Evaluaci?n de una secuencia did?ctica para la ense?anza de la pronunciaci?n del franc?s como lengua extranjera en el colegio Jorge Isaacs "INEM" de la ciudad de Cali [recurso electr?nico]

Esta investigaci?n surge en el marco de la pr?ctica docente realizada para optar al t?tulo de Licenciada en lenguas extranjeras, en la Universidad del Valle. Dicha instituci?n permiti? un acercamiento al colegio INEM de la ciudad de Cali, con el fin de apoyar como ?docente practicante? la clase de franc?s en los grupos de grado d?cimo, que hac?an parte de la modalidad de idiomas del colegio .As?, se evidenci? que las actividades propuestas para la ense?anza del Franc?s como lengua extranjera (FLE) requer?an de un mayor ?nfasis en los ejercicios que destacaran el desarrollo de las competencias ling??sticas1 en el aula. La presente investigaci?n muestra el dise?o, implementaci?n y evaluaci?n de una secuencia did?ctica para fomentar el desarrollo de la pronunciaci?n de FLE en el aula. El trabajo se realiz? en dos etapas: la primera, de observaci?n y ayudant?a, permiti? evidenciar el desconocimiento de algunos sonidos del franc?s por parte de los estudiantes; la segunda, de dise?o e implementaci?n de la propuesta did?ctica, demostr? el desarrollo de la competencia ling??stica en los estudiantes, por medio de la pronunciaci?n correcta de algunos fonemas que representaban dificultad en los principiantes. Dada la complejidad fon?tica de la lengua francesa, es indispensable que los profesores de franc?s dise?en programas de ense?anza y aprendizaje que contribuyan a desarrollar Efectivamente las competencias ling??sticas de los estudiantes de bachillerato sin descuidar los aspectos fon?ticos fundamentales del FLE. Es, pues, ?se el enfoque que este trabajo propone en tanto que fruto de la investigaci?n orientada a la acci?n2 en el aula con estudiantes de d?cimo grado de un colegio p?blico de Cali.

Renate Knobel: Der lange Weg zur akademischen Ausbildung in der sozialen Arbeit. Stationen von 1868 bis 1971. Frankfurt a. M., Deutscher Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge, 1992. Besprechungen. [...] [Sammelrezension]

Sammelrezension von: 1. Renate Knobel: Der lange Weg zur akademischen Ausbildung in der sozialen Arbeit. Stationen von 1868 bis 1971. Frankfurt a. M., Deutscher Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge, 1992. Besprechungen, 105 S. 2. Ute Lange-Appel: Von der allgemeinen Kulturaufgabe zur Berufskarriere im Lebenslauf. Eine bildungshistorische Untersuchung zur Professionalisierung der Sozialarbeit. (Studien zur Erwachsenenbildung. Bd. 11.) Frankfurt a.M./Bern: Lang 1993. 354 S.

Acta de instalación de la Universidad de Cuenca en el aula magna del seminario el 1o de enero de 1868

Edición conmemorativa, primer centenario

Reseña del libro: “Carillo: en una época y un hombre, 1835-1842, de Clotilde M. Obregón”

ResumenA través de su historia republicana, Costa Rica ha tenido en la primera magistratura, ciudadanos de diversos talante. Algunos de ellos inadvertidos, ya que su obra de gobierno fue poco trascendente. No es este el caso de Braulio Carrillo Colina, dos veces Jefe de Estado y quien gravitó con enorme peso en la vida política nacional entre los años de 1835, cuando asume por primera vez la jefatura de Gobierno, y 1842 cuando es obligado a vivir en el exilio en el cual muere tres años después

¿Anarquistas, ambientalistas o revolucionarios? La conflictividad rural en Chalco. San Francisco Acuautla contra Zoquiapa, 1850-1868

Resumen El artículo pretende determinar el peso de lo material y lo cultural como factores fundamentales del levantamiento rural en la región de Chalco, México. Entre 1760 y 1920 se producen una serie de cambios en la estructura económica y social de esa región que revelan la ofensiva de la hacienda comercial en detrimento de los recursos comunales de los pueblos. Esto genera una serie de conflictos agrarios de los cuales este artículo analiza uno, el de 1868, ya que su análisis permite considerar y discutir la naturaleza esencial del movimiento social, ponderando el componente anarquista con la dimensión ambientalista del mismo. El autor se encuentra un discurso reivindicativo de los recursos naturales que considera ?ambientalista? por ser una defensa del modo de vida de los pueblos y no sólo de un recurso ?ambiental?, mismo que inserta en la reflexión global sobre la encrucijada entre conflicto y negociación en la región de Chalco. Abstract This essay analyzes material and cultural explanations of rural rebellions in Chalco, Mexico between 1760 and 1920. In that period, several social and economic changes took place which reveal the consolidation of the commercial hacienda against pueblos communal resources. This situation produced several agrarian conflicts; this paper analyses one of those conflicts: that of 1868. The study of that conflict discloses the composition of the rural movement in its anarchist and environmental dimensions. This paper argues that the pueblos defended their natural resources and consequently their way of life by using an ?environmentalist? discourse. Such a discourse was inserted at a crossroads of conflict and negotiation in Chalco.

Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnologies, New Media and Ethics

What are the ethical and political implications when the very foundations of life —things of awe and spiritual significance — are translated into products accessible to few people? This book critically analyses this historic recontextualisation. Through mediation — when meaning moves ‘from one text to another, from one discourse to another’ — biotechnology is transformed into analysable data and into public discourses. The unique book links biotechnology with media and citizenship. As with any ‘commodity’, biological products have been commodified. Because enormous speculative investment rests on this, risk will be understated and benefit will be overstated. Benefits will be unfairly distributed. Already, the bioprospecting of Southern megadiverse nations, legally sanctioned by U.S. property rights conventions, has led to wealth and health benefits in the North. Crucial to this development are biotechnological discourses that shift meanings from a “language of life” into technocratic discourses, infused with neo-liberal economic assumptions that promise progress and benefits for all. Crucial in this is the mass media’s representation of biotechnology for an audience with poor scientific literacy. Yet, even apparently benign biotechnology spawned by the Human Genome Project such as prenatal screening has eugenic possibilities, and genetic codes for illness are eagerly sought by insurance companies seeking to exclude certain people. These issues raise important questions about a citizenship that is founded on moral responsibility for the wellbeing of society now and into the future. After all, biotechnology is very much concerned with the essence of life itself. This book provides a space for alternative and dissident voices beyond the hype that surrounds biotechnology.

Human cortical processing of colour and pattern

Investigated human visual processing of simple two-colour patterns using a delayed match to sample paradigm with positron emission tomography (PET). This study is unique in that the authors specifically designed the visual stimuli to be the same for both pattern and colour recognition with all patterns being abstract shapes not easily verbally coded composed of two-colour combinations. The authors did this to explore those brain regions required for both colour and pattern processing and to separate those areas of activation required for one or the other. 10 right-handed male volunteers aged 18–35 yrs were recruited. The authors found that both tasks activated similar occipital regions, the major difference being more extensive activation in pattern recognition. A right-sided network that involved the inferior parietal lobule, the head of the caudate nucleus, and the pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus was common to both paradigms. Pattern recognition also activated the left temporal pole and right lateral orbital gyrus, whereas colour recognition activated the left fusiform gyrus and several right frontal regions.

The influence of oblique viewing on axial and peripheral refraction for emmetropes and myopes

Refraction may be affected by the forces of lids and extraocular muscles when eye direction and head direction are not aligned (oblique viewing) which might potentially influence past findings on peripheral refraction of the eye. We investigated the effect of oblique viewing on axial and peripheral refraction. In a first experiment, cycloplegic axial refractions were determined when subjects' heads were positioned to look straight-ahead through an open-view autorefractor and when the heads were rotated to the right or left by 30° with compensatory eye rotation (oblique viewing). Subjects were 16 young emmetropes (18–35 years), 22 young myopes (19–36 years) and 15 old emmetropes (45–60 years). In a second experiment, cycloplegic peripheral refraction measurements were taken out to ±34° horizontally from fixation while the subjects rotated their heads to match the peripheral refraction angles (eye in primary position with respect to the head) or the eyes were rotated with respect to the head (oblique viewing). Subjects were 10 emmetropes and 10 myopes. We did not find any significant changes in axial or peripheral refraction upon oblique viewing for any of the subject groups. In general for the range of horizontal angles used, it is not critical whether or not the eye is rotated with respect to the head during axial or peripheral refraction.

The paradox of transparency : short-termism and the institutionalisation of Australian capital markets

As the ultimate corporate decision-makers, directors have an impact on the investment time horizons of the corporations they govern. How they make investment decisions has been profoundly influenced by the expansion of the investment chain and the increasing concentration of share ownership in institutional hands. By examining agency in light of legal theory, we highlight that the board is in fact sui generis and not an agent of shareholders. Consequently, transparency can lead to directors being 'captured' by institutional investor objectives and timeframes, potentially to the detriment of the corporation as a whole. The counter-intuitive conclusion is that transparency may, under certain conditions, undermine good corporate governance and lead to excessive short-termism.

