The Economic Hour: Community and Educational Broadcasting in the Huancavelica Region, Peru

This article is the result of the execution of the Cultural Extension project entitled "The economic hour"; carried out by the members of the monovalent group "Elinor Ostrom" of the Professional School of Economics (EPE) of the Faculty of Business Sciences (FCE) of the National University of Huancavelica (UNH) in 2019. The main objective of this project was carrying out social service work to the Huancavelica community and provide important information on economic, political, environmental and social situations through a community radio program. A methodological approach of participation-action was used with a specific and contextualized speech model for the elaboration of each radio program during four months. Likewise, the results obtained showed a favourable impact and a high level of satisfaction of the different groups of listeners. Finally, we conclude that the execution of the project involved a successful experience of social rapprochement between the university and society. In this sense, we are sure that this experience will generate greater dialogue and create similar projects for the benefit of our communities.

Metaphorical Conceptualizations of Language: Networks of Meanings and Meta-functions

This paper employs the innovative method of Elicited Metaphor Analysis to present original research in Malaysia into students’ metaphors for ‘language’. We summarize reasons why language and first/ second language learning are centrally important in education, and show patterned features of language metaphors in proverbs and in teacher talk about literacy. These may be one strand of student socialization into language-literacy conceptions. We then report our study of 408 university students in Malaysia who gave 977 metaphors for ‘language’. Using a socio-cultural extension of conceptual metaphor theory from cognitive linguistics, we analyse these data into thematic clusters and metaphor networks of meanings. In student voices, this presents a surprisingly rich picture of language and shows evidence of linguistic meta-functions: student metaphors for language can be seen not only cognitively with affective and socio-cultural meta-functions, but also with moral-spiritual and aesthetic functions. These meta-functions accord with some educational theories. To show wider insider metaphor perspectives we cite our research with ‘teacher’ and ‘learning’ metaphors in Malaysia, and ‘language’ findings from China, Iran, Lebanon and the UK. The metaphor meanings and meta-functions broaden our conception of language as a medium of learning with strong implications for the teaching of languages and literacy.

Post-millennial Black American Experience: The Poetry of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

One of the most exciting developments on the Black American literary scene in the post-millennial period is the emergence of a body of #BlackLivesMatter poetry, itself a cultural extension of the civil rights movement of the same name. Granted that the #BlackLivesMovement in its current form is less than a decade old, what follows are but preliminary thoughts on the poetics of this movement. Often experimental, the poetry of the #BlackLivesMatter movement is, for the most part, conceived as one of the polyphonic voices of the black civil rights struggle in its contemporary form. The poetry—often not published in traditional book form—is, I argue, one that is still searching for its own distinctive voice or, more accurately, voices while simultaneously celebrating its very experimental selves. And yet this is unapologetically in-your-face art with a powerful digital presence on increasingly important social mass media portals such as Twitter, blogs, Facebook and especially YouTube. Where traditional published poetry requires the committed reader to seek out the book, #BlackLivesMatter poetry finds the reader and audience on social media.

Danza para los ojos azules / Dance for blue eyes

La danza de los ojos azules es producto de un proceso creativo llevado a cabo en el año 2014 por estudiantes de distintas generaciones de la Escuela de danza Espiral y la Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano en Santiago de Chile. Su origen se arraiga en la visión cultural y espíritu artístico de sus fundadores, Patricio Bunster y Joan Turner, quienes en contexto político adverso en la Historia de Chile siguen una formación que pudiera recuperar, congregar y acercar la danza a sectores sin acceso al goce de este arte. Espiral contribuyó al restablecimiento de la tradición de extensión cultural en Chile, abriendo un espacio de desarrollo para el arte hacia diversos sectores sin imponer formas ni estilos, extendiendo la posibilidadde recuperación de la cultura artística a través de perspectivas de crecimiento, conocimiento e identidad.Dance for blue eyesThe blue eyes dance is a product of a creative process carried out in 2014 by students of different generations of the School of Dance Spiral and the University Academy of Christian Humanism in Santiago de Chile. Its origin is comes from the cultural vision and artistic spirit of its founders, Patricio Bunster and Joan Turner, who in an adverse political context in the history of Chile follow a formation to recover, congregate and bring dance to sectors without access to the artistic practice. Espiral contributed to the restoration of the tradition of cultural extension in Chile, opening a space for the development of art towards different sectors without imposing forms or styles, extending the possibility of recovery of the artistic culture through perspectives of growth, knowledge and identity.

VALORIZAR E DIVULGAR A GEODIVERSIDADE: ESTRATÉGIAS DO CENTRO DE REFERÊNCIA EM PATRIMÔNIO GEOLÓGICO CRPG - MHNJB/UFMG

Museu de História Natural e Jardim Botânico (MHNJB) é um órgão suplementar da Universidade Federalde Minas Gerais, direcionado para a investigação científica e atividades de extensão ambiental e cultural,constituindo-se um espaço onde a ciência é exibida e disseminada para o público leigo. O Museu conta comexposições e espaços artístico-culturais relacionados às temáticas de arqueologia pré-histórica e histórica,mineralogia, plantas medicinais, botânica, cartografia histórica e arte ambiental. Com intuito de promoverpráticas extensionistas significativas e pesquisa no âmbito da geologia, foi criado em 2010 o Centro deReferência em Patrimônio Geológico que tem como um de seus objetivos promover a difusão da geologiae da geodiversidade permitindo a sensibilização do público para a geoconservação.ABSTRACT: The Museum of Natural History and Botanical Garden (MHNJB) is a part of the Federal University of MinasGerais - UFMG, and constitutes a space where science is shown and disseminated for a lay public developingscientific research and practical activities of environmental and cultural extension. The Museum counts withexpositions and related artistic-cultural spaces focussing on prehistoric and historical archaeology, mineralogy,medicinal plants, botany, historical cartography and environmental art. With the objective to increase thedissemination of geosciences to those citizens, the Center of Reference in Geological Heritage was createdin 2010 and has as one of its aims promoting geology, geodiversity and geoconservation.