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This paper recognizes the way in which scientific knowledge has reached center stage, have opposed the dogmatic arguments, cultural and ideological beliefs uncritically established for years. The scientific achievements allow for changes inhuman conceptions to transform the perception, interpretation and interaction between humans and their environment critically and reflectively. This essay re-creates the complexity and impact for which they had to move evolutionary ideas in some states of the American Union, the situation in Argentina and finally the case of Mexico, which all fall similarities and differences. Similarities in the difficulties and differences in the acceptance, management of time and the influence of beliefs about the origin and formation of our planet. Beyond the passage of a controversial debate, this paper frames a reflection that searches there adersaw are of the role played by the University in the transmission of knowledge and critical discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the effect of massive access to higher education on teaching at a public Argentine Law School. It describes the general background of the phenomenon and outlines the main consequences of teaching Law in overcrowded classrooms. Then, it defines the underlying epistemology, the theories of learning and the predominant educational approach applied by law school professors. Next, it observes how expanded access to Law School defies the educational goals of the institution. It concludes by offering an alternative educational proposal to still achieve the objectives in overcrowded classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the declared practices and conceptions on reading and writing that can be inferred from a study in Argentina. After passing a survey to teachers of various subjects in 50 institutions that train future high-school teachers, we collected 544 valid responses. In this article, we focus on one of the open questions that describe the actions taken to address the students' difficulties to write and understand what they read, recognized by most respondents. Although many teachers claim to deal with reading and/or writing in their field, most of them tend to intervene at the beginning of the assignments (requiring tasks, giving guidelines, providing techniques) or at the end (correcting students' productions). A smaller proportion of teachers expressed that they support students during these tasks and make time for it in their classes. Some of them also promote interaction between teacher and students or among peers, through discussion on what has been read or written. Two modes of dealing with reading and/or writing within their subjects emerged from these data: the "peripheral" and the "intertwined" teaching. According to the theoretical "writing across the curriculum" and "dialogic teaching" approaches, we examine these results in terms of the conceptions which could correspond to the declared practices. We also discuss the impact that these teaching practices would have on the training of future teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]