El pensamiento pedagógico del arabista Don Julian Ribera.

Mostrar, a través de los textos de Ribera, la relevancia de su pensamiento. Se aborda primero su pensamiento pedagógico, esencialmente crítico y original y después, los motivos e influencias en su pensamiento, concluyendo con la vigencia de su obra en la actualidad. Bibliografía. Estudio de la bibliografía. El estudio de la figura de Don Julian Ribera durante su vida pública (1887-1927), nos da a conocer las cuatro dimensiones más a resaltar: su talante crítico lo conduce al estudio del fenómeno educativo en la realidad actual, descubriendo el fracaso de las instituciones pedagógicas, que no crean hombres magistrales, por lo que pide un saber más espontáneo, esto nos lleva a su fe en lo natural, es decir, en el saber práctico frente al teórico, para lo que sugiere un camino que es el arte de aprender junto al de enseñar, quedando todo plasmado en su proyecto pedagógico.

Fern??ndez de Lizardi y la necesidad ilustrada de la educaci??n civil y pol??tica

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Los maestros mexicanos en tiempos de Fern??ndez de Lizardi (1776-1827)

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Ilustración y educación en la primera infancia : un ejemplo : Fernández de Lizardi.

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Semblanza de Julian Huxley.

Reseña de la vida y trayectoria profesional del biólogo y escritor Julian Huxley, y de sus actividades como Secretario de la Comisión Preparatoria de la Unesco.

La obra pedagógica de Lorenzo Hervás Panduro (1735-1809).

Analizar la obra pedagógica de Lorenzo Hervás y sus repercusiones en la educación. Publicaciones existentes sobre su obra. Análisis documental. Los datos son obtenidos a través de fuentes primarias, documentos originales y fuentes secundarias: Publicaciones realizadas. Investigación histórica sobre la vida de Lorenzo Hervás. Lorenzo Hervás ingresa en la Compañía de Jesús realizando estudios de Filosofía y Teología en Alcalá de Henares que completó con estudios de astronomía y matemáticas, indicando su labor profesional en el Colegio de los Jesuitas de Cáceres, pasando posteriormente al Seminario de Nobles de Madrid y al Colegio de la Anunciata de Murcia. Con la expulsión de los jesuitas de España, marcha a Italia estableciéndose finalmente en Roma, vuelve nuevamente a España trabajando en el Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, pero decide nuevamente ir a Roma y ser el bibliotecario del Quirinal, nombrado por Pío VII, cargo que regentó hasta su muerte. Su estancia en Roma le permite ponerse en contacto con los intelectuales de la época, participando como socio de la Real Academia de Ciencias de Dublín, de la Etrusca de Crotona, es teólogo del Cardenal Albani, laconista del Cardenal Reverella y Socio de mérito de la Sociedad Económica Vascongada, además de bibliotecario. Su obra abarca temas diversos, destaca: Idea del Universo Italiano de 21 volúmenes, de los cuales los ocho primeros que tratan sobre la Historia de la vida del hombre fueron traducidos al castellano, realizando a través de esta obra un tratado completo de educación, estableciendo una parcelación en la educación, separada por etapas de la vida: Infancia, niñez y juventud; indicando para etapa un planteamiento educativo integral para el sujeto que abarca la educación física, moral y científica adaptado a las distintas etapas. Se preocupa de la educación de la sociedad española ilustrada, con sus teorías educativas se adelanta a las doctrinas sociológico-educativas del siglo XIX. Su importancia educativa destaca por su intención de lograr una armonía entre el desarrollo espiritual y el material que propugna la Ilustración, aunando los principios básicos del Catolicismo. El análisis pedagógico observa la amplitud de su obra, teniendo presente las lecturas que realiza y las influencias que tuvo en el exilio al tomar contacto con una civilización distinta a la occidental, hace que sea considerado como uno de los hombres más sabios e influyentes de su época.

