Entre el artista y el crítico: Basura de Héctor Abad Faciolince by Monroy Zuluaga, Leonardo

“…Key words: Basura, artist, critics, Colombian novel.…”

Pombo: Imaginario de nación en la fábula by Toro, Diana Marcela

“…This research paper will focus on this last category, although it is necessarily interwoven with the others.Key words:Rafael Pombo, Nation, Colombian literature, XIX century…”

El papel del Estado colombiano en la conformación del sector siderúrgico de Boyacá. 1938-1980 by Barreto Bernal, Patricia Carolina, Jurado Jurado, Juan Carlos

Digital environments of learning in distance education for the initial education of teachers: perceptions about their relevance by Ñáñez-Rodríguez, José Julián, Solano-Guerrero, Juan Carlos, Bernal-Castillo, Edwin

“…This document looks at the perception of teachers and students on the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies, ICT, together with the experience of the pedagogical portfolios, in degree programs of Colombian universities. The work had a qualitative, exploratory and correlational approach, of the action research type. …”

Aplicación de Instrumentos Internacionales de Derechos Humanos a las personas privadas de la libertad en Colombia by Mendieta Pineda, Luz Mireya, Vargas Molina, Juliana Andrea, Mendieta Pineda, Ana Isabel

“…Among the findings, it is worth noting that despite the fact that the Colombian State has signed and ratified international human rights treaties and has issued internal regulations for their protection, there is a constant massive violation of fundamental rights to persons deprived of liberty.…”

The Corporate Income Tax in Colombia: its Effective Rate and its Relationship with Investment   by Castañeda Rodríguez, Víctor Mauricio, Villabona-Robayo, Jairo Orlando

“…The first one is that the effective rate of Corporate Income Tax is not as high as it is stressed in Colombia by the media, economic unions and many politicians, for which we take into account tax reporting data provided by the Colombian tax administration office (DIAN) for 2016. …”

Curriculum and evaluation in the frame of the 1290 government decree of 2009: policies or pedagogies? by Díaz Ballén, José Emilio

“…In the case of the 1290 decree of 2009, the students learning evaluation is equalized to some minimal achievements standards in the frame of the development of some market demanded competences, which have little to provide to the integral formation for the children and youngsters that are educated in the Colombian Educational System.…”

Application of Web 3.0 Tools for the Development of Investigative Skills in Middle School Students by Suárez-Triana, Yolman Mauricio, Rincón-Duran, Ricardo, Niño-Vega, Jorge Armando

“…The study population corresponded to 32 students of the 10th and 11th grades from a Colombian educational institution. Two questionnaires were used for diagnosis and advance of the competences, which were applied one before the pedagogical strategy and one after, respectively. …”

Design and piloting of a cognitive behavioral group program for anxiety management in university students by Salamanca-Camargo, Yenny, Forero-Mendoza, Ingrid Xiomara

“…Objective: the purpose of this study was to design and pilot a group intervention program for the management of anxiety symptoms in a group of psychology students at a Colombian university. Methodology: the program was designed based on a theoretical and empirical review of different cognitive, behavioral and physiological strategies, as well as content validity by expert judges; while the piloting was carried out with ten participants between 18 and 20 years of age and between second and fourth semester of schooling. …”

Singapore Method for Teaching Basic Operations with Fractional Numbers in Eight Levels Students by Niño-Vega, Jorge Armando, López-Sandoval, Diana Patricia, Mora-Mariño, Eduar Ferney, Torres-Cuy, María Alejandra, Fernández-Morales, Flavio Humberto

“…The work was done under the qualitative research-action approach, the sample was formed by 35 students of the eight grade from a Colombian school. The diagnostic shows that the majority of students ignore concepts related to fractional numbers, doesn’t know the basic operations and doesn’t apply them in context. …”

The Centenary revisited: A German traveller in Colombia's national festivities (1910) by Schuster, Sven, Vargas Álvarez, Sebastián

“…The Centenary of the Independence of Colombia, celebrated in 1910 has recently been revisited by Colombian historiography. Within the framework of the bicentennial celebrations of the independence between 2010 and 2019, the proliferation of articles and books that deal with the subject or specific aspects of it has been considerable. …”

Design thinking applied to the improvement of citizen competences in university students: popular vote by Hernández-Gil, Cristian, Núñez-López, Jaime Alexis

