Libros: Recent submissions
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Representations on Early Childhood Education: Infancies in Contingency
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)“Representations on early childhood education: Infancies in contingency” is the first academic product resulting from the interinstitutional research project “Representations on early childhood education: findings on feelings in times of pandemic,” in which researchers from four Colombian universities participated (Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia [UNAD, for its Spanish acronym], Universidad de San ... -
Social Mobility of Graduates in a Distance Learning University: a Longitudinal Study of the Tendencies in the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)In addition to responding to the requirements of the Ministry of National Education (MEN, for its Spanish acronym) regarding graduate monitoring, distance learning universities are particularly interested in evaluating the quality of the academic services provided to the community. This is to determine whether there are significant differences between graduates' social, labor, and educational trajectories and the factors ... -
The Rebels’ History: Historical Thinking of the FARC’s Ex-Combatants
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)This book analyzes the historical thinking characteristics of the ex-combatants of the FARC-EP guerrilla concerning the recent past in Colombia. The study’s methodology was based on developing a teaching material that explored six dimensions of historical thinking: relevance, epistemology and evidence, continuity and change, progress and decline, empathy, perspective-taking, and historical agency. Narrative productions ... -
Business Management: The Challenge of the Environment Facing New Technologies, Entrepreneurship, and Working Life
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)Human beings perceive and interact in the hospital world through their senses, through sight, hearing, and, to a lesser extent, through smell, touch, and taste, in which labor sensorially shapes the worker’s body. The research aims to show the sensitive interaction of hospital personnel and the labor shaping of the worker's senses. To that end, covert ethnographic method, field diary, and interview were used. Four ... -
Implementation of Telehealth in Colombia: Parameters for a Comprehensive Approach
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)This book is the result of a joint effort by a research team from the School of Health Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD, for the Spanish acronym). It is the continuity of the book “Integración del modelo de Telesalud y la estrategia de Atención Primaria en Salud” (Integration of the Telehealth Model and the Primary Health Care Strategy) published by the same School in 2015. Therefore, ... -
Elements for Coping with Emotional and Physical Risks Due to COVID-19
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)The world is currently facing a health crisis as a result of a respiratory disease with an upward trend, which requires the global world to have functional, operational, logistical, and human resources at the service of humanity. At a global level, the United Nations Organization (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are taking measures to expand scientific knowledge about this new virus, which was declared as ... -
Community Social Psychology in Perspective: Accompaniment, Research, and Training
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)In our America, Community Social Psychology (CSP), in the field of action, accompaniment, research, and academic training, accounts for the diversity of integrative views of the complex psychosocial and community networks of the region, as well as the collective efforts to strengthen and consolidate the discipline. Thus, the chapters present a broad range of views to do, have, and be in the CSP of the 21st century. In ... -
Philosophy beyond the Academy: State of the Art of Contemporary Philosophical Practices
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)Discussions in academic environments regarding the relevance of certain philosophical practices have drawn multiple possibilities of analysis of the way philosophy should be approached in this exercise. Thus, argued positions unintentionally appear stating the need for philosophical work in strictly academic spaces, where the knowledge production depends on a reflective and analytical exercise regarding this discipline’s ... -
Educational Project for the New Rurality: Educational Project of the School of Agricultural, Livestock, and Environmental Sciences – UNAD
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)This document is composed of several chapters. The first chapter provides an institutional contextualization, highlighting the most relevant regulatory framework. It also makes a brief description of its history, which shows the progress made regarding the presence of the university in all regions of the country over time. Additionally, it presents the “moments” that have set milestones in the evolution of the School ... -
Basics of Vector Calculus with Some Applications
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)This text is aimed at students of Engineering programs and related fields of the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD for its Spanish acronym) and other universities. It has basic material for a course of Introduction to Linear Algebra and elements of Vector Calculus. It emerges as a didactic proposal that encourages students to learn autonomously, by providing them with conceptual tools and detailed answers ... -
Digital Inclusion in Latin America: Where and How Do Women Inhabit Cyberspace?