The Julian C. Stanley Study of Exceptional Talent : una aproximaci??n personalizada para dar respuesta a las necesidades de los estudiantes con altas capacidades

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The global response to tropical heating in the Madden-Julian oscillation during the northern winter

A life cycle of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) was constructed, based on 21 years of outgoing long-wave radiation data. Regression maps of NCEP–NCAR reanalysis data for the northern winter show statistically significant upper-tropospheric equatorial wave patterns linked to the tropical convection anomalies, and extratropical wave patterns over the North Pacific, North America, the Atlantic, the Southern Ocean and South America. To assess the cause of the circulation anomalies, a global primitive-equation model was initialized with the observed three-dimensional (3D) winter climatological mean flow and forced with a time-dependent heat source derived from the observed MJO anomalies. A model MJO cycle was constructed from the global response to the heating, and both the tropical and extratropical circulation anomalies generally matched the observations well. The equatorial wave patterns are established in a few days, while it takes approximately two weeks for the extratropical patterns to appear. The model response is robust and insensitive to realistic changes in damping and basic state. The model tropical anomalies are consistent with a forced equatorial Rossby–Kelvin wave response to the tropical MJO heating, although it is shifted westward by approximately 20° longitude relative to observations. This may be due to a lack of damping processes (cumulus friction) in the regions of convective heating. Once this shift is accounted for, the extratropical response is consistent with theories of Rossby wave forcing and dispersion on the climatological flow, and the pattern correlation between the observed and modelled extratropical flow is up to 0.85. The observed tropical and extratropical wave patterns account for a significant fraction of the intraseasonal circulation variance, and this reproducibility as a response to tropical MJO convection has implications for global medium-range weather prediction. Copyright © 2004 Royal Meteorological Society

The interaction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation with the Maritime Continent in a GCM

Previous studies using the Hadley Centre coupled model (HadCM3) have shown that the islands of the Maritime Continent act as an unrealistic block to the eastward propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). This blocking effect is investigated using a simplified, aqua-planet version of this GCM, with various idealized configurations of the Maritime Continent islands placed on the equator, and an MJO-like convective signal forced by a propagating sea-surface temperature anomaly dipole. Results suggest that it is the orography of the islands, rather than the presence of the islands themselves, which results in the blocking of the MJO. Although the peak elevation of the orography in the GCM is very much lower than in reality, it appears to act as effective block to the eastward propagation of the low-level Kelvin wave signal which accompanies the MJO. In particular, the representation of Sumatra in the GCM, as a north-south oriented ridge straddling the equator, seems to be particularly effective at blocking the Kelvin wave signal, which in a full GCM would result in the weakening or complete extinction of the MJO signal to the east of the Maritime Continent.

The role of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the El Nino and Indian drought of 2002

In 2002 India experienced a severe drought, one among the five worst droughts since records began in 1871, notable for its countrywide influence. The drought was primarily due to an unprecedented break in the monsoon during July, which persisted for almost the whole month and affected most of the sub-continent. The failure of the monsoon in 2002 was not predicted and India was not prepared for the devastating impacts on, for example, agriculture. This paper documents the evolution of the 2002 Indian summer monsoon and considers the possible factors that contributed to the drought and the failure of the forecasts. The development of the 2002/2003 El Nino and the unusually high levels of Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) activity during the monsoon season are identified as the central players. The 2002/2003 El Nino was characterised by very high sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) in the central Pacific that developed rapidly during the monsoon season. It is suggested that the unusual character of the developing El Nino was associated with the MJO and was a consequence of the eastward extension of the West Pacific Warm Pool, brought about primarily by a series of westerly wind events (WWEs) as part of the eastward movement of the active phase of the MJO. During the boreal summer, the MJO is usually characterised by northward movement, but in 2002 the northward component of the MJO was weak and the MJO was dominated by a strong eastward component, probably driven by the abnormally high SSTs in the central Pacific. It is suggested that a positive feedback existed between the developing El Nino and the eastward component of the MJO, which weakened the active phases of the monsoon. In particular, the unprecedented monsoon break in July could be associated with the juxtaposition of strong MJO activity with a developing El Nino, both of which interfered constructively with each other to produce major perturbations to the distribution of tropical heating. Subsequently, the main impact of the developing El Nino was a modulation of the Walker circulation that led to the overall suppression of the Indian monsoon during thess latter part of the season. It is argued that the unique combination of a rapidly developing El Nino and strong MJO activity, which was timed within the seasonal cycle to have maximum impact on the Indian summer monsoon, meant that prediction of the prolonged break in July and the seasonally deficient rainfall was a challenge for both the empirical and dynamical forecasting systems. Copyright (C) 2006 Royal Meteorological Society.