La revista TEXTOS Y SENTIDOS es una publicación semestral de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y de la Educación de la Universidad Católica de Pereira, cuyo objetivo es difundir los aportes teóricos y metodológicos y los resultados en general de los procesos investigativos producidos desde las humanidades, las ciencias sociales y la educación para contribuir de esta manera a la consolidación de comunidades académicas y redes de conocimiento en torno a dichas temáticas. En este sentido, TEXTOS Y SENTIDOS está dirigida a profesionales e investigadores sociales que dedican su quehacer a las áreas del conocimiento afines con los campos de indagación propuestos por las Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y de la Educación.
Portada, Páginas Legales y Contenido de la Revista Textos y Sentidos No. 11.
Considerations for psychological intervention in caregivers of dementia patients
Dementia syndromes have been addressed from diff erent research fi elds that have talked about the etiology, course, clinical characteristics and treatments; how ever now a days a look on this problem has taken a line on the consideration of such syndromes as asocial problem in terms of public health, since it involves the process of healthy lifestyles. The development of this text aims to present some considerations regarding the eff ects on the health of care givers of demented patients, as well as propose some considerations in order to investigate and intervene on those eff ects.
Opinion and mass media: past, present and future
A journey from that moment that when journalism is confused misunderstood with the view that reading is low but the infl uence is great until the advent of the new century where as little remained of the great infl uence that newspapers had before the consolidation of a new media King: television. But this means (and Radio) is already owned by the big economic interests prevail where they are neither supporters nor doctrinaire, they are just Business, Profi t: a decisive break up to the transformation of that revolution which implied that some individuals control over media “production” would be broken, it is giving itself, but in another form, which implies that the control of some individuals on mass media “communication” is brokened?
Communication, narratives and learning process: Television receptions and production of meaning
This article presents the research results Educational readings of television. Learning on the reception, from narrative analysis of three diff erent programs (documentaries, fi ction stories and tv news) and the readings by 36 adolescent from Manizales. The conclusion was when the television´s narrative has a highly structure propositional generates meaningful learning in audiences. This event has a source from television´s stories are proposed to audience active the meaningful learning process, without the content been explicitly educational. For the comprehension process about social environment, is necessaries a previous condition, the narrative structure of television´s programs must be highly interpellative, in other words, the narrative may contains stories about the world what propitiates the formation of creative association between content programs and the precedent knowledge from audience. This research concludes that the educational potential from television is based in the narrative way condition.
The power of words in educational environments
This paper presents a refl ection on the importance of language in educational scope, in particular about the power of words in the classroom. To develop this refl ection, we propose diff erent questions guiding this written text, including those ones concerning the importance of language, how to dialogue in educational contexts, which model students are setting up teachers’ words, and what kind of instructions and questions characterize educational environments. Hence, an analysis of the dynamics which are usually established in the classroom, the types of interaction that are conducive within, how they move on and who has the word in educational scenarios, is held. Finally, this article invites all diff erent levels of schooling teachers to open and keep up a space for refl ection on their own pedagogical practices, as an essential exercise for progressing in the construction of educational programs that encourage students to be more active, analytical, and foster them to have a word as well as recognizing others; taking the initiative and building knowledge through interactions including their cultural background embodying the texts.
Aesthetic education for a world in crisis: Rethinking Schiller for the 21st Century
The purpose of this essay is to recover the thought of the poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller on the education of the feelings, the social and historical context of global crisis that characterizes the beginning of this century. Schiller made a serious analysis of the historical crisis of society within the time he lived in, and the causes for which enlightened reason and must-be ethical were failing in the attempt to become moral and political force in order to establish republics where citizens were free. It concludes that the cause is the separation of reason, morality and sensitivity, it is necessary to overcome the must-be of Kant, and that art and beauty are the means to educate the feelings to rise to a state of true freedom, instead of retreating into a dark age of irrationality and barbarism. Thus, a reading of Schiller illustrates a fundamental task to address the crisis in contemporary mass culture society, while anticipating the response to the failures of modernity in the tradition of critical thinking, as it is presented by J.Habermas.
Alternative looks to migration and its family implications
This article aims to show some results of two researches carried out by the Family Center at Universidad Católica de Pereira, which dealt with the issue of migration and, presents the implications for the role of the father when the mother migrates and grandmothers become caretakers, or when both parents are those who migrate. The article seeks to call into question the considerations that relate the migration of one or both parents, as causes of many problems, and show on the other hand, the profi ts that are reported to the parental roles and in general for the care and protection of the children.
