Divulgar la ciencia: ¿una obligación del profesor universitario?

Divulgar la ciencia: ¿una obligación del profesor universitario?
Author: Vicente Roca Velasco
Publisher: Aula Magna Proyecto clave McGraw Hill
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2022-11-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 8419187860

En un mundo tan interconectado donde la información fluye en todos los sentidos y a velocidad casi instantánea, el conocimiento de los avances científicos debe asimismo expandirse para la formación de una cultura de la racionalidad que legitime una opinión pública debidamente informada. En este contexto la obra argumenta acerca de la pertinencia de que la divulgación deba ocupar un papel esencial en la actividad universitaria. Desde esta perspectiva, se desgrana la actividad divulgativa que de la biología ha hecho su autor a lo largo de su trayectoria académica como profesor de la Universidad de Valencia. Tomando como base los conocimientos en materias generales y específicas que han ocupado buena parte de su trayectoria docente e investigadora, el autor se adentra a explicar sus experiencias escritas, orales y de gestión que han devenido en materias de divulgación biológica. Encontraremos artículos que tratan aspectos de la biología de los parásitos y de sus reptiles hospedadores y otros que abordan temas más generales como el cambio climático o la manipulación genética. Además, y a través de conferencias de divulgación, nos introduciremos en el mundo de la conservación animal y de la historia de la biología y de la evolución animal.

International Building Code 2006

International Building Code 2006
Author: International Code Council
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Building
ISBN: 9781580012508

Provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage that establishes minimum regulations for building systems using prescriptive and performance-related provisions.

Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities

Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities
Author: Walter Leal Filho
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2014-10-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319088378

This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fast growing field. Thousands of universities across the world have signed declarations or have committed themselves to integrate the principles of sustainable development in their activities: teaching, research and extension, and many more will follow.

Child Friendly Schools Manual

Child Friendly Schools Manual
Author:
Publisher: UNICEF
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9280643762

This Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) Manual was developed during three-and-a-half years of continuous work, involving the United Nations Children's Fund education staff and specialists from partner agencies working on quality education. It benefits from fieldwork in 155 countries and territories, evaluations carried out by the Regional Offices and desk reviews conducted by headquarters in New York. The manual is a part of a total resource package that includes an e-learning package for capacity-building in the use of CFS models and a collection of field case studies to illustrate the state of the art in child-friendly schools in a variety of settings.

Resonant Violence

Resonant Violence
Author: Kerry Whigham
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2022-02-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1978825579

From the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.

Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation

Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation
Author: Barbara J. Lausche
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011
Genre: Law
ISBN: 2831712459

The central aim of this publication is to consider the key elements of a modern, comprehensive, and effective legal framework for successful management of protected areas. They provide practical guidance for all those involved in developing, improving, or reviewing national legislation on protected areas, be they legal drafters and practitioners, protected area managers, interested NGOs, or scholars. These guidelines include fifteen case studies, eight dealing with the protected area legislation of individual countries and six cases dealing with specific sites providing fundamental solutions that stand the test of time.

World Anthropologies

World Anthropologies
Author: Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-07-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000184498

Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.

Empirical Research in Education

Empirical Research in Education
Author: Gilbert de Landsheere
Publisher: Paris, France : Unesco
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1982
Genre: Education
ISBN:

IBE-UNESCO pub. Report evaluating recent trends in educational research and experimental schooling - examines historical and theoretical aspects of empirical research, considers the role of cultural factors in the learning process, aspects of curriculum development, and attainment appraisal, discusses various research projects, and includes a directory of research centres. Diagrams and references.

Land Tenure and Rural Development

Land Tenure and Rural Development
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: FAO
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This publication deals with key issues in land tenure, especially as they relate to food insecurity and rural development situations. Land tenure issues are frequently ignored in rural development interventions, with often long-lasting, negative results. This guide is designed to assist technical officers in governments and civil society in understanding why and how land tenure issues should be considered in rural development projects. It analyses important contexts such as environmental degradation, gender discrimination, and conflicts, where land tenure is currently of critical concern.