La economía solidaria como movimiento social: el caso de REAS-Navarra

El estudio determina las características de la Economía Solidaria, desde la perspectiva de los movimientos sociales, en el marco del análisis de las auditorías de REASNavarra. Se contextualizan mediante revisión bibliográfica las características, tanto de la Economía Social y Solidaria (ESS) como de la Economía Social, y se contrasta con el caso particular de Navarra (España). Para el análisis de dichas auditorías se utilizó un enfoque metodológico longitudinal, resultando del mismo una “foto” representativa del comportamiento de las empresas de REAS-Navarra a lo largo de los años (2009, 2011 y 2013). El estudio concluye que REAS-Navarra, si bien cumple con criterios defendidos desde la Economía Solidaria, presenta debilidades en cuanto a la metodología utilizada para auditar sus empresas, y de los resultados del análisis de las auditorías sociales se desprenden dudas respecto al nivel de autonomía y democracia en estas empresas, lo que puede significar un riesgo para su continuidad.

Asesoría en diseño.

106 hojas : ilustraciones.

Programa Nacional de Joyería. Asesoría en Diseño. Bogotá, 2001 - 2002.

113 hojas : ilustraciones.

Programa Nacional de Joyería. Taller de Diseño, Departamento de Antioquia municipios de Frontino y Santa Fe de Antioquia febrero 19 a marzo 17 de 2002.

107 hojas : Ilustraciones.

The Ministry of Evil" An Examination of the Popular Bitter-Sweet Theology

Sermon by William Fairfield Warren.

Reading Between the Lines: The Potential of Popular Young Adult Fiction in Adolescent Spiritual Formation

Popular culture is a powerful, shaping force in the lives of teenagers between the ages of fourteen through eighteen in the United States today. This dissertation argues the importance of popular fiction for adolescent spiritual formation and it investigates that importance by exploring the significance of narrative for theology and moral formation. The dissertation employs mythic and archetypal criticism as a tool for informing the selection and critique of narratives for use in adolescent spiritual development and it also incorporates insights gained from developmental psychology to lay the groundwork for the development of a curriculum that uses young adult fiction in a program of spiritual formation for teenagers in a local church setting. The dissertation defends the power of narrative in Christian theology and concludes that narrative shapes the imagination in ways that alter perception and are important for the faith life of teenagers in particular. I go on to argue that not all narratives are created equal. In using literary myth criticism in concert with theology, I use the two disciplines’ different aims and methods to fully flesh out the potential of theologies intrinsic to works meant for a largely secular audience. The dissertation compares various works of young adult fiction (M.T. Anderson’s Feed and Terry Pratchett’s Nation in dialogue with a theology of creation; Marcus Zusak’s I am the Messenger and Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl in dialogue with salvation and saviors; and the four novels of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga in dialogue with a theology of hope (eschatology). The dissertation explores how each theme surfaces (even if only implicitly) from both literary and theological standpoints. The dissertation concludes with a sample four-week lesson plan that demonstrates one way the theological and literary critique can be formed into a practical curriculum for use in an adolescent spiritual development setting. Ultimately, this dissertation provides a framework for how practitioners of young adult formation can select, analyze, and develop materials for their teenagers using new works of popular young adult fiction. The dissertation comes to the conclusion that popular fiction contains a wealth of material that can challenge and shape young readers’ own emerging theology.

The Cyclone Server Architecture: Streamlining Delivery of Popular Content

We propose a new technique for efficiently delivering popular content from information repositories with bounded file caches. Our strategy relies on the use of fast erasure codes (a.k.a. forward error correcting codes) to generate encodings of popular files, of which only a small sliding window is cached at any time instant, even to satisfy an unbounded number of asynchronous requests for the file. Our approach capitalizes on concurrency to maximize sharing of state across different request threads while minimizing cache memory utilization. Additional reduction in resource requirements arises from providing for a lightweight version of the network stack. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of our Cyclone server as a Linux kernel subsystem.

History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age

“History, Revolution and the British Popular Novel” takes as its focus the significant role which historical fiction played within the French Revolution debate and its aftermath. Examining the complex intersection of the genre with the political and historical dialogue generated by the French Revolution crisis, the thesis contends that contemporary fascination with the historical episode of the Revolution, and the fundamental importance of history to the disputes which raged about questions of tradition and change, and the meaning of the British national past, led to the emergence of increasingly complex forms of fictional historical narrative during the “war of ideas.” Considering the varying ways in which novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, Mary Robinson, Helen Craik, Clara Reeve, John Moore, Edward Sayer, Mary Charlton, Ann Thomas, George Walker and Jane West engaged with the historical contexts of the Revolution debate, my discussion juxtaposes the manner in which English Jacobin novelists inserted the radical critique of the Jacobin novel into the wider arena of history with anti-Jacobin deployments of the historical to combat the revolutionary threat and internal moves for socio-political restructuring. I argue that the use of imaginative historical narrative to contribute to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the Revolution, and offer political and historical guidance to readers, represented a significant element within the literature of the Revolution crisis. The thesis also identifies the diverse body of historical fiction which materialised amidst the Revolution controversy as a key context within which to understand the emergence of Scott’s national historical novel in 1814, and the broader field of historical fiction in the era of Waterloo. Tracing the continued engagement with revolutionary and political concerns evident in the early Waverley novels, Frances Burney’s The Wanderer (1814), William Godwin’s Mandeville (1816), and Mary Shelley’s Valperga (1823), my discussion concludes by arguing that Godwin’s and Shelley’s extension of the mode of historical fiction initially envisioned by Godwin in the revolutionary decade, and their shared endeavour to retrieve the possibility enshrined within the republican past, appeared as a significant counter to the model of history and fiction developed by Walter Scott in the post-revolutionary epoch.

