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Geographical Reasoning and Learning
This book presents the distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches in geography education in South America and more specifically in Brazil, Chile and Colombia. It highlights cartography and maps as essential tools and provides a meaningful approach to learning in geographical education, thereby giving children and young people the opportunity to better understand their situations, contexts and social conditions. The book describes how South American countries organize their scholar curriculum and the ways in which they deal with geography vocabulary and developing fundamental concepts, methodologies, epistemological comprehension on categories, keywords and themes in geography. It also describes its use in teachers’ practices and learning progressions, the use of spatial representations as a potent mean to visualize and solve questions, and harnesses spatial thinking and geographical reasoning development. The book helps to improve teaching and learning practices in primary and secondary education and as such it provides an interesting read for researchers, students, and teachers of geography and social studies.
El presupuesto participativo
Luego de más de una década de la implementación del presupuesto participativo en Medellín, consideramos pertinente una revisión de algunos de sus logros y desaciertos, enriquecida con el contraste que ofrecen experiencias internacionales como las de puerto alegre, en Brasil. La plata, en argentina y san juan en puerto rico. Hacemos entonces un balance de este mecanismo de participación ciudadana, establecemos sus relaciones con el sistema de controles a la administración pública, revisamos la literatura sobre el tema generado en Medellín, exploramos como fue la transferencia de esta política a la ciudad, y la presentamos en sus luces y sombras, contradicciones y posibilidades. Esperamos así aportar a la comunidad académica, a las organizaciones no gubernamentales y a los policy marker elementos de análisis que permitan alimentar el debate en torno al presupuesto participativo como un instrumento relevante para encontrar soluciones concertadas a los problemas públicos locales, la construcción de ciudadanía y el ejercicio democrático
Tejer redes para la apropiación social de conocimiento
El libro constituye un escenario de diálogo e intercambio de saberes, concepciones, experiencias y formas operativas para dinamizar la esencia, el debate conceptual y la evidencia empírica en materia de apropiación social de conocimiento (ASC).
Cuaderno urbano 18 - Espacio, cultura, sociedad
Cuaderno urbano es una publicación científica con arbitraje internacional dirigida a la difusión de artículos y ensayos que se ocupan desde las disciplinas científicas a la cuestión urbana -en el sentido más amplio del término-, combinando trabajos de caracteres empíricos, teóricos y ensayísticos que den cuenta de problemáticas locales, regionales y universales. La intención de la publicación es favorecer y promover la generación de ensayos y artículos de jóvenes investigadores con las reglas del arbitraje científico, colaborando en la producción editorial de sus ideas; como también divulgar el aporte de científicos ya consagrados en su especialidad disciplinar. Proponem...
Política pública en bibliotecas
La evaluación de las políticas públicas y programas sobre las bibliotecas en Colombia se ha realizado con un perfil cuantitativo (mediante índices, estadísticas, proyecciones, etc.), lo que impide apreciar en toda su dimensión el impacto de estas en los sujetos y en la sociedad.
Tango Lessons
From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors—including specialists in dance, music, anthropology, linguistics, literature, film, and fine art—take up a broad range of topics. Among these are the productive tensions between tradition and experimentation in tango nuevo, representations of tango in film and contemporary art, and the role of tango in the imagination of Jorge Luis Borges. Taken together, the essays show that tango provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Contributors. Esteban Buch, Oscar Conde, Antonio Gómez, Morgan James Luker, Carolyn Merritt, Marilyn G. Miller, Fernando Rosenberg, Alejandro Susti
Beach Management Tools - Concepts, Methodologies and Case Studies
This book provides an overview of beach management tools, including carrying capacity, beach nourishment, environmental and tourism awards (like Blue Flag or others), bathing water quality, zoning, beach typologies, quality index, user's perception, interdisciplinary beach monitoring, coastal legislation, shore protection, social and economic indicators, ecosystem services, and coastal governance (applied in beach case studies). Beaches are one of the most intensely used coastal ecosystems and are responsible for more than half of all global tourism revenues, and as such the book introduces a wide range of state-of-the-art tools that can be used to deal with a variety of beach challenges. Each chapter features specific types of tools that can be applied to advantage in beach management practices. With examples of local and regional case studies from around the globe, this is a valuable resource for anyone involved in beach management.
A Decade after the Global Recession
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the 2009 global recession. Most emerging market and developing economies weathered the global recession relatively well, in part by using the sizable fiscal and monetary policy ammunition accumulated during prior years of strong growth. However, their growth prospects have weakened since then, and many now have less policy space. This study provides the first comprehensive stocktaking of the past decade from the perspective of emerging market and developing economies. Many of these economies have now become more vulnerable to economic shocks. The study discusses lessons from the global recession and policy options for these economies to strengthen growth and prepare for the possibility of another global downturn.
The Political Economy of Mexico's Financial Reform
This title was first published in 2001. An analysis of the political economy of Mexico's financial reform. It is organized in three parts. The first part - chapters one to four - develops the framework, both historical and institutional. The first chapter outlines the theoretical discussion on state autonomy and develops a simple analytical framework to study public policy decisions. The subsequent three chapters address three main themes: external dependency of domestic states on international capital, political change under President Carlos Salinas and financial policy in Mexico. The second part presents the analysis of three main institutional changes to the financial system - development banking reform, commercial banking privatisation and autonomy of the central bank. Each specific case study shows how the reforms conformed to the ideas of the dominant consensus on economic policy and how they delivered an inefficient incentive structure. The third part - chapter eight - brings together all the elements to explain Mexico's 1994 financial crisis.
