“Conversations of Elizabeth Squire” was a Television program from the UNED, which was transmitted in the program The Adventure of Knowledge in The 2, in the years 1996 and 1997. In this entry we recovered, just as we did with the Debate “Knowledge and society”, a conversation with Antonio Escohotado (Philosopher and professor of Sociology […]
Growing up with hunger. Child poverty
When we talk about child poverty we are almost always in the countries of the Third World, but this tragedy remains invisible in advanced societies. Grow hungry is a short documentary of Francis Fernandez and Karlos Santiuste which shows the situation that suffer every time more children in san jose and throughout the state. Are […]
Crisis, neoliberalism, and social policy
A report, based on updated data collected by the Social Barometer, analyses the main impacts of the economic crisis, placing emphasis on the re-directions of public expenditures. By BSE1 of Colectivo Ioé the February 21, 2013 Social barometer of Spain Main conclusions: ● In the last decades records an adverse distribution of income among classes […]
Crisis and cuts: impact on education system
The last three years recorded a reduction of the resources allocated to public education (total expenditure, per student, and the worsening of the ratio teachers/pupils). although it still maintains the rate of people perceptoras of scholarships. The school results were registering a positive evolution between 2007 and 2010 that can deteriorate due to the growing […]
Four models of education. Here’s how they work
The No. 323 of XLSemanal published an interesting article on the duties they have to perform the students in the various educational systems known worldwide. It seems to Me useful to reproduce here the description of the four models of education ‘ in this article: Four models of education And work: The continental model The […]
Course online The sociology of Norbert Elias
Online Course Virtual institute of Human Sciences Norbert Elias is one of the modern classics of the social sciences, for their contributions not only to sociology, but also history and anthropology. Particularly well known is their contributions to the process of civilization. This course will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the German author. […]
Course of formation iS+D
The Fundación iS+D is a non-profit entity. Their logo incorporates, in addition to I “research”, the D of “development”, because the Foundation aims to advance the human understanding, from the freedom of a group of researchers independent of any institutional affiliation or doctrinal, powerfully attracted by the giddy knowledge that, like numbers, is infinite. The […]
Symposium on the new political forces
The participation of the rector of the university, Alejandro Tiana, and the professors Ramón Cotarelo, Jaime Pastor and José Ignacio Torreblanca Tuesday may 12, 2015 will be held the debate on The emergence of we Can in Spanish politics: limits and possibilities, with the participation of the rector of the national university of distance education, […]
Debate “Knowledge and society”. Emmánuel Lizcano, Luis Castro and Isabel Escudero
In this entry I come to retrieve a debate issued at the end of 1996 from the series “Conversations with Isabel Escudero” from the UNED was transmitted in the program The Adventure of Knowledge in The 2. By that time, I didn’t know there was something called sociology and, since then, I couldn’t have imagined […]
Tell myself who I am
Source: The Nation-Society. By Javier Martínez Cortés (a professor emeritus of Sociology of Religion at the Seminary of San Damaso). 25/03/2012. . Against the prophesied, the christian religion not only tends to be confined to the intimate level, but it appears in the public sphere. And, what is more dangerous, in political partisanship. . From […]