Comunidades interculturales y democráticas

Comunidades interculturales y democráticas
Author: Andrés Escarbajal Frutos
Publisher: Narcea Ediciones
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2016-06-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 8427721706

El libro aborda una educación intercultural progresista y crítica que no está en contra de la eficacia ni de la excelencia, pero que no quiere conseguirlas a costa de cualquier consecuencia negativa en la formación integral del alumno como ciudadano democrático y comunitario. Propone una educación intercultural como renovación cultural, como perspectiva de un nuevo humanismo, pero sobre todo como un esperanzador camino hacia la inclusión; más aún en estos momentos en los que, siendo verdad que la interculturalidad representa un cambio positivo y una riqueza para todos, la experiencia cotidiana se resiste a dar cabida a grupos minoritarios que son víctimas de prejuicios, racismo, intolerancia y otros ataques contra la dignidad humana. En el núcleo del libro se plantea que hablar de la construcción de comunidades interculturales sin tener en cuenta la práctica democrática y la participación ciudadana es un grave error. Para evitarlo, la colaboración entre la comunidad y los centros educativos es fundamental.

Handbook of Research on Promoting Social Justice for Immigrants and Refugees Through Active Citizenship and Intercultural Education

Handbook of Research on Promoting Social Justice for Immigrants and Refugees Through Active Citizenship and Intercultural Education
Author: Barreto, Isabel María Gómez
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2021-06-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799872858

Migration movements have been a constant in the societies of the past, as well as in postmodern society. However, in the past ten years, the increase in political, economic, and religious conflict amongst nations; the increase of the poverty index; and many and various natural disasters have duplicated the forced displacement of millions of people across the seven continents of the planet. This situation brings important challenges in terms of the vulnerability, inequity, and discrimination that certain peoples suffer. Professionals from the fields of the social sciences, education, psychology, and international law share the fact that education represents an opportunity for children and young migrants to become members with full rights in the societies they arrive in. Empirical studies show that that the implementation of the right to education for migrants presents some challenges and dilemmas to the governments of host countries and more specifically to the education centers, NGOs, universities, and the professionals working in them, hence the need for more research on these issues of immigration, refugees, social justice, and intercultural education. The Handbook of Research on Promoting Social Justice for Immigrants and Refugees Through Active Citizenship and Intercultural Education provides visibility to issues such as the increase in migration and displacement and the difficulties in political agreements, educational contexts, and in cultural issues, stigmatization, vulnerability, social exclusion, racism, and hatred amongst host communities. This book gives possible solutions to this current complex situation and helps foster and promote sensitivity, perspective, and critical thinking for a respectful and tolerant coexistence and promotion of equity and social justice. The chapters promote cultural diversity and inclusion in classrooms by offering knowledge, strategies, and research on organizational development for educational institutions and multicultural environments. This book is essential for administrators, policymakers, leaders, teachers, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the promotion of social justice in education for immigrants and refugees.

Research, Teaching and Actions in Higher Education on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Research, Teaching and Actions in Higher Education on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Author: María Alcantud Díaz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-10-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1527576612

The UN is currently focused on monitoring and improving learning outcomes and people who are generally excluded from education. Indeed, in its Agenda 2030, higher education forms an important part of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to poverty, hunger, health, education and gender equality. This volume brings together contributions that provide research and teaching experiences, as well as reflections on actions taken in higher education institutes, associated with these SDGs.

Latin America's Pink Tide

Latin America's Pink Tide
Author: Steve Ellner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2019-10-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538125641

This timely book analyzes the governing experiences of the nine major pro-leftist governments in Latin America. The individual country case study chapters are preceded by chapters that frame the discussion by considering the theoretical implications of the Pink Tide experience relating to globalization, the state, and neo-extractivism. The contributors examine the Pink Tide policies and rhetoric that gained widespread approval and led to the long tenure of many of these governments. These included ambitious social programs, prioritizing the needs of the poor, nationalistic foreign policy, economic nationalism, and asserting control of strategic sectors of the economy. The book continues by taking a critical look at policies that have contributed to recent setbacks, acknowledging the inability of progressive governments to overcome embedded structures holding back economic development. One such setback has come from the opposition—often supported by powerful foreign actors—pressuring the government into making concessions and carrying out policies that ultimately undermined economic and political stability. The contributors critically examine these policies, which were politically successful in the short run but eventually backfired in the form of corruption, bureaucratic waste, and economic sluggishness. With its balanced and thorough assessment, this book will provide readers with a deep and nuanced understanding of the complexity of the political, economic, and sociocultural reality of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.

Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia

Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia
Author: Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496201701

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún-INAH Award in Mexico for Best Research Work in Anthropology Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal examines the political dimension of indigenous media production and distribution as a means by which indigenous organizations articulate new claims on national politics in Bolivia, a country experiencing one of the most notable cases of social mobilization and indigenous-based constitutional transformation in contemporary Latin America. Based on fieldwork in Bolivia from 2005 to 2007, Zamorano Villarreal details how grassroots indigenous media production has been instrumental to indigenous political demands for a Constituent Assembly and for implementing the new constitution within Evo Morales's controversial administration. On a day-to-day basis, Zamorano Villarreal witnessed the myriad processes by which Bolivia's indigenous peoples craft images of political struggle and enfranchisement to produce films about their role in Bolivian society. Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia contributes a wholly new and original perspective on indigenous media worlds in Bolivia: the collaborative and decolonizing authorship of indigenous media against the neoliberal multicultural state, and its key role in reimagining national politics. Zamorano Villarreal unravels the negotiations among indigenous media makers about how to fairly depict a gender, territorial, or justice conflict in their films to promote grassroots understanding of indigenous peoples in Bolivia's multicultural society.

Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization

Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization
Author: Eija Ranta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2018-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351719343

Presenting an ethnographic account of the emergence and application of critical political alternatives in the Global South, this book analyses the opportunities and challenges of decolonizing and transforming a modern, hierarchical and globally-immersed nation-state on the basis of indigenous terminologies. Alternative development paradigms that represent values including justice, pluralism, democracy and a sustainable relationship to nature tend to emerge in response to – and often opposed to – the neoliberal globalization. Through a focus on the empirical case of the notion of Vivir Bien (‘Living Well’) as a critical cultural and ecological paradigm, Ranta demonstrates how indigeneity – indigenous peoples’ discourses, cultural ideas and worldviews – has become such a denominator in the construction of local political and policy alternatives. More widely, the author seeks to map conditions for, and the challenges of, radical political projects that aim to counteract neoliberal globalization and Western hegemony in defining development. This book will appeal to critical academic scholars, development practitioners and social activists aiming to come to grips with the complexity of processes of progressive social change in our contemporary global world.

The Promise and Perils of Populism

The Promise and Perils of Populism
Author: Carlos de la Torre
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2014-12-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0813146879

The O.J. Simpson trial. The Lindbergh kidnapping. The death of Marilyn Monroe. The assassination of the Romanovs. The Atlanta child murders. All controversial cases. All investigated with the latest techniques in forensic science. Nationally respected investigators Joe Nickell and John Fischer explain the science behind the criminal investigations that have captured the nation's attention. Crime Science is the only comprehensive guide to forensics. Without being overly technical or treating scientific techniques superficially, the authors introduce readers to the work of firearms experts, document examiners, fingerprint technicians, medical examiners, and forensic anthropologists. Each topic is treated in a separate chapter, in a clear and understandable style. Nickell and Fisher describe fingerprint classification and autopsies, explain how fibers link victims to their killers, and examine the science underlying DNA profiling and toxicological analysis. From weapons analysis to handwriting samples to shoe and tire impressions, Crime Science outlines the indispensable tools and techniques that investigators use to make sense of a crime scene. Each chapter closes with a study of a well-known case, revealing how the principles of forensic science work in practice.

Inclusion without Representation in Latin America

Inclusion without Representation in Latin America
Author: Mala Htun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2016-01-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0521870569

This book analyzes how Latin American countries modified their institutions to promote the inclusion of women, Afrodescendants, and indigenous peoples.

@CIBERANIMACIÓN

@CIBERANIMACIÓN
Author: Mario Viché González
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2013-07-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1291518703

El texto recoge la tesis doctoral que con el título de Ciberanimación. La animación sociocultural en la Sociedad Digital, el autor defendió en la UNED. El texto define y claririfica esta práctica social propia de las representaciones identitarias de la Sociedad Digital.