What is shamanism? -- What or who are shamans? -- Lineage, heritage, and cultural appropriation -- The three worlds model -- Developing an shamanic practice -- Achieving an alpha state -- Ordinary and non-ordinary reality: what is journeying? -- Ceremonial tools and power objects -- The wounded healer archetype and soul songs -- Journeying to lower world: connecting with power animals -- Honoring your power animals -- Journeying to upper world: connecting with ancestral helping spirits -- Honoring the ancestors -- Environmental shamanism -- Beyond the basics.
UID/CPO/04627/2013, PTDC/IVC-CPO/1295/2014. ; The European Union (EU) is one of the biggest energy consumers in the world and imports more than half of all the energy it consumes. The EU is heavily reliant on a reduced number of energy suppliers, particularly oil and natural gas, and some countries rely entirely on the Russia Federation for their natural gas. The EU needs to continue developing short-term and long-term strategies to improve European energy security and to deal with the main challenges to security of supply. ; publishersversion ; published
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Introducción: Las condiciones laborales se agudizaron durante la pandemia, el desempleo de la profesión, la disminución de las posibilidades de contratación por parte del Estado, la sobreoferta de personas graduadas y la redefinición de algunos de los puestos que eran desempeñados por profesionales en trabajo social.
Objetivo: Aportar a las organizaciones de profesionales la experiencia del COLTRAS durante la pandemia, y cómo se abocó al apoyo y solidaridad con las personas agremiadas, en quienes repercutió la afectación emocional, económica y social producto de la pandemia misma y la participación en la ejecución de acciones emanadas por la Comisión Nacional de Emergencias y por el Ministerio de Salud.
Método y técnica: El método utilizado fue sistematización de las acciones, la construcción de informes de Presidencia y Planes de Trabajo de las comisiones. Entre las técnicas utilizadas fueron las sesiones virtuales, entrevistas con las colegas coordinadoras de programas de primera línea de los sectores de la salud, educación, municipales y organizaciones locales, entre otras. La integración y colectivización de experiencias fue realizado paulatinamente por parte de la secretaria de la junta con apoyo del equipo administrativo del COLTRAS.
Resultados: Se visibilizó aún más las desigualdades e inequidades en la población y se incrementaron las vulnerabilidades en los sectores de atención de trabajo social. La virtualidad permitió mayor integración de las filiales a nivel regional y sectorial y mayor visualización de la profesión.
Conclusiones: Se fortaleció la investigación, capacitación, sistematización y la correspondiente divulgación de experiencias, lo que robusteció el servicio profesional.
Abstract International Baccalaureate (IB) schools have traditionally been associated with displaced expatriates and globally mobile privileged elites. In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of state funded Title I IB schools across the United States, many of them serving immigrant and refugee children and youth. However, this unprecedented access of immigrant and refugee students to an international education is an underrepresented field in the education literature. How do immigrant and refugee children construct and perform citizenship in such contexts? How does the school utilize their cultural and global capital? In this article, I present the findings of a qualitative case study conducted in a fourth grade classroom in a public charter international school, River Song Elementary (pseudonym), serving immigrant, refugee and local children in one of the largest refugee resettlement areas in the United States. Through document analysis, focus groups, individual interviews, and ethnographic observations over a period of twelve weeks, I explored the children's constructions and performances of citizenship. I found that there were tensions between global and local narratives that trickled down to the school and classroom climate dichotomizing various aspects of children's identities and cultures as well as the ways in which they understood and enacted citizenship. Yet, guided by their teachers, the children were actively engaged in the construction of common civic spaces where different forms of expression played a singular agentic, participatory and unifying role.
The purpose of this article is to reflect upon how the gender and/or feminist perspectives have been incorporated into social action, an issue recently being tackled in Spain. By analyzing the care provided by the Comprehensive Care Service for female victims of gender violence in Andalusia, I shall identify issues such as adopting a feminist or gender perspective for social action, perpetuating or changing the gender imperatives of social resources, and so on.These debates feature strongly in what are termed the contemporary perspectives of social work.
English teaching programs, particularly in foreign language contexts focus on linguistic and methodological aspects rather than on ideological ones, in spite of their importance to examine the political nature of teaching and learning English because it connects language classrooms to larger social dynamics. Critical applied linguistics is an approach that addresses "questions of power, difference, access, and domination," and how they are produced. This articles explores the social, national, and global forces that shape English language teaching in Costa Rica. Los programas de enseñanza del inglés, en especial los de su enseñanza como idioma extranjero, se centran en aspectos lingüísticos y metodológicos; no en los ideológicos, no obstante su importancia para analizar las relaciones entre aspectos pedagógicos y procesos sociales dinámicos más extensos. La lingüística aplicada crítica estudia «cuestiones de poder, diferencia, acceso y dominación» y la manera en que estos elementos se producen. Se exploran las fuerzas sociales, nacionales e internacionales que dan forma a la enseñanza y adquisición del inglés en Costa Rica.
Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Sistemas de Informação Industriais, Engenharia Electrotécnica, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ; The objective of this thesis is to contribute for a structured and systematic decision-making process for industrial companies, particularly involving several actors, helping them make the best use of their resources. The paradigms of how industrial companies operate have been progressively changing over the last two decades. The flexible and dynamic flow of information and persons over companies has created new challenges and opportunities for industry. It is not possible to dissociate an enterprise from its human resources and the knowledge they create and use. Companies face decisions constantly, involving several actors and situations. With the market pressure and rapid changing environments, decisions are becoming more complex, and involving more people with complementary expertise. The knowledge processes are only efficient if the actors can anchor and relate the information handled to the extended enterprise. Therefore, an enterprise model is a fundamental aspect to support decision-making in industry. This work includes an overview of existing modelling methodologies and standards. Afterwards, it proposes an enterprise model to represent an extended or virtual enterprise, suitable not only for decision-making applications but also for others. This thesis considers methods and systems to support decision and analyses decision types and processes. Afterwards, the thesis presents some considerations on decision-making in industry and a generic decision-making process, including, a review of decision criteria commonly used in industry. Two of the methods widely used in some of the mentioned areas, case-based reasoning and the analytic hierarchy process, have been used in the scope of problem solving and decision-making, respectively. This thesis presents an approach based on a combination of case-based reasoning and analytic hierarchy process to support innovation, particularly product design in industry. The combination overcomes shortcomings of both methods to provide the most adequate decision support for multi-disciplinary teams in innovation processes. Moreover, the work presented proposes an algorithm for automatic adjustment of the weight of the actors in the decision process. This thesis includes case studies, developed in the scope of several research projects, used as practical applications of the work developed. These practical applications include seven test cases (with two manufacturing companies, two assembling companies, two engineering services companies and one software company) where the proposed enterprise model and methods have been applied with the purpose of supporting decisions. This highlights the wide application of the proposed model, describing its possible interpretations and the successful use of the decision support approach in industrial companies. ; Projects PICK (IST-1999-10442), AIM (IST-2001-52222), FOKSai (COOP-CT-2003-508637), InLife (FP6-2005-NMP2-CT-517018), InAmI (FP6-2004-IST-NMP-2-16788) and K-NET (FP7-ICT-1-215584), all of which were partially funded by the Research Framework Programs of the European Union
Este texto trata sobre las interrelaciones entre turistas y nacionales en la Cuba de principios del siglo XXI. Partiendo de trabajo etnográfico llevado a cabo en la isla y de la revisión de etnografías existentes, sobre todo en el contexto caribeño, se intenta mostrar el "turismo sexual" como un escenario social en el que indagar acerca de la (re)producción de las desigualdades de género, raza, clase, nacionalidad, desde una perspectiva donde se articulan lo local y lo global. Para ello me refiero al jineterismo como un fenómeno localizado en Cuba en el que se imbrican relaciones entre sexualidad y turismo y que condensa relaciones de dominación de género, clase y posición histórico-política. Término que, desde mi punto de vista, es reapropiado por la población para reivindicar estrategias de supervivencia de las que la sexualidad forma parte. ; This paper deals with the relationships between tourists and people from Cuba at beginning of the 21st century. Based on the ethnographic research carried out in the island and the review of existing ethnographies, mainly in the Caribbean context, it is intended to show the "sexual tourism" as a social scene in which, from a local and global standpoint, to investigate the (re) production of the inequalities of gender, race, class, and nationality. I refer to the jineterismo as a phenomenon existing in Cuba characterized by the overlapped relations between sexuality and tourism involving the domination of gender, class, and historical political position. This term, in my opinion, has been reappropriated by the population to justify survival strategies that include sexuality. ; Grupo de Investigación Antropología y Filosofía (SEJ-126). Universidad de Granada
English teaching programs, particularly in foreign language contexts focus on linguistic and methodological aspects rather than on ideological ones, in spite of their importance to examine the political nature of teaching and learning English because it connects language classrooms to larger social dynamics. Critical applied linguistics is an approach that addresses "questions of power, difference, access, and domination," and how they are produced. This articles explores the social, national, and global forces that shape English language teaching in Costa Rica. English teaching programs, especially those for teaching English as a foreign language, focus on linguistic and methodological aspects; not ideological ones, despite their importance for analyzing the relationships between pedagogical aspects and more extensive dynamic social processes. Critical applied linguistics studies "questions of power, difference, access and domination" and the way in which these elements are produced. The social, national and international forces that shape the teaching and acquisition of English in Costa Rica are explored.
