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Abstract We explain why a group of Tanzanian medical doctors decided to stay in their home country despite a massive brain drain and pressure to migrate. We argue that purpose-driven behaviour among medical doctors serves as a counterforce to brain drain, fostering human stickiness in a developing country context. A sense of purpose provides a novel lens to understand voluntary non-migration of highly-skilled professionals under extreme conditions. Furthermore, incoming expatriate doctors build local capacity by sharing skills and expertise with Tanzanian doctors. This affects the medical doctors' motives to migrate, further reducing brain drain. These individual-level decisions not to migrate find their application in policy. We advocate policies that support purpose-driven behaviour and generate long-term commitment to a location, while advancing short-term mobility for knowledge sharing. The policy initiatives are targeted at actors in the sending and receiving countries as well as in international organisations, covering concerted multi-layered policies to support family and community embeddedness, to facilitate the incoming of expatriate doctors and foreign exchange, and to cultivate benefits of circular migration. We argue that migration behaviour is more individually grounded and socio-emotionally constructed than what dominant economic-based explanations suggest.

27 p. ; This article focuses on a documentary review of Colombian regulations regarding curriculum and curricular management, based on a conceptual framework that guides the definition of our object of study. With the identification of the educational regulations in the curricular subject we made a matrix that allows to account for the findings in each of the laws, likewise a classification is made, according to the tendencies and perspectives of the curriculum addressed by the Colombian Law. ; The national and sectoral government plans for education are also reviewed, and curricular requirements are considered from the National Accreditation Council (CNA). The building of the matrix allows a vertical and horizontal analysis, which exposes as a result, on the one hand, its weaknesses and strengths in curriculum and curricular management, and on the other, the requirements of the regulations for the internationalization of the curriculum by of Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Finally, a conclusion that allows to give indications and recommendations to the HEI, to carry out processes of curricular management from the Colombian regulation. ; El presente artículo se centra en una revisión documental acerca de la normatividad colombiana en cuanto a currículo y gestión curricular, partiendo de un marco conceptual que orienta la definición de nuestro objeto de estudio. Con la identificación de la normatividad educativa en lo curricular, se construye una matriz que permite dar cuenta de los hallazgos en cada una de las leyes, así mismo se realiza una clasificación de acuerdo a las tendencias y perspectivas de currículo abordadas por la ley colombiana; también se realiza revisión desde los planes de gobierno nacionales y sectoriales en cuanto a educación se refiere y se contemplan las exigencias curriculares desde el Consejo Nacional de Acreditación (CNA). La materialización de la matriz permite un análisis tanto vertical como horizontal, que expone como resultado, por una parte, sus debilidades y fortalezas en cuanto a currículo y gestión curricular, y por otra, las exigencias desde la normatividad para la internacionalización del currículo por parte de las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES). Finalmente, una conclusión que permite dar indicaciones y recomendaciones a las IES, para llevar a cabo procesos de gestión curricular desde la normatividad colombiana. ; Especialización ; Especialista En Docencia Universitaria

With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist Åke E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the other members of this "creative troika". In the Handbook of Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology, and urban planning. The stated policy implications are equally diverse, ranging from libertarian to social democratic visions of our shared creative and urban future