Senegalese immigration in Argentina during the last two decades. An analysis of legal status and the situation regarding the economic, social and cultural rights
Considering the Saharan population growth in Argentina, this article investigates, in existing studies and documents, the causes and characteristics of migration. From this review the author aims to know the conditions of the Senegalese population with respect to the protection of fundamental rights. In this sense it refers to International Law through the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, and its correspondence with the Argentinian legislation, based on the law 25,871, in order to verify its fulfi llment within this group of immigrants. The sources correspond to the current legislation, studies carried out, and a complaint of Senegalese migrants, speeches, articles and publications of the organizations involved in the migration area.
Géopolitique des arméniens d’Amérique du sud
Les Arméniens d’Amérique du sud expriment leur particularité par diff érentes formes d’actions, destinées à se démarquer de leur environnement immédiat sur le plan linguistique, culturel, religieux et politique et revendiquent par conséquent une appartenance commune au lieu d’origine: l’Arménie historique occidentale qui se situe géographiquement en Anatolie de l’est. Le pays d’origine des grands-parents ou arrière grands-parents arméniens fait aujourd’hui partie de la Turquie moderne depuis sa fondation en 1923. En eff et, les turcs de l’Empire ottoman et les forces nationalistes turques de Mustapha Kemal ont déporté et massacré la grande majorité des Arméniens d’Anatolie entre 1915 et 1923. Les survivants du premier génocide du XXème siècle ne pouvaient plus retourner sur leurs terres ancestrales à la suite de la signature du traité de Lausanne en 1923 et sont devenus des réfugiés apatrides. Ils n’avaient guère d’autres solutions que de se diriger vers les diff érents pays d’immigration grâce à l’obtention du passeport «Nansen» qui permettaient aux apatrides de se déplacer. Ceux qui partirent pour l’Amérique du sud s’installaient essentiellement en Argentine, en Uruguay et au Brésil. Ils sont aujourd’hui environ 100000 en Argentine, 25000 au Brésil et 15000 en Uruguay. Ils participent activement au développement des villes de Buenos Aires, de Cordoba, de Montevideo et Sao Paulo. Conscients de leur origine commune, ils s’intègrent rapidement sans renoncer à leur identité d’origine. La mémoire collective se cristallise autour de la catastrophe de 1915, le génocide arménien. Depuis le 50ème anniversaire du génocide en 1965, les Arméniens concentrent leurs eff orts pour revendiquer la reconnaissance du génocide arménien dans l’espace public. En Argentine, les procès de la dictature inaugurent de nouveaux concepts juridiques spécifi ques pour condamner les crimes contre l’humanité. Dans le cadre des Jugements pour la Vérité (Juicios por la Verdad), les Arméniens d’Argentine obtiennent pour la première fois une sentence judiciaire qui condamne l’Etat turc pour crime de génocide.
In search of a “refuge”. Colombian refuge claimants in Canada, paths to the recognition of rights
This article is the result of an ethnographic research that proposed to highlight the tensions between citizenship and immigration in order to acknowledge migrants role as political subjects in the middle of struggles to rebuild their life in a new society. From the experience of a Colombian family seeking refuge, the article shows how in the middle of a migration path the juridical status changes, putting the category of citizenship in tension and rewiring the same concept in the everyday life of the subjects in motion.
Colombian children living parental migration. Agency, voices and perspectives
Recognizing that children under migratory circumstances have been invisibilized, the purpose of this article is to argue that children living parental migration are agents. Children whose parents are emigrant, infl uence and are infl uenced by social structures, they also have the ability of acting, deciding, and rejecting. I initially discuss a classifi cation of the ways in which children live migratory circumstances and defi ne parental migration. Then, I expose the conceptual argument about children as agents, and narrate the methodological details of a workshop we conduct with children in Pereira in 2008. Then, the analysis of children’s perspectives is built, interweaving their voices to the concept of agency. Finally, I present some conclusions and recommendations.
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Los imaginarios sociales de violencia en las estéticas narratológicas de las crónicas negras en Pereira.
Epistemological conceptions based on logical empiricism, critical rationalism and critical theory have allowed different explanations of phenomena of reality in their physical, social and metaphysical explanations in contemporary paradigms underlying the ethical and aesthetic. In this sense, the chronicles are monuments that from the narratological aesthetics of living chroniclers in Pereira get an approach to the social imaginary of violence represented in tales and facts in the history of this city. A history that has made visible through metaphors, fabrications, symbols, tragedies and dreams from the pen of omniscient narrators, who made and make from the reality an opportunity for designing aesthetically experiences, rituals and myths of Pereirans through chronicles that recreate the spirit of the city such as: “Kisses like bullets” and “Do not shoot, I’m only the chronicler”.