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)This book addresses the issue of digital inclusion from a gender perspective. Although it is an essay book, it contains an in-depth documentary review in the argumentation paragraphs, as well as the discourse analysis of public policies and current discussions in the cyberculture field. It is the cumulative result of several academic research and experiences on the matter with the Red Laboratorio de la Historia Global ... -
Historical Sociologists of Colombia: A Critical Study
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)First and foremost, this study is concerned with deceased Colombian sociologists. In no case have I intended to conceptualize the work of active colleagues who may still produce, correct, or adjust some work of discussion, reflection, public performance, or any identifiable genre, as it seems to me risky and unnecessary. What has been done by anyone is out in the open (when it is), and interested parties can get to the ... -
Integral Management of the Upper Basin of the Magdalena River: Tools for its Evaluation and Planning
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)Watersheds are fundamental units of analysis for the development of planning and management processes. Understanding their dynamics, structure, and functioning is the basis for territory planning and decision-making. However, their functionality and sustainable use depend on the information and knowledge of these ecosystems, as well as their regimes and responsiveness against anthropogenic interventions, variability, ... -
Happiness and Human Well-Being: Perspectives from Reflection, Research, and Intervention in Latin America.
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)This book arose from the Latin American Network for the study and intervention in happiness and well-being consolidated at the end of the year 2020. The beginning of this happy work team was given from the concerns of a group of researchers from the National Open and Distance University, belonging to the Emotional Development and Education Psychology Group who were interested in the analysis and study of different ... -
Pathways of Philosophy for Children
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)This publication calls for a broad reflection on the current problems of education in Colombia and in the world by stressing the importance of developing critical thinking as a crosscutting competence to achieve major development goals set out in the international agenda. This necessarily implies transformations that must be promoted from the educational field so that they can permeate individuals, institutions, social ... -
Globalization, Localization, Competitiveness, and Productive Specialization: an Empirical Analysis for Colombia
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)The paper aims to serve as a guide for all students in the areas of international trade, economics, international relations, and national and international socioeconomic history. It also seeks to contribute to the socioeconomic debate on the efficiency of trade agreements, whether there is an erosion of the current governments in economic development policies at the department level, and whether the international trade’s ... -
Participación Política en América Latina : Casos México, Colombia y Brasil
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-08)Este libro es un esfuerzo conjunto de investigadores de Brasil, México y Colombia, y del semillero de investigación Estudios sociales del desarrollo y los territorios del Programa de Sociología de la Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia - UNAD, que busca identificar los factores asociados que impulsan o desincentivan la participación política en la población de sus países, con una visión multidisciplinar que ... -
Burnout Syndrome in Professors: Their Challenges in Pandemic Times
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-05-23)The research sets an important pace in the School of Educational Sciences (ECEDU, for its Spanish acronym) of the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD, for its Spanish acronym) and in particular in the Bachelor of Philosophy program, which celebrates 25 years of history playing an important role in the training of philosophy graduates throughout our country. Also, and with relevance, the university has been ... -
Diagnosis of Socio-Environmental Ethnic Conflicts at the Colombian-Ecuadorian Border
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-05-23)This research analyzed the socio-environmental context of the binational ancestral peoples of Cofán, Pasto, Awá, and Afro of the border. As a result of the Spanish colonialist process and after the independence proclamation, these communities were fragmented and trapped in a reality that continues afflicting their existence in the territory. This interinstitutional study between UNAD (the Spanish acronym for Universidad ... -
Introduction to the History of Political Philosophy
(Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD; Sello Editorial UNAD, 2022-11-04)We consider that the collection of a decade of inquiries, interactions, lucubrations, and writings made by the author of this book during the lectureship on Political Philosophy, included in the Philosophy program of the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, is a necessary contribution to the historical context of philosophical thinking regarding political philosophy. This book does not pretend to be an encyclopedic ...
