Data was taken from a sample of people that were/were not affected by political violence in Chile (N=1267) in order to study the predictive ability of emotions on beliefs about forgiveness. The multiple regression analysis conducted indicates that the effect…

This article describes and analyzes an intervention experience about psycho-social skills that foster violence-free school coexistence in a public primary school in Mérida, Yucatán, México. The methodology is based on the Participative Action Research with community participative techniques, interviews and…

The Decree 170, a derivation of the demand subsidy model of education or voucher system implemented in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, is a formula to subsidize schools administered by privates, and which aims to improve the school integration of…

This research aimed to identify strategies and discursive practices used by educators of kindergartens initial classroom, to address conflict. We conducted a collective case study, involving six educators of kindergartens belonging to six municipal schools of the commune of Talcahuano.…

The individualization theory emerges in the context of reflexive modernity to elucidate the transformations in the advanced industrial society. In Chile, it has constituted one of the main analytical frames for social scientists in the last decades to account on…

The objective of present study was to determine the capacity of Social Identity Model and Psychosocial Motives Model to explain the participation in regionalist social protest actions in Chile. We applied a survey in a representative sample of 1200 subjects…

Since 2001 a series of political manifestations have been taking place in Chile and the world that can be characterized as taking over the public space. In this article we review some of the features of this urban appropriation and…

This article presents an analysis about the place of the teacher as a subject in the Chilean social movement for education. That analysis was constructed based on the findings of a recent research conducted on Santiago’s secondary education teachers. Its…

The task of intellectuals and their relationship with the demands and social conflicts has taken the shape of three models, influential both within and outside academic life. The critical model separated positions by identifying which is the position based on…

The article drills down into the processes of inclusion of indigenous in tertiary education, problematizing the need to move toward an intercultural paradigm questioning current conditions of higher education. The goal was to understand and describe the inclusion and intercultural…