This paper is a passage from the research “AboutSeneca and Saint Paul´s Epistles: A relation of meaning”, whichgives a Spanish version of Seneca and Saint Paul’s Epistles (sIV c.e.), and the relation between the Christianity and the Stoicism from the I Century. It refers to the relation of meaningthat could be established between Seneca and Saint Paulabout: law, ethics, death and primitive Christian Religion andits relation with Eastern trends. Other topics such as: pain,desire, passion, tranquility, leisure time, benefits, happiness,meaning of philosophy, afterlife, etc, deserve a special comparative work, which could be done in a separate text withthe help of the Pauline Corpus and Seneca´s writings. By now,these short considerations are enough to tackle a sharp pointas the relation between Primitive Christianity and the philosophy of that time, especially with the new Stoicism in theI Century.
Las bandas, la memoria y la identidad en el Bajío guanajuatense mexicano
This article presents an analysis about the music produced by wind bands located in the Bajío Guanajuatense in México. The ethnomusicology introduces the idea that “making music” is a cooperative action which involves sensibility, appropriation and knowledge or cultural capital transmission, in order to understand music as cultural practices where the audiences, musicians, instruments, and even technological instruments compose the writing music, it means, the music is also a cultural speech that has a complete relation and explanation in concrete sociohistoric processes associated to other social processes such as identity, memory and socio cultural changes.
Pueblos indígenas y sistemas de salud: participación local en el contexto de las reformas neoliberales y multiculturales en Colombia.
This article proposes elements to analyzethe possibilities and modalities of an effective participation of indigenous peoples in the local adaptation of health systems within the framework of neoliberal and multicultural reforms. These reforms haveconditioned in the last 20 years the developmentof the Colombian health system, but they have alsoconditioned the role played by all stakeholders. Indigenous peoples are conceived here both as agentsof the system, and as users. It is stated that intercultural models of health care must be built from a necessary integral socio-spatial approach to wellbeing,since indigenous conceptions of health are inextricably linked with “being well” as a resulting element ofthe socio-environmental dynamics including beingwell and having a good territory, having livelihoods,maintaining the social order, among other factors.Social participation remains a central topic in theconfiguration of local health systems. Nevertheless,in spite of the increasing participation spaces andmechanisms, economic and political “global” dynamics prevail over the health system and the effectiveness of this social participation.
Sentidos familiares de la discapacidad: ¿narrativas discapacitantes?.
: This article presents some results of the research“Social representations of intellectual disability and its relation with the adaptive skills development in the communitylife”. Its main objective is comprehend the impact of socialbarriers in the human development through the analysis ofsocial expectations inside the group where an intellectuallydisable person is, and the way these expectations influencehis/her adaptive behavior. Based on some interviews, this article also takes special meanings that mothers have built upalong their experiences with an intellectual disabled person.
Academia y Política: Región e historia para derrotar complicidad.
The main objective of this article is to share somereflections about the responsibility in the Academy for thepolitical education. In that way the paper is divided in twosections.The first one reviews institutional experience to think ofthese topics. The second one describes punctual questionsabout the Academy role in the political education.
Independencia, ¿para quién? Esclavización, raza y subalternidad.
Appelbaum, Macpherson and Rosemblatt (2003)have developed a timeline about the vision of race and nation in Latin America. This article starts from these conceptions and explores some abolitionist arguments for andagainst, in the first period when the idea of nation takesplace by Creole people, since it is assumed there is no racial difference. Nevertheless, this paper illustrates how tokeep the slavery was considered as a contradiction to theindependence legitimacy. It also looks for the race term andhow it appears in books that are related with this debate,because of racial thinking is not absent from nation beginning. Finally, some conclusions are given as reflections aboutthe urgency to pluralize and densify representations and rethorics of the Independence from a post-colonial approachto ask about their position those who were subordinating.
