Vol. 02 No. 018 (2014)

• Issue presentation

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  One of the environmental challenges of today's society is the conservation of our heritage, understanding in its broadest sense: natural and cultural heritage, material and intangible, tangible and intangible. The development models of most countries often endanger that common heritage, the basis of different cultures and many of the ecosystems on which life on Planet Earth depends.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ams.2014.02.018

Theoretical frameworks

• Visual cultures of climate change in the Spanish press: the case of the ABC

  Maria Pilar Punter Chiva

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  Research has reliably shown that the written press is a key source of information on those issues related to climate change for the public. Proper communication of the topic through images becomes necessary for its understanding. While graphical representations with data have proven useful in understanding the complex dynamics of the atmosphere, photographs have often been used to visualize possible impacts of climate change. This article analyzes how the issue of climate change is communicated using visual elements, by a widely circulated newspaper in Spain, such as the ABC. The volume of articles that incorporate images belongs to four different periods. These periods coincide with the years of publication of the first four reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These moments were chosen because they were considered key to the development and understanding of this environmental problem. The visual elements are used, like the texts, to give a partial and directed vision by the author (in this case the means of communication) of the treated subject.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ams.2014.02.018

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Trajectories and challenges

• The transmission of Archaeological Heritage through Interpretation. A case study focusing on the Open Archaeological Museum of Carnota (A Coruña, Galicia)

  Patricia Trasmonte Martínez Iria Caamaño Franco M. Elvira Lezcano González

  23-47

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  The aim of this paper is to present the importance of Heritage Interpretation for heritage promotion, and specifically, archaeological heritage with a tourist purpose. This Museum was chosen due to its increasing interest over the last years, in terms of valuing cultural heritage (excavations, improvement of accessibility, signalling...). Nevertheless, the Open Museum resources are in a risk of   vulnerability and bad conservation if we consider the increment of visitors, both local population and tourists, because of the lack of a good management planning. It should therefore be developed a behaviour intervention plan in the resource, as it was valued for a spontaneous leisure use and not from a tourist perspective. In this context, the study used qualitative techniques, such as participant observation and in-depth interview, to evaluate the present situation.  Finally, some conclusions are presented as well as a pre-interpretive proposal that could constitute a future planning basis.
  
  

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ams.2014.02.018

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Resources and social tools

• Environmental Education in Amazonia: social representacións ace practices

  Francisca Marli Rodrigues de Andrade

  49-64

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  Historically, the Amazon region, with its resistance memories and political contestation, was and remains building space of possibilities to face the many environmental problems imposed on this region. The social imaginary of the population reflect the relationships that emerge as a function of biodiversity and multiculturalism that integrates. Similarly, reframes the local culture and everyday practices of women and men who live in the Amazon. In this sense, intensifies our interest in (re)know the social representations of Environmental Education that guide teaching practices and community of teachers with training in pedagogy, which act in the early stages of Elementary Education at Public Castanhal-Pará, Brazil. The theoretical and methodological approach of the research was guided by the contributions of the Theory of Social Representations. We used the questionnaire, complement the discussion group and by participant observation to collect survey informatio , which was attended by 121 teachers. In the most significant results evidenced the main access roads to the environmental discourse and conceptions of environmental education that guide the daily practices of research protagonists.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ams.2014.02.018

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• Education for sistainability in museum today. The guide tours in Aquarium Finisterrae

  Begoña Rivera Estévez

  65-74

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  Aquarium Finisterrae is a clear example of what is known today as “new museum”. Its interactivity and its many activities, allow access to all citizens in order to promote the participation and critical thinking ahead to the actions of man with the environment. One of the most sought after are the Aquarium of the guided tours. From the analysis in the first person and the information rescued from interviews with teachers, professionals and visitors, give to know the importance of this museum, as well as the views guided the same for the public visitors.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ams.2014.02.018

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Bank of best practices

• The role of the museum as an educational partner and transmitter of environmental values

  Margarida Filipe Ramos

  75-85

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  The present enquiry aims at making a reflection over the role of museums while educators for the values and more concretely of its importance in regards to the environmental and citizenship values. We will be presenting the case study of the Water Museum of Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres (EPAL), through the analysis of its dynamic with schools and more specifically through the analysis of the materials produced by the students in the annual competition promoted by this institution.
  Culture, family, religion and the society in general where the individual is inserted, all these factors are influences to the values. We believe that the museum should assume its social responsibility beyond the traditional point of view, of divulging and preserving the patrimony and assume itself as an agent of change and an educator for the values.
  
  

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ams.2014.02.018

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Documents

• Universía Río Charter 2014

  III Encontro Internacional de Rectores

  87-93

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  The “III International Meeting of Rectors” reflected on the university of the 21st century in the light of the strategic axes of the Guadalajara Universia 2010 Agenda and new university expectations and trends, in order to promote a socially responsible Ibero-American Knowledge Space.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ams.2014.02.018

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