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Violence has intensified at all social levels worldwide, generating problems of different magnitude or competence and involving people either as aggressors or victims. This paper shows the findings of the perception of the different social actors who are immersed in abuse, taking as reference the role of the State, school, family and media as the main drivers of a culture of prevention. The analysis demonstrates that people have lost sight of family responsibility as the main source of personal and social development. In addition, at the social level, behaviors disconnected from morally good actions have been normalized, giving way to violence. Therefore, this paper proposes to include violence prevention projects in a joint work that articulates social needs with cultural determinants, being necessary to establish strategies that involve social institutions and organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to highlight the importance of the relationship of knowledge with the environment to place its effects on the educational life of individuals as part of the understanding of thought about the world and ourselves. From this view, the teaching process cannot be conceived above the local realities that produce his own narratives of meaning, which makes education an exploration opportunity around biocultural codes that organize the link between human being and the nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes two questions: where does United States public administration is going and which would be the best way to build its path toward the future. The author begins discussing through a historical point of view, where it is clear that there are important intellectual confusions. These are not only due to the relatively short existence of the discipline in United States, but also in deeper cultural traditions of such country. Next, the author tries to draw the conceptual boundaries of the discipline and discusses which are its special fields, scientific techniques, methodology, and emergent categories. Last but not least, the paper proposes a particular perspective regarding the direction that the United States administrative science might take given the lack of a concept of the State (beginning with its constitutional design) which might be taken as a fact for this country, continuing to affecting the United States perspective on public administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming to achieve an adequate knowledge management many organizations focus on implementing digital platforms that allow information exchanges, but they leave the human component away. In this reflection paper a complementary vision is proposed, based on internal communication as the booster of group interactions, empowering and proper values within the organizational culture for achieving the levels required when knowledge is managed. The conclusions are concentrated on the potentialities of the communication strategy to strengthen the organizational culture and also strengthen the individuals-employees, making the exteriorization, sharing and generation of organizational knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analysis of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism reveals that the word "culture" is explicitly mentioned at least 43 times depending on the edition and translation. Culture is relevant as the foundation of the argumentative structure since it allows for the differentiation of human groups and their peculiar characteristics. From a cosmopolitan point of view, Weber's question is still pertinent given the advances of global thinking, its recent dissemination, and its acceptance within academic circles. With cosmopolitanism as its main guide, this paper analyses the use of the word "culture: in the book in order to inspire a debate on how to define a cosmopolitan ethos. While there is a persistent inquiry onto the applicable ethical-political mechanisms, the cosmopolitan literature converges towards education as an answer to the problem of culture in a globalized world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay periodizes Mexican culture in several tendencies: Frenchification, nationalism, modernization-Americanization, system fall and future-Simurg. It illustrates the historical circumstances that allow the understanding of the current lack of a dominating cultural project and the lack of a moral and intellectual direction. It codifies already deceased intellectuals; while grouping them in phases and contrasting them with current intellectuals; it evidences the lack of a national cultural project different from the Televisa project. It explains the concepts that structure this paper --culture, intellectual, education, hegemony/dominance, and crisis--, and shows periods previously mentioned, as well as artists and thinkers who conformed them, like: Cantinflas, Octavio Paz, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Pablo Moncayo, and, current ones like Alfonso Cuarón, Aleks Sintek, or "Perro" Bermúdez. It invites to reconsider the importance of what currently exists: The tendency, not completely visible, of social movements that act in behalf of a desirable future: other culture created by the efforts of many. Desired by those who criticize the current crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the "question" of evil in direct relation to modernity. The proposed theses hold that evil cannot be studied by searching for its origins, but by inscribing it within specific historical and cultural coordinates. In this case, the coordinates are located in the modern world and a Modernity that launched the promise of progress and in fact opened the door to anthropological correction, disguising it as a necessary gesture for re-founding humanity itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the goal of building a more detailed critique regarding the concept and practice of certain cultural categories in Colombia, this study intended to analyze legal, political, institutional and academic on Colombian public education. Culture has played a major role in the public arena of Colombia at the beginning of the century. As a means of development, promoting national culture became the aim to achieve progress. However, much remains to be done in Colombia to get a proper understanding of the approach and the role of culture as an essential element for development. The aim of this paper is to analyze the main views built in the last three decades (legal, political, institutional and academic), this analysis shows that not only have not been consistent but sometimes have been contradictory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last years, Brazil has gained international visibility especially due to the capacity of its economical development and the progress of its public policies on fighting poverty. Though there reason for celebration exists with respect to the country's recent achievements, Brazil still has a lot to do if it wants to gain international prominence. In this paper we address two issues that are fundamental for Brazil to achieve real leadership: education and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the current relationship between Peruvian teenagers and television. The information accessed from various sources concluded that adolescents are consuming television extensively, especially the poorer within the country. Teens appreciate the cable television as a source of learning, and its variety and ability to relate it with the world. The interest in cartoons, movies and series -fiction genre in general- affirms the value of this media in society as well as the possibility to make them more familiar with their environment. Information about what happens beyond their localities is a source of reference in their perception of the country. Beyond the cultural conflict from which is generally assessed from the effects that television may have on the rural world, television has a positive sign for the visual deterritorialization, which dissolves the natural relationship between culture and territory. In rural areas, parents and teenagers evaluate television positively because it offers more than just the school itself. In the midst of academic and professional criticism on television, adolescents do not distinguish between traditional media and new media, they are all integrated into their daily lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To speak of interculturalness bears to understand and to recognize the existence of different cultures in the search of dialogues and encounters of knowledge from the existence and evolution of a global world in the perspective of finding new interaction spaces to leave the scientific and technological appropriation.; For it this proposal points to Determine the existent relationships among CyT and cultural diversity and the list that complete for the development of the sociocultural groups besides the identification of the paper of the education in CyT in the intercultural education - knowledge, valuation and statement of the ethnic identity and of the knowledge of technologies taken place by other human groups. This document leaves then of a clear conceptualization around the intercultural education and of the principal elements of the scientific and technological knowledge and it concludes with the necessary orientations to energize the scientific and technological education from the diversity culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper shows a theoretical review and discussion about Communication and Peace Culture. The authors review the complex relationship between Communication, Conflicts and making Peace Culture focused on human communication dynamics. The central idea is that the peace culture may depend on education in communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on Edgar Morin's framework of Complex Thinking the paper explores a perspective of Science Education which goes beyond the traditional disciplinary approach. This argument is illustrated with examples of dialogic relationships of Science and Fine Arts and clues are put forward of how to explore such dialogic relationships in an educational context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]