De l'antropologia a l'educaci?? : una lectura des de Margaret Mead

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Archer Harman y el Ferrocarril del sur (Estudios)

Archer Harman fue el empresario que organizó la compañía norteamericana que construyó el Ferrocarril del Sur. A pesar de que existen numerosos informes oficiales y documentos sobre el ferrocarril en el Archivo Nacional de Historia en Quito y la Biblioteca Aurelio Espinosa Pólit en Cotocollao, no se encuentran datos sobre los antecedentes de Archer Harman antes de su llegada al Ecuador, en 1897, para conseguir la concesión para construir el ferrocarril de Guayaquil a Quito. El propósito de este estudio es reconstruir la vida de Archer Harman antes de su llegada al Ecuador en el año 1897 y explicar cómo formó la compañía que obtuvo el contrato del 14 de junio de 1897 para la construcción del ferrocarril.

Margaret River : making the most of every opportunity

Margaret River, WA is a community with a strong focus on youth, but it has not always been this way. The community went through a difficult period in the early 1990s, when intergenerational trust was low and youth engagement in the community declined. It was only after a concerted effort by schools and a community leadership committed to change that the situation was gradually reversed. The role of the school in facilitating this change is the focus of this case study.

Made in New Zealand: place and enchantment in Margaret Mahy's picture books

Margaret Mahy published over a hundred picture books from A Lion in the Meadow in 1969 to a cluster of posthumous texts. This article considers the extent to which Mahy’s picture books can be said to have been “made in New Zealand,” given that most have been illustrated by artists from other countries, particularly Britain. Mahy’s picture book narratives are, I argue, informed by values, assumptions and orientations toward the natural world which subtly but unmistakably locate protagonists in New Zealand, even when the books’ illustrations reflect British, American or Canadian geographic and cultural settings. In this sense Mahy’s picture books are transnational products, traversing national and cultural boundaries.