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Colombia’s headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred—products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in one—the ideal and the real—summed up in the idiomatic expression, not unique to Colombia, but particularly popular there, "Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa" (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez deemed Colombians capable of both the most noble acts and the most abject ones, in a world where it seems anyone might do anything, from the beautiful to the horrendous.The Persistence of Violence draws on those contradictions and paradoxes to look at how violence—and resistance to it—characterize Colombian popular culture, from football to soap opera to journalism to tourism to the environment.
En las últimas tres décadas asistimos a cambios profundos en las experiencias infantiles que se expresan en los cuerpos, lenguajes e interacciones de los niños y niñas. Aunque algunos expertos plantean que estas transformaciones obedecen al fin de la infancia como consecuencia de la crisis de la familia y el declive de la escuela, este libro se analiza esas mutaciones socioculturales a partir de problemáticas estructurales que incluyen: la presencia de políticas de Estado en contextos de neoliberalismo y precariedad, la redefinición de las relaciones intergeneracionales, la variabilidad cultural en tiempos de globalización, la existencia de conflictos sociales, la persistencia de lógicas patriarcales y heteronormativas, y la cultura digital. Aunque las posturas son diversas, todas se ubican en los estudios de infancia, un campo interdisciplinario que asume a los niños y niñas como actores sociales.
Los diferentes capítulos compilados en el libro Problemas contemporáneos en la niñez y la juventud permiten comprender los efectos del entorno en la vida del ser humano en desarrollo, y constituir un referente valioso para investigadores y profesionales de la psicología y la educación. Lo anterior debido a que la mayoría de los profesionales que se desempeñan en instituciones dedicadas al trabajo directo con niños y jóvenes cuentan con escasa formación en investigación, aunque son ellos quienes están al frente de los procesos de intervención. Los autores de cada capítulo asumen análisis empíricos, comprensiones e interpretaciones que ratifican a niños y jóvenes como sujetos de derechos, quienes demandan ser pensados desde las ciencias sociales y humanas. De esta manera, el libro representa un esfuerzo investigativo mediante el uso de metodologías cuantitativas y cualitativas que abarcan perspectivas desde lo psicosocial y lo socioeducativo como ejes temáticos. Esto con el fin de visibilizar y tensionar el papel de la psicología y la educación en el desarrollo integral de niños y jóvenes en escenarios como la familia, la escuela y la comunidad.
Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus instead on the specificities of history, place, and population as explanations for it. Violence engages these issues in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary form, examining definitions and data, psychology and ideology, gender, nation-states, and the media by covering several foundational questions: how has violence been defined, historically and geographically? has it decreased or increased over time? which regions of the world are the most violent? does violence correlate with economies, political systems, and religions? what is the relationship of gender and violence? what role do the media play? This book is a powerful introduction to the study of violence, ideal for students and researchers across the human sciences, most notably sociology, American and area studies, history, media and communication studies, politics, literature, and cultural studies.
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters-organized under four headings-offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break the traditional mold of teacher education.
Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply—and the quality of parenting suffers—when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the constant changes as children develop can tax parents' inner resources, often undoing the best intentions and parenting courses. Mindful Parenting: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners offers an evidence-based, eight week structured mindfulness training program for parents with lasting benefits for parents and their children. Designed for use in mental health contexts, its methods are effective whether parents or childr...
The ITERS-R is a thorough revision of the widely used program quality assessment instrument, The Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale. Designed for use in center-based child care programs for infants and toddlers up to 30 months of age, the ITERS-R can be used by program directors for supervision and program improvement, by teaching staff for self-assessment, by agency staff for monitoring, and in teacher training programs. The established reliability and validity of the scale make it particularly useful for research and program evaluation. Book jacket.
Now the basis for the acclaimed film Memories of My Father, directed by Fernando Trueba. "An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." —El País Héctor Abad's Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history.
In this follow-up to the popular What Works in Schools, Robert J. Marzano discusses the research-based strategies that every teacher can use to effectively manage the classroom and help students take responsibility for their own behavior.
The Classic Edition of Promoting Positive Parenting illuminates the widespread success of the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD), now used in many countries, offering thousands of families the support they need to thrive. A new preface from the authors reflects on the original research and development of the program, considers its effectiveness, and outlines future aims to broaden implementation and test new modalities. The original volume offers a new generation of students and professionals an introduction to the brief and focused parenting intervention program that has been successful in a variety of clinical and nonclinical groups...