Espacios e interrelaciones del saber ambiental

Plantea lo que debe ser una identidad de las ciencias sociales desde visiones novedosas de abordar la temática ambiental. Parte de la premisa de que el saber ambiental va más allá del diagnóstico, es decir, va a la preposición, a la generación de un conocimiento nuevo que mixtura los conocimientos populares con los científicos para permitir un cambio real en la relación de las personas con otras manifestaciones de vida. Abstract The article presents what it should be an identity for Social Sciences from very novel approaches towards the environmental subject-matter. The starting pont of the article is the premise that the environmental knowledge goes far beyond the diagnostics i.e., it goes to the preposition, to the production of new knowledge that mixes the knowledhe of the people with the scientific knowledge to allow a real change in the realtionship between people and other life manifestations.

Towards a Research Proposal Outline of the Central Library

Few studies relating to librarianship as a science, because it is argued that the Library lacks a body of theory, an object of study and methodology of its own. According to Murcia and Tamayo "science is a critical task not dogmatic, that puts all its cases to trial and criticism." 0 is, science tests the presumed knowledge. He adds that science related facts and interconnected with each other, in order to achieve logical connections that allow the provision of postulates and axioms from the systematization achieved through research and the scientific method to determine the objectivity that exists between facts and phenomena. For him, scientific research is the instrument by which science makes it to scientific knowledge. (1982, p. 11)

Si otorgas poder, prepárate para la responsabilidad

Although it is often disregarded at universities, the ethic-moral constituent is an indispensable portion of any professional development; and even more at current times, when techno-scientific knowledge has become power’s most important underpinning. Incorporating the vast interdisciplinary advances that applied ethics have experienced during the last decades could constitute a specific and apt answer leading towards the institutional resolution of the issue.