“…The objective of this research was to apply the design thinking technique to improve social thinking skills inside the citizen competences of the students of a Colombian Business Administration program. A qualitative and descriptive study with 48 students of last semesters was carried out, implementing the design thinking methodology in activities inside the classroom with them, In. this case, we worked with two objects: a die and a telephone, and an initiative: awareness-raising towards the conscious exercise of voting. …”

The Rockefeller Foundation and the experimental dimension in the campaign against hookworm disease in Colombia, 1920-1934 by Garzon, Maria Catalina

“…This article analyses the treatment practices of the campaign against hookworm disease in Colombia, which was carried out through a cooperation agreement between the International Health Board (IHB) of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Colombian government between 1920 and 1934. Particularly, the processes that led to changes in treatment methods are analysed, as well as the variations in the doses of vermifuges and laxatives, that in many cases caused poisoning and deaths in the farmer population of the coffee region, which was the focal point of the campaign. …”

Curriculum planning and classroom environment in natural sciences: from policies and guidelines to institutional application by Hernández-Suárez, César Augusto, Avendaño-Castro, William Rodrigo, Rojas-Guevara, Jorge Ulises

“…The objective of the study is to analyze these two factors, applied within the area of natural sciences of a Colombian educational institution, for the levels of basic and secondary education. …”

Learning the assessment protocol through the framework of teaching for understanding by Cifuentes-Garzón, José Eduardo

“…A qualitative approach research was chosen, with the pedagogical action research design, carried out with the participation of 10 teachers from a Colombian public educational institution. The instruments used were: the thinking routine "before I thought ... now I think", the research workshop and the assessment protocol. …”

Prison system in Colombia, human rights and resocialization of women in the El Buen Pastor prison. by Rodríguez Moreno, María Angélica, Gómez Silva, Doris, Bolívar Torres, Emmanuel

“…The innumerable complaints and generalised protests presented by women deprived of their liberty, due to the lack of guarantees for the protection of their fundamental rights, overcrowded conditions, lack of budget to provide decent sanitary conditions, evokes and seeks to understand the legislation and the legal framework, in favour of the conservation and preservation of the joint integralities of women in the penitentiary complex in Colombia, more precisely in the prison of El Buen Pastor.It is for this reason that this document develops the different aspects of the condition of being sentenced in prison, under a gender approach and perspectives, and the mechanisms adopted by official institutions to fulfil the function of punishment and the devices that allow an ethical conciliation between equality and community empathy, to address the international recommendations on the mechanisms associated with detention, as a woman, applied to the Colombian legal framework and in accordance with pre-established standards to address the needs to enhance the development and freedoms of all people in the world, without exclusion.…”

Evaluación de la reducción de pelets utilizando carbón como agente reductor by Pérez Velásquez, Sandra Patricia, López Díaz, Alfonso

“…The work shows the characterization carried out on the raw materials, the reducibility tests carried out on pellets loaded in a Linder-type furnace - manufactured from two Colombian iron ore deposits - and the design and construction of a furnace to evaluate the behavior of the pellets during reduction.…”

Poetry as an Afro-Pacific Memory Stand in Los Versos de la Margarita, by Margarita Hurtado Castillo by Vivas, Julián, Amim, Valeria

“…This qualitative research, from a bibliographic nature, aims to characterize, from a decolonial perspective, aspects of the collective memory of the black Colombian Pacific’s communities showed in selected poems from Los Versos de la Margarita, a posthumous book by the oral narrator. …”

Taking Stock of Research about Initial English Language Teacher Education in Colombia by Castañeda Trujillo, Jairo Enrique

“…This article presents a literature review based on research related to pre-service English language teachers (PELT) in Colombia that have been published in specialized Colombian journals during 2010-2020. The result was a corpus of 41 articles, of which I analyzed who wrote them, the research design used in each one, and the main topics covered in the research or pedagogical experiences. …”

Dissenting Gods. Forms of Queer Religiosity in writing, visual art and performance in Latin America by Cabezas Baamonde, Laura

“…With this purpose, we work in the frame of literacy criticism and visual arts with the following materials: the Colombian artist Carlos Motta's art exhibition in Buenos Aires and the incorporation of Marcella Althus-Reid's indecent theology, Alejandro Tantanian's artwork, the essay writing of the Brazilian Tatiana Nascimento and the Transvestite Museum of Peru by Giuseppe Campuzano (in his role as researcher and performer). …”