EL ÍNDICE DE INCLUSIÓN COMO HERRAMIENTA PARA LA MEJORA ESCOLAR
Education, quality, effectiveness and education improvement are worldwide well-discussed and well-researched subjects. The index for inclusion is an instrument used as a guide when supporting schools in the process of educative inclusion and, because of its characteristics, it could work as an enhancer of educational improvement. unesco proposes corresponding adaptations for each country, since the results obtained in the United Kingdom, and other European nations, has been very satisfactory. Following this guideline, this research aims at presenting the construct and content validity of the Index for Inclusion: improving learning and involvement at schools, in order to adapt it to Mexican schools. This is an exploratory prospective study that provides the very first validity evidence and that, based on a strategy of assessment carried out by professional qualified professionals, special education experts, aims at refining the measure instrument, with the intention of adapting it to the socio-cultural and educative Mexican situation. Finally, we can also consider that the study has an explicative dimension, since it tries to analyze the influence of certain variables, or to establish an association between these variables, on the profiles of the opinions of the experts. Despite the fact that results show an agreement in the opinions of those who have assessed the instrument in every aspect, we have identified disagreements in sections and indicators. For these, we provide adaptation alternatives.
La inclusión y su accionar desde un enfoque holístico
La investigacion del presente articulo, tuvo como proposito establecer los lineamientos para la construccion de un modelo holistico de inclusion escolar a partir de identificar las barreras de acceso al aprendizaje en cuatro instituciones educativas de la ciudad de San Juan de Pasto (2 privadas y 2 publicas); bajo una metodologia de corte Mixta (cuantitativa y cualitativa), de tipo descriptiva e investigacion accion. Se contemplaron cuatro fases: diagnostico, propuesta, aplicacion, evaluacion y seguimiento. Se implementaron metodos de tipo individual (biopsicosocial), de tipo familiar (homeostasis emocional y relacional) y disfunciones familiares y de tipo social (intervenciones grupales – grupo de iguales). Finalmente, se identificaron barreras de tipo personal, familiar, grupal y social que influyen en el desempeno academico de los estudiantes. Se reconocio las necesidades y se formulo una propuesta de intervencion con una nueva forma de organizar los procesos de ensenanza y aprendizaje bajo un enfoque holistico (holismo = holos = total).
On the Role of Professional Sports in the National Economy Under the Market Economy Conditions
Through the research of the present situations of the professional sports at home and abroad and its influence on economy, this paper points out the opportunities, challenges and the exist- ing main problems that the professional sports faces in the transitional peried-from plan economy to market economy, then elucidates that the professional sports can becompletely developed and improved and play an important role in the national economy under the market economy conditions.