Inteligencia Emocional y Social, y como afecta nuestro liderazgo.

¨Daniel Goleman nos habla a cerca de la Inteligencia Emocional ySocial, y como afecta nuestro liderazgo.¨

http://youtu.be/NTpamwen8cA

LIBRO RECOMENDADO: INTELIGENCIA SOCIAL

¨Quienes ya disfrutaron con Inteligencia emocional no pueden perderse esta nueva incursión del investigador y profesor de la Universidad de Harvard Daniel Goleman en las claves neurológicas de las relaciones humanas:Inteligencia social.

Si en su primer libro, Goleman se centraba en cuán importante eran las emociones y su gestión para conducirnos por el mundo, tanto o más que el cultivo de la inteligencia espacial, la matemática u otras, en Inteligencia social Goleman hace hincapié en que todos estamos programados para conectar con el prójimo. Es el propio diseño de nuestro cerebro es el que nos hace profundamente sociales. Y, por tanto, una persona completa es aquella que no desatiende esta importante faceta: su interacción con los demás. La soledad es la muerte, digan lo que digan los anacoretas o los misántropos.¨

http://www.papelenblanco.com

Dr. Antonio Caeiro ¨RETÓRICA, EXPRESSÃO DE SI E ARGUMENTAÇÃO¨

SEMINARIO EN LISBOA (F.C.S.H.)

Retórica, expressão de si e argumentação.

Questões de Ontologia, IIº SEMESTRE, IIº Ciclo (2012-2013), 2ªª 18h00-21h00.

Encontramo-nos numa inacabável conversa com os próprios. Falar de si e dizer-se o que se sente é uma condição não anulável do ser humano. Despertamos sentimentos e provocamos emoções. Reagimos-lhes. O que se passa de cada vez é avaliado pelo estado sentimental em que ficámos com algo que nos impressionou. Antecipamos emoções que perseguimos ou evitamos. Convencemos e persuadimos em vista do que nos acontece: de impactos emocionais e crises afectivas. O horizonte de trabalho da retórica confunde-se com o do núcleo fundamental de sentido do ser humano. O que habitualmente reconhecemos como sentimento, emoções e afectos está desde sempre espontaneamente exposto a uma interpretação que resulta de uma hermenêutica da Facticidade. Os πάθη correspondem a formas de afectação. Um sentimento que nasce e cresce é um conteúdo irreal, mas eficaz. Surte efeito. Estão continuamente a configurar o nosso acontecimento no trânsito da vida. Conhecemos o carácter avassalador da paixão. Mas também quando aparentemente nada se sente, se vai indo, nada se passa. Como falamos do que nos acontece? Como nos exprimimos e falamos dos nossos sentimentos? E ao dizermos o que sentimos estamos a apresentar argumentos? A partir de que ponto de vista?¨

http://antoniodecastrocaeiro.blogspot.pt/2012/05/retorica-expressao-de-si-e-argumentacao.html

Scientists successfully implant artificial memory system

The Matrix reality: Scientists successfully implant artificial memory system

It seems the sci-fi industry has done it again. Predictions made in novels like Johnny Mnemonicand Neuromancer back in the 1980s of neural implants linking our brains to machines have become a reality.

Back then it seemed unthinkable that we’d ever have megabytes stashed in our brain as Keanu Reeves’ character Johnny Mnemonic did in the movie based on William Gibson’s novel. Or thatThe Matrix character Neo could have martial arts abilities uploaded to his brain, making famous the line, “I know Kung Fu.”   (Why Keanu Reeves became the poster boy of sci-fi movies, I’ll never know.)  But today we have macaque monkeys that can control a robotic arm with thoughts alone. We have paraplegics given the ability to control computer cursors and wheelchairs with their brain waves. Of course this is about the brain controlling a device. But what about the other direction where we might have a device amplifying the brain? While the cochlear implant might be the best known device of this sort, scientists have been working on brain implants with the goal to enhance memory. This sort of breakthrough could lead to building a neural prosthesis to help stroke victims or those with Alzheimer’s. Or at the extreme, think uploading Kung Fu talent into our brains.

