Comentario del libro de Georgina Meneses. “Tradición oral en el Imperio de los Incas Historia, religión y teatro”

IntroducciónEl Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones, DEI ha publicado la obra de Georgina Meneses titulada Tradición oral en el Imperio de los Incas. Historia, religión y teatro. Con este trabajo la autora se graduó como licenciada en Artes Dramáticas, con énfasis en teatrología, en la Universidad de Costa Rica, en 1984. Han pasado, por tanto, casi ocho años sin que este libro saliera a al liz pública, corriendo el riesgo de quedar desactualizado sin llegar a lectores. En este marco de la celebración del "Quinto Centenario del Encuentro de Dos Mundos" cuando se ha creido oportuno editar esta tesis, galardonada con la nota máxima y una recomendación de publicación...

Identidades, poder e incidencia política de organizaciones vinculadas a inmigrantes nicaragüenses en costa rica: aportes teóricos y metodológicos

Propone desde un enfoque de investigación cualitativo, comprender la relación entre las representaciones sociales de las identidades nacionales y la incidencia de la política de distintas organizaciones vinculadas con inmigrantes nicaragüenses, con el fin de dar insumos tendientes a mejorar la calidad de vida de la población inmigrante en Costa Rica. Abstract The article proposes an approach from the qualitative research standpoint to understand the relationship between the social representations of the national identities and the political incidence of different political organization linked to Nicaraguan inmigrants as bases for the betterment of the inmigrant population in Costa Rica.

How to Achieve Professional Skills in Higher Education?

During the last decade, higher education has tried to focus education on the achievement of professional skills. It is interesting to see how the learning strategies implemented may facilitate or make more difficult the achievement of competencies. By dealing with the challenge of a competency-based education approach, higher education points out the need of knowing how to build such competencies, i.e. how to design a learning strategy. Not much importance has been given to this issue, probably because the competencies can be confused with abilities, skills and attitudes and, therefore, the model can be associated to in- or out-of-classroom activities without a strategy to articulate the knowledge acquired with the cultural, social and economic contexts of the community and labor spheres, i.e., as a whole (Tobón, 2005). This paper analyzes the epistemological development of the competency-based approach in higher education, focusing on the implementation of professional competencies in the Sociology degree “Licenciatura en Sociología���, in two campuses of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California: Ensenada and Mexicali. This paper describes how competencies are built and explores different theoretical trends, their conceptualization and formation, based on in-depth interviews applied to students and teachers. It provides a mixed study to understand, based on the student’s point of view, the achievements of this study program in terms of professional competencies.