La Salle

La construcciòn de la escuela moderna avanza paso a paso, a través de diversos representantes que - entre 1550 y 1750 - le dan forma definitiva. La Salle representa en último eslabón de un proyecto que, aunque nace en el contexto religioso, toma fuerza y se vuelve glorioso cuando forma parte del proyecto de los estados modernos.

La escuela sagrada de los orígenes, no sufrió con el proceso de secularización, pero fue mostrando sus debilidades al desacralizarse, para mostrar finalmente sus imposibilidades en la escuela profanada. La revisión crítica de la escuela de nuestros días supone reconocer su situación de crisis y las dificultades para saber responder con la misma idoneidad y eficiencia del pasado a las demandas del presente.  La sucesión de ataques a la educación escolarizada es una expresión de la desarticulación entre las expectativas de los usuarios y las respuestas actuales de la institución educativa y de la organización escolar.  Queda abierto el debate.

I recently read an article in your summer 2020 issue by Richard Gross and Craig P. Howard titled “Colbert, La Salle, and the Search for Empire” in which some of my work was referenced, misinterpreted, and straw-manned. I hope the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society will grant me a few pages to respond. Somebody had deceptively changed the maps and geographical information, and it is hard to believe that this happened without La Salle’s cognizance and/or consent. Gross and Howard must ignore the blatant changes in the maps and documents from 1683 and 1684 in order to absolve their hero La Salle of any chicanery, skullduggery, and deception.

In 1887 the Open Court Publishing Company had its founding in a philosophy of monism. The company’s proprietor Edward C. Hegeler began the enterprise in an effort to promote his personal philosophic, religious, and moral ideas. He believed that these ideas could be conciliated with the growing scientific trends of the late nineteenth century, and that monism was the intellectual framework for doing so. Paul Carus, the editor of the journals The Open Court and The Monist, joined Hegeler as an intellectual ally in this regard. For thirty years he openly defended the doctrines of monism in countless articles and books, successfully grounding the Open Court on this philosophy. This paper uncovers the historical development of the philosophical origin of the Open Court as it began with Hegeler’s personal religious motives, his ideological tension with the original editor Benjamin Underwood, and his embrace of the monistic writings of Paul Carus. It also examines Hegeler’s and Carus’s publications and personal letters from the 1880s and 1890s in order to determine the fundamental doctrines of their unique sense of monism. In Carus’s writings in particular is proposed a monism of causality that is compatible with a deterministic worldview and a unitary conception of the sciences. Also, both Carus and Hegeler propose a monistic ethics of meliorism that conceives the diverse periods of human history to be evolving toward the one final end of the moral improvement of humankind. While these are the positive doctrines that they accept, they further reject the antitheses of philosophical dualism and irreligious attitude of agnosticism of all varieties.

In April 1682 the expedition of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, reached the mouth of the Mississippi River.  Such a feat of exploration should have resulted in the correct cartographic placement of the mighty river, yet in 1684 when he was to return to the mouth of the Mississippi, his expedition landed over four hundred miles west in Matagorda Bay of present-day Texas.  Scholars have since debated why La Salle could not find the river that he knew better than any other European.  In the March 1969 volume of the East Texas Historical Journal, historian Ert J. Gum penned an article entitled “La Salle and the Historians” that discussed the multitude of conflicting opinions concerning the course and nature of La Salle’s final expedition.  The importance of the voyage to East Texas history, La Salle’s foray brought the region into the dizzy world of European imperial and colonial politics, led to its inclusion in a 1978 anthology of East Texas Historical Journal articles entitled Eastern Texas History.  Looking at numerous works from 1856 to 1967, Gum recounted the utter lack of agreement among historians concerning both the motive of La Salle’s 1684 mission and his intended landing place.  Since Gum wrote, there has been renewed interest in La Salle’s last journey in the scholarly community, spurred on by the tercentenary of his death and the discovery of one of the ships under his command, the Belle, off the Gulf Coast.  The major points of disagreement between scholars concern La Salle’s intentions to either land at the mouth of the Mississippi or west of it, the possibility he deceived the French court and the motives behind this fraud, and the extent his inaccurate geographical knowledge of the Gulf impaired his judgment.

