Clarificación de valores en estudiantes de 9° de educación básica. Una experiencia desde la investigación acción participante (IAP)

Este texto se presentó como comunicación al II Congreso Internacional de Etnografía y Educación: Migraciones y Ciudadanías. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 5-8 Septiembre 2008La formación ética y moral del estudiantado es sin duda un compromiso de la educación formal y un deber insoslayable de todo docente. Autores como Payá (1999) sostienen que la educación no es neutra, que educar significa educar en valores. En los últimos años la información sobre educación en valores se ha difundido ampliamente y a todos los niveles. Este proceso implica, además de un período de sensibilización, la puesta en práctica de una serie de metodologías destinadas a facilitar la educación en valores en los distintos niveles del quehacer educativo. Una de las más utilizadas es el Método de Clarificación de Valores, razón por la cual se abordó la presente investigación en el proceso educativo de estudiantes de 9º de educación básica desde la experiencia de investigación acción participante (IAP). El tipo de investigación utilizado fue la etnografía, mediante el diseño metodológico de Investigación Acción Participativa. La información ha sido recogida a través de entrevistas, observación, registro descriptivo y diario de campo. Los insumos se analizaron mediante la técnica de la triangulación, obteniendo resultados que permiten concluir la necesidad de efectuar el proceso educativo centrado en valores, donde los alumnos desarrollen y practiquen los valores que regirán su vida; la apreciación de una actitud reflexiva por parte de los involucrados, durante y después de las actividades desarrolladas así como la adquisición de una herramienta para el abordaje de nuevos valores. Adicionalmente a esta conclusión se resalta el papel que juegan los docentes de todo nivel para la supervivencia de valores cónsonos con el desarrollo de la humanidad, serán ellos lo protagonistas y deberán asumir implícitamente las relaciones simbióticas entre el hombre, sociedad, tecnología, conocimiento y naturaleza y trasladarlas hacia el joven estudiante, se trata de crear a unos jóvenes capaces de resistir la barbarie que ha traído la modernización y con ella el cambio de la escala de los valores de los ciudadanos, en tanto el rol de las instituciones educativas debe estar dirigido hacia la promoción de experiencias significativas que conduzcan a la formación de un ser humano capaz de desarrollarse en la sociedad en la cual estamos inmersos y que de una manera crítica, practique como norma de vida la libertad, la tolerancia, la honestidad, el compañerismo, la cooperación y la justicia, ya que la clave del éxito está en crear una dinámica donde se desarrollen los valores

Evaluating leadership's approach to implementing organizational change across the Naval Aviation Enterprise with a focus on the development of Fleet Readiness Centers

MBA Professional ReportNAVAIR is currently realigning its Aviation Maintenance infrastructure to fall under the overarching umbrella of the newly minted Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE). This realignment will call for a new enterprise-wide strategy and structure. Hierarchies and relationships are being redefined throughout the enterprise resulting in entirely new organizational structures functionally equivalent to industryb2ss small business units. This realignment will result in the elimination of Intermediate level maintenance as it exists today and presents a myriad of challenges to the Fleet in the terms of achieving business efficiencies and employee relationship management. This MBA Project evaluates, by survey, how effectively the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps have managed the change effort as they continue to realign their Intermediate and Depot level units under the new FRC construct.http://archive.org/details/evaluatingleader1094510097US Navy (USN) authorApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

ELBOW FLEXOR MUSCLE FUNCTION AND UPPER ARM GIRTH FOLLOWING CONCURRENT STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE TRAINING IN NON RESISTANCETRAINED FEMALES

The study investigated the effects of eight weeks of concurrent muscular strength and endurance resistance training of the non-dominant elbow flexors on muscular strength, endurance, and upper arm girths of previously non resistance-trained females. Subjects (n=12) were assigned to one of 3 training groups. These groups were Strength (S), Endurance (E), or Combined (C) with pre and post-training tests for arm girths, 1 RM preacher curl, maximal isometric torque, peak isokinetic torque at velocities of 30 and 90" s-', and total work during 25 continuous repetitions at 90"s.'. Significant increases in prepost strength and endurance occurred in both C and S groups, but not E, in the absence of any change in arm girth. Furthermore, C training produced equivalent gains in strength and endurance to the S and E groups, respectively

