Trucos del oficio de investigador

Trucos del oficio de investigador

Author: Daniel Guinea-Martin

Publisher: Editorial GEDISA

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 849784727X

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Los estudiantes y profesores que hoy en día han de bregar y medrar en el sistema educativo se encuentran presos de una contradicción. Por un lado están bajo la exigencia de ser innovadores en los resultados que producen y por los que serán juzgados: desde proyectos de investigación hasta artículos para revistas profesionales, pasando por trabajos de fin de grado y tesis de máster y doctorales. Pero, por otro lado, el sistema pedagógico no fomenta la tan deseada originalidad. Nuestra educación formal prima la acumulación y repetición de saber sobre el «saber hacer». En este libro doce científicos sociales tratan de poner sistema educativo y científico a la par con sus propias exigencias. Para lograrlo los autores han huido del estilo recargado y distante propio del Manual de Métodos al uso. Por el contrario, con un lenguaje llano y cercano, comparten con el lector los trucos de su oficio. El libro cuenta con tres secciones. La primera agrupa los capítulos dedicados a presentar herramientas fundamentales: escribir, leer, búsqueda biblio-gráfica y de datos, y preparación proyectos de investigación. En la segunda y tercera parte, cada investigador narra cómo llevó a cabo investigaciones concretas con datos cualitativos, cuantitativos o ambos. En definitiva, se trata de un libro de gran interés tanto para estudiantes como para docentes y profesionales de la investigación en ciencias sociales y humanas.


A Matter of Time

A Matter of Time

Author: Shashi Deshpande

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1558619356

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One morning, with no warning, Gopal, respected professor, devoted husband, and caring father, walks out on his family for reasons even he cannot articulate. His wife, Sumi returns with their three daughters to the shelter of the Big House, where her parents live in oppressive silence: they have not spoken to each other in 35 years. As the mystery of this long silence is unraveled, a horrifying story of loss and pain is laid bare—a story that seems to be repeating itself in Sumi's life. This multigenerational story, told in the individual voices of the characters, catches each in turn the cycles of love, loss, strength, and renewal that becomes an essential part of the women's identities. A Matter of Time reveals the hidden springs of character while painting a nuanced portrait of the difficulties and choices facing women—especially educated, independent women—in India today.


Finding Your Writer's Voice

Finding Your Writer's Voice

Author: Thaisa Frank

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1250093406

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An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own. Mixing creative inspiration with practical advice about craft, the book includes chapters on: Accessing raw voice Listening to voices of childhood, public and private voices, and colloquial voices Working in first and third person: discovering a narrative persona Using voice to create characters Shaping one's voice into the form of a story Reigniting the energy of voice during revision


Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy

Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy

Author: Francesca Helm

Publisher: Research-publishing.net

Published: 2015-12-02

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 1908416289

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The theme of the conference this year was Critical CALL, drawing inspiration from the work carried out in the broader field of Critical Applied Linguistics. The term ‘critical’ has many possible interpretations, and as Pennycook (2001) outlines, has many concerns. It was from these that we decided on the conference theme, in particular the notion that we should question the assumptions that lie at the basis of our praxis, ideas that have become ‘naturalized’ and are not called into question. Over 200 presentations were delivered in 68 different sessions, both in English and Italian, on topics related specifically to the theme and also more general CALL topics. 94 of these were submitted as extended papers and appear in this volume of proceedings.


The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel

The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel

Author: Simon Collier

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 1986-12-15

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0822976420

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In the first biography in English of the great Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Collier traces his rise from very modest beginnings to become the first genuine "superstar" of twentieth-century Latin America. In his late teens, Gardel won local fame in the barrios of Buenos Aires singing in cafes and political clubs. By the 1920s, after he switched to tango singing, the songs he wrote and sang enjoyed instant popularity and have become classics of the genre. He began making movies in the 1930s, quickly establishing himself as the most popular star of the Spanish-language cinema, and at the time of his death Paramount was planning to launch his Hollywood career.Collier's biography focuses on Gardel's artistic career and achievements but also sets his life story within the context of the tango tradition, of early twentieth-century Argentina, and of the history of popular entertainment.


Placing Autobiography in Geography

Placing Autobiography in Geography

Author: Pamela Moss

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780815628477

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Chronicling the history of geography entails not only the literature emerging from geographers' pens and printers but also the geographers themselves. Why and how geographers have taken the career paths they have taken is as much importance as their scholarly output. The contributors use autobiography as a tool to document the history of geography, as a method of data collection, or as a mode of analysis. Taken together, their work provides empirical examples of the ways geographer are engaging the critical questions raised by the changes in their field.


Gender Vertigo

Gender Vertigo

Author: Barbara J. Risman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780300080834

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Just as every society has an economic and political structure, so too every society has a gender structure. Barbara Risman's original research on single fathers, married baby boom mothers, and heterosexual egalitarian couples and their children, reported in this intriguing book, weaves together qualitative and quantitative data from surveys, interviews, and observation. Risman shows how gender as a social structure affects individuals, organizes expectations attached to social positions, and becomes an integral part of social institutions. She provides empirical evidence that human beings are capable of enduring and affective intimate relationships without gender as the central organizing mechanism. The data also strongly indicate that men and women are capable of changing gendered ways of being throughout their lives. In her analysis of nontraditional families, Risman finds that gender expectations can be overcome if couples are willing to flout society and risk "gender vertigo." Most children of such families adopt their parents' beliefs about gender, but they do struggle with the contradictions between parental ideology and folk knowledge and expectations in peer relationships. The author argues that we can create a just society only by creating a society in which gender is an irrelevant category for social life--a post-gender society.


The Future of Literacy Studies

The Future of Literacy Studies

Author: M. Baynham

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-29

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0230245692

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This book brings together authors actively involved in shaping the field of literacy studies, presenting a robust approach to the theoretical and empirical work which is currently pushing the boundaries of literacy research and also pointing to future directions for literacy research.


C Wright Mills An American Utopia

C Wright Mills An American Utopia

Author: Irving Lewis Horowitz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1985-04-01

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 143910624X

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A biography of legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills, author of The Power Elite and White Collar, among other works, by eminent sociologist Irving L. Horowitz. Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a famed sociologist, social commentator and critic. Noted for his anti-authoritarian, flamboyant character and radical ideas, he has been described as an ‘American Utopian’ – committed to social change, angered by the oppression he saw around him, and critical of what he saw as evidence of U.S. imperialism. His legacy includes a series of classic books – including The Power Elite, White Collar, and The Sociological Imagination -- and he has made a distinctive contribution to American sociological theory, especially in the area of class, power and social structure.