The purpose of this study was to make a critical evaluation of the San Saba Elementary School, San Saba, Texas. The strong and weak points of the school were considered, and suggestions were made for improvements where they are needed.

[EN] This thesis deals with the study of one of the latest hieronymite monasteries built, the San Pedro de la Ñora monastery (Murcia, Spain). It is focused on two aspects, knowledge of historical events, some of them unknown until now, from its founding to the secularization and the analysis of its baroque architecture and construction as well as the study of the architects involved in it or that worked for this hieronymite community. And among them, especially Fray Antonio de San Joseph and Fray Pedro de San Agustín, hieronymite monks that were architects involved in its construction and in many others. / [ES] Aborda esta tesis el estudio de uno de los últimos monasterios Jerónimos construidos, el de San Pedro de la Ñora (Murcia), centrado este en dos aspectos, el conocimiento de los hechos históricos, algunos de los cuales hasta ahora no conocidos, desde su fundación hasta la exclaustración, y el análisis de su arquitectura barroca, y su construcción, así como el estudio de los artífices que en él intervinieron, o para esta comunidad jerónima trabajaron. Y de ellos en especial fray Antonio de San Joseph y Fray Pedro de San Agustín monjes arquitectos, de la Orden Jerónima que intervinieron en su construcción y en otras muchas. / [CA] Aborda esta tesi l'estudi d'un dels últims monestirs Jerónimos construïts, el de Sant Pere de la Ñora (Múrcia), centrat este en dos aspectes, el coneixement dels fets històrics, alguns dels quals fins ara no coneguts, des de la seua fundació fins a l'exclaustració, i l'anàlisi de la seua arquitectura barroca, i la seua construcció, així com l'estudi dels artífexs que en ell van intervindre, o per a esta comunitat jerònima van treballar. I d'ells en especial fra Antonio de Sant Joseph i Fra Pere de Sant Agustí monjos arquitectes, de l'Orde Jerònima que van intervindre en la seua construcció i en moltes altres / Maestre Meroño, JA. (2016). El Monasterio Jerónimo de San Pedro de La Ñora. Aspectos Históricos y Arquitectónicos [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/63667

The purpose of this study is to determine the relation of achievement to two different methods of providing for individual differences. Achievement means educational growth or achievement in subject matter and personality development. The two methods are the qualitative, that is, the degree of difficulty of the work assigned, and the quantitative, which means the amount of work done or the minimum-maximum assignment.

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This qualitative inquiry explores a community-based art partnership called the semester programs that took place between Artpace San Antonio and Louis W. Fox Academic and Technical High School from 2004 until 2006. This narrative inquiry used interviews with artists and former Fox Tech art students involved in our program, along with my teacher/ researcher reflections, to make meaning from the data. The artists involved in the semester programs were Gary Sweeney, Daniel Guerrero, David Jurist, and Ethel Shipton. Former students interviewed include Eloy McGarity, Rosa Leija, John Contreras, and Jennelle Gomez, while I, Maria Leake represent the voice of the art teacher. Our stories of experience were analyzed and connections between situated learning theory, creativity theories, community-based art education, and memory research were all recognized as being exhibited during our community partnership programs. There were seven patterns and themes that were noted as occurring within each semester program, as well as notable distinctions. The patterns and themes from the data analysis suggest that our community partnership reflected the following: learning and creative expression went beyond the individual; networks of support and communication were available to all participants; challenges were acknowledged; empathy between participants was an unintentional outcome; working together as a community of practice facilitated personal interactions and connections; learning and creative expression went beyond the traditional curriculum; and educational benefits were realized by all participants.

This dissertation examines the cultural politics of conservation efforts in Mexico City, where in 2000, the city legislated a soil and water conservation plan in its rural areas. During 12-months of field work in the village of San Luis Tlaxialternalco 1 focused on how the conservation plan was to be established in the wetlands with chinampa agriculture, directly above one of the city's fresh water reservoirs. Political ecology research of conservation suggests that ecosystemic processes are intricately linked to economic and social processes on many scales. Post-structuralist analysis has complicated homogeneous and generalizing descriptions of social categories, politics of power, and the causality between socio-economic, political, cultural, and ecological factors. Research in political ecology emphasizes the diversity of actors and their subject positions and seeks to locate and understand the dynamics of power and agency within and outside formal institutions. I examined the negotiations of the conservation plan on three social scales and I looked at the intersecting axes of power and the knowledge of various actors, and how they inform conservation. On the scale of the state, a discursive analysis of the 'coloniality of power' of the conservation plan uncovers the city government's underlying assumptions about how the fanners' land use practices and social organization contribute to the conservation effort. I ask how do those assumptions define and condition chinampa farmers as 'Indian'? I conclude that in the conservation plan, colonially-based discourses constitute rural communities and agriculturalists in ways that subject them to the city's needs and interests, and exclude them from equal livelihood opportunities. In San Luis Tlaxialternalco I examined ideas of 'community' by documenting how the conservation plan affected local power relations. Analyzing the dynamics among chinampero farmers in their meetings, I exarnined the alliances in and the 'voice' of the village. I conclude that 'community' is a fluid and contested entity shaped by class, knowledge, and cultural values in unpredictable constellations. The tjaird scale of analysis concerns women's knowledge and voice, and examines ideas of silence as agency. In semi-structured interviews and participant observation in farmer women's everyday lives in San Luis I explored how they make decisions that affect the environment. The research shows that multiple constraints and opportunities, such as economic responsibilities, class, prestige, and patriarchy shape women's daily lives and direct their decisions to advance goals consistent with their values even when their decisions may undermine the long-term health of the environment they depend on. By looking at the micropolitics of conservation, my research provides cultural understanding of how at different scales decisions that affect ecology are made and how they are articulated through cultural idioms in the charged context of the conservation plan. The dissertation de-mystifies predominant representations of chinampas and chinamperos. It also complicates ideas of 'cornmirnity' and suggests that the analysis has to go beyond class and include values and knowledge. Further, I show that relevant ecological knowledge does not automatically lead to 'appropriate' action, and that silence can be a powerful tool that resists impositions and firrthers individual and community interests. Finally, the thesis suggests that political ecologists need to move away from equating power with action and activism within "progressive movements", and that conservation efforts need to have multiple goals and follow diverse strategies. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate

La presente investigación aborda el análisis de la problemática del desarrollo rural y la competitividad de las organizaciones de productores, tomando como caso el cacao en la región San Martín. La oferta actual de este producto no llega a cubrir la creciente demanda a nivel internacional en lo que refiere al cacao fino y de aroma. Esto debido al incipiente trabajo conjunto entre los sectores público y privado para fortalecer la competitividad del sector. Aun es limitada la promoción de este cultivo a pesar del alto potencial productivo que tiene en países como el Perú y, específicamente, la región San Martín; en la cual alcanza uno de los mayores rendimientos por hectárea. La investigación se enfocó en el modelo de la Alianza Cacao Perú (ACP) y su influencia sobre el desarrollo rural, a partir de las acciones desarrolladas con dos cooperativas de productores cacaoteros representativas como son ACOPAGRO y ALLIMA CACAO. La primera corresponde a una organización consolidada en el sector, mientras que la segunda fue fundada en 2016 e incorporada recientemente a la Alianza Cacao Perú, llevándose a cabo su primera exportación en el año 2017. La intervención de ACP se sustenta en tres pilares, los cuales son acceso a mercados, transferencia tecnológica y acceso al crédito. Todos ellos deben contribuir a promover la competitividad de las organizaciones de productores y, de esa manera, al desarrollo del sector cacaotero en las zonas de influencia del proyecto. A pesar del trabajo conjunto de los actores pertenecientes a la ACP, las condiciones y el nivel de competitividad de dichas cooperativas no parecen haber registrado progresos importantes. En este estudio se analizaron diversos modelos y enfoques de desarrollo rural. Estos eran de la Cooperación Alemana al Desarrollo (Agencia GIZ), de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID, por sus siglas en inglés) y del Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego (MINAGRI), a través de AGRORURAL. También se utilizó el enfoque del modelo de Alianza Público Privada para el Desarrollo (APPD), como referencia para describir el funcionamiento de la Alianza Cacao Perú. Finalmente, se aplicó el concepto de cadena de valor y el de competitividad en organizaciones de productores, que permitieron el análisis de la influencia del modelo de la ACP y su interacción con las dos cooperativas. Como resultado de esta investigación, es posible generar una valoración inicial de la contribución de un modelo de Alianza Público Privada para el Desarrollo en la competitividad de las cooperativas cacaoteras de San Martín a partir de la experiencia de la Alianza Cacao Perú.

Public concern with respect to declining traditional values, character, and family structure in the midst of increased crime, violence, and drug use have brought American education into the political arena and under intense scrutiny. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not differences exist in the values fostered in private schools, public choice schools and public attendance-zone schools and whether or not there are differences in the values that are identified by students as compared with teachers. The theoretical framework for the study is based upon the beliefs that values form the foundation of human behavior and that schools influence the values of societies in which they exist.

En l’absence de sources écrites teotihuacaines, la religion que pratiquaient les anciens Teotihuacains ne peut être appréhendée que par les traces archéologiques laissées par certains rites, par une analyse des sources écrites (mayas et aztèques) relatives à Teotihuacan, et surtout par une étude iconographique des principales figures divines de son panthéon. Après avoir détaillé les rites que pratiquaient les Teotihuacains et qui sont connus par ailleurs en Mésoamérique, la première partie de ma thèse propose une étude systématique des sources relatives à Teotihuacan (et notamment de la Relación de Teotihuacan). La seconde partie est consacrée à l’étude de l’iconographie et du symbolisme de Tlaloc, du Jaguar réticulé, de Xipe Totec, du Vieux dieu du feu, du Dieu papillon, et du Serpent à plumes. / Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation histoire de l'art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

En la tesis que presentamos “Radio Comunitaria: “Alternativa de Comunicación y Desarrollo en el Distrito de San Martín de Porres de Lima Metropolitana ” damos a conocer la trascendencia que tiene las radios comunitarias de los mercados en la sociedad como medios de expresión de los pueblos para rescatar lo sustancial y lo propio, y no ser asfixiados por la globalización. Las radios comunitarias, como prácticas de Comunicación Popular nos ayudan a percibir nuestra cultura, nuestra identidad y nuestra diversidad, por ser instrumentos de educación, cultura y entretenimiento, que se convierte en la compañera insustituible de las comunidades donde se instalan. La radio es algo vivo que no se detiene en su evolución. Propiamente no es un emisor plantado en medio de una sociedad. Es un reflector, que la orienta, que la sirve. Está función requiere un lenguaje propio y peculiar que no se improvisa.