Les noves ciutadanies : immigració i educació : conclusions de les Jornades PEC 2001. 'Los nuevos ciudadanos : inmigración y educación : conclusiones de las Jornadas PEC 2001'.

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Resili??ncia, immigraci?? i ??xit escolar

Se aborda la resiliencia considerando al alumnado de procedencia extranjera para ver c??mo afronta una etapa de alto riesgo y de abandono escolar en la Educaci??n Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO) y en el momento de transici??n acad??mica hacia la Educaci??n Post-obligatoria (PO). Se valoran los mecanismos resilientes utilizados por el alumno inmigrante que consiguen sobrepasar procesos problem??ticos o dificultosos.

Identitats en tr??nsit, immigraci?? femenina i cultures corporals

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Relacions entre la identitat catalana i la percepció de vitalitat etnolingüística en una mostra d’estudiants universitaris

This article analyses, on the one hand, the perception of ethno-linguistic vitality in a sample of university students in the province of Girona, and, on the other, links this perceived vitality to the feeling of identity in the group to which they belong. 112 Catalan-speaking students who described themselves as Catalan (Catalan identity) responded to the questionnaire on subjective vitality, in terms of adaptation to Catalan. This instrument assesses the beliefs about one’s own group’s and its language’s vitality (in this case Catalan) and that of the exocentric group and language (in this case Spanish). The results show that the students see their language (Catalan) as having greater status and institutional support than Spanish, but a lower demographic impact (birth rate, immigration, mixed marriages, emigration). Identity is also positively correlated with the perception of ethno-linguistic perception. These results are discussed in relation to the role of vitality in the choice of the language for education (Catalan versus Spanish) and day-to-day communication, and the level at which language policy is defined in order to promote communication in Catalan in the fields of business, politics, education and the media

Review of <i> The Science, Impacts and Monitoring of Drought in Western Canada: Proceedings of the 2004 Prairie Drought Workshopi> Edited by Dave Sauchyn, Madhav Khandekar, and E. Ray Garnett

Drought is not an unusual phenomenon on the Canadian prairies or the U.S. Great Plains. There were many short-term droughts in the prairies during the 20th century that generally lasted one to two years (e.g., 1961, 1988). The Canadian prairies multi-year drought event (1999-2003+) has been considered similar in severity to the 1930s drought years. The 2004 Prairie Drought Workshop resulted in 76 scientists and resource managers gathering in Calgary, Alberta, to share information on drought science, impacts, and monitoring. Presenters examined the impacts on agriculture, stream flow, forests, and ground water, including potential impacts under a changed climate. Though focused on the Canadian prairies, the information presented could be applied to many parts of the U.S. Great Plains.

Landbruksstudier i Amerika. Beretning om en stipendiereise i de Forenede Stater og Canada,

Saertryk av Landbruksdirektørens Aarsberetning for 1911.

The Determinants of pricing in pharmaceuticals: are U.S. prices really higher than those of Canada?

This paper studies price determination in pharmaceutical markets using data for 25 countries, six years and a comprehensive list of products from the MIDAS IMS database. We show that market power and the quality of the product has a significantly positive impact of prices. The nationality of the producer appears to have a small and often insignificant impact on prices, which suggests that countries which regulates prices have relatively little power to do it in a way that advances narrow national interest. We produce a theoretical explanation for this phenomenon based on the fact that low negotiated prices in a country would have a knock-on effect in other markets, and is thus strongly resisted by producers. Another key finding is that the U.S. has prices that are not significantly higher than those of countries with similar income levels. This, together with the former observation on the effect of the nationality of producers casts doubt on the ability of countries to purs

Escola inclusiva, pràctica educativa i organització escolar

La modificació de les característiques d'una part de l'alumnat del sistema educatiu de Catalunya manifesta la necessitat de trobar eines organitzatives i pedagògiques per treballar en el marc de l'escola inclusiva. Una de les característiques que provoquen més inquietud entre el professorat es refereix als diferents nivells lingüístics de l'alumnat a les aules en relació al coneixement de la llengua de l'escola. La recerca ha treballat amb el professorat de dues escoles d'infantil i primària amb un nombre elevat d’alumnat d’origen estranger, nascut a Catalunya i d’incorporació tardana, i amb l'aula d'acollida d'un IES. L'objectiu de la recerca consistia en desenvolupar un model organitzatiu que fes possible una major individualització de la pràctica educativa i formes de treball cooperatiu a les aules, així com trobar indicadors pel trànsit de l'aula d'acollida a l'aula ordinària. La recerca comptava amb el suport del professorat-tutor i dels equips directius dels centres escolars. La metodologia utilitzada ha estat de caire etnogràfic i ha consistit en observar setmanalment a les aules les modificacions de la pràctica de les persones tutores que es derivaven d’un nou marc organitzatiu. Igualment, hem observat especialment les condicions d’ensenyament-aprenentatge de l’alumnat d’incorporació tardana tant a l’aula ordinària com a l’aula d’acollida. Els resultats manifesten que la modificació de l’estructura organitzativa sobre la base d’implicar tots els recursos humans d’un cicle en un projecte comú que permet el treball amb petits grups heterogenis transforma la pràctica educativa del professorat. Aquest treball es recolza en la llengua oral, independentment de la tasca que ha de realitzar l’alumne, i s’adapta individualment a les diferents capacitats de comprensió i expressió oral de l’alumnat. A la vegada, aquesta pràctica educativa facilita la coordinació del professorat de l’aula ordinària i d’acollida, així com el trànsit d’una a l’altra.

Health and income: a robust comparison of Canada and the US

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the First application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bidimensional welfare distribution of health and income, though not generally in terms of the uni-dimensional distribution of health or income. The paper also finds that welfare for both Canadians and Americans has not unambiguously improved during the last decade over the joint distribution of income and health, in spite of the fact that the uni-dimensional distributions of income have clearly improved during that period.

Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex sampling procedures that are typically used by statistical agencies to generate household-level surveys, are implemented using the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for 1996, 1999 and 2002. Although the yearly cumulative distribution functions cross at the lower tails of the distributions, the more recent years tend to dominate earlier years for a relatively wide range of poverty lines. Failing to take into account SLID's sampling variability (as is sometimes done) can inflate significantly one's confidence in ranking poverty. Taking into account SLID's complex sampling design (as has not been done before) can also decrease substantially the range of poverty lines over which a poverty ranking can be inferred.