The playful as a psycho-pedagogic method: one experience in preventing youth drug dependence

This participatory action research was based on a experience of educational intervention on La Cruz and Bello Oriente (Manrique-Medellin), a marginal zone in the northeastern part of the Commune 3 in Medellin,. Colombia. In this marginal sector, psychosocial problems seem to be associated to limited educational and employment opportunities, domestic violence, illegal armed forces, sexual abuse, social discrimination, and lack of adequate public services, among others.  All these are also considered as risk factors for drug dependency.  We used a structured interview designed to identify leisure tendencies, use of free time, and tendencies in recreational activities. Data from the interview were triangulated with information collected by observation and in field work and used to build a psycho-pedagogic method based on play and leisure activities. The effects of the use of this educational intervention on the satisfaction of human needs were analyzed in light of the theory of Manfred Max-Neef. Results point out the need for new educational strategies aimed to promote creativity, solidarity, mental, physical and social health, more enthusiasm and motivation and in general, positive attitudes that help prevent drug dependence.

Community Health Managers: A Pilot Pedagogic Experience in the University of Rosario

The “Grupo de Estudios en Sistemas Tradicionales de Salud” from the School of Medicine of Universidad del Rosario, in agreement with the “Instituto de Etnobiología”, has designed a training course for a new health agent (the community health manager) meant to consider in its curriculum the difficulties, deficiencies and successes of the Primary Health Care Program. In particular, we have attended OMS suggestions in terms of adequate training of local leaders who should look for self-responsibility and selfdetermination in health care coverage. This training proposal is meant to take into account diverse cultures and traditions in order to offer health care models able to consider cultural particularities, epidemiological profiles, and contextual possibilities, with an intercultural point of view. Hence, the training course’s objective is to offer working tools so that community leaders be able to value and promote traditional health knowledge and practices; seek for food security by means of recovery of traditional productive systems or adaptation of appropriate technologies; environment conservation; use of medicinal plants especially in self-care, and stimulation of community and institutional health promotion activities. Preliminary evaluation suggests that this new health agent will be able to set bridges between communities and health care offers available, always looking for healthy ways of life, culturally and environmentally friendly.

Modelo de evaluación del impacto del Moodle en el proceso docente de la Facultad de Administración

Actualmente, la sociedad de la información ha establecido el uso frecuente de las tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC), lo cual ha permitió que las estrategias pedagógicas lideradas por la docencia, evoluciones y permitan el desarrollo de habilidades de formación que permitan a los alumnos consolidar su aprendizaje por medio de herramientas virtuales. El presente trabajo es un estudio el cual tiene como propósito verificar si los docentes de la Universidad del Rosario, del programa de Administración de Empresas de la facultad de administración, están realizando un buen manejo de la plataforma rosarista, llamada Moodle.

Conexiones líquidas, modelo de gestión cultural para la valoración del agua en los colegios de Bogotá

Modelo de gestión cultural para los colegios de Bogotá que conecta educación y cultura para sensibilizar grupos de estudiantes, construir experiencias con nuevas tecnologías, realizar un festival de tal modo que se promueva la valoración del agua como un medio de vida por encima de su comprensión como recurso.

El uso actual del moodle como un soporte activo en los cursos de la Universidad del Rosario

El impresionante desarrollo en tecnología y ciencias de la información ha tenido un gran efecto en la forma en que nuestras sociedades y sus instituciones funcionan. Un ejemplo de esto, son las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, TIC, las cuales últimamente han tenido una enorme influencia en algunas instituciones como las educativas. Estas han adoptado las TIC para mejorar sus programas educativos y adaptarlos a cualquier problema o necesidad; la Universidad del Rosario implemento desde el año 2006 el sistema Moodle, como una plataforma de soporte de formación activo en los diferentes cursos de las nueve facultades de la universidad, convirtiéndose en un apoyo de educación virtual que genera nuevas estrategias pedagógicas. Este proyecto se realiza con un objetivo claro: estudiar el impacto de Moodle en la Universidad del Rosario, y verificar si su uso es eficiente, y que tanto los profesores y los estudiantes hacen uso de las herramientas que brinda la plataforma.

La naturalización de las emociones: anotaciones a partir de Wittgenstein

En la literatura sobre las emociones, una de las teorías con mayor fuerza es la llamada teoría James-Lange. Este texto intenta hacer una crítica a esta teoría a partir de algunas observaciones de Wittgenstein sobre el uso de conceptos psicológicos, sacando a la luz dos confusiones gramaticales que surgen en ella. Para ello, se construye primero la categoría de «programa de naturalización de las emociones» que recoge las teorías de Descartes, James y Prinz, siguiendo la metodología de Lakatos. Luego, se identifica como problema central el de la naturalización de la intencionalidad. Con esto en mente, se exponen algunas herramientas wittgensteinianas para estudiar la gramática de la pregunta por el objeto y la intencionalidad de las emociones, mostrando que las respuestas del programa de naturalización no son satisfactorias y no respetan las reglas de ciertos usos de lenguaje.