Decade-long work led by Theodore Berger at University of Southern California, in collaboration with teams from Wake Forest University, has provided a big step in the direction of artificial working memory. Their study is finally published today in the Journal of Neural Engineering. A microchip implanted into a rat’s brain can take on the role of the hippocampus—the area responsible for long-term memories—encoding memory brain wave patterns and then sending that same electrical pattern of signals through the brain. Back in 2008, Berger told Scientific American, that if the brain patterns for the sentence, “See Spot Run,” or even an entire book could be deciphered, then we might make uploading instructions to the brain a reality. “The kinds of examples [the U.S. Department of Defense] likes to typically use are coded information for flying an F-15,” Berger is quoted in the article as saying.

In this current study the scientists had rats learn a task, pressing one of two levers to receive a sip of water. Scientists inserted a microchip into the rat’s brain, with wires threaded into their hippocampus. Here the chip recorded electrical patterns from two specific areas labeled CA1 and CA3 that work together to learn and store the new information of which lever to press to get water. Scientists then shut down CA1 with a drug. And built an artificial hippocampal part that could duplicate such electrical patterns between CA1 and CA3, and inserted it into the rat’s brain. With this artificial part, rats whose CA1 had been pharmacologically blocked, could still encode long-term memories. And in those rats who had normally functioning CA1, the new implant extended the length of time a memory could be held.

The next step is to test the device in monkeys, and then in humans. Of course at this early stage a breakthrough like this brings up more questions than solutions. Memory is hugely complex, based on our individual experiences and perceptions. If we have the electrical pattern for the phrase, See Spot Run, mentioned above, would this mean the same thing for you as it does for me? How would such a device work within context? As writer Gary Stix asked in the Scientific American article, “Would “See Spot Run” be misinterpreted as laundry mishap instead of a trotting dog?” Or as the science journalist John Horgan once put it, you might hear your wedding song, but I hear a stale pop tune.

We are provided with the same structural blueprint for our brains, but its circuitry is built from experience and genetics, and this is a tapestry unique to each of us. Something that many scientists feel we’ll never be able to fully crack and decode, let alone insert into it an experiential memory.

http://www.smartplanet.com

APA- Violence Against Teachers Spurs Urgent Call to Action (Recent Press Releases)

¨Violence Against Teachers Spurs Urgent Call to Action

Expert recommendations address alarming yet often overlooked issue

WASHINGTON—Teachers across the United States report alarmingly high rates of personally experiencing student violence and harassment while at school, according to an article published by the American Psychological Association that presents comprehensive recommendations to make schools safer for school personnel as well as students.

“Understanding and Preventing Violence Directed Against Teachers: Recommendations for a National Research, Practice, and Policy Agenda,” was published online Jan. 7 in the APA’s flagship journal, American Psychologist^®.

“Violence directed against teachers is a national crisis with far-reaching implications and deserves inclusion in the school violence equation,” said the article’s lead author, Dorothy Espelage, PhD, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “We are proposing that any comprehensive examination of school violence must consider the complex dynamics that affect teachers and other school personnel as well as students, parents and the entire community.” Espelage was chair of APA’s Task Force on Classroom Violence Directed Against Teachers, which issued a report in 2011.

Educators’ perceived threats and experiencing violence at school are important components of a problem that has received surprisingly limited attention, the article states. To date, only 14 published studies have examined violence directed at teachers in schools, according to the authors. Five of the studies involved a total of 3,627 teachers in the United States and nine were conducted internationally with 9,720 teachers.

The APA task force conducted one of the national studies, which found that 80 percent of the teachers surveyed reported being victimized at school at least once in the then-current or prior year. Of those, 94 percent said they had been victimized by students — 44 percent reported being physically attacked and 72 percent reported harassment, while 50 percent said they experienced theft or property damage at school. The findings were based on survey responses from almost 3,000 K-12 teachers in 48 states.

The article provides detailed recommendations aimed at preventing violence against teachers, including the creation of a national registry maintained by the U.S. Department of Education to track such incidents. While local and state school agencies keep general records of violent acts at schools, a national agency with the authority to require reporting is necessary to estimate the magnitude of the problem more accurately and develop targeted prevention, according to the article. The authors recommend avoiding collection of students’ or teachers’ names to encourage accurate reporting, to maintain individual privacy and so that the registry can be made available to the public and researchers. 

