Transformative Learning Through Cultural Immersion

This qualitative study explored avenues to increase students’ intercultural competence through transformative learning. School of Education graduate students and faculty from a small, private university traveled to Ecuador to participate in a cultural immersion practicum. In addition to these primary goals, the trip was designed to facilitate transformative learning about cultural conceptions, diversity, and the dynamics of student differences with the goal of understanding one’s own cultural framework and adapting to another culture to develop empathy towards culturally and linguistically diverse students in the United States

\u3cem\u3eRhizobium phaseoli\u3c/em\u3e Symbiotic Mutants with Transposon Tn5 Insertions

Rhizobium phaseoli CFN42 DNA was mutated by random insertion of Tn5 from suicide plasmid pJB4JI to obtain independently arising strains that were defective in symbiosis with Phaseolus vulgaris but grew normally outside the plant. When these mutants were incubated with the plant, one did not initiate visible nodule tissue (Nod-), seven led to slow nodule development (Ndv), and two led to superficially normal early nodule development but lacked symbiotic nitrogenase activity (Sna-). The Nod- mutant lacked the large transmissible indigenous plasmid pCFN42d that has homology to Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogenase (nif) genes. The other mutants had normal plasmid content. In the two Sna- mutants and one Ndv mutant, Tn5 had inserted into plasmid pCFN42d outside the region of nif homology. The insertions of the other Ndv mutants were apparently in the chromosome. They were not in plasmids detected on agarose gels, and, in contrast to insertions on indigenous plasmids, they were transmitted in crosses to wild-type strain CFN42 at the same frequency as auxotrophic markers and with the same enhancement of transmission by conjugation plasmid R68.45. In these Ndv mutants the Tn5 insertions were the same as or very closely linked to mutations causing the Ndv phenotype. However, in two mutants with Tn5 insertions on plasmid pCFN42d, an additional mutation on the same plasmid, rather than Tn5, was responsible for the Sna- or Ndv phenotype. When plasmid pJB4JI was transferred to two other R. phaseoli strains, analysis of symbiotic mutants was complicated by Tn5-containing deleted forms of pJB4JI that were stably maintained

Preparing Teacher Candidates to Serve Students From Diverse Backgrounds: Triggering Transformative Learning Through Short-Term Cultural Immersion

This study followed 24 teacher candidates in a short-term cultural immersion field experience designed to help them reflect on their assumptions and perspectives in order to better understand the culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse students they will teach. Qualitative methods were informed by a phenomenological research approach to examine candidates’ transformative learning experiences in a cultural immersion context. The findings are discussed within a three-stage framework of transformative learning: triggering experiences, frame of reference examination, and transformative change

Proyecto de producción y exportación de dulce de membrillo a inmigrantes ecuatorianos que residen en la ciudad de nueva york, estados unidos

Project Production and Export of Sweet Quince aims to reach the market for Ecuadorian migrants residing in the New York City. The market strategy is to appeal to the sentiment of the Ecuadorian immigrants, who yearn to enjoy its typical products of Ecuador. Through market research, it was determined that there is a high degree of acceptance of the product. About 90% of respondents, who have already tried sweet quince, are willing to buy the product. 16% of people who consume traditional sweets Ecuadorians in New York City, they qualify sweet quince as your preference. Regarding the Technical Study emphasizes that the project does not require a large investment in terms of investment in equipment and physical works, which becomes attractive relative to the project. In the Financial Study two scenarios were developed, one with a debt of 40% debt and 60% equity and the other method under 100% of equity. In both cash flows the NPV is a positive value and the IRR is higher than TMAR, making the project profitable

Autonomy, Good Humor and Support Networks, Potential of Community Resilience Intervention in People Victims of the Earthquake in the Calderón Parish

Resilience is a concept widely used in recent years, especially when it comes to evaluating the level of recovery of communities that are hit by natural phenomena. It can be stated that conceptually resilience constitutes the ability to react effectively and quickly to the effects of disasters, being a complex phenomenon to evaluate and define. And although the level of resilience does not necessarily imply greater control of vulnerability, it can be affirmed that the reduction of vulnerable conditions can strengthen and consolidate the resilient capacity of individuals and communities, in the face of the effects of natural disasters

Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions of Debriefing Circles to Facilitate Self-Reflection During a Cultural Immersion Experience

This study followed 9 teacher candidates through a 3-week cultural immersion experience in which they volunteered in educational settings where they were not members of the majority culture. This learning experience was designed to help candidates better understand their culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse future students. A qualitative design with an ethnographic approach was used to explore the use of debriefing circles, based on Parker Palmer’s clearness committee structure. Debriefing circles were examined as a tool to facilitate self-reflection as a scaffold toward culturally responsive teaching. Candidate perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the debriefing-circle discussion framework are analyzed

Explanation and Elaboration Document for the STROBE-Vet Statement: Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology—Veterinary Extension

The STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) statement was first published in 2007 and again in 2014. The purpose of the original STROBE was to provide guidance for authors, reviewers and editors to improve the comprehensiveness of reporting; however, STROBE has a unique focus on observational studies. Although much of the guidance provided by the original STROBE document is directly applicable, it was deemed useful to map those statements to veterinary concepts, provide veterinary examples and highlight unique aspects of reporting in veterinary observational studies. Here, we present the examples and explanations for the checklist items included in the STROBE-Vet Statement. Thus, this is a companion document to the STROBE-Vet Statement Methods and process document, which describes the checklist and how it was developed

Estimation of Resilience in University Students

The objective of the work is to estimate the resilience level of university students for future resilience interventions. The paper presents a conceptual analysis of the term resilience, based on the criteria of contemporary authors framed in two generations. The methods and techniques used in the work are exposed, where two tools for measuring resilience are highlighted. The importance of the study of resilience in the university environment is discussed and the statistical and graphical results related to the application of the aforementioned instruments are shown in terms of measuring the resilience level in the university students of seven faculties of the Technical University of Manabí

Introducción al desarrollo local sustentable

La Primera Unidad ofrece un panorama de las visiones convencionales del desarrollo, desde su origen, en la segunda posguerra, hasta su crisis, en los años setenta del siglo XX. Desde el contexto social y político en el que surgió hasta los deslizamientos conceptuales nacidos del intenso debate intelectual que propició. La Segunda Unidad se dedica a examinar el surgimiento, los logros y los vacíos de una palabra que terminó por imponerse como un calificativo necesario del desarrollo: el adjetivo sustentable. Prácticamente ninguna agencia definanciamiento internacional y ningún gobierno deja de invocar el desarrollo sustentable en sus intervenciones. Un aprecio tan ecuménico debe llamar a la curiosidad. ¿Qué significa ahora y qué significó en el pasado? Aunque es reconocido que este concepto tiene múltiples dimensiones, el texto de la segunda Unidad enfatiza la dimensión ambiental, precisamente aquella desde la que surgió. La Unidad está dedicada a mostrar un panorama general de los ciclos y las leyes físicas dentro de las cuales la sociedad debe desenvolverse y que convencionalmente ha ignorado. Termina con una muy breve panorámica de la crisis ambiental en Ecuador. La Tercera Unidad hace una introducción al desarrollo local. La intención general de esta Unidad es reflexionar sobre las implicaciones de localizar territorialmente las políticas y los procesos de desarrollo. Por un lado, la forma en que la fase actual de integración económica mundial, la globalización, transforma y conforma las localidades. Por otro lado, la forma en que la acción de los actores locales, en cada contexto particular y local, es capaz de participar en la configuración final de los resultados del desarrollo.Presentación 9; Introducción general 11; Unidad Uno: Visiones del desarrollo 13; Unidad Dos: Las dimensiones del desarrollo sustentable 51; Unidad Tres: El desarrollo local 113; Sistematización del las Experiencias Desarrollo Local y Manejo de Recursos Naturales en el Ecuador 143; Bibliografía 189; Anexo 19