Entre lo global y lo local : La investigación educativa en dos Universidades no metropolitanas

En un contexto de heterogeneidad entre las universidades nacionales argentinas, en relación a la capacidad y las condiciones de producción de conocimiento en educación, y de una fuerte concentración de la producción y los recursos humanos en las zonas metropolitanas, este trabajo se propuso indagar las características de la actividad de investigación en educación en Universidades Nacionales de zonas no metropolitanas. Se han analizado las prácticas, modalidades y condiciones de producción de dos universidades con dichas características; como también la formación de sus académicos, la cultura institucional y las redes sociales en las que participan. Se realizó un estudio cualitativo, que indagó las percepciones y opiniones de los actores involucrados. Como resultado de la investigación se han identificado ciertos factores clave que redundan en la calidad de la producción de conocimiento realizada

Autonomía universitaria e intervención política en la trayectoria de liderazgos y grupos académicos en Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata 1930-1955

Este trabajo estudia dos procesos relacionados en una institución universitaria. En la primera parte analiza las formas autónomas de organización institucional disciplinar producidas por profesores e investigadores del Instituto del Museo y Escuela Superior/Facultad de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata en el período 1935 y 1946. Y en la segunda parte estudia dos situaciones sociales -las intervenciones universitarias de los años 1946 y 1955- donde las políticas del Estado nacional produjeron cambios en las trayectorias de esos académicos. Exploraremos esas relaciones en los liderazgos y grupos académicos en geología, paleontología, zoología, botánica y antropología.

El exilio chileno : Río profundo de la cultura iberoamericana

El exilio chileno dio lugar a un fenómeno cultural de grandes proporciones y el confinamiento, con todas sus secuelas, inspiró un florecimiento extraordinario de las letras y las artes de vastas proyecciones, tanto así que despertó y sigue motivando el interés de estudiosos de diversas disciplinas. Entre los miles de chilenos que se repartieron por el mundo, un grupo, cualitativamente relevante, estuvo constituido por escritores, artistas plásticos, artesanos, músicos, gente de teatro y de cine, hombres de ciencia y académicos de las más variadas disciplinas. Grupos teatrales funcionaron en muchos países; y los conjuntos musicales chilenos recorrieron el mundo. Las exposiciones de pintores, fotógrafos, y escultores chilenos eran frecuentes en las más importantes ciudades americanas y europeas, a la vez que en el marco de casi todas las manifestaciones de solidaridad las artesanías, obras de artistas profesionales y ocasionales, eran puestas a la venta; muchos refugiados lograron sobrevivir del producto de este tipo de trabajo.

Entre lo global y lo local : La investigación educativa en dos Universidades no metropolitanas

En un contexto de heterogeneidad entre las universidades nacionales argentinas, en relación a la capacidad y las condiciones de producción de conocimiento en educación, y de una fuerte concentración de la producción y los recursos humanos en las zonas metropolitanas, este trabajo se propuso indagar las características de la actividad de investigación en educación en Universidades Nacionales de zonas no metropolitanas. Se han analizado las prácticas, modalidades y condiciones de producción de dos universidades con dichas características; como también la formación de sus académicos, la cultura institucional y las redes sociales en las que participan. Se realizó un estudio cualitativo, que indagó las percepciones y opiniones de los actores involucrados. Como resultado de la investigación se han identificado ciertos factores clave que redundan en la calidad de la producción de conocimiento realizada

Autonomía universitaria e intervención política en la trayectoria de liderazgos y grupos académicos en Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata 1930-1955

Este trabajo estudia dos procesos relacionados en una institución universitaria. En la primera parte analiza las formas autónomas de organización institucional disciplinar producidas por profesores e investigadores del Instituto del Museo y Escuela Superior/Facultad de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata en el período 1935 y 1946. Y en la segunda parte estudia dos situaciones sociales -las intervenciones universitarias de los años 1946 y 1955- donde las políticas del Estado nacional produjeron cambios en las trayectorias de esos académicos. Exploraremos esas relaciones en los liderazgos y grupos académicos en geología, paleontología, zoología, botánica y antropología.