Canon Ulick Bourke: cultural nationalism, popular politics and the Knock apparition

Accounts of the Knock Apparition, academic and devotional, always start by relating that the Virgin Mary, St Joseph, and St John the Evangelist appeared to fifteen people on a rainy Thursday evening at the south gable of Knock chapel, Co. Mayo, on 21 August 1879. They usually mention that the Land War was in progress. Despite the fact Knock supposedly receives one and a half million visitors a year, until three decades ago no scholar had examined accounts of the apparition. Recent work has sought to define the Knock Apparition in light of the Land War, the ‘devotional revolution’, which took place in Irish Catholicism in the quarter century prior to the apparition, and the influence of the parish priest, Archdeacon Bartholomew Cavanagh. This thesis acknowledges these factors, but contends that the single greatest force in shaping accounts of the apparition was Canon Ulick Joseph Bourke, one of the three priests on the commission of investigation into Knock. Furthermore, this thesis proves that Bourke’s role as a central figure in influencing the later Gaelic revival has been overlooked by scholars of cultural nationalism. By examining Bourke’s cultural nationalism and views on antiquity and language, as well as his politics and reaction to the Land War, this thesis argues that Bourke sought to create an orthodox version of the apparition which could be reconciled to his views on Irish Catholic identity, while serving as a bulwark against threats to the temporal power of the clergy. In addition to influencing accounts of the apparition through his role in interviewing the witnesses and recording their testimony, Bourke further shaped the narrative of the apparition by controlling its dissemination, to the extent that all accounts of Knock are based on a text largely created by him.

Popular culture, relational history, and the question of power in Palestine and Israel

The marginalization of popular culture in radical scholarship on Palestine and Israel is symptomatic of the conceptual limits that still define much Middle East studies scholarship: namely, the prevailing logic of the nation-state on the one hand and the analytic tools of classical Marxist historiography and political economy on the other. This essay offers a polemic about the form that alternative scholarly projects might take through recourse to questions of popular culture. The authors argue that close allention to the ways that popular culture "articulates" with broader political, social, and economic processes can expand scholarly understandings of the terrain of power in Palestine and Israel, and hence the possible arenas and modalities of struggle. © 2004 by the Institute for Palestine Studies. All rights reserved.

El saber técnico popular en la investigación y desarrollo de tecnologías apropiadas : el caso de los horticultores del parque Pereyra Iraola

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La calculadora TI 92 plus y el CBR en la modelación del movimiento pendular

La introducción a la clase de matemáticas de la calculadora TI 92 Plus y otros dispositivos, tales como el CBR, están generando una nueva cultura matemática, caracterizar algunos rasgos de éste fenómeno educativo en la modelación del movimiento pendular es el propósito central de la presente investigación. El trabajo de los estudiantes permitió observar en la práctica los constitutivos del marco teórico del proyecto de incorporación de nuevas tecnologías al currículo de matemáticas de Colombia, como son: mediación instrumental, representaciones ejecutables, cognición situada, solución de problemas, fluidez algorítmica y fluidez conceptual.

Mediación cultural con SimCalc en la adquisición del conocimiento del movimiento rectilíneo

Esta investigación de corte cualitativo tiene el objetivo de estudiar cómo un grupo de estudiantes mexicanos de 16-18 años logra significar la relación entre las gráficas cartesianas de distancia-tiempo, velocidad-tiempo y aceleración-tiempo al interactuar en un entorno digital. Nuestra interpretación se basa en asumir que el conocimiento resulta de las acciones del sujeto cognoscente que se acerca a su objeto de conocimiento provisto de artefactos culturales de mediación. Las gráficas cartesianas atadas a la animación promueven en los estudiantes una actitud para expresar y explorar sus ideas a través de las representaciones simbólicas que ellos mismos producen. Los resultados sugieren que este tipo de experiencias puede ayudar a construir una sólida base para acceder a las ideas del Cálculo.

Motivación socioepistemológica de la función senoidal a través del movimiento circular como metáfora

En este trabajo se presenta una secuencia didáctica cuyo marco teórico es la socioepistemología, en la que se toma en cuenta la dimensión didáctica y cognitiva. Para realizarla, usamos una metáfora que nos permita identificar a través de una actividad experimental, al manipular una cuerda y usando una torna mesa, los principales elementos de la función seno.

La modelación y las gráficas en situaciones de movimiento con tecnología

Con este trabajo se da cuenta de los aprendizajes que logran los estudiantes del nivel bachillerato al trabajar con un problema de una situación real de movimiento empleando tecnología como son los sensores (dispositivos transductores) y calculadora graficadora. La aproximación socioepistemológica sirvió de sustento para realizar un análisis previo, el cual nos permitió identificar tres usos de las gráficas: construcción de gráficas utilizando la regla de correspondencia entre dos variables, gráficas por operaciones gráficas y la graficación por medio de la simulación de un fenómeno físico empleando tecnología. El trabajo con estudiantes nos permitió caracterizar el uso de las gráficas a partir de las actividades de modelación con las características del Comportamiento Tendencial de las Funciones.