Papel reproductivo y productivo de las mujeres esclavas en Costa Rica en el siglo XVIII

ResumenEste trabajo trata sobre la explotación sexual y económica que enfrentaron las mujeres esclavas en la provincia de Costa Rica durante el siglo XVIII. De ahí que se estudia su papel como reproductoras de mano de obra revisando la legislación emitida a este respecto. Así mismo se analiza su rol como productoras de riqueza examinando las diferentes funciones económicas que cumplieron, como mano de obra y mercancía. Además se hace referencia a los castigos a que fueron sometidas, a las enfermedades que sufrieron y a algunas de sus estrategias de resistencia ante la explotación y abuso de que fueron objeto.AbstractThis article is about the sexual and economic exploitation that female slaves faced in the province of Costa Rica during the eighteenth century. It studies their role as reproducers of slave labor reviewing the colonial legislation in this respect. It also analyzes their role as wealth producers examining the different economic functions that they fulfilled as labor force and merchandise. In addition it refers to the punishments, to the diseases suffered by these slave women, and to some of their strategies to survive the abuse and exploitation they faced

Análisis de necesidades educativas curriculares en la educación primaria dirigida a niños (as) nicaragüenses migrantes en Costa Rica

The intention of the article is to announce the needs of a curriculum Identified in the Nicaraguan migrant children that study at the rural primary school “Los Angeles” in the location of Los Chiles Costa Rica. They actually are in an exclusion, discrimination and indifference situation from the local institutions. There are strong obstacles for the effective learning and development of positive attitudes, lack of responsible participation of the educative community; the methodological procedure used at the classrooms and the curricular adjustment at the pedagogical official model from Costa Rica, divorced those, from the sociocultural conditions of the children, their families and the rural community where they live. This situation affects the children motivation, for not achieve educational goals, the few that register at primary school doesn´t end it and those that complete it have academic difficulties to enter at high school. The time has come for the educational systems from both countries –Nicaragua and Costa Rica– to consider joint educational strategies that can give an answer to the educational curricular needs that the Nicaraguan migrant children presents at the rural schools in Costa Rica.