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Una serie de trabajos sustentados en la investigación psicológica, la investigación educativa, la reflexión filosófica, psicoanalítica, literaria y otros marcos afines de conocimiento que en sus nexos con lo educativo contribuyen a entenderlo, con el fin de que sean sus posibles lectores quienes se planteen qué es lo que desde dichos ámbitos de estudio se ha conseguido aportar para enriquecer tanto a la comprensión como a la práctica del fenómeno educativo. En tal sentido, el libro que presentamos recopila doce trabajos, algunos de ellos resultado de la investigación empírica y otros más derivados de la reflexión teórica, pero que en su conjunto representan una oportunidad para explorar el ámbito de la educación. No nos resta sino señalar que este libro se suma a muchos otros diseñados para dar la palabra al investigador y al profesor rescatando desde esa palabra un saber pedagógico que es importante y valioso para construir un mayor conocimiento del campo educativo y en aquellos campos con los que la educación hace frontera.
The current "generalized digitization" of society is influencing the health environment, healthcare organizations as well as actors. In this context, human and social sciences deconstruct, nuance and sometimes even challenge certain preconceived ideas and/or dominant discourses. In this book, researchers of four nationalities and three different disciplines have agreed to open the "black box" of their work. They display their scientific practices from the perspective of epistemology, ethics and methodology. They present and analyze their values and postulates but, also, what may have influenced the project, the definition of the object and objectives, as well as their approaches. In a contex...
L’actuelle « numérisation généralisée » de la société influence les organisations de santé, leurs acteurs et leurs pratiques. Dans ce contexte, les sciences humaines et sociales déconstruisent, nuancent et parfois remettent en cause certaines idées préconçues et/ou discours dominants. Dans cet ouvrage, des chercheurs de quatre nationalités et de trois disciplines différentes (sciences de l’information et de la communication, sociologie et psychologie) ont accepté d’ouvrir la « boîte noire » de leurs travaux. Ils exposent leurs pratiques scientifiques et apportent un regard réflexif sur ce qui a pu influencer le projet, la définition de l’objet et des objectifs, ou encore l’approche des phénomènes. Après une présentation de certains des changements liés à la santé en contexte numérique, deux espaces de réflexion sont ouverts : l’un sur l’éthique et la déontologie, l’autre sur les méthodes. Les pratiques de recherche sur la santé en contexte numérique s’adresse aussi bien aux chercheurs et étudiants de troisième cycle en sciences humaines et sociales qu’aux praticiens de la santé.
Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis: Loss, Mourning, and the Feminine uses contemporary psychoanalytic views to resituate women as desiring subjects within the psychoanalytic narrative. Contributors to this edited collection explore the various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in diverse societies and cultures in order to reconstruct the role of women in modern psychoanalysis. They raise questions about the status of women in culture and society and contend with themes that psychoanalysts have associated with women since the late nineteenth century, such as loss and mourning, femininity and motherhood, and desire and sexuality. This book is recommended for students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, cultural studies, literature, and philosophy.
This volume provides a comprehensive review of the essentials of the Therapeutic Community (TC) theory and its practical "whole person" approach to the treatment of substance abuse disorders and related problems. Part I outlines the perspective of the traditional views of the substance abuse disorder, the substance abuser, and the basic components of this approach. Part II explains the organizational structure of the TC, its work components, and the role of residents and staff. The chapters in Part III describe the essential activities of TC life that relate most directly to the recovery process and the goals of rehabilitation. The final part outlines how individuals change in the TC behaviorally, cognitively, and emotionally. This is an invaluable resource for all addictions professionals and students.
This book is about some topical philosophical and methodological prob lems that arise in the study of behavior and mind, as well as in the treatment of behavioral and mental disorders. It deals with such questions as 'What is behavior a manifestation of?', 'What is mind, and how is it related to matter?', 'Which are the positive legacies, if any, of the major psychological schools?', 'How can behavior and mind best be studied?', and 'Which are the most effective ways of modifying behavioral and mental processes?' These questions and their kin cannot be avoided in the long run because they fuel the daily search for better hypotheses, experimental designs, techniques, and treatments. They also occur in the critical examination of data and theories, as well as methods for the treatment of behavioral and mental disorders. All students of human or animal, normal or abnormal behavior and mind, whether their main concern is basic or applied, theoretical or em pirical, admit more or less tacitly to a large number of general philosophi cal and methodological principles.
River Restoration River restoration initiatives are now widespread across the world. The research efforts undertaken to support them are increasingly interdisciplinary, focusing on ecological, chemical, physical as well as societal issues. River Restoration: Political, Social, and Economic Perspectives provides a comprehensive overview of research in the field of river restoration in humanities and the social sciences. It illustrates how, in the last thirty years or so, such approaches have evolved and strengthened within the restoration sciences. The scientific community working in this domain has structured itself, often regionally and circumstantially, to critically assess and improve res...
Psychological tests provide reliable and objective standards by which individuals can be evaluated in education and employment. Therefore accurate judgements must depend on the reliability and quality of the tests themselves. Originally published in 1986, this handbook by an internationally acknowledged expert provided an introductory and comprehensive treatment of the business of constructing good tests. Paul Kline shows how to construct a test and then to check that it is working well. Covering most kinds of tests, including computer presented tests of the time, Rasch scaling and tailored testing, this title offers: a clear introduction to this complex field; a glossary of specialist terms...
The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viability of a river. In recent years, however, scientific research has underscored the idea that the ecological health of a river system depends not on a minimum amount of water at any one time but on the naturally variable quantity and timing of flows throughout the year. In Rivers for Life, leading water experts Sandra Postel and Brian Richter explain why restoring and preserving more natural river flows are key to sustaining freshwater biodiversity and healthy river systems, and describe innovative policies, scientific approaches, and man...