Empirical Pilot study regarding social and cultural integration from a students' perspective in public Universities in Bolivia (La Paz) and the interpretation of complex conditions and perspective fields in the context of important national and global processes that represent the highlights in a "transformation country" based on the design of available transnational academic...
This article explains the current political process that Bolivia is going through. It has to be read from an innovative perspective that denies the existence of historical universal and eternal laws given by an Extra Human Being -God- or the nature, expressed by two promises: the promise of San Augustine and the modernity promises. It shows that, although it is possible to talk...
The topic we will reflect about was part of a doctoral thesis on the ways of presenting the migrant figure in three Argentinean newspapers (La Nación, Clarín y Página/12) during the period 1999-2007, and from then until now. Our research was focused in investigating associative strategies, images and nomination regarding the migration topic within an environment characterized by...
This essay addresses the construction of a migration imaginary and explains how this element becomes an important motivation for people that decide to leave their countries of origin. Analysing the experience of Bolivian migrants in Spain (phenomenology), and following a structural analysis of contents, it will be explained how a migration imaginary and the "Spanish dream" are...
Migration and human displacements have taken place throughout history. In former times they were mainly motivated by trade and war and in modern times by extreme poverty and climate change, among other reasons. In all population movements, humans have carried pathogens with them, taking them into new places and creating new disease foci. In Bolivia, both internal and external...
In the development of health policy, the educational dimension is prominent both in regard to the training of health workers and to the training of citizens and communities. However, as any educational project, it leaves out certain contents to privilege others, while building a certain way the phenomena associated to the mentioned problems -even, the same choice of factors such...
Migration represents an important part of human nature. It is a phenomenon that through the years, has adopted very complex ways. Direction of migrations has been determined by the need of adequate resources, tools and places for the development of human beings. However, in further phases, migrations were influenced by territorial expansion and also economic and political...
This paper aims at reflecting about the perception of teachers-understood as native Argentinean-regarding migration from the neighboring countries Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru. Also at discussing the role of the public school as an institution that should promote integration and equal treatment of students, but that in practice, shows traces of institutionalized racism. Through the...
The phenomenon of migrations is as ancient as the very existence of human beings on planet earth. Nonetheless, in recent decades, we can witness significant movements of people in almost any country of the world. Migration studies in our time thus constitute a topic that demands political and scientific attention, calling for the need to develop more in-depth research and a...
When Pizarro and his army carne closer, fearful and expectant, to the north coast of the actual Perú, they never imagined that their adventure could have as a principal ally a fratricidal confrontatíon between the throne inheritors of the Sons of the Sun: Huáscar and Atahuallpa. The large Inca Empire, that time ago saved and strengthened the great Pachacútec, would receive the...
The configuration of the human personality is unavoidably subjected to its immediate surrounding and to the context in which it exists. It always depends on physical, cognitive, affective and symbolic means of culture in order to build up itself. This way, cultural learning can define its adherence or exclusión to the culture itself. Analyzing different definitions of culture...
A rewarding dialogue between popular and traditional and institutíonal knowledge as well as researching and socializing mathematics criteria, concepts, traditions of our natíons and their cultures in order for them to become part of the theoretical and practical tasks represent pedagogic and practical essentíal actívitíes. Textbooks, among other optíons of this nature, allow our...
This arricie primarily exposes the historie structure of the civic education, highlighting its functional nature, which served to the interest of the hegemonic block of power. This way, it is explained how the civic education is constituted as a one of the most important tools to keep classist economic, political and social economic systems. Another of the highlighted topics is...
This arricie reflects on tensions and complexitíes related to the concept of Vivir Bien, it goes over the trends from which it gets nourished and the conceptualization, emphasizing its political and cultural validity in countries going through political and social transformations, specifically Ecuador and Bolivia. The author highlights the existing paradoxes about this topic...
Interculturality has been favoured within the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela as an essential precept of recognition of the otherness concept. For this reason, it is necessary to know and valué ecological knowledge and linguistic, social, territorial and cultural specificities that, for ages, indigenous cultures have developed in order to establish a balanced...
The Amerindian communities have lived through a series of colonization in the different historie episodes, which have subjugated their understanding of complexity and imposed uniformity on them. The most evident forms of colonizad onhave beenreligious and cultural; nevertheless, with the latter also carne a technological colonization that captured achievements of the knowledge...
In the context of socio-cultural diversity and the narratives about the interculturality and knowledge dialogues, it is indispensable to re-think a pedagogy that potentializes said processes. The arricie thus suggests a vulnerable pedagogy, an adjective that acknowledges the vulnerability of human existence and its knowledge. This recognitíon explodes in the reflexibility of...
The wealth of information and knowledge in all scientific and technological áreas has increased exponentially since the end of the last century. We can add to this the riches of the ancestral and popular knowledge, which have recently gained new significance in our societies thanks to the battles the indigenous people fought during the past years and the spaces that were...
This essay questions the monopoly of western science with respect to knowledge and assumes the necessity to re-encounter and re-affirm the presence of other knowledge systems, consolidating the interculturality of the pluralistic world. We thus posit the necessity of a knowledge dialogue that permits for the necessary plurality of beliefs and values, expressing respect for and...
When Pizarro and his army carne closer, fearful and expectant, to the north coast of the actual Perú, they never imagined that their adventure could have as a principal ally a fratricidal confrontatíon between the throne inheritors of the Sons of the Sun: Huáscar and Atahuallpa. The large Inca Empire, that time ago saved and strengthened the great Pachacútec, would receive the...
The configuration of the human personality is unavoidably subjected to its immediate surrounding and to the context in which it exists. It always depends on physical, cognitive, affective and symbolic means of culture in order to build up itself. This way, cultural learning can define its adherence or exclusión to the culture itself. Analyzing different definitions of culture...
A rewarding dialogue between popular and traditional and institutíonal knowledge as well as researching and socializing mathematics criteria, concepts, traditions of our natíons and their cultures in order for them to become part of the theoretical and practical tasks represent pedagogic and practical essentíal actívitíes. Textbooks, among other optíons of this nature, allow our...
This arricie primarily exposes the historie structure of the civic education, highlighting its functional nature, which served to the interest of the hegemonic block of power. This way, it is explained how the civic education is constituted as a one of the most important tools to keep classist economic, political and social economic systems. Another of the highlighted topics is...
This arricie reflects on tensions and complexitíes related to the concept of Vivir Bien, it goes over the trends from which it gets nourished and the conceptualization, emphasizing its political and cultural validity in countries going through political and social transformations, specifically Ecuador and Bolivia. The author highlights the existing paradoxes about this topic...