Search results for "Kolumbia"
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The National Bilingual Programme in Colombia: Imposition or Opportunity?
2011
The National Bilingual Programme, created by the Colombian Ministry of Education in 2004, offers all students in the county the possibility of becoming bilingual in English and Spanish as part of a vision of increased productivity in a globalised world. However, the language and education policies promoted within this framework tend to foreground the development of English at the expense of bilingual competence in Spanish and English. This bilingual policy has been strongly criticised by several Colombian academics with regard to what they consider as the imposition in the Colombian context of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, the disregard of local knowledge and exp…
Municipal sport authorities participation in Colombia
2014
Physical activity promotion (PAP) has reached policy agendas worldwide due to the social and economic burden that non-communicable diseases have generated. Colombia is one of the countries that have taken the challenge of promoting healthy lifestyles in order to reduce this burden and in addition, take advantage of other benefits that promoting this healthy lifestyle brings. Although some research has been done on the field, no studies related to the local government contribution were found. The local government plays a crucial role in PAP, considering that it has a great influence on the physical and social environment of a city and consequently in the individual behavior of its citizens. …
Resistance during the armed conflict in the Chocó, Colombia : a case study on the development of territorial and cultural resistance of the indigeno…
2007
This Master’s thesis aims to study the resistance process of the indigenous communities of the Colombian department of Chocó and the development of this process into potential grass-roots peace initiative via a particular form of identity reaffirmation through ancestral territories. Particularly, this studies focus on the conflict territorialization and the consequential inclusion of indigenous territories into the conflict logic, which has promoted the development of an indigenous resistance process derived from a defense of territories as basis for identity construction. The thesis illustrates the change of the logic of conflict and the resultant development of an indigenous organizationa…
Cultural differences in Ibero-Nordic communications : perceptions about Finnish and Colombian negotiators
2001
Päivi Vaahterikko-Mejía selvittää väitöstutkimuksessaan, millainen kuva latinalais-amerikkalaisilla neuvottelijoilla on kolumbialaisista ja suomalaisista neuvottelijoista, ja minkälaisia kulttuurieroja suomalaisten ja latinalais-amerikkalaisten välisessä kommunikaatiossa esiintyy. --Neuvottelijoiden kansallinen kulttuuri vaikuttaa heidän käytökseensä, neuvotteluihin, heidän havaintoihinsa ja odotuksiinsa kauppasuhteissa. Nämä tekijät taas vaikuttavat kauppasuhteen syntymiseen, kehittymiseen ja itse kauppaan, Vaahterikko-Mejía toteaa.Vaahterikko-Mejían mukaan Suomi-Kolumbia kaupassa on neuvottelijoiden välisiä kulttuurieroista johtuvia viestinnällisiä epäselvyyksiä. Suomalaiset ja kolumbiala…