In a study that evaluates the knowledge that is part of the process of child literacy in children of different social classes and its impact on the learning of literacy, children from sectors at socio-environmental risk are detected differ from their peers in all dimensions linguistics considered (writing functionality, writing system and oral language). TheSigue leyendo «First ideas to teach reading»
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The trade of traveler
“And to begin again it was the most repeated task in the world. In fact, only there was the Repetition: in the beginning», say the narrator of Un Episodio en la Vida del Pintor Viajero (An episode in the life of the traveling painter) of César Aira. The novel assumes the form of a biographySigue leyendo «The trade of traveler»
The decline of anthropocentrism
The explorations of literary criticism, as well as the other disciplines dedicated to the analysis of various artistic practices, have been affected from some time with the weakening of anthropocentric perspectives. They have been forming, thus, an increasingly broad and heterogeneous conceptual corpus. If at first the reference field with which we intended to identifySigue leyendo «The decline of anthropocentrism»
The «Authority» is above the laws
Eduardo Goligorsky’s story, «Hierarchical Order» (1975), begins with a persecution. Abáscal chases the Cholo, a killer minor, through the low funds of Buenos Aires. Persecutor and persecuted are at the service of the same organization. In contrast to the Cholo, Abáscal is a mercenary with ambitions of greatness and has orders to kill the Cholo.Sigue leyendo «The «Authority» is above the laws»
The difficulty of expressing the disease
In Anthropology of Pain, David Le Breton defines the sensation of pain, in the first place, as an intimate and personal fact that escapes to any extent, to any attempt to isolate or describe it, to any desire to inform another about its intensity and its nature. For the French anthropologist pain is «a failureSigue leyendo «The difficulty of expressing the disease»
The power of the city over the individual and its influence on novels
Preterito Perfecto (Preterite perfect), the novel by writer Hugo Foguet, states that «The city is the sacred space where the fate of the characters is fulfilled». The author explains in an interview: «As for the city as a recurring factor, the habitat of modern man is the city, and the counterpoint between present and past,Sigue leyendo «The power of the city over the individual and its influence on novels»
The simulation of living
The ideology of consumption, the mediatization of everyday life and the advertising culture of “beauty and happiness” of the youth are the starting point of La Prueba (The Test) of César Aira. This short novel, published in 1992, is about Marcia, a virgin, shy and depressed teenager, who one day is questioned in the streetSigue leyendo «The simulation of living»
The feeling of the migrant
Jesús Urzagasti was born in 1941 in a small town located south of the Bolivian Grand Chaco. His life was marked by a series of displacements that had as goal to access to education. He lived in Yacuiba, Tarija, Salta until arriving, during the sixties, to the city of La Paz. At the headquarters ofSigue leyendo «The feeling of the migrant»
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