Life histories retold: reconceptualization of school biographies of trainee teachers

Hay docentes que dejan en sus alumnos marcas profundas que perduran en el tiempo y que luego se manifiestan de diferentes maneras. Se trata de trazas dibujadas por experiencias que conmueven y perduran, que hacen que el alumno se retire de la clase pensando y sintiendo; nos referimos a las huellas que deja aquella práctica docente aggiornada, compleja y reflexiva, que va más allá de simplemente ofrecer un conjunto de hechos, datos y conceptos ya que tienen un entramado subyacente que les da sentido (Maggio, 2012). El presente artículo se desprende de una investigación de corte cualitativo que adopta un enfoque interpretativo, entendido como un proceso de comprensión de los significados cercanos de los propios actores involucrando también la construcción de una lectura constante e integrando los detalles inmediatos con la teoría relevada. Para explorar las huellas docentes en toda su variedad y complejidad, se adopta una perspectiva narrativa, que nos brinda una forma de co-construir la realidad abordándola desde diferentes planos. De esta manera, y mediante el análisis de los textos de campo la narrativa ofrece una particular reconstrucción de la experiencia, a partir de un proceso reflexivo que resignifica lo sucedido o vivido buscando responder el principal interrogante que motivó la investigación: ¿cuáles son aquellas enseñanzas que han dejado su traza en la construcción del perfil profesional de los alumnos del Profesorado de Inglés de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)?There are teachers who leave in their students deep marks that reveal themselves in different ways and last over time. These are traces drawn by experiences that move and last, that make the student leave the class thinking and feeling; we are referring to those traces left by updated, complex and reflective teaching practice, which goes beyond the simple fact of offering data and content as they have an underlying framework that gives them meaning (Maggio, 2012). This article follows a qualitative research that adopts an interpretative approach, perceived as a process of understanding the close meanings of the actors themselves, also involving the construction of a constant reading and integrating the immediate details with the relieved theory. To explore the teachers traces in all their variety and complexity, a narrative inquiry perspective is adopted, which gives us a way to co-construct reality by addressing it from different levels. In this way, and through the analysis of field texts, narrative inquiry offers a particular reconstruction of the experience, from a reflective process that resignifies what happened or was lived seeking answers to the main questions that motivated the research: which are those teachings experiences? who have left their trace in the construction of the professional profile of the students of the English Teaching Education Program of the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP)?Fil: Brandan, Silvia Antonia. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Humanidades. Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias en Educación; ArgentinaFil: Porta Vazquez, Luis Gabriel. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Humanidades. Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias en Educación; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata; Argentin

Translation, Minority and National Identity. The Translation/Appropriation of W.B. Yeats in Galicia (1920-1935)

Recent developments in translation studies since the 1990s have focused on the ideological implications of translation, seeing the role of the translator as an interventionist and a mediator. This new paradigm overcomes the idea that translation is a mimetic task that consists merely of transferring meaning from one language to another, but rather it is associated with political processes which may involve domination, oppression, submission or resistance amongst social groups and communities. Recognition is given to the capacity of translation to forge social and cultural change. Postcolonial contexts have proven to be particularly fertile for the study of ideological issues related to translation insofar as they reflect a situation of inequality between language communities. In these contexts, translation can be used as a political artefact either to perpetuate colonial domination or to fight against it. As a result, the 1990s have seen the emergence of postcolonial translation theories. These new theories are not only applicable to contexts that are most commonly identified as postcolonial, but to any type of situation where there exists inequality between the two systems in which translation takes place (e.g., in subaltern cultures where the practice of translation can become a means of resistance against a situation of cultural domination and a channel of self-definition). In this regard, the situation of Galicia in the 1920s and 1930s is paradigmatic and it offers invaluable grounds for the study of translation when used as an ideological instrument in the struggle for the search and construction of a national identity. During this period a group of intellectuals, widely known as Xeración Nós, emerged in the region concerned with the articulation of a nationalist discourse based on the cultural and political differentiation of Galicia with regard to the rest of Spain. Their nation-building project was a response to a situation of cultural oppression, long imposed by the Spanish state represented by Castile, and it was based on the concepts of Celticism and Atlanticism. Resorting back to the alleged Galician ancestors, the Celts, they strove to establish affinities with the other so-called Celtic nations of Northern Europe, particularly Ireland, in order to include Galicia within the Celtic mythological tradition and, by extension, within a new Atlantic civilisation opposed to the Mediterranean one which they associated with Spain. Within this well planned ideological agenda, translation of Irish literary texts played an essential role as it was used as a political tool to establish the abovementioned affinity with Ireland. From the selection of the texts to be translated to the actual discourse strategies used by the translators, translation became a process of appropriation and manipulation to support ideological ends. Focusing on the translations of the Irish poet and playwright W.B. Yeats, the most translated Irish writer of the period and profoundly admired by the Galician intelligentsia, this thesis intends to explore how translation was used in a subversive and manipulative way to show Galicia’s distinctiveness and to build a national identity resisting cultural domination. Therefore, I will demonstrate the capacity of translation to shape cultures and to aid and support cultural and social change.

