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In a context of invisibility and emerging struggle, indigenous groups build and reconstruct identity and community senses within a process that is both political and cultural, and which collides with the contradictions of ethnic definitions and the strategic essentialisms that re-signify criteria of authenticity. This paper seeks to account for processes of communalization, which took and are currently taking place in the town of Miguel Riglos (La Pampa), paying special attention to the particular case of Eusebia Farías community. Before this, the text will review the conditions of their invisibility, which start by the late 19th century, and the form of occupation of the territory by these indigenous groups to account for the continuity of this population up to the present day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to analyze the representations of teaching, that students from Basic General Education at the Teacher Training Institute in Santa Rosa and at the National University of La Pampa, have built. The research has a qualitative approach. The process starts collecting pictures and written considerations about what they think were the reasons that made them choose this profession. We have worked with 300 samples belonging to students from 2006, 2007 and 2008 that were analyzed with theoretical categories about their identification with the teaching role in three ways: the samples were taken from students in different moments of their studies; images were comparatively analyzed with the written discourse; the students came from two different institutions. Teaching representations were studied in written and drawn discourses trying to look for coherence; continuities and disruptions. These representations must be identified and analyzed to work for possible changes during training. They imply meanings and senses regarding teaching identity and political possibilities of performing the professional role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language is considered to be a privileged medium in which meaning is produced and exchanged. It operates as a representational system, through which thoughts, ideas and feelings are represented in a particular culture. Cultural productions, such as literary works, have always been regarded as the key repositories of cultural values and meanings. It is in this context that we intend to analyse the representation of some aspects of the Argentine culture in Tales of the Pampas by Irish-born author William Bulfin, and to determine to what extent these representations compare with the same cultural aspects put forward in the Martín Fierro by Argentine author José Hernández. We will focus our analysis on the figure of the gaucho and the elements surrounding life in the Argentine countryside. This paper forms part of a research project on Irish literature that is being developed at the Department of Foreign Languages, at the University of La Pampa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analyze in this paper the use of photography in the Catholic historiography of La Pampa in general, and we particularly focus on the production of a group of priests who, from the 1920s onwards, have built the 'official history' of the Catholic Church in the region. The works by Roberto Tavella (1924), Lorenzo Massa (1967), Cayetano Bruno (1983), and Roberto Tavella and Celso Valla (1974) belong in that construction, in which the photographs tend to empirically support what the written text strives to state: that the Church was a central component in the civilizing process of La Pampa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work is to offer a theoretical and explanatory framework for the analysis of the events happened in Santa Rosa city in the summer of the 2008, which finished with mayor Juan Carlos Tierno's dismissal. The paper tries to put in the foreground the relationships between the politics's domains and art. That's why we work with the concepts already developed by a series of classical authors of the aesthetic studies. In the same way, we try to confront those conceptual and methodological determinations with the social mobilization and the aesthetic actions developed at the same time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The expansion of agriculture, the erosion and desertification of fertile soils, the spread of agrofuels, and the lack of food sovereignty are among the central environmental problems of this day and age. Many of the solutions to these contemporary ills seem to emerge from Agroecology, which stands as an opportunity for both sustainable food production and soil and biodiversity preservation. In this paper, the main principles of Agroecology are analyzed in order to examine the chances of their application to the province of La Pampa with a basis in the area of Catrilo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education is an ideological activity which responds to theoretical, political, cultural, socioeconomic and historical circumstances. Thus neither pedagogical practices nor educational theories are neutral as both are firmly based on paradigmatic conceptions of man and on their worldviews. There is then a need to analyze both of them and their intertwining relationships in the light of philosophy, politics and education in order to carefully consider what their aims actually are. These goals give sense and meaning to Institutional Educational Projects (PEI, by its acronym in Spanish), which generally respond to the requirements of the Ministry of Culture and Education. This paper studies the philosophical foundations underlying the PEIs of the first and second levels at a Basic General Education school in General Pico, La Pampa, and provides a cogent interpretation of the anthropological idea that lies beneath such projects in order to generate an open space for debate and inquiry at an institutional level and to foster new proposals to improve educational practices in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses a series of representations of work during job searching in young people in La Pampa. Job seeking is signified differently in view of diverse factors such as age, gender, education, and family background, among others, but most of the young persons under analysis share representations of work connected to instability, permanent risk, competition, individuality and survival. Such a situation has encouraged the researcher to explore the issues involved in the construction of these generalized social representations with the rigour and the degree of specialization the matter deserves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the formation and activities of the Argentine Patriotic League in the National Territory of La Pampa from 1919 to 1930 and it examines the relationships between this institution and the particular problems of the territory. The presentation, based on information drawn from national and territorial census, judicial proceedings and territorial media, entails a consideration of the activities and the internal organization of the League in the Territory of La Pampa as well as a discussion on the social impact of the institution has on the territorial social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even though competent analysis and accurate urban planning can provide short-medium term solutions to the infrastructural problems of the majority of urban areas, overpopulation, a lack of essential services and sundry sanitary deficiencies generally imply a low quality of life for the inhabitants of a medium-sized town. These problems are mostly determined by the social and economic level of town dwellers that should ideally be able to have access to vital services and satisfy basic needs such as food, clothing, health, education and recreation. This paper suggests that these variants are in narrow relation with each other and that the ways in which they come together ultimately decide the harmonious growth of a town and the improvement of its inhabitants' welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to describe the managing characteristics shared by schools of the first and second Basic General Education levels as a result of the implementation of the educational reform in La Pampa. To the purpose of this research, we analyzed the institutional guidelines set by headmasters and compared the conclusions stated in our previous research (1995-1999) with results from recent case studies. In most of the schools included in our sample we observed the recurrence of similar skewed contextual readings and managing practices. These particular managing styles reflect the principals' key role in the adaptation of the Institutional Educative Projects (IEP), requested by the central administration, to the different schools' needs. As a conclusion, we can say that, despite the institutional difficulties faced by those in charge of managing positions, the school headship is the possible space where to generate deconstructing and reconstructing policies via alternative projects and managing groups who can reconsider our institutional history and provide a new significance to the established educational practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper Is included in a research project which aims at clarifying some aspects of the historical process by which the educational system of la Pampa was structured. Focusing on the analysis of the relationship that was established between the civilian society and the state, we base our work on the supposition that the homogeneous image that the educational system acquires is more the result of a process than the process itself. We focus our article on the analysis of some state regulations and their impact on the Territory, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. We ask ourselves: "Was the process of construction of the educational system in la Pampa a "reflection" of national policies or is it possible to identify certain particularities?" "Which continuities, interruptions and contradictions is it possible to establish between the norms created in the central organizations and the conditions --and possibilities- of fulfilling those norms in the Territory?". Such conditions are connected with a 'diffused' presence of the National State. This presence was made effective, in the field of education, through the inspectors who - we sustain- acted as a "hinge" between the rules sent from the Capital and the local needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to provide a brief characterisation of the changes that have taken place in the Educational System of La Pampa province since the implementation of the educational reform in Argentina during the last few years. In view of the need to identify and conceptuslise these processes of change in La Pampa's model, we decided to approach the theme of the institutional organisatlen and, more specifically, the implementation of the Third Cycle of the General Basic Education and the PoUmodal, with the intention that this article will make it possible for both students of Education and other readers to construct interpretative hypotheses regarding the Educational Reform. We chose to undertake a bibliographical Jnvestigatidn. We aleo included contributions that arose from our experience in the area of Education. Working as school teachers atiows US to form interpretations of the possible implicatlens on Education because we are the ones that apply the legal framework in order to transform the educaticnal system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]