The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy : Global Perspectives

The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity. Presenting a global set of case studies that span five continents and 22 cities, the essays in this book advance our understanding of how the dynamic interplay between economic and political context, institutional arrangements, and social networks affect urban cultural policy-making and the ways that these policies impact urban development and influence urban governance. The volume comparatively studies urban cultural policy-making in a diverse set of contexts, analyzes the positive and negative outcomes of policy for different constituencies, and identifies the most effective policy directions, emerging political challenges, and most promising opportunities for building effective cultural policy coalitions. The volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the political process of urban cultural policy and urban development studies around the world. It will be of interest to students and researchers interested in urban planning, urban studies and cultural studies.

El arte en un kindergarten.

El arte en educación infantil se refiere a los procesos implicados en las actividades de artes visuales, música, movimiento y danza, teatro y literatura que se desarrollan dentro del currículo para esa etapa. En lo que se denomina 'ámbito artístico' o 'estético creativo' de cada proyecto educativo se persigue, como fín último, que a través de la integración de sentimientos, pensamientos, percepciones y acciones artísticas, el pequeño tome conciencia de los procesos creativos, los aprecie y participe en ellos como medio para alcanzar el provecho y la satisfacción personal. La etapa de los 0 a los 6 años es sensible para proveer de una formación artística que ayude a desarrollar capacidades y a adquirir competencias que permitan apreciar y disfrutar del arte, ser más creativo o expresarse a través de él. El arte orienta y favorece las inteligencias múltiples del niño: sus habilidades especiales a través del dibujo y la escultura, las logicomatemáticas con la interpretación y la audición de música, las físicas por medio de la danza y las interpersonales a través del teatro .

Effective assertive behavior in the workplace: Responding to unfair criticism

A social rules perspective was employed to identify the elements of socially appropriate responses to unfair criticism in the workplace. Women generally endorsed for themselves response strategies based on stronger obligation and softer rights components, while men endorsed responses based on stronger personal rights expression and weaker obligation components. In support of the utility of a social rules approach to operationalizing context-specific expectations, behavioral responses based on gender and status-specific rules were evaluated as more effective on task, relationship, and self-respect dimensions than were rights-only, rights-plus-empathy, or submissive strategies. Results are discussed in terms of the development of a context-specific model of interpersonal competence and implications for interpersonal skills and assertion training.