 artisanal fishermen and 29 salt-evaporation pond owners along the eastern shore of the Gulf of Nicoya. The majority of the fishermen, who likely are already overexploiting the fishery resource of the gulf, knew nothing about aquaculture. Nevertheless, they indicated that agriculture (which includes aquaculture) would be an alternative economic activity in the event that they couldn’t continue fishing. Although mullet is not highly valued on the market, it is very common and utilized by this social group. During winter (rainy season) the salt-evaporation ponds are not utilized and their owners expressed interest in cultivating mullet and shrimp during that season. Aquaculture could help solve the overexploitation problems in the traditional fishery, the overproduction of salt and the underutilization of the salt=evaporation ponds during the rainy season.