La educación secundaria: de la crisis de sentido al desafío de la reconfiguración

Las ideas sobre la educación secundaria que dan lugar a esta ponencia surgen de un proceso de construcción colectiva de conocimientos desarrollado en los ámbitos de producción político-pedagógica de Confederación de Trabajadores de la Educación de la República Argentina (CTERA), enriquecido por el aporte de un proyecto de investigación que, bajo mi dirección, se realiza de manera conjunta con la Universidad Nacional de Luján. Esta investigación se sitúa en un particular momento de la política educativa nacional, en el cual la escuela secundaria parece estar en el centro de las preocupaciones y redefiniciones. Intentando superar los diagnósticos acerca de la “crisis” de este nivel del sistema, hoy se rehace necesario un profundo cambio cultural, que fracture los sentidos comunes respecto del valor social de la educación secundaria, y anticipe formas y contenidos de una escolaridad diferente.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

Contentious Responses to the Crises in Spain : Emphasis Frames and Public Support for Protest on Twitter and the Press.

This research analyzes how different types of frames adopted by news organizations and social media affected the support for protests against austerity measures in Spain. We pay special attention to the individual understandings of the crises based on materialistic grievances and nonmaterialistic accounts of the economic crises. We identified frames using a supervised approach and a data set of 2 million tweets gathered during the major demonstrations of the Indignados Movement between 2011 and 2013. Our second data set included the news-related content published by the top Spanish newspapers, in terms of circulation, during those demonstrations. We found that support for antiausterity protests was conditioned by understandings of the crisis. Frames addressing the political system were negatively related to the support for protests against austerity measures, as compared with those referring to the crisis as an economic matter. In addition, more challenging and controversial frames generated lower acceptance of the protests among the population than those that primed social problems

Analysis of the relationship between the amount and type of MSW and population socioeconomic level: Bahía Blanca case study, Argentina

The amount and type of municipal solid waste (MSW) in Bahía Blanca (Argentina) were assessed and correlated with population socioeconomic level. In this sense, seven areas with different quality of life were selected. In addition, a parallel study on a control area was performed and validated for obtaining a representative result to provide analogous conclusions for the whole city. From this study, a combination of sorting methodologies is proposed in order to reduce the actual amount of waste sent to landfill. If these methodologies are implemented in Bahia Blanca city, MSW in landfill could be reduced at least 80%. The proposed strategy is to combine waste sorting at source and at destination. An alternative separation at source could be proposed as follows: packaging (including plastic, cans and Tetra Pak), other plastics, paper and glass. The rest of MSW could be included in a container which would be collected daily or three times a week without changing inhabitants’ habits and promoting their collaboration. Then, it could be separated at destination for waste-to-energy, composting, and biogas obtaining. Residuals from incinerators and biogas/composting plants would be sent to landfill. On the other hand, regarding the relationship between the proposed strategy and population quality of life, obtained results from this study could be useful to size and to efficiently locate disposal bins/containers for source separation as well as to redesign routes of municipal solid waste collection. Also, this strategy allows to add value to different components of MSW, improving working conditions of waste workers and creating new jobs in Bahia Blanca city.Fil: Vazquez, Yamila Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Ingeniería Química; ArgentinaFil: Barragán, Federico Gastón. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Geografía y Turismo; ArgentinaFil: Castillo, Luciana Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Ingeniería Química; ArgentinaFil: Barbosa, Silvia Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Ingeniería Química; Argentin

Extracellular hydrolytic enzyme production by proteolytic bacteria from the Antarctic

Cold−adapted marine bacteria producing extracellular hydrolytic enzymes are important for their industrial application and play a key role in degradation of particulate organic matter in their natural environment. In this work, members of a previously−obtained protease−producing bacterial collection isolated from different marine sources from Potter Cove (King George Island, South Shetlands) were taxonomically identified and screened for their ability to produce other economically relevant enzymes. Eighty−eight proteolytic bacterial isolates were grouped into 25 phylotypes based on their Amplified Ribosomal DNA Restriction Analysis profiles. The sequencing of the 16S rRNA genes from representative isolates of the phylotypes showed that the predominant culturable protease−producing bacteria belonged to the class Gammaproteobacteria and were affiliated to the genera Pseudomonas, Shewanella, Colwellia, and Pseudoalteromonas, the latter being the predominant group (64% of isolates). In addition, members of the classes Actinobacteria, Bacilli and Flavobacteria were found. Among the 88 isolates screened we detected producers of amylases (21), pectinases (67), cellulases (53), CM−cellulases (68), xylanases (55) and agarases (57). More than 85% of the isolates showed at least one of the extracellular enzymatic activities tested, with some of them producing up to six extracellular enzymes. Our results confirmed that using selective conditions to isolate producers of one extracellular enzyme activity increases the probability of recovering bacteria that will also produce additional extracellular enzymes. This finding establishes a starting point for future programs oriented to the prospecting for biomolecules in Antarctica.Fil: Tropeano, Mauro. Biosidus; ArgentinaFil: Vazquez, Susana Claudia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica; ArgentinaFil: Coria, Silvia. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Interno y Culto. Dirección Nacional del Antártico. Instituto Antártico Argentino; ArgentinaFil: Turjanski, Adrian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Química, Física de los Materiales, Medioambiente y Energía; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Química Biológica; ArgentinaFil: Cicero, Daniel. Fundación Instituto Leloir; Argentina. University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Department of Chemical Science and Technology; ItaliaFil: Bercovich, Andrés. Biosidus; ArgentinaFil: Cormack, Mac. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica; Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Interno y Culto. Dirección Nacional del Antártico. Instituto Antártico Argentino; Argentin