Alícia Villar Aguilés

Decidir reflexivamente. Un estudio sobre reflexividad y trayectorias formativas en estudiantes de postgrado

The educational and professional itineraries of young people are currently uncertain and are not linear. Gone are the days when university studies meant a guarantee of employment for the future and career paths more defined. Through a qualitative research it has interviewed postgraduate students from two public universities and it is analysed how the formative trajectories and the labour expectations are configured through the concept of reflexivity following the application proposed by Margaret S. Archer. We have obtained results related to a triple typology of reflexivity that presents the educational decisions as communicative, autonomous and critical and influenced by the familiar social position.

Protestas estudiantiles en tiempos de austeridad. El caso de la “Primavera Valenciana”

On February 2012, in the city of Valencia (Spain), high school students took the street and blocked the car traffic. They protested against recent economic cuts undertaken by the regional government in the education field. Surprisingly, this spontaneous initiative transformed itself into a generalised social movement against the education policy of the Valencian Partido Popular. This movement was called “Primavera Valenciana” (“Valencian Spring”). The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between localised resistance in the Valencian education field (both at high school and university levels) and the development of a social movement with high visibility and impact on the public sphere. In order to make sense of this process we will consider the austerity policies implemented by political authorities in education, which in the Valencian case these measures were intense and shocking. Also, we analyse the students made use of social media (blogs, Facebook, Twitter) to disseminate texts, images and ideas in contrast to the treatment of the traditional mass media.

El éxito de las universitarias: de la interpretación reproductora a la interpretación transformadora

Adriana Marrero y Natalia Mallada: La Universidad transformadora. Elementos para una teoria sobre Educacion y Genero. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de La Republica (Uruguay), 2010.