2015

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Investigación y docencia. Nexos y beneficios mutuos
(2015) Bojorque Iñeguez, Jaime Asdrúbal
Several factors are involved in the research and teaching relationship, although it seems obvious the link of these functions in the IES, this relationship is often hidden and is not used in the best way to get the most benefit. This document addresses the linkages and benefits that research brings to teaching and vice versa. The link between teaching and research is learning, because research is a process of learning itself. The aim of introducing aspects of the research activities in teaching is to significantly improve the results of both rather than to have a separate approach. The balance between these academic activities contributes to the training of students and teachers researchers and contributes to the development of society. Apart from the curricular content that can be strengthened by the results of research, one should consider all other aspects that research activities can support in teaching for students to develop other skills and abilities, and motivate them in continuing self-education.
Algunos puntos sobre las IES. Perspectivas globales de la educación en el siglo XXI
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Garrido Quiroz, Rolando
This article argues that in contemporary educational approaches there is no task and more urgent mission than to actively educate for peace. Education for peace, taken as fashionable in the late twentieth century, even in the mission of many universities and educational reforms, and forced into so-called cross sectional objectives, demonstrates that still today it does not reach priority status when thinking about this challenge in the context of new pedagogical designs and new curricular proposals, by the usual accreditation systems of education quality. That is, peace in our educational system is still far from being credible, much less from quality verification.
Acreditación universitaria
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Malo González, Claudio
The University has been called “Headquarters of reason” considering that its purpose is to form students in high level through the development of this faculty. Those culminating a career obtain an academic degree which is a testament to their academic training; although in some cases this degree is sought for vanity. Human beings are built in time and one of the purposes of universities is to contribute to this process. In accordance with the way how they fulfill these functions, the universities achieve in communities different levels of prestige, this is subject to its seriousness and responsibility. To establish this level there are accreditation processes that depend on the qualities of its graduates and the successes in research. Universities must have internal mechanisms to improve the performance of their duties, but there are also external institutions that make it possible to find out these levels and to compare them. The external accreditation can be performed with different methods and visions, which gives rise to different points of view based on how, under what referents and who carries out these efforts.
La evaluación de carreras universitarias en el Ecuador ¿desde qué concepción de educación?
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Van Der Bijl, Martinus Johannes Carolus Maria
This article resumes the most important results of a documentary and bibliographic study concerning the evaluation model for university careers, which is actually applied and directed by the Ecuadorian Council for Evaluation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (CEAACES). The study, carried out between December 2013 and July 2014, aimed at clarifying the educational concept that underlies the evaluation model. Therefore we analyzed the discourse published in some of the organization´s documents, considering terms like “excellence”, “pertinence”, “learning outcomes” and “knowledge transfer”. Among others we conclude that the CEAACES evaluation model supposes an educational concept based on instrumental rationality and a university focused on the building of human capital.
Visionar una película: adaptación y deslindes entre el texto, el guión y la película
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Torres Palchisaca, Galo Alfredo
A series of misunderstandings and erroneous assumptions continue to impair the productivity of the viewing of a film. Watching a film, especially if it is the result of an adapted script, it is often accompanied by negative judgments by readers and viewers who are accustomed to the sterile habit of comparison. Against this comparative tendency, arises the need to dispose the preconception or unprejudiced viewing of films, which can be possible to attain through the discrediting of sterile comparisons by setting radical demarcations, even in the bosom of cinematographic adaptation, deriving out of two forms of representation or means of expression, notwithstanding they share components, they are by nature, verbally and visually different. This is not about seeking the novel in a film neither the film in a novel.
Participación ciudadana en la construcción de políticas públicas. Entre la realidad y la utopía
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Salazar, Ana Cecilia; Osorio, Pablo; Astudillo, Karina; Mogrovejo, Isabel; Cumbe, Mónica
A first idea about the exercise of power concerns overcoming the limited vision of defining power as a relationship between two parties in which one party has dominion over the other. In reality, the exercise of power is more complex. The exercise of power corresponds to the mobilization of biases and strategies, which are often not obvious. This leads to the reduction of decision-making to only those topics that interest the ones with power. To unravel these procedures, we need to clarify the current power relations and determine the issues that are ‘questionable’ for those who are ‘indisputable’. Who exerts power creates social and political conditions for organizing participation schemes and achieving a legitimate dominion over the population. In the process of constructing public policies, we can identify citizen participation as a key element for the creation of a democracy of better quality. The new Ecuadorian legal framework, raised expectations about the possibility of involving people in this process. This paper aims to analyze the role played by the institutional framework to limit or promote citizen and citizen participation. Furthermore it aims to unravel the links between social agents, motivations, prejudices and stereotypes, such as emotional, cultural and social burdens that the citizen entails being involved in the participatory process.