The article also suggests implementing state-by-state consistency in licensure requirements so that all educators are required to master classroom management training before they are licensed to teach.

“Because professional training typically does not prepare teachers to deal with violence at school, most lack the skills to prevent challenging behavior from occurring and to respond effectively when it does occur. As such, many teachers have been shocked by frequent violent occurrences in our nation’s schools during recent years and the far-reaching implications of violence,” Espelage said.

To address student behavior that can lead to violence against teachers, the recommendations include methods tailored to individual students, focusing on reasons why problem behaviors occur rather than on ways to stop the behavior once it happens.

Psychologists can promote collaboration among community-based organizations, such as after-school programs, social service agencies and neighborhood associations, to create more integrated efforts that provide prevention, early identification, intervention and treatment for a wide range of behavioral and academic problems among youth, the article states.

“Professional psychologists can play a critical role in helping prevent violence against teachers, which in turn can make school a safer place for all concerned,” Espelage said. “This is a significant yet under-investigated problem in the United States that has profound implications for schooling, teacher retention and over all student performance.”

Article: “Understanding and Preventing Violence Directed Against Teachers: Recommendations for a National Research, Practice, and Policy Agenda,” American Psychologist, online Jan. 7; Dorothy Espelage, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eric M. Anderman, PhD, Ohio State University; Veda Evanell Brown, PhD, National Alliance of Black School Educators; Abraham Jones, PhD, National Education Association; Kathleen Lynne Lane, PhD, University of Kansas; Susan D. McMahon, PhD, DePaul University; Linda A. Reddy, PhD, Rutgers University; and Cecil R. Reynolds, PhD, Texas A&M University. (Authors are listed in alphabetical order after the lead author.)

Dorothy Espelage, PhD, can be contacted by email or by phone at (217) 766-6413.

The American Psychological Association, in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's membership includes more than 137,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives.¨

http://www.apa.org/

El Parlamento Europeo: Propuestas para salir de la crisis

Para más detalles ver el pdf:
http://madrid.adagio4.eu/ressource/static/files/PDF/crisis_es.pdf

Los TEMAS del 2013 en la U.E. (Parlamento)

Parlamento Europeo

Los grandes temas de 2013: el euro, las primas de los banqueros, alimentos transgénicos, tabaco...

03/01/2013
El Parlamento Europeo entra en un nuevo año crucial. Lidiará con las reformas para que la economía repunte; negociará con los Estados de la Unión Europea el marco presupuestario hasta 2020; y se pronunciará sobre diversas iniciativas legislativas que influirán en la vida cotidiana de los ciudadanos: desde mejorar los derechos de los pasajeros, hasta limitar las emisiones de CO2 de los automóviles, pasando por los alimentos genéticamente modificados y las primas que se embolsan los banqueros.

http://noticias.juridicas.com

NEWS FROM U.K. Extra £10 million for mediation

¨New measures are being put in place to support separating couples at the time of year when the number of people considering separation and divorce is at its peak.

The Government expects to spend an additional £10 million this year on legal aid for mediation, taking the total spent to £25 million, and want to ensure that couples who decide to separate give consideration to using the process. In recent years a greater number of people have been successfully using mediation – where they are helped to agree the issues between themselves rather than argue it out through lawyers with a judge taking the final decisions.

Experts say the post-Christmas period is when the most enquiries about separation and divorce are made – so much so that the first working day in January is dubbed 'Divorce Day' by many in the legal sector.

Family Justice Minister Lord McNally said:

'Going through a divorce or separation can be an emotionally draining and stressful time for everyone involved, especially for children.

'All too often money is wasted on expensive and traumatic court hearings that can take far too long to resolve – and that is why we want to help people to use mediation, a quicker and simpler approach which brings better outcomes.'

Mediation is a quicker, simpler and more effective way of agreeing how couples divide their assets or arrange child contact, which avoids the traumatic and divisive effect of courtroom battles.¨

http://www.justice.gov.uk