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Los estudios internacionales ponen de manifiesto que un buen liderazgo es un factor determinante de la calidad de la educación y dentro de todos los factores internos de la escuela, después de la labor del profesorado en el aula, el liderazgo de la dirección es el segundo factor que contribuye a lo que aprende el alumnado, explicando alrededor de un 25 por ciento de todos los efectos escolares. Transitar de un liderazgo burocrático a otro pedagógico, distribuido y estratégico, es un proceso complejo pero urgente, a la vez que un gran reto para nuestro sistema educativo, puesto que en el año 2020 nuevos saberes, nuevos agentes, nuevas demandas sociales habrán modificado sustancialmente el horizonte educativo. La respuesta creativa a estas múltiples demandas requiere un liderazgo transformador en nuestras escuelas y en nuestro sistema educativo. Este volumen trata de abordar el liderazgo para el aprendizaje: una dirección que centra su acción en la calidad de la enseñanza ofrecida y los resultados del aprendizaje alcanzados por el alumnado.
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In nowadays aging society, many people require mobility assistance. Sometimes, assistive devices need a certain degree of autonomy when users' disabilities difficult manual control. However, clinicians report that excessive assistance may lead to loss of residual skills and frustration. Shared control focuses on deciding when users need help and providing it. Collaborative control aims at giving just the right amount of help in a transparent, seamless way. This book presents the collaborative control paradigm. User performance may be indicative of physical/cognitive condition, so it is used to decide how much help is needed. Besides, collaborative control integrates machine and user commands so that people contribute to self-motion at all times. Collaborative control was extensively tested for 3 years using a robotized wheelchair at a rehabilitation hospital in Rome with volunteer inpatients presenting different disabilities, ranging from mild to severe. We also present a taxonomy of common metrics for wheelchair navigation and tests are evaluated accordingly. Obtained results are coherent both from a quantitative and qualitative point of view.
Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, was born in Spain in 1710, but when he was twenty-one, his parents sent him to live with an uncle in New Spain to assume control of the family's businesses. Edith Couturier uses Regla's career to address the growing social tensions of the eighteenth century in New Spain.
This book provides a concise introduction to and overview of the growing discipline and practice of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). If you are intrigued by the prospect of mobilizing rapid, positive change with multiple stakeholders in a human system that is important to you, this book is for you.