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The number of people with disabilities who study at university is rising. Previous studies have revealed that it is not enough simply to provide these students with access to university, it is also important to guarantee their retention and suc cess. This article explores participants' actions and their appraisals of their teaching practice in relation to disability in campus-based education. The study was conducted with 19 Spanish faculty members from the Health Sciences who were nominated by their students with disabilities for having contributed to their inclusion. We carried out a qualitative study based on individual, in depth, semi-structured interviews. We analysed the data progressively, using a system of catego ries and codes. The results section outlines the actions taken by faculty members upon learning that they were going to be teaching a student with disabilities, analysing what specific meas ures they took in accordance with the type of dis ability in question, and what they found most rewarding and most difficult or unpleasant about their experience with these students in the classroom. The study concludes that the voices of these faculty members may encourage other col leagues to rethink their actions in the classroom and engage in more inclusive practices. ; Spanish State Research Agency ; FEDER funds European Union ; Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain

Innovation and technology, which are part of the debate in the knowledge society, are linked to the creation of a prosperous environment that benefits them, the result of multiple and coordinated action of three factors: government, productive structure and technological and scientific infrastructure. The investigation starts from the following question: What is the best methodology for managing the structures known as Science and Technology Parks? The objective of the research is to develop a management model for the Scientific and Technological Park of the Missions Region in order to optimize its economic and financial self-sufficiency so that it does not depend exclusively on resources from the University or from public notices. In methodological terms, the research is a qualitative one, of an applied nature since its results will be used in practice to solve a specific problem. As preliminary results, a self-sustainable management model for the Scientific and Technological Park of the Missions is presented, considering its specificities and peculiarities. This model was developed from the investigation of the main methodologies used in PCTs in different regions of the world and in Brazil, with the purpose of indicating the most appropriate strategies for the implantation of PCTs in a farming region, as well as, identifying the regional base actors technology to understand the operation of the Triple Helix.

The core purpose of this article is to make a critical exploration of the idea of democratic education. The thesis of the author is that there is a complementary relationship between deliberative and agonist models of democracy, defended by Amy Gutmann and ChantalMouffe, which allows an understanding of education that, meets the moral demands of a democratic conception of citizenship. The text begins with an approach to the relationship between politics and education; then, there is a presentation of the agonal and deliberative perspectives of politics in the interpretation of democracy, to finally identify the points of intersection of both models and propose some lines of reflection on citizenship and its praxis.Keywords: Involvement, democratic education, deliberation, agonism, consensus. ; El propósito central de este artículo consiste enrealizar una exploración crítica de la idea de educación democrática. La tesis que se defiende afirma que existe una relación de complementariedad entre los modelos deliberativo y agonista de la democracia, defendidos por Amy Gutmann y Chantal Mouffe, que permite una comprensión de la educación que satisface las exigencias morales que deben integrar una concepción democrática de ciudadanía. El texto inicia con un planteamiento acerca de la relación entre política y educación; seguidamente, se exponen los enfoques agonal y deliberativo de la política en la interpretación de la democracia, para finalmente identificar los puntos de intersección entre ambos modelos y proponer algunas líneas de reflexión en torno a la comprensión la ciudadanía y la praxis de la formación ciudadana.Palabras clave: participación, educación democrática, deliberación, agonística, consenso.

This book explores the campaign history of California's women legislators and the increasingly complex strategies they used in efforts to transcend gender barriers when running for office from 1912 to 1970. Nearly 500 women ran on the primary ballots, re-gendering the political landscape while struggling against a recurring historical amnesia.

In this dissertation I examine power relationships and social and environmental change stemming from the globalization of shea nuts trade in western Burkina Faso. The first chapter shows that the globalization of the shea nuts trade has not led to fundamental change in the organization of the shea nuts value chain in western Burkina Faso. I demonstrate that wholesalers may have survived the upheavals of the globalization process by being organized in a way that enables them to overcome the main coordination problems of the shea supply chain. In chapter two, I examine how the globalization of the shea market affects inequalities at local level through changes in access to the shea tree. I propose a conceptual framework to study inequalities in access to natural resources, which combines two complementary approaches showing both mechanisms by which access is controlled and the result on social differentiation. The third chapter shows how the boom in the shea trade in western Burkina Faso has fueled a socio-economic differentiation process. I cross analyze the gender politics and agrarian change literatures to inform both intra- and inter-household mechanisms of differentiation and to build a typology of households. The last chapter explores underlying colonial legacies that influence the way regeneration projects are thought and designed. I show that the current endeavors are rooted in a narrow technical way of framing the ecological question of the shea tree as developed by colonial scientists and that assumes away the social meaning of the tree and its complex and evolving tenure. ; L'objectif de la thèse est d'analyser les relations de pouvoir et les changements sociaux et environnementaux engendrés par la mondialisation du commerce des amandes de karité dans l'Ouest du Burkina Faso. Dans le premier chapitre, nous montrons que la mondialisation du commerce des amandes de karité n'a pas conduit à de profondes modifications de l'organisation de la chaîne de valeur dans l'ouest du Burkina Faso. Le maintien du pouvoir d'un réseau de grossistes de karité au niveau régional s'explique à la fois par les spécificités du karité et par l'efficacité de leur organisation. Le deuxième chapitre décortique comment la croissance de la valeur économique des amandes de karité contribue à modifier l'accès à l'arbre et à ses produits. Nous montrons les mécanismes qui contribuent à modifier les règles d'accès et détaillons comment ce changement de l'accès au karité peut affecter la différenciation sociale locale. Dans le troisième chapitre nous analysons plus en détail, et à l'échelle intra-ménage, la différenciation socio-économique en partie issue des effets de la mondialisation du marché des amandes de karité. Nous croisons les analyses des changements d'accès à l'arbre avec les rapports de pouvoir intra-ménage pour définir une typologie des ménages. Cette typologie met en relief les disparités dans la place du revenu karité et son partage dans le ménage. Le dernier chapitre apporte une vision historique et critique du discours dominant sur l'écologie du karité. Ce chapitre met en perspective la façon techniciste dont la science coloniale a pensé les projets de gestion du karité, et le fait que les traits saillant de ce discours colonial sont repris aujourd'hui dans les discours des industriels du karité et des gouvernements.

This essay opines that it is intellectually unsatisfactory to suggest that there is a Francophone vs an Anglophone political geography. Authors who explore & debate the supposed differences perpetuate the notion of such a divide & also support a hegemonic Anglo-American project, unaware of its cultural politics. Anglophone geographers generally portray the Francophone world as internally coherent & elusively Other, primarily because for years, many read only English & thus did not know what Francophone geographers wrote about. Meanwhile, Anglo-American geography has been driven by so-called "French Theory," as explained by F. Cusset (2003) in French Theory: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Cie et les mutations de la vie intellectuelle aux Etats-Unis (mutations of intellectual life in the US). The author hopes that debates in international political geography can draw some inspiration from bilingual meetings, which hopefully can serve as intellectual catalysts & reverberate in consequential ways. References. S. Stanton [Copyright 2008 Elsevier Ltd.]