Vitoria-Gasteiz ¿ciudad intercultural? Estudio sobre la minoría magrebí en Vitoria-Gasteiz

Estudio sobre la minoría magrebí en la ciudad de Vitoria-Gasteiz. Análisis del concepto minoría, racismo, interculturalidad, asimilación, integración...Resumen de los últimos acontecimientos con el racismo y la intolerancia hacia el colectivo magrebí. Posibles métodos para lograr su integración en la sociedad

Direito Penal Intercultural: possibilidades filosóficas e dogmáticas caso específico Direito Penal Econômico

O presente trabalho parte das concepções morais de Kant sobre o imperativo categórico, sua ideia de punir e a noção de cosmopolitismo, como uma forma de integrar os povos nos mais diversos cantos através de parâmetros racionais, visando alcançar o que o filósofo denomina de Paz Perpétua. O pós kantiano Hoffe é tomado como base para um modelo de Direito Intercultural, no qual, os cidadãos são unidos por valores universais em torno de pretensões comuns. Neste contexto emerge o Direito Penal Intercultural como forma de se consagrar bens comuns, através da tipificação de delitos que representam preceitos éticos globais, os quais merecem ser tutelados por estarem associados a direitos humanos. Nesta sociedade moderna marcada por grandes transformações em diversos setores, como decorrência da globalização, fala-se em uma nova área criminal, qual seja, o Direito Penal Econômico, trazendo crimes existentes em qualquer lugar do mundo, como as infrações tributárias, praticadas por criminosos de colarinho branco. A impunidade destes crimes é um fator notório. Em razão de tal fato e, por questões de justiça e solidariedade defende-se um modelo criminal de punição, que tem uma fundamentação moral e se mostra aplicável em qualquer país, independentemente de suas especificidades locais. Para tal é necessário uma releitura dos paradigmas tradicionais do Direito Penal e uma maior eticização de suas normas, proporcionando o que se chama Direito Penal Intercultural.

Staged Competence Learning in Developmental Robotics

M.H. Lee, Q. Meng and F. Chao, 'Staged Competence Learning in Developmental Robotics', Adaptive Behavior, 15(3), pp 241-255, 2007. the full text will be available in September 2008

Jurisdiction and the Internet: Regulatory Competence over Online Activity

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Hacia una educación intercultural: diversidad y convivencia en un centro de Pamplona

“Hacia una educación intercultural: diversidad y convivencia en un centro de Pamplona” es un trabajo que hace un recorrido por la sociedad multicultural actual y pretende acercar la experiencia multicultural vivida en un colegio del barrio de San Jorge de Pamplona. Este trabajo se centra en la interculturalidad como realidad social y la educación intercultural como elementos fundamentales para convivir desde la comunicación y el intercambio cultural. Ante los cambios sociales producidos en España debido a la inmigración, la escuela se ha visto inmersa en un proceso de cambio. La educación intercultural encuentra una respuesta positiva ante esta nueva realidad y, mediante el trabajo, podemos hacernos una idea de cómo se está viviendo este cambio y qué supone para el sistema educativo.

The differences in the social competence of children who attend integrated junior infant classes and children who attend segregated learning environments

There are a number of reasons why this researcher has decided to undertake this study into the differences in the social competence of children who attend integrated Junior Infant classes and children who attend segregated learning environments. Theses reasons are both personal and professional. My personal reasons stem from having grown up in a family which included both an aunt who presented with Down Syndrome and an uncle who presented with hearing impairment. Both of these relatives' experiences in our education system are interesting. My aunt was considered ineducable while her brother - my uncle - was sent to Dublin (from Cork) at six years of age to be educated by a religious order. My professional reasons, on the other hand, stemmed from my teaching experience. Having taught in both special and integrated classrooms it became evident to me that there was somewhat 'suspicion' attached to integration. Parents of children without disabilities questioned whether this process would have a negative impact on their children's education. While parents of children with disabilities debated whether integrated settings met the specific needs of their children. On the other hand, I always questioned whether integration and inclusiveness meant the same thing. My research has enabled me to find many answers. Increasingly, children with special educational needs (SEN) are attending a variety of integrated and inclusive childcare and education settings. This contemporary practice of educating children who present with disabilities in mainstream classrooms has stimulated vast interest on the impact of such practices on children with identified disabilities. Indeed, children who present with disabilities "fare far better in mainstream education than in special schools" (Buckley, cited in Siggins, 2001,p.25). However, educators and practitioners in the field of early years education and care are concerned with meeting the needs of all children in their learning environments, while also upholding high academic standards (Putman, 1993). Fundamentally, therefore, integrated education must also produce questions about the impact of this practice on children without identified special educational needs. While these questions can be addressed from the various areas of child development (i.e. cognitive, physical, linguistic, emotional, moral, spiritual and creative), this research focused on the social domain. It investigates the development of social competence in junior infant class children without identified disabilities as they experience different educational settings.

Discharge competence and pattern formation in peatlands: a meta-ecosystem model of the Everglades ridge-slough landscape.

Regular landscape patterning arises from spatially-dependent feedbacks, and can undergo catastrophic loss in response to changing landscape drivers. The central Everglades (Florida, USA) historically exhibited regular, linear, flow-parallel orientation of high-elevation sawgrass ridges and low-elevation sloughs that has degraded due to hydrologic modification. In this study, we use a meta-ecosystem approach to model a mechanism for the establishment, persistence, and loss of this landscape. The discharge competence (or self-organizing canal) hypothesis assumes non-linear relationships between peat accretion and water depth, and describes flow-dependent feedbacks of microtopography on water depth. Closed-form model solutions demonstrate that 1) this mechanism can produce spontaneous divergence of local elevation; 2) divergent and homogenous states can exhibit global bi-stability; and 3) feedbacks that produce divergence act anisotropically. Thus, discharge competence and non-linear peat accretion dynamics may explain the establishment, persistence, and loss of landscape pattern, even in the absence of other spatial feedbacks. Our model provides specific, testable predictions that may allow discrimination between the self-organizing canal hypotheses and competing explanations. The potential for global bi-stability suggested by our model suggests that hydrologic restoration may not re-initiate spontaneous pattern establishment, particularly where distinct soil elevation modes have been lost. As a result, we recommend that management efforts should prioritize maintenance of historic hydroperiods in areas of conserved pattern over restoration of hydrologic regimes in degraded regions. This study illustrates the value of simple meta-ecosystem models for investigation of spatial processes.