El presente artículo de investigación tiene el propósito de contribuir en la recopilación y documentación de información relativa al desarrollo urbano y territorial de las ciudades de baja densidad presentes en la zona norte de México y en específico la ciudad de Chihuahua. Se explica la relación del parcelario ejidal con los cambios constitucionales que regulan la tenencia de la tierra agrícola y el desarrollo de la vivienda como factores de base que contribuyeron al establecimiento de las condiciones espaciales y de paisaje urbano de la ciudad actual. Gracias a esta información se pueden identificar, mediante un trabajo gráfico de superposición de planos y trazas antiguas con la traza urbana actual, las fragmentaciones del territorio que están relacionadas directamente con los límites de las diversas propiedades agrícolas después del fundo legal heredado de la Colonia Española. La relevancia de este trabajo de investigación radica en la documentación y presentación de material inédito relacionado con la estructura territorial chihuahuense –similar a muchas ciudades de frontera con Estados Unidos- y su impacto en los estudios urbanos que tratan de analizar y teorizar sobre los modelos de desarrollo actuales de la ciudad horizontal. Siguiendo este orden de ideas, el desarrollo territorial histórico de la ciudad se relaciona de manera directa con la fragmentación del espacio público actual y se reconoce como la estructura base sobre la cual se establece el precario sistema de parques y espacios abiertos en la ciudad.

This paper presents and discusses some results of a survey analyzing the iconographic and iconological contents of thirty-three stained glass windows of St. Joseph Chapel in Canoas/RS, Brazil. It shows the intimate relationship between symbolism and Lasallian memory from theoretical considerations about symbolism and social memory. The research method is qualitative, gathering primary and secondary research sources such as manuscripts, photographs, iconography, bulletins, newsletters, interviews and memos. The interpretation of the symbolic meanings of the stained glass was performed according to the three levels of iconological and iconographic analysis proposed by Erwin Panofsky. The six stained glass windows described in this paper represent the realization of collective and spiritual memories of the Lasallian tradition. In this sense, to rebuild the symbolic significance of the stained glass windows of the St. Joseph Chapel is to confirm it as a symbolic-religious memory space a...

In 1690 Vincenzo Coronelli, the Cartographer of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, published an authoritative multivolume world atlas entitled the Atlante Veneto.  Coronelli envisioned his work as a successor to the widely respected Atlas Maior of Dutch mapmaker Joan Blaeu and it was comprised of hundreds of maps and, a novelty, printed globe gores of various sizes.  Although lauded in its day for its accuracy and beauty, Coronelli’s printed magnum opus is often overlooked and disparaged today due to a major cartographic error in his map of North America, the America Settentrionale: the Mississippi River runs through today’s Great Plains states and enters the Gulf of Mexico on the coast of Texas.  Most historians have linked this mistaken geography with the machinations of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and his faction at the court of Louis XIV of France, where Coronelli worked from 1681 to 1683.  The placement of the Mississippi on maps such as America Settentrionale has usually been chalked up to the mapmaker’s naïve acceptance of La Salle’s either erroneous or deliberately falsified data about the river.  Coronelli is thereby painted as a mapmaker wholly unconcerned with geographic accuracy as he willingly promoted a cartographic fallacy.  This judgment, however, fails to take into account Coronelli’s varied sources and his attention to detail.  A careful analysis of his beautiful America Settentrionale from the Atlante Veneto reveals that Coronelli’s placement of the Mississippi hundreds of miles too far west was not taken impulsively or capriciously, but after a considered study of the sources many available to him.

O artigo apresenta um estudo que compoe parte de uma linha continua de pesquisas cujo cerne de seus objetivos gira em torno da alfabetizacao cientifica no ensino medio e as praticas pedagogicas dos professores das ciencias. Sendo assim, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar um dialogo entre as expectativas apresentadas pelos documentos oficiais de educacao para a formacao do aluno do ensino medio e os parâmetros da alfabetizacao cientifica. O dialogo tecido neste estudo e baseado na ideia de que os objetivos apresentados pelos documentos para a formacao do aluno em ciencias podem ser melhor compreendidos sob a otica da alfabetizacao cientifica. A visao aqui defendida pode trazer direcionamentos mais efetivos na construcao de praticas no ensino de ciencias que almejem o desenvolvimento de competencias no aluno para a sua atuacao em sociedade de forma autonoma, critica e consciente.

Ce texte répond à une demande portant sur l'école lasallienne du XXIe siècle et sur la pertinence de la mémoire et de l’histoire dans la construction d’une nouvelle citoyenneté visant à la paix et à la justice universelles. Le long du texte, je propose une définition du rôle de la mémoire et de l’histoire dans le cadre du projet moderne afin de, ensuite, expliquer pourquoi ces deux concepts relèvent d’une injonction - c’est-à-dire, un énoncé impératif - consistant à affirmer les rapports entre les « leçons du passé », la maîtrise du monde et l’apprentissage morale des individus. Pour ce faire, je m’appui sur des auteurs classiques, tels que Paul Ricœur (2000) et Jacques Le Goff (1988), mais aussi sur l’ouvrage récente de Sarah Gensburger et Sandrine Lefranc (2017) portant sur les politiques de mémoire. À la fin, j’esquisse quelques jalons portant sur le rôle de la pédagogie lasallienne vis-à-vis la construction de la citoyenneté, la fraternité et la responsabilité sociale.