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Este artículo es parte de una investigación sobre el concepto de intencionalidad, el cual se constituye en eje central, en el pensamiento filosófico del fundador de la fenomenología, Edmund Husserl. Se pretende hacer un breve excurso sobre el tema de la conciencia, a partir de la obra Investigaciones Lógicas. Así, desde una sucinta referencia a la polémica de Husserl con su maestro F. Brentano, paso a detenerme en las formas de conciencia que se presentan en la obra citada y la polivalencia de este concepto, para luego abordar las vivencias intencionales, y desde allí la distinción que hace Husserl entre los actos objetivantes y no objetivantes, donde la descripción de los primeros le permite analizar las vivencias síquicas, caracterizadas por su referencia intencional a un objeto. Estas son las vivencias intencionales propiamente. Sin olvidar que Husserl destaca además de estos componentes esenciales, el contenido de representación, siempre y cuando se entienda por representación el acto objetivante, a fin de puntualizar el sentido de la afirmación que sostiene que todo acto es una representación o tiene por base una representación.
En el presente artículo se intentará mostrar, de maneramuy general, las posibles relaciones entre la aceptación de laexistencia de los qualia y el dualismo de propiedades. Para lograr este cometido se empezará con una aclaración del significado del término Qualia, a continuación se rastreará el origen del problema de los Qualia en la distinción propuesta por Locke entre cualidades primarias y secundarias, luego se hará alusión a la problemática relación entre los qualia y las concepciones contemporáneas de lo mental relacionadas con el materialismo ejemplificada claramente en los argumentos propuestos por Nagel y Jackson contra el materialismo partiendo de la existencia de los Qualia. Por último se describirá la idea propuesta por Searle de que la aceptación de la existencia de las propiedades fenoménicas de la experiencia consciente no implica la adopción del dualismo de propiedades. Palabras clave:
El presente artículo es resultado de un primer avance del proyecto propuesto dentro del grupo de investigación: fenómeno religioso titulado: “Análisis bioético sobre la despenalización del aborto en Colombia”
¿Qué es el hombre?: ¿un ambiguo ser? Exposición dialógica entre el Deinos, la Pulsión y el Conatus
Se establece una pequeña exposición dialógica entre el Deinos, la Pulsión y el Conatus, conceptos trabajados respectivamente por Martin Heidegger, Sigmund Freud y, Baruch Spinoza a propósito de intentar dar respuesta a la cuestión antropológica: ¿qué es el hombre?, de allí mostrar la ambigüedad del mismo hombre y proponer el término medio señalado por Aristóteles; la virtud ética como la justa medida. Finalmente plantear que el aporte del escrito se inclina a un pensamiento abierto y en busca de que el hombre encuentre un sentido menos atroz a su existencia.
Tres partes constituyen este artículo: una reseña histórica y crítica sobre el conocimiento, y el cosmos como su materia de estudio, ya que aquí es en donde radica el origen de las universidades. Una breve exposición sobre la historia de la universidad, su surgimiento y desenvolvimiento principalmente en occidente, junto con un elogio a la filosofía como aquel saber que ha sido el sostén - quiérase o no - del conocimiento y de las universidades, porque sostengo la tesis que la filosofía sigue siendo aun la madre de todas las ciencias y el lugar donde se reúnen todas ellas son por supuesto las universidades, constituye el segundo apartado. Una indagación sobre el papel de los docentes y la administración universitaria junto con un exordio a la educación constituirá el tercer aparte, tal vez, el más crítico pero a su vez constructivo y que intuyo se puede prestar más a polémica.
Algunas tendencias y retos que se derivan de una lectura contextual en el horizonte de las humanidades
El siguiente texto intenta aportar a la discusión sobre la posibilidad y sentido de las humanidades en el contexto actual. Pretende convertirse en insumo para una reflexión posterior sobre el papel de las humanidades en la educación y, en especial, en la educación superior, por ello el artículo se presenta a partir de la relevancia que tiene en este momento una reflexión humanística que comprende cinco tendencias y retos surgidos como lectura macrocontextual que nos ha entregado el siglo XX y, resalta, la construcción conjunta -de la filosofía, la religión y las ciencias- para la elaboración de una propuesta alternativa para la humanidad. Como primer acercamiento reflexivo sobre la problemática, el texto servirá de “pretexto” para la discusión en la temática, tan pertinente en este momento de grandes transformaciones dentro de la continuidad histórica y de pluralidad de cosmovisiones de la realidad
Los imaginarios sociales de violencia que configuran los jóvenes en la zona centro de Pereira
Comprender los imaginarios sociales que tienen los jóvenes de la violencia en la zona centro de la ciudad de Pereira, capital del Departamento de Risaralda, amerita un estudio socio-antropológico de la región, como territorio de miedo, de encuentro y desencuentro en la búsqueda de las representaciones e imaginarios que desde las creencias, hábitos y experiencias dejan huella en la explicación de la memoria en un espacio vivido, marcado y reconocido desde la construcción permanente de sentido.
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