Maria Alejandra Sánchez Vázquez

Selfemployed

La prospectiva ambiental permite proyectar escenarios futuros con el fin de tomar decisiones par-ticipativas; metodológicamente requiere de un análisis retrospectivo que permita dar explicación a la situación que interesa analizar. El objetivo de este artículo es hacer la retrospectiva de una duna costera ubicada en el ejido Nueva Odisea en Ensenad...

Ecosystem services (ES) are direct and indirect benefits of ecosystems that are not generally offered by markets and from which society obtains goods and services. ES are grouped according to four ecosystemic functions: regulation, provisioning, habitat and cultural. Our study aimed at identifying ES provided by beaches and coastal dunes in the Baj...

Libro de divulgación sobre la importancia del manejo integrado de las costas y mares de México, relatado por una pescadora de la península de Yucatán.

This piece of research explores the possibilities of autobiographical writing as a resource for critical reflection by maquila workers. Six male and female workers participated as volunteers. Participatory action research methodology was used since one of the aims was not only to strengthen the participants' skills, but also to raise their awarenes...

This piece of research explores the possibilities of autobiographical writing as a resource for critical reflection by maquila workers. Six male and female workers participated as volunteers. Participatory action research methodology was used since one of the aims was not only to strengthen the participants’ skills, but also to raise their awarenes...

En esta investigación se exploran las posibilidades de la escritura auto-biográfica como un recurso de reflexión crítica para obreros de maqui-ladoras. Participaron seis trabajadores, hombres y mujeres. Se utilizó la investigación-acción participativa como método porque se buscaba el fortalecimiento de habilidades y la toma de conciencia de los ind...

Colonet, Baja California, is a rural community located in an arid zone where the development of a new port of huge dimensions has been proposed. We conducted a socio–environmental diagnosis in order to identify current environmental problems and possible solutions through the analysis of social perception and environmental threats. The lack of wate...

This article provides an overview of research studies on outreach efforts regarding science. The review departs from the social construction still favored by many scientists and communicators that considers the scientist as the source of pertinent and universally accepted knowledge and the lay public as the ignorant end that needs to be enlightened...

The author describes two events that took place in a science centre in a Mexican city. The analysis invites the reader to reflect upon the need to generate confidence among the visitors of those institutions dedicated to the popularization of scientific knowledge. The processes through which a preschooler and a group of teenagers understood the kno...

This article is about the problems raised by the recently approved policy in primary education about teacher training in school groups. The point is that promoting this new policy involved a partial change of the learning paradigm, from an individual paradigm to another based on collective and social or situated learning. The discussion refers to t...

En este artículo se discute la problemática que suscita la reciente política en educación básica, sobre formación docente en colectivos escolares. Se plantea que al promover esta nueva política se ha comprendido parcialmente el cambio de paradigmas del aprendizaje, de una versión individualista a la versión social o situada. La discusión remite a l...