EU’s Schengen Area, Structural Funds, and Democratic Governance in Spain

The Schengen Area

The creation of European citizenship in 1992 involved the free movement and residence of the inhabitants of the EU. The Schengen Agreement, signed in 1985, established the order of states’ internal border controls. The agreement’s acceptance involves the elimination of borders between EU states. The decrease in the control of the borders between states has, in return, increased surveillance of borders in the states outside the EU (external borders). One objective of this surveillance

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Marxist Theory: Class Struggle and Social Change

Relations of Production and Social Change

Social change is inevitable because it depends on objective factors, in the same society and its economic and technological novel. This inevitability is that Marx draws the necessary time to explain the explosion of the capitalist mode of production and transit to the communist model. But the way to a new society can not be, no proletarian revolutionary effort needs without one, derived from an awareness of class exploitation. That the transition to communism

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Political Forces and State Influence: Armed Forces, Bureaucracy, and Public Opinion

Armed Forces and Their Political Role

Professor Silva Bascuñán defined armed forces as “organizations of arms provided compelling enough to overcome any resistance.” No doctrine exists as a general theory of why the armed forces could take a political role within civil society. Within the thesis the authors have made, it is important to note:

  • The lower the country’s economic development and the degree of political legitimacy of the armed forces, the greater the intervention of those in state politics
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Mentoring Action Plan: Principles and Implementation

Defining Mentoring

Mentoring is a feature acquired through an individual’s personal relationship with another. It is a process where one person, typically more experienced, guides and supports another. This involves teaching, coaching, and facilitating the mentee’s integration into the learning process. Mentoring is done with the same intensity and in parallel with teaching. It is a process of school counseling, focusing on instructional processes but analyzing the whole context of the subject. The

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Qualitative Research Methodology: Social Knowledge and Creativity

What Constitutes the Tip of Social Knowledge?

Pretends to be above the world to observe beyond time, history, and geography of space, outside of life, from a place no one suspected that science allows maximal exercise and definitive otherness. The distance program is crowned supreme knowledge of wholeness.

Explaining Observation as First, Second, and Third Order Reflection

First order: The look looks, looking.

Second order: The strict field of methodological reflection.

Third or fourth order: The look

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Child Language Development: From Phonetics to Semantics

Theme 4: The Organization of Phonics

The educator is interested in the evolving structures and cognitive patterns that determine the child’s phonetic learning. An important fact is the whole process: the acquisition of phonemes is not a question of units being added to each other. We must distinguish between the perception system the child utilizes for the language of others and the production system he uses for his own language. The laws of the perceptual process are not well known, not so with

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