Good practices in the Enred@te Pilot Project: a digital social network for older adults and Spanish Red Cross volunteers

The Enred@te initiative, created by Red Cross, the Vodafone Foundation and the TECSOS Foundation, emerged as an evolution of a previous project that developed and piloted a video-communication solution with older adults, using a system installed in their own televisions. Following the success of this first initiative, it was decided to advance toward a more flexible, robust, easy-to-use and high-quality solution, producing a social network accessible through tablets. Older adults can use the network to video-communicate with other older adults and stay informed on various topics of interest. Additionally, a new innovation incorporates the participation of virtual volunteers, a part of the network that promotes its use in an inclusive and participative manner. This solution was also piloted in 2014 with positive results and work to turn it into a service that can reach older adults through the Red Cross is currently on-going.

De la cooperativa agroalimentaria a la "learning netchain". Hacia un planteamiento teorico interorganizativo e interpersonal

Se propone un planteamiento te��rico/conceptual para determinar si las relaciones interorganizativas e interpersonales de la netchain de las cooperativas agroalimentarias evolucionan hacia una learning netchain. Las propuestas del trabajo muestran que el mayor grado de asociacionismo y la mayor cooperaci��n/colaboraci��n vertical a lo largo de la cadena est��n positivamente relacionados con la posici��n horizontal de la empresa focal m��s cercana del consumidor final. Esto requiere una planificaci��n y una resoluci��n de problemas de manera conjunta, lo que est�� positivamente relacionado con el mayor flujo y diversidad de la informaci��n/conocimiento obtenido y diseminado a lo largo de la netchain. Al mismo tiempo se necesita desarrollar un contexto social en el que fluya la informaci��n/conocimiento y las nuevas ideas de manera informal y esto se logra con redes personales y, principalmente, profesionales y con redes internas y, principalmente, externas. Todo esto permitir�� una mayor satisfacci��n de los socios de la cooperativa agroalimentaria y de sus distribuidores y una mayor intensidad en I+D, convirti��ndose la netchain de la cooperativa agroalimentaria, as��, en una learning netchain.

Reflexive learning in pre-service training of primary school teachers: from experience to assimilation of contents

This article presents an educational experiment carried out in the Primary School Teaching Degree at the University of Barcelona. Specifically, the article analyses the application of the ���Work Corners��� approach in a core subject. In a three-year action research process, trainers put into practice an innovation which enabled them to boost cooperative work and reflexive learning among trainees. Firstly, the theoretical model underpinning the project and guiding many of the actions carried out by the training team is presented. After providing detailed information on the practical development of the experiment, the data-gathering process and its results are shown. Various information-gathering strategies were used in assessing the project, such as a questionnaire, participant observation, and teachers��� diaries. The results demonstrate, amongst other things, that ���work corners��� offer viable and appropriate educational conditions for the articulation of theoretical and practical knowledge, for building professional knowledge, and therefore, the beginnings of a reflexive teaching practice.

Paul Karl Feyerabend Las proyecciones de la proliferaci��n te��rica en la relaci��n ciencia-metaf��sica

La doctrina de la Proliferaci��n te��rica de Paul Karl Feyerabend ha sido interpretada por sus especialistas como un intento de salvaguardar el ideal del progreso cient��fico. Aunque tales estudios hacen justicia, en parte, a la intencionalidad de nuestro fil��sofo no explicitan la cr��tica fundamental que implica para Feyerabend el pluralismo te��rico. La proliferaci��n te��rica constituye en s�� misma una reductio ad absurdum de los distintos intentos del positivismo l��gico y del racionalismo cr��tico por definir la ciencia a expensas de lo metaf��sico. Este art��culo presenta la proliferaci��n te��rica como una reivindicaci��n del papel positivo que ocupa la metaf��sica en el quehacer cient��fico. Se consigna la defensa que hace Feyerabend de la metaf��sica en cuanto que ��sta constituye la posibilidad de superar el conservadurismo conceptual, aumentar de contenido emp��rico de la ciencia y recuperar el valor descriptivo de las teor��as cient��ficas.

The use of cues for attention in ancient Greek art: aspects that influence concentration in the work of art and its elements

The goal of this study is to identify cues for the cognitive process of attention in ancient Greek art, aiming to find confirmation of its possible use by ancient Greek audiences and artists. Evidence of cues that trigger attention���s psychological dispositions was searched through content analysis of image reproductions of ancient Greek sculpture and fine vase painting from the archaic to the Hellenistic period - ca. 7th -1st cent. BC. Through this analysis, it was possible to observe the presence of cues that trigger orientation to the work of art (i.e. amplification, contrast, emotional salience, simplification, symmetry), of a cue that triggers a disseminate attention to the parts of the work (i.e. distribution of elements) and of cues that activate selective attention to specific elements in the work of art (i.e. contrast of elements, salient color, central positioning of elements, composition regarding the flow of elements and significant objects). Results support the universality of those dispositions, probably connected with basic competencies that are hard-wired in the nervous system and in the cognitive processes.