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This dissertation examines the nature of services provided in four contrasting preschools in the Tema municipality of Ghana. The purpose is to determine whether children in diverse communities within the municipality have access to a fair start in life, where their survival, nutrition, health and growth are considered as primary pre-requisites to their human development The study therefore included an examination of the context, and quality in terms of children's protection from abuse, professional training of the staff, delivery of child care services by preschool officials and availability of learning and recreational resources. It included an examination of the role of parents, public officials and service providers at the preschools. The study also examined whether the type of preschool a child attends is connected to the socio-economic status of the child's family. A qualitative multiple case study approach was used. The approach allowed the examination of each distinct preschool site as a unit of analysis that fostered comparison and brought to the fore the diversity among the communities and their link to the nature of services at the respective preschools. The key instruments used for the data collection after an initial document analysis included survey questions, interviews, focus group discussions and observations involving both adults and preschool children. Among the 31 adults who participated in the study were private sector preschool service providers, parents of the preschool children and public officials from the national, regional, municipal and community levels of the Ghana Education Service. The findings revealed the diversity of services and corroborated literature review which indicated that childcare services in general, inclusive of preschools are at the nexus of globalization, modernization and urbanization while simultaneously being challenged by cultural values of the society within which they are situated.

El artículo defiende la hipótesis de que los símbolos no se han apagado, pues el relato en su forma más actual y más consumida, las películas, contiene imágenes supeditas a un contenido simbólico. Un ejemplo de ello es lo que, desde la teoría del guión, se conoce como “leitmotiv”: un elemento visual y/ o sonoro escogido por el autor(es) para expresa de forma figurada el tema y, por lo tanto, el sentido autorial del filme. El artículo define este elemento retórico, a menudo conectado con ciertos arquetipos, y lo ejemplifica en películas como El séptimo sello (Det sjunde inseglet, 1956), El milagro de Ana Sullivan (The miracle worker, 1962), El último tango en París (Ultimo tango a Parigi, 1972) y Blade Runner (1982 y 1993). The symbols continue in their more current and more consumed form, the movies. The cinema contains images you subordinate to a symbolic content. An example is it that, from the theory of the script, we call the “leitmotiv”. It is a visual and sound element chosen by the author for expressed in a figured way the topic and, therefore, the sense autorial of the film. The article defines this rhetorical element, often connected with certain archetypes, and it exemplifies it in movies like Det sjunde inseglet (1956), The miracle worker (1962), Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972) and Blade Runner (1982 y 1993).

L. Polo es un buen maestro, más preocupado por descubrir la verdad que por ser entendido. Su pensar es paciente, la atención, concentrada. Mantiene la congruencia entre el nivel del método cognoscitivo que emplea y los temas reales conocidos que estudia. En él destacan tres cualidades: la audacia en el buscar, la convivencia con la verdad y la apertura universal al saber.