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This paper analyzes the relation between the singular and the universal in mythical thinking. The initial problem holds that, conventionally, due to its fantastic expressions, mythical thought is non-objective knowledge of the world; however, I will argue the opposite. Based on Cassirer's Philosophie der symbolischen Formen, I will present two results: firstly, an evaluation of how myth relates singular events with universal concepts, which allows the reassessment of myth as a valid epistemological form. Secondly, the main epistemological resource of myth is the idea of mutation, unlike science, which uses concepts to relate the singular with the universal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the repressive strategy as it was described in the military doctrine that guided the actions of the armed forces, security forces and paramilitary organizations in El Salvador between 1962 and 1972. Attention will be given to the way this repressive strategy molded the state repressive treatment of the wave of trade union protest that took place in the same period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The changes that occurred on digitization have produced profound variations in the world of work in general, and academic one in particular. Considering the transformations in terms of production, use and appropriation of knowledge, mainly taking this situation as a kind of social relationship described as "cognitive exploitation of scientific knowledge". From this characterization, I shall discuss in this paper the impact over the work of the social scientist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this research, we develop a case study, focused on Spain and the European Union, on the controversy over the labelling of transgenic foods. This paper fi rstly compares the social discourses that conceive labelling essentially as being a problem or a solution. Secondly, an analysis is provided of the main legislative responses, together with the specifi c issues that remain controversial in this fi eld. Thirdly, the limits of the cognitive defi cit model and the problem of establishing what information is relevant or irrelevant are discussed. The research concludes by showing the presence of the rhetorics of safety and risk, and proposes an outline of social positions around the consumption of transgenic foods, their differential labelling, and the endeavour of science in our societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science, technology and innovation are fundamental to economic and social development of the country, requiring, each time more, to give significant resources in order to prepare the personnel and make them more competitive, where the information exchange, knowledge and learning generated by this process, will contribute to achieve a better performance in the organization. The purpose of this paper is the development of a organizational learning model and its phases, based on information and knowledge of scientific and innovation project team members, which will allow to evaluate the capacity of organizational learning and also contribute to a better organization performance. In this model is highlighted the integration of the main trends in the study of organizational learning, providing technical tools to develop learning ability and performance evaluation of the organization from indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we will see that depending on the context and diversity, discovering and teaching in science, should have an Intercultural look. The final objective of the so-called exact sciences, practically mostly, you could say it's the same. This objective would be to know and understand the secrets it holds the universe. But how do we discover? and how do we learn the knowledge that are already found?, we propose that this path should be intercultural. In this paper, first we will try to adopt and / or assume a definition for the words of Knowledge, Education, Science and Interculturality; because they are words that have much theoretical debate, and if we do not assume some definition for them, we will not reach to any goal. Then we will prove that interculturality must be present at the time of doing science and teaching it, for which purpose, we will find support primarily with studies of neuroscience, then, with the meaningful learning theory of Ausubel, with Piaget that gives importance to the prior knowledge of the learner, by Watson, Vygotsky, etc. Even we give an ancient example, in which this knowledge has already been used with good results; we talk about education in times of the Incas. This is a clear example that interculturality should be applied to teaching and conducting science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]