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La narración de la experiencia profesional como expresión del conocimiento en Trabajo Social
2015
La narración de la experiencia como expresión artística de la práctica profesional así como la posibilidad de obtener con ella un conocimiento son el objeto del artículo. Partiendo de la crítica al afán cientificista que parece dominar en el Trabajo Social en España, defendemos la necesidad de incorporar la experiencia a nuestra agenda investigadora de forma que permita adquirir una descripción más detallada y profunda de los problemas con los que tratamos y alcanzar así un tipo de conocimientos valiosos para la intervención social. En ese sentido, reivindicamos la integración de una práctica reflexiva en el ejercicio profesional que descubra la singularidad y complejidad de nuestra labor a…
Innovation or Normalization in E-Campaigning?
2008
■ Scholars have seldom tested the innovation and normalization paradigm of e-campaigning over time. Particularly outside the US, there is a lack of comparative analyses of candidate or party websites that deal with the concept's temporal validity and scope. The article addresses this research gap through a longitudinal content and structural analysis of German party websites in the 2002 and 2005 national elections. The results provide empirical evidence of a twofold development of federal e-campaigns: while the major party websites evolved over time in information density, interactivity and sophistication (innovation), the minor parties were throughout characterized by an underutilization o…
Council Appointed Mayors in Spain: Effects on Local Democracy
2017
El presente artículo toma en consideración los efectos que el sistema de elección del Alcalde tiene sobre la democracia local, basándose en la consideración cinco aspectos: el sistema electoral y su influencia en la composición política de las administraciones locales; la estructura de la administración local y la distribución de funciones entre los alcaldes y el pleno municipal; el papel de los partidos políticos; los mecanismos de control del ejecutivo local y la participación ciudadana. El estudio subraya especialmente la incidencia que el sistema de elección del alcalde por los concejales tiene en relación con los principios de responsabilidad, legitimidad, transparencia y eficiencia de…
The War on Terror
2019
9/11 has changed the world in many senses. It introduced not only fear in the contemporary society, but also ignited the counter-reaction to the US in what G. W Bush dubbed as “War on Terror”. This chapter centers on a philosophical discussion that relates the international geopolitics with the sociology of terrorism. Basically, the archetype of 9/11 has woken the interests of many scholars though, to date, it is ideologically inspired. Paradoxically, while much attention was paid on the archetype of 9/11 as a founding event that subordinated other similar events, less understanding of the issue scholars have. This chapter places the war on terror and 9/11 under the critical lens of scrutin…
La geografía escolar: deseos institucionales y vivencias de aula
2018
School geography embodies the attempt of political and academic institutions of systematizing geographical content knowledge: to transform geography in a learning object for the population. The purpose of this article is to highlight the existing differences and similarities in the analysis of school geography. On the one hand, we refer to the curricular framework and to the education system. On the other hand, we deal with the inherent problems of geography teaching in childhood, primary and secondary education. In these contexts, geography contents aim to convey the description of the environment to students that tend to distrust canonical academic discourse, as they consider it to be bey…
A parental voice: parents as equal and dependent – rhetoric about parents, teachers, and their conversations
2009
This study analyses texts from the National Parents’ Committee for Primary and Lower Secondary Education in Norway and addresses how parents describe their own role, the teachers’ role, and their conversations. The theoretical perspective employed is Koselleck’s conceptual theory. The findings show that, despite having formal legal rights, parents must constantly legitimize these rights in school. Parents are expected to assume a passive role, while the teachers’ role is held to be active. Furthermore, the diversity among parents is not discussed. Parents moreover resign their own involvement in their children’s education in spite of the fact that teachers and parents may have different per…
COVID-19 y escuela a distancia: viejas y nuevas desigualdades
2021
El cierre de las escuelas como medida de emergencia a la situación generada por el COVID-19 ha generado retos sin precedentes para los sistemas educativos. En el caso español este cierre se desarrolla en un sistema profundamente desigual, lo que, entre otros aspectos, se expresa por unos índices de segregación escolar que se sitúan entre los más altos de Europa. El objetivo del artículo es analizar el impacto del confinamiento sobre las desigualdades educativas, poniendo un foco especifico en la expresión escolar de dichas desigualdades. Específicamente, se pretende explorar la diversidad de estrategias adoptadas por los centros educativos durante el primer período de confinamiento, anali…
The issue of the secret ballot in the Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies, c.1830–72: an extension of the nineteenth-century parliamentary culture o…
2014
SUMMARYIn this article, debating societies are considered an inherent part of the formation of a parliamentary culture in Britain. Despite the fact that the nineteenth-century Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies were considered to be ‘training grounds' for statesmen, their debating practices have not been systematically studied in relation to national politics. This is largely due to the fact that the role of debate has remained understated in studies of parliamentary history, even though it is one of the fundamental political features in the Westminster system. Nineteenth-century parliamentary debate did not just occur for its own sake, rather it had a constitutional and political dimensi…
The evolution of the feudal income in the marquisate of Llombai (XVI-XIX centuries)
2006
Este artículo analiza la evolución de la renta feudal de un señorío valenciano particularmente bien documentado, el marquesado de Llombai, posesión de los duques de Gandía, en un período muy extenso que va de 1486 a 1819. Se estudia la renta nominal (tanto bruta como la neta, es decir la cantidad que percibía efectivamente el señor) y la renta real o deflactada, que es la más interesante, ya que tiene en cuenta el efecto de la evolución de los precios. Esta última muestra una tendencia a la baja durante el siglo XVI, lo que indica que no pudo resistir el efecto de la llamada revolución de los precios, una recuperación en el XVII, una vez superado el fuerte bache que supuso la expulsión de l…
Na celowniku tajnych służb PRL. Sprawa Aleksandra Demideckiego-Demidowicza
2016
TARGETED BY THE SECRET SERVICES OF THE PRL. THE CASE OF ALEKSANDER DEMIDECKI-DEMIDOWICZ Who was Aleksander Demidecki-Demidowicz. Without a doubt he was one of the most prominent politicians in exile in France. He was famous for his ability to win people over and to cooperate with people of different political views. His significance and role is best illustrated by the fact that in 1958 he was unanimously chosen as the leader of the Division of the National Council of Poland. It is no wonder that the intelligence services of the PRL government were interested in him. What were the consequences? Did Demidecki-Demidowicz really collaborate with the PRL authorities, or did he just play along in…