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Andalusian migration in the 1960's and 1970's was expanded in different parts of Europe, and has developed the presence of Flamenco dancing, playing and singing in many different countries. During two and three generations, Flamenco has been deeply enrooted also among people who did not have had any previous connection with the original migrant places. The presence of Flamenco has created an interesting cultural phenomenon in these countries that has not been totally studied. This paper is based on an ethnographic research in Brussels and Flanders, explores the details of the Flamenco culture in these places, and identifies the processes of heritage construction that takes place in this area. The paper looks into the ways that Flamenco artists use to legitimate themselves and to occupy the space in the settlement of this heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper gives a brief account of the history of media education in the French Community of Belgium using as a starting point the political, media and educational contexts. Afterwards, it explains media education in the Internet and media society and the integration of the press in the field of learning. Finally, the paper describes the educational challenges of reality-television, cinema and advertising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much has been said and written about media education, its relevance and goals. Beyond directives, resolutions or recommendations, research in this area has deepened the foundations of media education but has also emphasized its weak points or faults. One of these critical points noted in the training and research work developed at the University of Minho, Portugal, in the last 20 years is the non-existence of resources and materials that could be used to promote media education in different contexts. But this is not just about the availability of materials, it concerns the importance of putting knowledge into practice and of mediating the knowledge produced with the appropriate audience. This concern was the basis of the 'Media Education in Booklets' project carried out by the Society and Communication Research Centre and funded by the Evens Foundation, Belgium. This paper presents the resources produced by this project in the form of three booklets: the first deals with the mediation of TV at school and at home; the second describes videogames, ways of playing, benefits, dangers, creativity and interculturality; the third is about the Internet and social networks, and the new forms of relationships and communication that these allow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper highlights the reasons why the legal consequences as well as the political significance of the Constitutional Treaty and the Treaty of Lisbon will be necessarily different from each other, despite the fact that they are essentially similar documents. In order to explain how this is possible the relation between the drafting process and the constitutional substance of both documents is analysed in some depth. The thesis is that the Laeken process was founded on a synthetic constitutional theory, which explains the European Union's nature as an alternative to the traditional international and constitutional views, whereas the Lisbon process was underpinned by an understanding of the integration process as a way to solve efficiently pragmatic problems resorting to unorthodox tools and devices (governance). The author considers some powerful normative reasons in favour of a constitutional transformation of the Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a primary sources analytic description -France and Belgium Visitation Sister's spiritual biographies on the xvii and xviii centuries-- and secondary sources --text books an dictionaries-- which make reference to profane and Illustrated discourses about "breast cancer disease". The contemporary to this centuries Illustrated discourses and the contents of biographies corpus are analized, bringing both out the different social representations and metaphors probably in force today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]