El exilio chileno : Río profundo de la cultura iberoamericana

El exilio chileno dio lugar a un fenómeno cultural de grandes proporciones y el confinamiento, con todas sus secuelas, inspiró un florecimiento extraordinario de las letras y las artes de vastas proyecciones, tanto así que despertó y sigue motivando el interés de estudiosos de diversas disciplinas. Entre los miles de chilenos que se repartieron por el mundo, un grupo, cualitativamente relevante, estuvo constituido por escritores, artistas plásticos, artesanos, músicos, gente de teatro y de cine, hombres de ciencia y académicos de las más variadas disciplinas. Grupos teatrales funcionaron en muchos países; y los conjuntos musicales chilenos recorrieron el mundo. Las exposiciones de pintores, fotógrafos, y escultores chilenos eran frecuentes en las más importantes ciudades americanas y europeas, a la vez que en el marco de casi todas las manifestaciones de solidaridad las artesanías, obras de artistas profesionales y ocasionales, eran puestas a la venta; muchos refugiados lograron sobrevivir del producto de este tipo de trabajo.

Entre lo global y lo local : La investigación educativa en dos Universidades no metropolitanas

En un contexto de heterogeneidad entre las universidades nacionales argentinas, en relación a la capacidad y las condiciones de producción de conocimiento en educación, y de una fuerte concentración de la producción y los recursos humanos en las zonas metropolitanas, este trabajo se propuso indagar las características de la actividad de investigación en educación en Universidades Nacionales de zonas no metropolitanas. Se han analizado las prácticas, modalidades y condiciones de producción de dos universidades con dichas características; como también la formación de sus académicos, la cultura institucional y las redes sociales en las que participan. Se realizó un estudio cualitativo, que indagó las percepciones y opiniones de los actores involucrados. Como resultado de la investigación se han identificado ciertos factores clave que redundan en la calidad de la producción de conocimiento realizada

Chapter 4 A Review of the Availability of and Studies on Spatial Economic Data in Laos

Spatial data are being increasingly used in a wide range of disciplines, a fact that is clearly reflected in the recent trend to add spatial dimensions to the conventional social sciences. Economics is by no means an exception. On one hand, spatial data are indispensable to many branches of economics such as economic geography, new economic geography, or spatial economics. On the other hand, macroeconomic data are becoming available at more and more micro levels, so that academics and analysts take it for granted that they are available not only for an entire country, but also for more detailed levels (e.g. state, province, and even city). The term ‘spatial economics data’ as used in this report refers to any economic data that has spatial information attached. This spatial information can be the coordinates of a location at best or a less precise place name as is used to describe administrative units. Obviously, the latter cannot be used without a map of corresponding administrative units. Maps are therefore indispensible to the analysis of spatial economic data without absolute coordinates. The aim of this report is to review the availability of spatial economic data that pertains specifically to Laos and academic studies conducted on such data up to the present. In regards to the availability of spatial economic data, efforts have been made to identify not only data that has been made available as geographic information systems (GIS) data, but also those with sufficient place labels attached. The rest of the report is organized as follows. Section 2 reviews the maps available for Laos, both in hard copy and editable electronic formats. Section 3 summarizes the spatial economic data available for Laos at the present time, and Section 4 reviews and categorizes the many economic studies utilizing these spatial data. Section 5 give examples of some of the spatial industrial data collected for this research. Section 6 provides a summary of the findings and gives some indication of the direction of the final report due for completion in fiscal 2010.

Development and institutionalization of communitarian thought in Thailand

In Thailand, communitarian ideas have been widely accepted and even institutionalized as a principle of national development plans and the Constitution of Thailand. This paper examines how and why the communitarian body of thought, described as "community culture thought," and originally created and shared within a small circle of social activists and academics in the early 1980s, came to be disseminated and authorized in Thai society. Contributors and participants, ways of expression, and avenues for disseminating this paradigm are the main topics in this paper. The paper reveals that these thoughts and concepts have been diversified and used as guiding principles by state elites, anti-state activists, and social reformists since the late 1980s. These people with such different political ideologies were connected through some key individuals. These critical connections networked them onto the same side for promoting communitarian thought in Thailand. When such leading advocates assumed key political positions, it was easy for them to push communitarian ideas into the guidelines and principles of state administration.