Impact on the quality of learning as a result of the use of computers in schools

The educational software and computer assisted learning has been used in schools to promote the interest of students in new ways of thinking and learning so it can be useful in the reading learning process. Experimental studies performed in preschool and school age population have shown a better yield and a positive effect in reading, mathematics and cognitive skills in children who use educative software for fi fteen to twenty minutes a day periods. The goal of this study was to evaluate the progression in verbal, visual-motor integration and reading skills in children who were using educational software to compare them with a group in traditional pedagogic methodology. Results: All children were evaluated before using any kind of pedagogic approach. Initial evaluation revealed a lower–age score in all applied test. 11% of them were at high risk for learning disorders. There was a second evaluation that showed a significant positive change compared with the fi rst one. Nevertheless, despite some items, there were no general differences comparing the groups according if they were using or not a computer. In conclusion, policies on using educational software and computers must be revaluated due to the fact that children in our public schools come from a deprived environment with a lack of opportunities to use technologies.

Imaginarios de belleza en estudiantes de Educación Física

“Imaginarios de belleza en estudiantes de Educación Física de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN) Centro Valle de Tenza (CVT)” tiene como propósito describir los imaginarios de los estudiantes acerca del cuerpo y la Educación Física en su relación con la belleza. Esta investigación muestra cómo el cuerpo de los estudiantes es objeto de discursos hegemónicos por parte de la publicidad y los medios de comunicación. Así mismo, evidencia la importancia de formar futuros licenciados en Educación Física que asuman de forma crítica las problemáticas de la educación del cuerpo contemporáneo.

Identification of the Learning Styles in the Students of Exercise Physiology in the Rehabilitation and Human Development Faculty

The object of this study is to identify the learning styles (LS) used by the students of the subject of physiology of the exercise of the program of Physiotherapy, with the purpose of establishing a direct relationship later on between the learning styles and the possible pedagogic strategies that but they favor the compression of the physiology of the exercise 48 subject of second and third year of career they were interviewed through the instrument standardized compound number (CHAEA). This study carried out an analysis descriptive and of typical deviation of the data. They were differences statistically significant in the styles of active and reflexive learning, in front of the Theoretical and pragmatic styles what puts in evidence the necessity to generate pedagogic strategies inside the subject that this chord with the tendency of the active and reflexive learning of the students.

Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Experience for Health Human Resources Focused on the Holistic Promotion of Health and the Prevention of the Disease

The object of this experience is to offer the students the opportunity to take part in the construction of a pedagogic strategy centred on the ludic, for the promotion of the integral health and the prevention of the disease with an educational community; directed to supporting and qualifying the well-being so much individually as group. The project is designed to five years, about interdisciplinary character (Speech Therapy, Medicine, Psychology, Nursery, Occupational Therapy), interinstitutional (Universidad del Rosario, Universidad de San Buenaventura y Universidad de Cundinamarca) and intersectorial (Education and Health). It considers the different actors of the educational community and school and the home as propitious scenes for the strengthening potential, beside being the fundamental spaces for the construction of knowledges and learnings concerning the integral health. To achieve the target, one has come constructing from the second semester of 2003, one pedagogic strategy centred on the ludic and the creativity, from which they are planned, they develop and evaluate the actions of promotion of skills, values, behaviors and attitudes in the care of the health and the prevention of disease, orientated to the early, opportune and effective detection of risk factors and problematic of the development that they affect the integral health. The above mentioned strategy raises a so called scene Bienestarópolis: A healthy world for conquering, centred on prominent figures, spaces and elements that alternate between the fantasy and the reality to facilitate the approximation, the interiorización and the appropriation of the integral health. Across this one, the children motivated by the adults enter an imaginary world in that theirs desires, knowledges and attitudes are the axis of his development. Since Vigotsky raises it, in the game the child realizes actions in order to adapt to the world that surrounds it acquiring skills for the learning. The actions of the project have involved 410 children and 25 teachers, of the degrees Zero, The First and The Second of basic primary; 90 parents of family, and an average of 40 students and 8 teachers of the already mentioned disciplines.

La administración es algo más que gerencia

Este artículo tiene como propósito presentar una concepción de administración que va más allá de la noción moderna en la que se considera como profesión justificada sólo en el marco de lo práctico y lo útil, negando sus posibilidades especulativas y filosóficas, así como su avance científico de manera autónoma y original. El influjo de este imaginario determinó para la administración serios vacíos epistémicos y éticos, que condujeron al surgimiento de un debate que actualmente ha llevado a repensar los sistemas de generación de saber y de procesos pedagógicos y andragógicos. La polémica ha permitido comprender que tal pragmatismo disciplinar debe ser reformulado, mediante la incorporación de la dirección y el pensamiento estratégico, como la base y el soporte de la disciplina.