Globalized policies for teacher training: proposals for a philosophical reading by Galazzi, Laura, Gómez, Diana, Vázquez, Muriel

“…The present article explores teacher training policies promoted by international organizations including the World Bank or the OECD in Latin America and the Caribbean. Documents edited by these organizations are addressed; three cross-cutting themes are used for reading them. …”

Interculturalidad en lenguas-culturas extranjeras : un desafío filosófico para América Latina by Herrera Pineda, Jorge Hernán, Ortiz Ruíz, Claudia Elizabeth

The ECLAC model in the Socialism of the 21st Century in Ecuador by Naranjo Navas, Christian Paul

Mechanical behavior of chontaduro (Bactris Gapisapes) fiber reinforced material composite by Villate Diaz, Juan Pablo, Vargas Ortiz, Nelson Joman

“…This palm (Bactris Gapisapes) is one of the species of great abundance in Latin America and its accelerated growth makes it an accessible material for later use. …”

A systematic literature review of Intellectual Property Management in Higher Education Institutions. by Villalba Morales, María Luisa, Montoya, Francisco Javier

“…This paper exposes the state of the art of IP management in the Colombian context, supported by HEI cases in the world and Latin America. Among the main findings are: 1) a clear transition from the recognition of the importance of management to the proposal of management models, and 2) the need to deepen the definition of structures that support the complexity and particularity of an IES.…”

how the quality of patents contributes to revitalising the innovation system?, evidence from the renewable energy sector by Herrera-Ramírez, Milton Mauricio, Méndez-Morales, Edgard Alberto, Barrios-Campos, Diana Marlene

“…Our results show a novel framework for analysing the effects of patent value on the IS that could be useful for renewable energy diffusion in Latin-America.…”

Institutions and technology as key components of national development projects: a comparative analysis of Brazil and Mexico by Cypher, James Martín, Escatel, Aldo Andrés Pérez

“…The absence of national projects that have attempted to institutionalize endogenous innovation capacities in Latin America has constituted a critical structural impediment to development. …”

El papel de América Latina en el cambio climático y sus atributos de Valor by Neira, Juan Alonso

“…La participación de los países de América Latina y el Caribe en el escenario internacional, así como los acuerdos multilaterales sobre medio ambiente (amumas) que están vigentes en la actualidad, deben ser de vital importancia en la globalización y en el comercio internacional donde, se regulan y manejan las condiciones de producción, distribución y consumo de bienes y servicios económicos.Abstract:Climate change has attracted worldwide attention, especially due to the problems experienced on the planet, in particular in these first years of the 21st century. Latin America stands out, not because of the amount of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), but because it has the opportunity to provide a balance to the world that will mitigate the impact, with its forests and its representation as a sink. …”

Temporalities in conlict: body and absence in the modern artistic practices in Argentina by Ortega Galvez, Maria Luisa, Rosauro Ruíz, Elena

“…In this way, both memory and post-memory coexist and nourish many modern artistic practices in Latin America. In this paper, we are going to study some works created by several Argentinean artistsand ilmmakers in which the corporality (the absence of ones’ bodies) plays an essential role. …”

Can peace building change the way engineering and science are taught? by Rodríguez-Camargo, Christian David

“…It is precisely in this direction that several Latin American thinkers have concluded that the positivist epistemological structure, inherited from the West, may not be so appropriate for achieving the social, political, and economic results that generate the necessary transformations in Latin America that promote the reduction of inequality, the expansion of equal opportunities and the mitigation of environmental impacts generated by purely extractive economies, typical of the countries of the so-called third world.…”

Panorama y desafíos de la educación posgradual en áreas pragmáticas para el mundo productivo: Ingeniería, Administración, Economía y Contaduría by Barreto Bernal, Patricia Carolina, Rojas Cruz, Diana Lizeth, Sarmiento Rojas, Jorge Andrés

Academic networks, communities of practice and public university. Study cases of Colombia and Chile,1930-1967 by Trina Aranda, Miguel Ángel, Molina Bravo, José Arturo, Álvarez Barreto, Alejandro, Cujabán Ariza , Manuel Alejandro

“…Objective: This article compares two cases of university reform processes in Latin America. For this purpose, the results of three research projects on intellectual networks and communities of practice in public universities between 1930-1967, in Colombia and Chile are critically integrated. …”

Adela Speratti: the dream and the realization of the teaching profession in Paraguay by Alegre Benítez, Carolina

“…At the end of the 19th century, Latin America became the scene of significant changes; many of the countries of the continent underwent processes that had repercussions on politics, the economy, social relations and especially in the area we would like to deal with hereafter: education. …”

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE THIRD WORLD INVENSION: A PURPOSE OF ORLANDO FALS BORDA’ S ACADEMIC WORK (I) by Javier Guerrero Barón, Bárbara García Sánchez

“…Life and work of Orlando Fals Borda presents him as one of the most important author of Social Sciences of Latin America. This article pretends to highlight some of the aspects of his intellectual life as founder of the first Faculty of Sociology in Colombia (1959) and as coauthor of the first empirical research on violence in Colombia (1962-1963). …”

Productivity and competitiveness determination of the small-scale mining at the northern mining district in the state of Boyacá by Bernal, Martha Stella Martínez

“…In recent years, mining in Colombia has been growing to such an extent that the country is considered to be the largest producer of coal in Latin America and the 12th in the world. In the Department of Boyacá, specifically, the coal mining production generated an economic movement closed to 380 000 million pesos last year the need to know the level of productivity and competitiveness of small-scale mining in the mining district of the north of this department, promotes this investigation. …”

La Universidad Guadalajara y la igualdad de género. Propuesta by Torres, Berta Ermila Madrigal, Torres, Rosalba Madrigal, Espinosa, Elia Marún

“…The findings, documentary research was carried what they are doing someuniversities in Spain, Latin America and Mexico. For more than two decades of international policies towards equality between men and women, has not succeeded in establishing a policy of gender equity in university organizational structures.KEY WORDSGender equality, gender equity, university, proposed…”

Latin American mining in the 21st century: from neo-liberalism to neo-extractivism by Ruiz-Gómez, Humberto

“…In Latin America has unleashed an intense controversy about the depletion of natural resources by the application of an extractive model, the unequal powers between the transnational mining industries and the consumer countries, and the impacts that this activity triggers in the social, economic,  environmental and cultural field of peripheral countries. …”

nfluence of religion in politics and its position withregard to the configuration of political opposition inColombia by Saavedra-Buitrago, Iván Camilo

“…This paper presents a meticulous but brief report about how political history of Latin America and particularly the Colombian, has always been marked by events in which religion or, specifically, the representatives of these organizations have been involved in social affairs that subsequently translates into political demonstrations. …”

Cinema reporter and the reconfiguration of Cartagena de Indias popular culture 1936-1957 by Chica Geliz, Ricardo, Acuña Rodríguez, Olga Yanet

The Dynamic Writing of Mario Bellatin: from Text to Theater and Theater to Text by Rios, Marina Cecilia

“…Towards the end of XXth century and the beginning of the XXIst in Latin America, narrative texts are produced which respond to the search for a relationship between literature and art (both inside texts and outside them). …”