Showing the Past: Integrating Cartographic Collections through Virtual Map Rooms

Spatial Data Infrastructures have become a methodological and technological benchmark enabling distributed access to historical-cartographic archives. However, it is essential to offer enhanced virtual tools that imitate the current processes and methodologies that are carried out by librarians, historians and academics in the existing map libraries around the world. These virtual processes must be supported by a generic framework for managing, querying, and accessing distributed georeferenced resources and other content types such as scientific data or information. The authors have designed and developed support tools to provide enriched browsing, measurement and geometrical analysis capabilities, and dynamical querying methods, based on SDI foundations. The DIGMAP engine and the IBERCARTO collection enable access to georeferenced historical-cartographical archives. Based on lessons learned from the CartoVIRTUAL and DynCoopNet projects, a generic service architecture scheme is proposed. This way, it is possible to achieve the integration of virtual map rooms and SDI technologies bringing support to researchers within the historical and social domains.

Is the concept of a green economy a useful way of framing Policy Discussions and policymaking to promote sustainable development?

In the Viewpoints section, academics, practitioners and experts share their perspectives on policy questions relevant to sustainable development. In this issue, experts address the question: “Is the concept of a green economy a useful way of framing policy discussions and policymaking to promote sustainable development?

Reaching the unreached: An initiative to bridge the gap between the gap by active role of management institutes/schools

There are large numbers of business communities in India which neither had any formal education nor they took any professional training but still they contribute in successful business formation. Their presence can be felt in all areas of business. Still there is a big professional gap between the educational institutes, specially the B-Schools and this independent business community. With the help of this paper an effort is made to develop a Two-Way learning relationship for the mutual benefit of both entities. It will also highlight the role of an educational institute beyond academics for the well being of society. This may lead to derive and develop the exchange of innovative business ideas and framing the suitable policies for long term sustainability in today´s competitive arena. The study conducted by researcher with a sample size of 100 which includes a mix of well known academic professionals, MBA students and non academic business professionals has revealed that there is a need of an exchange program for the mutual benefits. There exists a big professional gap in this area which can be filled with the active and effective initiative by management institutes. An effort is made in this paper to highlight this gap and to suggest some framework to bridge the gap

ICT: an empowering tool for social enterprises

In recent years new models for organizations working on poverty alleviation have emerged. One of them, the social enterprise, has attracted the attention of both academics and practitioners all over the world. Even if defined in different ways depending on the context, this model has an enormous potential to generate social benefits and to promote local agency and private initiative in poverty alleviation.

Characterization of ICT-based business models of social enterprises

In recent years new models for organizations working on overty alleviation have emerged. One of them, the social enterprise, has attracted the attention of both academics and practitioners all over the world. Even if defined in different ways depending on the context, social enterprise has an enormous potential to generate social benefits and to promote local agency and private initiative in poverty alleviation. In this sense, it is fitting to highlight the importance of identifying the main standards that permit the characterization of diverse social enterprises, in order to understand their main specificities and guarantee value generation for low-income populations. Another crucial factor is understanding innovation as a critical factor in promoting social enterprises. A powerful tool to enhance the impact and application of this model is Information and Communication Technologies. In the 21st century,these tools allow users to find new ways of collaboration, new sustainable business models and a cost-effective way of scaling-up initiatives. This paper, a product of the collaborative research between the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Universidade Federal Fluminense, examines different business models for social enterprises and the role that ICT can play in scale and impact of these initiatives

Measurements and Prediction of Pedestrian Walking Loads on an Aluminium Catwalk

During the last two decades the topic of human induced vibration has attracted a lot of attention among civil engineering practitioners and academics alike. Usually this type of problem may be encountered in pedestrian footbridges or floors of paperless offices. Slender designs are becoming increasingly popular, and as a consequence, the importance of paying attention to vibration serviceability also increases. This paper resumes the results obtained from measurements taken at different points of an aluminium catwalk which is 6 m in length by 0.6 m in width. Measurements were carried out when subjecting the structure to different actions:1)Static test: a steel cylinder of 35 kg was placed in the middle of the catwalk; 2)Dynamic test: this test consists of exciting the structure with singles impulses; 3)Dynamic test: people walking on the catwalk. Identification of the mechanical properties of the structure is an achievement of the paper. Indirect methods were used to estimate properties including the support stiffness, the beam bending stiffness, the mass of the structure (using Rayleigh method and iterative matrix method), the natural frequency (using the time domain and frequency domain analysis) and the damping ratio (by calculating the logarithmic decrement). Experimental results and numerical predictions for the response of an aluminium catwalk subjected to walking loads have been compared. The damping of this light weight structure depends on the amplitude of vibration which complicates the tuning of a structural model. In the light of the results obtained it seems that the used walking load model is not appropriate as the predicted transient vibration values (TTVs) are much higher than the measured ones.