Reflexión sobre la relación entre el profesionista involucrado en los procesos de comunicación de marca, bajo el título de Director de Comunicación en Marketing o cualquier símil a éste, y la generación, relación, utilización y propagación de significados en la sociedad a partir de las marcas y su comunicación mercadológica. Se hace especial énfasis en el concepto de Personalidad de Marca y se expone como pilar fundamental para la génesis de ideas y su modulación de la realidad desde el producto y la comunicación mercadológica. Se define el marco de referencia para esta reflexión y se exponen ejemplos con el fin de identificar la responsabilidad social y humana que recae en el profesional, haciendo un llamado a la actuación cabal, íntegra y honesta en aras de un porvenir más brillante para todos.

REFERÊNCIA: SGANZERLA, Z.; GRAEFF, L.; GRAEBIN, C. M. G. A construção de memória simbólico-religiosa e lassalista a partir dos vitrais da Capela São José, em Canoas/RS. Mouseion, v. 17, n. 1, p. 99–112, abr. 2014. Disponível em: http://www.revistas.unilasalle.edu.br/index.php/Mouseion/article/view/1542

ABSTRACT: This paper presents and discusses some results of a survey analyzing the iconographic and iconological contents of thirty-three stained glass windows of St. Joseph Chapel in Canoas/RS, Brazil. It shows the intimate re- lationship between symbolism and Lasallian memory from theoretical considerations about symbolism and social memory. The research method is qualitative, gathering primary and secondary research sources such as manuscripts, photographs, iconography, bulletins, newsletters, interviews and memos. The interpretation of the symbolic mean- ings of the stained glass was performed according to the three levels of iconological and iconographic analysis proposed by Erwin Panofsky. The six stained glass windows described in this paper represent the realization of collective and spiritual memories of the Lasallian tradition. In this sense, to rebuild the symbolic significance of the stained glass windows of the St. Joseph Chapel is to confirm it as a symbolic-religious memory space and of Lasallian identity.

En 1919 en el Colegio De La Salle de Buenos Aires fue fundada por parte de un grupo de alumnos de la Congregación Mariana una comisión de la Liga Patriótica. La monografía estudia las condiciones de posibilidad de esa fundación desde la perspectiva de la estética escolar y la ideología nacionalista.

Estudos sobre os problemas da formação de professores no âmbito nacional e internacional revelam as limitações do desempenho profissional com a qualidade exigida em educação, devido ao tratamento insuficiente da possibilidade de práticas pedagógicas inter/transdisciplinares. O ensaio objetiva discutir necessidades das referidas perspectivas nas práticas educacionais, focalizando a formação docente em níveis inicial e continuada. A metodologia utilizada é a revisão bibliográfica que fundamenta nossa construção teórica. A análise teórica das referências assumidas a partir do paradigma hermenêutico possibilita identificar a importância de orientar a abordagem epistemológica numa multidimensionalidade exigida pelo processo de formação de professores no cenário atual.

I will provide only a first tentative answer to the question of how the relationship between education and time changed from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Age, by focusing on a few cases in point from various geographical areas.The aim of this essay is to account for the progressive development of strategies for parcelling and organizing time at school, that is, the distribution and realization of tasks on a shared timeline.

El presente texto responde a una solicitud relativa a la escuela lasaliana del siglo XXI y sobre la pertinencia de la memoria y de la historia en la construcción de una nueva ciudadanía que tenga como finalidad la paz y la justica universales. A lo largo de esta exposición, trataré de definir el papel de la memoria y de la historia en el contexto del proyecto moderno con el fin de, posteriormente, explicar por qué estos dos conceptos derivan de un requerimiento – es decir un enunciado imperativo - consistente en afirmar las relaciones entre las “lecciones del pasado”, el dominio del mundo y el aprendizaje moral de los individuos. Par hacerlo, me basaré en autores clásicos, tales como Paul Ricoeur (2000) y Jacques Le Goff (1988), así como también sobre la obra reciente de Sarah Gensburger y Sandrine Lefranc (2017) que tratan sobre las políticas de la memoria. Finalmente, siguiendo las orientaciones generales de este seminario, esbozaré algunos hitos relativos al papel de la pedagogía lasaliana con relación a la construcción de la ciudadanía, la fraternidad y la responsabilidad sociales.