Discount rates in disarray : evidence on flawed goodwill impairment testing

Carlin and Finch, this issue, compare goodwill impairment discount rates used by a sample of large Australian firms with ‘independently’ generated discount rates. Their objective is to empirically determine whether managers opportunistically select goodwill discount rates subsequent to the 2005 introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Australia. This is a worthwhile objective given that IFRS introduced an impairment regime, and within this regime, discount rate selection plays a key role in goodwill valuation decisions. It is also timely to consider the goodwill valuation issue. Following the recent downturn in the economy, there is a high probability that many firms will be forced to write down impaired goodwill arising from boom period acquisitions. Hence, evidence of bias in rate selection is likely to be of major concern to investors, policymakers and corporate regulators. Carlin and Finch claim their findings provide evidence of such bias. In this commentary I review the validity of their claims.

Short-termism : challenges and resolutions

The global financial crisis has highlighted the vulnerability of our economy to systemic risks. While its causes are numerous and relate to complex problems deeply embedded in capital markets, ‘short-termism’ (excessive focus on short-term outcomes at the expense of long-term wealth creation and sustainability) has frequently been flagged as a major contributor to this crisis. Although short-termism is not new, the global financial crisis has highlighted the presence of short-termism among institutional investors, and the failure of global markets and regulators to deal with such perverse and destructive behaviour (Guyatt 2009). Solutions are clearly needed. Although there is a body of research that provides evidence of the presence of short-termism in capital markets and the consequences of short-term decision-making on the financial wellbeing of both individuals and organisations, there is no consensus on mitigating solutions to short-termism. What emerges from the literature is the need to take a broad interdisciplinary perspective in seeking solutions to the problem.

Isaac's Numbers

Short story published in the Queensland University of Technology Student Anthology, Isaac’s Numbers: New Writing from QUT, 2008.

Pre-service teacher education and the development of middle school teacher identity : an exploratory study

This research study investigated the factors that influenced the development of teacher identity in a small cohort of mature-aged graduate pre-service teachers over the course of a one-year Graduate Diploma program (Middle Years). It sought to illuminate the social and relational dynamics of these pre-service teachers’ experiences as they began new ways of being and learning during a newly introduced one-year Graduate Diploma program. A relational-ontological perspective underpinned the relational-cultural framework that was applied in a workshop program as an integral part of this research. A relational-ontological perspective suggests that the development of teacher identity is to be construed more as an ontological process than an epistemological one. Its focus is more on questions surrounding the person and their ‘becoming’ a teacher than about the knowledge they have or will come to have. Hence, drawing on work by researchers such as Alsup (2006), Gilligan, (1982), Isaacs, (2007), Miller (1976), Noddings, (2005), Stout (2001), and Taylor, (1989), teacher identity was defined as an individual pre-service teacher’s unique sense of self as a teacher that included his or her beliefs about teaching and learning (Alsup, 2006; Stout, 2001; Walkington, 2005). Case-study was the preferred methodology within which this research project was framed, and narrative research was used as a method to document the way teacher identity was shaped and negotiated in discursive environments such as teacher education programs, prior experiences, classroom settings and the practicum. The data that was collected included student narratives, student email written reflections, and focus group dialogue. The narrative approach applied in this research context provided the depth of data needed to understand the nature of the mature-aged pre-service teachers’ emerging teacher identities and experiences in the graduate diploma program. Findings indicated that most of the mature-aged graduate pre-service teachers came in to the one-year graduate diploma program with a strong sense of personal and professional selves and well-established reasons why they had chosen to teach Middle Years. Their choice of program involved an expectation of support and welcome to a middle-school community and culture. Two critical issues that emerged from the pre-service teachers’ narratives were the importance they placed on the human support including the affirmation of themselves and their emerging teacher identities. Evidence from this study suggests that the lack of recognition of preservice teachers’ personal and professional selves during the graduate diploma program inhibited the development of a positive middle-school teacher identity. However, a workshop program developed for the participants in this research and addressing a range of practical concerns to beginning teachers offered them a space where they felt both a sense of belonging to a community and where their thoughts and beliefs were recognized and valued. Thus, the workshops provided participants with the positive social and relational dynamics necessary to support them in their developing teacher identities. The overall findings of this research study strongly indicate a need for a relational support structure based on a relational-ontological perspective to be built into the overall course structure of Graduate Pre-service Diplomas in Education to support the development of teacher identity. Such a support structure acknowledges that the pre-service teacher’s learning and formation is socially embedded, relational, and a continual, lifelong process.