Work-life, diversity and intersectionality: a critical review and research agenda

Work-life issues have important implications at both organizational and individual levels. This paper provides a critical review of the work-life literature from 1990 onwards through the lens of diversity, with a particular focus on disparities of power induced by methodological and conceptual framings of work and life. The review seeks to answer the following questions: What are the gaps and omissions in the work-life research? How may they be overcome? To answer these questions, the review scrutinizes blind spots in the treatment of life, diversity and power in work-life research in both positivist and critical scholarship. In order to transcend the blind spots in positivist and critical work-life research, the review argues the case for an intersectional approach which captures the changing realities of family and workforce through the lens of diversity and intersectionality. The theoretical contribution is threefold: first, the review demonstrates that contemporary framing of life in the work-life literature should be expanded to cover aspects of life beyond domestic life. Second, the review explains why and how other strands of diversity than gender also manifest as salient causes of difference in experiences of the work-life interface. Third, the review reveals that social and historical context has more explanatory power in work-life dynamics than the micro-individual level of explanations. Work-life literature should capture the dynamism in these contexts. The paper also provides a set of useful recommendations to capture and operationalize methodological and theoretical changes required in the work-life literature

Análisis a las inteligencias múltiples del docente en función de sus estrategias de enseñanza

1 recurso en línea (172 páginas) : tablas, figuras.This research aimed at analyze the teacher’s Multiple Intelligences, the relationship with their thoughts and their strategic decision making in the classroom. Based on the great variety of research carried out worldwide since the publication Frames of Mind (Gardner, 1983), it has been widely discovered the relationship that the types of Intelligence have with the way of perceiving knowledge and comprehend it within the limits of the immediacy. Even so, the works that have been developed regarding the teacher’s cognitive profile and the connection of their work with their own perception of learning are still insufficient. This research was developed under the methodology of mixed approach with dominant status and sequential order quantitative → QUALITATIVE. The present work concludes that the teaching practice must start from the self-reflection as learning beings and the interferences that our cognitive profile have within our practice as teachers, necessary action to raise awareness of our teaching methods within the classroom.Esta investigación se orientó a analizar las Inteligencias Múltiples del maestro, la relación con sus pensamientos y su toma de decisiones estratégicas en el aula. A partir de la gran variedad de investigaciones desarrolladas mundialmente desde la publicación Estructuras de la Mente (Gardner, 1983), se ha descubierto ampliamente la relación que poseen los tipos de Inteligencia con la forma de percibir el conocimiento y de comprenderlo dentro de los límites de la inmediatez. Aun así, los trabajos que se han desarrollado respecto al perfil cognitivo del docente y la conexión de su labor con su propia percepción del aprendizaje resultan aún insuficientes. Esta investigación se desarrolló bajo la metodología de enfoque mixto con estatus dominante y de orden secuencial cuantitativo→ CUALITATIVO. El presente trabajo investigativo concluye que la labor docente debe partir de la autorreflexión como seres aprendientes y las injerencias que nuestro perfil cognoscente tienen dentro de nuestra práctica como maestros, acción necesaria para concientizar las formas de enseñanza dentro del aula.Bibliografía y webgrafía: páginas 156-163.MaestríaMagíster en Educació

Polyhydroxyalkanoate synthesis in transgenic plants as a new tool to study carbon flow through beta-oxidation.

Transgenic plants producing peroxisomal polyhydroxy- alkanoate (PHA) from intermediates of fatty acid degradation were used to study carbon flow through the beta-oxidation cycle. Growth of transgenic plants in media containing fatty acids conjugated to Tween detergents resulted in an increased accumulation of PHA and incorporation into the polyester of monomers derived from the beta-oxidation of these fatty acids. Tween-laurate was a stronger inducer of beta-oxidation, as measured by acyl-CoA oxidase activity, and a more potent modulator of PHA quantity and monomer composition than Tween-oleate. Plants co-expressing a peroxisomal PHA synthase with a capryl-acyl carrier protein thioesterase from Cuphea lanceolata produced eightfold more PHA compared to plants expressing only the PHA synthase. PHA produced in double transgenic plants contained mainly saturated monomers ranging from 6 to 10 carbons, indicating an enhanced flow of capric acid towards beta-oxidation. Together, these results support the hypothesis that plant cells have mechanisms which sense levels of free or esterified unusual fatty acids, resulting in changes in the activity of the beta-oxidation cycle as well as removal and degradation of these unusual fatty acids through beta-oxidation. Such enhanced flow of fatty acids through beta-oxidation can be utilized to modulate the amount and composition of PHA produced in transgenic plants. Furthermore, synthesis of PHAs in plants can be used as a new tool to study the quality and relative quantity of the carbon flow through beta-oxidation as well as to analyse the degradation pathway of unusual fatty acids

Integrating Civil Society and Economic Growth in Appalachia

Building from a framework that incorporates ideas from the civil society perspective into market-based sociological models of economic growth, this article examines the effects of three measures of civic engagement on measure of economic growth in Appalachian counties during the 1990-1995 period. The analysis shows that net of other market competition-based measures, civic engagement does have a net positive impact on economic growth (increases in private non-farm employment, private establishment, per capita income, earnings, etc.). The three measures of civic engagement are (1) percent of population in civically engaged denominations (1990), (2) number of national associations per capita (1990), (3) and number of third places per capita (1990). All three measures have significant positive effects in one or more models. Percent in civically engaged denominations has the most consistent effects. Implications are discussed. Copyright 2006 Blackwell Publishing.