Hannah Arendt y la defensa de lo político
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Nieves, Gerardo
Sometimes I ask myself: Why Hannah Arendt is not widespread and known by contemporary politicians, especially some of Latin America, Middle East and Africa ? So is there something that in her annoys to the “politics professionals ? H. Arendt reflects the main concepts of politics theory, from the Nazi experience, lived and experienced by the prosperous Germany today. It is true that H. Arendt didn’t write making its way Latin America, but her research, I think, that it can ventilate policies that they are tired citizens, who seeks another way to act in politics. For H. Arendt, the politics community is constitutional; it is not cultural, religious, or natural origin. It comes from consensus that having origins in a plurality of different points of view and argued. This community requires a public space. It is not seeking the common good, but the public good, and the citizens live in a state that have rights and duties. It must create a space of freedom from the plurality, by the action and word.
Hacia la expansión del comercio internacional de la empresa local: proupesta de un plan para el estudio de la competitividad en empresas exportadoras de productos terminados ubicadas en la ciudad de Guayaquil
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Alcívar, Ana María
The source of this article is the thesis developed by the author, which allowed her to obtain the degree of Master in Foreign Trade. The research addressed the issue of business and competitive management, which is trendy nowadays, especially for those companies who have vision and are looking to expand beyond local markets; and for those countries that consider primordial the integration processes, in an increasingly globalized, competitive and demanding world, where it stands and remains one that evolves with the rapid changes occurring in the global scope. The research question was: what factors influenced in the lack of identify indicators that allow to reliably studying the competitiveness of exporters of finished products? The overall objective of the research was to: Design a plan that allows studying using/through indicators, the competitiveness of the different exporter enterprises of finished products in Guayaquil. To develop this article, as reference, the pragmatic empiricism epistemology was taken, as it allowed a comprehensive approach to the object of study (business competitiveness). Seven models proposed business competitiveness through books, scientific papers and theses fourth level, as authors from Colombia and Mexico were analyzed. This study was a non-experimental, trans-descriptive, quantitative method design. One hypothesis with two variables; also the research techniques used were the documentary reviews and bibliographical documentations. The results are ordered from the statistical Cluster Method and helped to develop the proposed Competitiveness Plan for companies exporting finished products in Guayaquil from the following sectors: Processed Foods, Crafts, Automotive, Processed Cocoa product, Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals, Textiles - clothing - leather and footwear.
Arte y vida cotidiana en Cuenca durante los siglos XVI al XVIII, una cercana relación
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Martínez Borrero, Juan
The close relationships between daily life and the arts is examined in this paper with reference to Cuenca, a third order city in the Real Audiencia de Quito, between the 16th and the 18th centuries. The author defines the conditions of the city foundation and the growing demand for craftsmen and artists alike, whose work are destined to fulfill daily requirements more than to cover important religious commissions. Cuenca’s relative isolation provokes a growing offer of local goods, although prestige imported items are always present. The change in conditions during the 18th century drives the development of local artistic manifestations, closely related with daily life. Large and complex mural paintings with unique features will become an outstanding example of local artin the Andes.
La investigación científica en las universidades ecuatorianas
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Ayala Mora, Enrique
In this exposition, I am deliberately not going to give figures. The few there are, don´t seem reliable to me. I will only give my opinions, for them, I am the solely responsible. Far from being a magisterial lecture, this exposition is an outline of some ideas for reflection. It is the fruit of the initial notes on a problem that all Ecuadorians, especially academics, are forced to face in the here and now of our higher education.
De la higiene a la medicina social en la carrera de medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Cañizares Aguilar, Aurelio Ernesto
In the curriculum of the School of Medicine of the University of Cuenca, throughout history, there has been little emphasis on subjects or disciplines and related contents with Social Medicine (formerly conceived as Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health). Physicians have been educated with an individualistic view of health care, mainly with a clinical-surgical vision, and motivated to private practice. A hospital-based background has been the main scenario of their training. Medical education has been based on the social structure, the prevailing health system and market requirements. However, some encouraging milestones are recorded in the history of the Faculty, framed in the practice of social medicine, such as university extension programs, community medicine, rural health and others. The work of the Professor Edgar Rodas Andrade, in line with his leadership and way of thinking, is emphasized.