Disassembly of interchromatin granule clusters alters the coordination of transcription and pre-mRNA splicing

To examine the involvement of interchromatin granule clusters (IGCs) in transcription and pre-mRNA splicing in mammalian cell nuclei, the serine-arginine (SR) protein kinase cdc2-like kinase (Clk)/STY was used as a tool to manipulate IGC integrity in vivo. Both immunofluorescence and transmission electron microscopy analyses of cells overexpressing Clk/STY indicate that IGC components are completely redistributed to a diffuse nuclear localization, leaving no residual structure. Conversely, overexpression of a catalytically inactive mutant, Clk/STY(K190R), causes retention of hypophosphorylated SR proteins in nuclear speckles. Our data suggest that the protein-protein interactions responsible for the clustering of interchromatin granules are disrupted when SR proteins are hyperphosphorylated and stabilized when SR proteins are hypophosphorylated. Interestingly, cells without intact IGCs continue to synthesize nascent transcripts. However, both the accumulation of splicing factors at sites of pre-mRNA synthesis as well as pre-mRNA splicing are dramatically reduced, demonstrating that IGC disassembly perturbs coordination between transcription and pre-mRNA splicing in mammalian cell nuclei

Molecules in the transition disk orbiting T Cha

We seek to establish the presence and properties of gas in the circumstellar disk orbiting T Cha, a nearby (d~110 pc), relatively evolved (age ~5-7 Myr) yet actively accreting 1.5 Msun T Tauri star. We used the APEX 12 m radiotelescope to search for submillimeter molecular emission from the T Cha disk, and we reanalyzed archival XMM-Newton spectroscopy of T Cha to ascertain the intervening absorption due to disk gas along the line of sight to the star (N_H). We detected submillimeter rotational transitions of 12CO, 13CO, HCN, CN and HCO+ from the T Cha disk. The 12CO line appears to display a double-peaked line profile indicative of Keplerian rotation. Analysis of the CO emission line data indicates that the disk around T Cha has a mass (M_disk,H_2 = 80 M_earth) similar to, but more compact (R_disk, CO~80 AU) than, other nearby, evolved molecular disks (e.g. V4046 Sgr, TW Hya, MP Mus) in which cold molecular gas has been previously detected. The HCO+/13CO and HCN/13CO, line ratios measured for T Cha appear similar to those of other evolved circumstellar disks (i.e. TW Hya and V4046 Sgr), while the CN/13CO ratio appears somewhat weaker. Analysis of the XMM-Newton data shows that the atomic absorption $N_H$ toward T Cha is 1-2 orders of magnitude larger than toward the other nearby T Tauri with evolved disks. Furthermore, the ratio between atomic absorption and optical extinction N_H/A_V toward T Cha is higher than the typical value observed for the interstellar medium and young stellar objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster. This may suggest that the fraction of metals in the disk gas is higher than in the interstellar medium. Our results confirm that pre-main sequence stars older than ~5 Myr, when accreting, retain cold molecular disks, and that those relatively evolved disks display similar physical and chemical properties.Comment: Accepted for publication on A&

High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) studies on meat components: potentialities and prospects

In recent years, increasing application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in the study of the agricultur- al food products has been remarked, thanks to the advantages of this technique over other conventional analytical tech- niques. This preliminary work presents, for the first time, the application of an innovative NMR technique, the proton high resolution magic angle spinning (1H HR-MAS), for studying meat features. It stresses that this method makes it pos- sible to acquire qualitative and quantitative information about chemical composition, both quickly and without any par- ticular preparation of the sample to be analysed. Finally, the study highlights the potentiality of this method in defining the origin of meat and the possibility of identifying meat adulteration