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In the context of the research of Positive Psychology history in Argentina, the aim of this paper is to analyze articles printed in popular media whose goal is to communicate to the general public the results of scientific research carried out in this field. In the first place, this work describes the main characteristics of public communication of science. Second, it briefly analyzes the history and development of Positive Psychology in the context of American psychology, from its beginnings in 1998 to the present day. At the same time, the reception of this psychological movement in our country is considered. Finally, the paper carries out a critical analysis of popularization articles about this topic published in different newspapers of our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper will reflect on the technology transfer activities of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) in order to demonstrate that since 1961 - the year in which the Technical Assistance Service Industry (SATI) was created- until today -when Law 23,877 for the Promotion and Development of Technological Innovation is fully implemented- different technology transfer modalities have been carried out, depending on certain S & T policies. First, it will describe the history of SATI, with regard to the political decisions made by the Department of Metallurgy of CNEA, which affected its links to the national industry and to the Nuclear Plan. In a second instance, it will describe the effects in technology transfer activities after the disabling of the Nuclear Plan in 1994 and the 23,877 law enforcement in CNEA. Finally, it will reflect on the two main stages of technology transfer in CNEA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a biographical and contextual analysis of the creative processes of leading Argentine scientists: Houssay, Leloir and Milstein. We analyze interviews, biographies, autobiographies and documents (works, speeches, letters) and several sources of information available in different formats: official websites and foundations, interviews, digital and paper texts and documentaries. We emphasize the role of exchanges with specialists as a conditioning factor of creative processes and significant advances in science. The biographical- contextual studies carried out indicate that interactions with teachers, mentors, tutors, colleagues and students favor the development of creativity and scientific activity in the cases analyzed. We also present analysis of other determinants of the creative process: contexts of work, ability to generate resources, educational background, knowledge available, sources of information, emotions, motivations and personality traits. Theoretical issues and previous studies on creativity in science are included in the first part of the text. Then, we describe significant results of the study. Finally, we argue about the relationship between communication, creativity and science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the space and content attributed to the police news in San Luis official newspaper as well as the impact generated on the population from the creation of a government web for reporting crimes. From a content analysis methodology, newspaper articles related to crimes in the Province during the first ten days of each month of the first semester of 2009 were followed up and assessed. In March 2009, the website called "Vecinos en alerta" (neighbors on alert) as a source of computerized complaint was launched. Results make explicit the existence of an ideological tendency that answers to the interests of the ruling power group, selecting the news to be spread and giving prominence to the role that formal social control organisms have as entities responsible for the safety of inhabitants. Although neighbors' complaints attributed a very limited efficacy to those who are part of these organisms, they provided information about their feelings of insecurity and showed an increase in crime that is not reflected in the local newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, the historical and epistemological foundations of the publications edited by the Instituto de Psicología Experimental (Institute of Experimental Psychology) of Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina) are analyzed. The study is based on the production of its Senior Director, Doctor Horacio Rimoldi. Rimoldi's scientific conceptions were influenced by sciences such as biology, psychology and mathematics, which he had learnt both in his medical profession and in his later studies in England in experimental psychology and factorial analysis. His main publications covered both applied psychology in industrial-organizational and in educational settings as well as research works on psychometric deficits. In this paper, his works are analyzed by a strict methodology based on very original and complex correlation measurements and factorial analysis. He also related the data to personal information such as age and gender, and affective troubles. In his publications, the educational variable has been a predominant factor when correlating and interpreting the differences in academic performance between the populations of the tests (mostly Anglo-Saxon countries and Argentina). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports some findings of a research project that studies the consequences of educational policies in the work of University teachers. Such consequences are shown as deep changes in the 90s, among which teaching practice appears to be comparatively the most affected. What is focused in earlier studies as Evaluation Policies have proven to be, among other things, the implementation of policies for controlling and regulating University teachers' workforce. The Programme of Economic Incentives to research practice is a key referent; however the ordinance regulating teacher's career at UNSL is central for the analysis of working conditions. Likewise, the Auto-evaluation Institutional Programme, which started in the 90s at UNSL, unfolds meaningful data. All together brings about reflections on the situational context and the conditions which, facilitating the strategies imposed for rearranging the capitalist system, allowed that Market logics, conceiving knowledge as a commodity, permeate university institutions and its actors. Consequently, there is a reference to new regulation "prints" leaving its "mark" in the subjectivity of the university teacher as a worker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses educational reforms undertaken during the last two decades in Argentina and Brazil focusing on the structure of teaching, teacher's work, its organization, resistance and conflicts arisen from the expected changes. The starting point results from two researches developed over the last few years, in which the ongoing educational reforms in Latin American countries are analyzed from a comparative perspective. The article concludes that the reforms carried out in Argentina and Brazil since 1990, have meant deep transformations both in school organization and school work organization; they have accomplished, amongst the main consequences, the intensification and precariousness of teacher's work, and have brought about different expressions of educational conflict as regards the individual, group and collective areas, all evidence provided by the schools under study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This writing refers to university teacher's subjectivity. It contains -in its own style- the prints of subjectivity, generally unacceptable for academic papers. It is a perception or testimony exposed in first person about a tragic situation that concerns and affects Argentine university teachers. The intention is to share an experience and reflection that, even when tinged with disenchantment, cherish the hope of new projects that may recover the passion and desire distinctive of an "alive" university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper focuses on teacher's work at Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, since this is the academic space in which we have been professionally educated and to which we keep connected. Throughout our extended stay at this institution we have been able to observe the current working conditions of teachers in their workplace. Undoubtedly, it is evident that the image society has about teacher's work has become worn out in the course of time. Moreover, it has brought about a feeling of apprehension affecting the physical health of the teaching staff which, in turn, has direct consequences in their daily personal life and in their different social roles as worker, mother, father, friend, son, daughter, and so on. The present article has been inspired by the pursuit of a revaluation of the key position that teachers undertake in the building-up of a country's social foundations on the basis of shared efforts and in using reason as a transformation source. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to reflect on teachers' labor regulations and conditions in the Foreign Languages Centre at San Luis National University, considering its complex background so as to improve the general situation and, in particular, teaching practice. Some issues arising from "praxis" are stated and reconsidered, and three categories of analysis are identified, namely, teaching conditions, organization and regulations. Different conceptual relations are established based on a diagnosis of the situational context, the analysis of institutional documents (Study Programmes & Syllabuses), as well as the actions carried out by the subjects involved. On the other hand, the contributions of research developed in other national and international university settings are taken into account as antecedents which would, in turn, enhance and open new horizons in this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports some conclusions of a study carried out within the Research Project: "Evaluation Policies and their Consequences on the Teaching Practices of University Professors"- No 4-1-0001 (2003-2005) - Secretary of Science and Technology, Faculty of Human Sciences, National University of San Luis. It focuses on finding out why the Foreign Languages (FL) are considered as curricular subjects in the undergraduate programs of the Faculty of Human Sciences. Therefore, institutional documents such as the curricula including Foreign Language courses, and their corresponding syllabuses are examined. The analysis of such documents is framed within perspectives related to curriculum and the teaching of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes at university level. Three aspects of the above-mentioned documents are considered, namely the comparison among undergraduate programs, the correlation between them and FL syllabuses, and the review of the curricular design proposals put forward by the staff of FL professors. From this survey, some analysis criteria have come to light, elucidating the relevance of Foreign Languages as regards the student's formation in the field of Human Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the current proposals about ethical education in psychology undergraduate programs within Mercosur regional context, particularly in Argentina. The organisation processes carried out by the psychology professional community of Mercosur is analyzed. As a consequence of it, the Psychologists' Committee of Mercosur and Associated Countries was founded with the main objective of establishing common standards for psychology undergraduate education and the ethical framework for the regulation of the profession. With respect to Argentina, the processes generated by the psychology academic community are analyzed. With the creation of the Association of Psychology Academic Units and the cooperation of the Federation of Argentinean Psychologists (Fe-PRA), the psychological community has put forward a threefold proposal: i) Activities related to the Professional Degree, ii) the Direct Risk involved in an unethical practice, and iii) the Curricular Contents that should be taught at university. Ethical and deontological contents are included in all the mentioned activities. Finally, it is worth noting the importance of the developments related to professional ethics and deontology taking place in Mercosur context as well as in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]