UNASUR: avances y limitaciones en la integración de América del Sur
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Carvajal Aguirre, Fernando
The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) was preceded as an integration initiative by the Andean Community (Comunidad Andina de Naciones-CAN) and the MERCOSUR (Mercado Comun del Sur). The former is currently in the process of dispersing, as a result of several attempts to adjust to the international economy by renouncing its founding principles; the latter, currently confronts internal di-sagreements, resulting from policies that have failed to provide answers to the instability created by the inequality of its economies. These two exhausted processes leave UNASUR a legacy of new expressions of old contradictions, which manifest themselves in the relations between the countries in the Alliance of the Pacific and those on the Atlantic coast. While these discrepancies and contradictions between govern-ments exist both in ideology and policy; governments have managed to maintain common development strategies and accumulation methods, related to raw material extraction and export. China has been able to take advantage of both the discrepancies and commonalities among governments to strengthen its presence in the region. The first section of this work will characterize the integration processes that existed in the region prior to the formation of UNASUR. The second section addresses the central objectives of the creation of UNASUR. Finally, the third section provides a reflection on other groupings that overlap with UNASUR, some of which find it difficult to survive in the climate of the current crisis, which can in turn end up benefiting both UNASUR as well as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
La influencia de la familia en el dasarrollo del apego
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Dávila, Yolanda
The purpose of this article is to make a systematic review of the literature about the dynamics of the family and its influence on the development of attachment. To fulfill this objective, first the main theoretical concepts relevant to attachment, the types of attachment are presented and subsequently to this theoretical approach, the recent contributions on the different critical situations faced by the family and how these influence the development of attachment, will be reviewed.
La evaluación, acreditación y categorización universitaria en el Ecuador
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Koppel Vintimilla, Eduardo
This current article reveals information on the actions taken by the CEAACES, which were the guidelines for the Assessment and Accreditation process which took place in 2013. These processes have been compelled on a series of violations and breaches of constitutional, legal and regulatory nature. Finally, it also expresses my deep concern to demonstrate that CEAACES has played both roles, the judge and the jury ones, who, at the same time, are part of the universities to whom they evaluate. Moreover, they went through this process hiring consultants of purely private universities and setting up a sort of collusive pact with the private education system.
Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Universidad de Cuenca
La necesidad de un nuevo modelo de gestión para las universidades públicas
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-07) Aguilar Feijó, Víctor Gerardo
Traditional university management does not fit to recent needs and role that the society has for public universities. The increasing access to higher education, new laws and rules, the qualitative features that this new order show establishes, invites us to think about a new model o management for Ecuadorian public university
La maldición de la Universidad silenciosa. La educación superior en el debate de los temas generales
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-12) Ayala Mora, Enrique
The research paper aims to establish the specific conditions in which the relationship University/State/ society evolves, and the implications this has on the exercise of criticism from the academia. In the current situation of the country, which intends to establish a model of modernization reflected in higher education, it is necessary to reveal the mechanisms by which the University is functionalized to the authoritarian project, eliminating the critical dimension and the autonomy of the institutions and the system.
América en El Quijote
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-12) Encalada Vásquez, Oswaldo
The second part of The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote appears in 1615 - 400 years ago; the first had appeared a decade earlier. In this masterful novel, the best of many ever written, and which is also the beginning of the modern novel, we find very few cases of references to the American continent, place where Cervantes wanted to migrate with the intention - like all Spaniards of his time - to better the wealth. Cervantes did not come to America; but the new world is present in his monumental work, through brief allusions. In homage to the fourth centenary of the famous novel, we outline this brief approach to the American presence in the Cervantino story.
El proyecto minero Cobre Mirador y su relación con el plan de ordenamiento territorial de la I. Municipalidad de El Pangui y El Plan Nacional del buen vivir (Sumak Kawsay)
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-12) Cordero Farfán, María Fernanda
The project “Cobre Mirador” is the first large scale mining operation in Ecuador. The same one is located at the south-east of the country, close to Zamora river valley in Zamora Chinchipe province, El Pangui Canton, adjacent to the ecuatorian-peruvian border. This mining operation, should be regulated by the ecuatorian Develop and Zoning Plan “Plan de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial (2011)”, developed by the Pangui municipality in concordance with the Good Life National Plan “Plan Nacional del Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay)”. Meanwhile, this regulation is not happening, in the future we will not have any idea about the demographic consequences caused by the temporal and definitive immigration during the operation time by the transnational CRCC-Tongguan Investment Co; the activity will involve a change in the socioeconomic and culture dynamic, and a deficiency in the basic infrastructure ,as well. The lack of planning will have strong consequences like a wrong ground use and the environment deterioration.
La meseta de Pachamama y sus áreas de influencia: aportes arqueológicos para el austro
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-12) Novillo, Miguel Angel; Vargas, Juan Pablo
The following article describes and characterizes archaeological materials recovered from the Pachamama plateau and surrounding areas with the intention of discussing and contributing new conceptual theories in order to understand the establishment of prehispanic societies in the Ecuadorian Austro region. This area of study can be explained through geological, geographic and archaeological data, which contributes to from the favorable climate for the development of flora and fauna as well as due to the water source that is a permanent feature of the whole meseta. The noticeable characteristic throughout the different times in which this area was occupied is that dirt road and track systems were built, connecting on area with another, leading to the construction of a traffic network cross the region. Finally, it suggests the employment of unifying tactics such as food and festival in a territory that was constantly in dispute. This makes the plateau region Pachamama an archaeological sight of interest in the south of country.

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