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Papers by Asier Arcos
Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e Innovación Socioecológica
El presente artículo trata de identificar características de un Ecosistema de Economía Social y S... more El presente artículo trata de identificar características de un Ecosistema de Economía Social y Solidaria a nivel local, en la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca.Se parte de que los Ecosistemas Locales de ESS pueden ser el reflejo ecosistémico de una manera alternativa de desarrollar el acto económico, reenfocándolo en el bienestar de la persona desde una perspectiva multidimensional y alineada con los valores de ESS.Partiendo de una revisión teórica, se han analizado la manera en que estas características se dan, en diferentes tipos de entidades de ESS del País Vasco, mediante entrevistas en profundidad semiestructuradas.Por último, se ha validado el instrumento de producción de datos sobre las características de un Ecosistema.Los resultados muestran que, aunque es un primer acercamiento, el ecosistema es una realidad, capaz de generar capacidades en sus miembros y su entorno territorial.---In this paper we try to identify the characteristics of an Ecosystem of Social and Solidarity Economy ...
Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e Innovación Socioecológica, 2018
El artículo argumenta el porqué las micro-finanzas, amparadas por los valores de la ESS, son pro... more El artículo argumenta el porqué las micro-finanzas, amparadas por los valores de la ESS, son promotoras de cambios estructurales en las relaciones sociales y económicas de las mujeres en contextos donde el derecho al crédito no está garantizado. Dicha valoración se realiza por medio del análisis de las prácticas realizadas por la mutua de crédito FADEC Njambur, en el entorno del Departamento de Kebemer, Senegal, y su comparación con los principios de la economía social y solidaria y su real aplicación en el terreno.
Gizarte Ekonomiaren Euskal Aldizkaria - Revista Vasca de Economía Social, 2021
Este artículo presenta una revisión de diferentes propuestas desarrolladas desde el marco de Econ... more Este artículo presenta una revisión de diferentes propuestas desarrolladas desde el marco de Economía Social y Solidaria como alternativas de carácter integral al modelo de desarrollo capitalista imperante. Diversos organismos, redes y la propia academia estructuran propuestas identificadas de manera diferente -redes, circuitos, mercados sociales, sistemas o ecosistemas- con las que ofrecen marcos de actuación que ayuden a delimitar, implantar y desplegar conjuntos articulados de entidades que operen con objetivos trascendentes al bienestar de sus propios componentes y que apunten al bienestar común. Se aborda la revisión de las diferentes propuestas a través de un estudio comparativo del que se extraen las principales variables comunes a todas ellas, así como la intensidad en la implantación de las mismas. Sin embargo, existen limitaciones y quedan retos a la hora de llevar a cabo los diversos objetivos de despliegue que se plantean, como son el mantener los principios y valores co...
Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This paper presents a study of university social responsibility (USR), carried out through an inn... more This paper presents a study of university social responsibility (USR), carried out through an innovative educational action. The students of the studied classrooms in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) collaborated with a social entity Emmaus Social Foundation dedicated to environmental sustainability, social justice and the social and solidarity economy to provide community services through a service-learning methodology. Using a mixed method approach, we combined the practical experience of the social entity with an active student-centred teaching methodology in order to foster the acquisition of general and specific competencies related to sustainability and social justice. The aim was to create learning connections between members of the university community and links with the environmental and social reality of the Basque Country. This pilot study was carried out in the first term of the 2018–2019 academic year. This work allowed (a) critical knowledge to be generat...
Sustainability, 2020
The social and solidarity economy (SSE) has gained worldwide attention over the last decade. It r... more The social and solidarity economy (SSE) has gained worldwide attention over the last decade. It represents a host of diverse economic activities which take different forms in each country, but which share solidarity values that are alternatives to mainstream market economic logics. In Ecuador, the SSE acquired legal status in the 2008 Constitution that aimed to foster an alternative development model based on the Buen Vivir (BV) paradigm. However, despite a broad new regulatory framework for the SSE, the implementation of specific policies faces significant challenges. This article, based on fieldwork and interviews with many stakeholders, critically analyzes the transformative scope of the policies of the main newly created institution (IEPS—Instituto de Economía Popular y Solidaria). We discuss policy challenges focusing on trade-offs for small rural producers due to their dependent market integration and overall flaws in fulfilling SSE solidarity values.
Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues, 2018
The -SSE- tries to build complex relations of production, consumption, distribution and financing... more The -SSE- tries to build complex relations of production, consumption, distribution and financing based on justice, cooperation, reciprocity and mutual help, In this study an ESS educational model for the development of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASSM) that incorporates women in Colombia is proposed. The ASSM is the mining subsector where the situation of women is more precarious. a subsistence economy and are in serious situations of inequality. Promoting and educating for a social and solidarity ASSM with a strong gender focus could break down obstacles, stereotypes and build more equitable gender relations. An intersectional and differential approach complements the necessary analysis to address this problem and proposes local built models, that are flexible, participatory and liberating, where the economic, cultural and social causes of women´s labour are tackled with . Keywords: Social economy, Solidarity economy, education in values, women mining;
Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
This article presents an experience of teaching innovation based on the application of active met... more This article presents an experience of teaching innovation based on the application of active methodologies in economics and business education at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). The proposal builds on a competency teaching approach, whose objectives were to verify the effectiveness of these methodologies in the area of economics in order to reconnect the university with its social environment and enhance the competency and student-learning values. During the 2019–2020 academic year, a multidisciplinary process based on the Problem-Based Learning methodology was developed in the Introduction to Economics II: Principles of Macroeconomics course. Various teaching techniques were applied to encourage participation, autonomous student work, group work, as well as elements of social responsibility and values education. The results of the process collected quantitatively and qualitatively show improvements in the acquisition of knowledge by students and greater appropriati...
Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences
This manuscript presents an innovative experience in the teaching–learning process with three obj... more This manuscript presents an innovative experience in the teaching–learning process with three objectives. The first is to incorporate the principles and values of social justice, reciprocity and solidarity in the subject ‘Statistics Applied to Business’ in the bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management at the University of the Basque Country. The second objective addresses how to apply active methodologies in the teaching of economics and business from a competency-based approach in order to investigate its impact. The third one, on the other hand, tries to explore how to provide students with active distance learning tools to improve and guarantee the quality of the teaching–learning process. The results of the experience demonstrate the potential of technical subjects for the development of transversal competencies and the capacity of students to design and solve complex problems with creativity and knowledge of social and labour realities. Likewise, greater motiv...
Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e Innovación Socioecológica
El presente artículo trata de identificar características de un Ecosistema de Economía Social y S... more El presente artículo trata de identificar características de un Ecosistema de Economía Social y Solidaria a nivel local, en la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca.Se parte de que los Ecosistemas Locales de ESS pueden ser el reflejo ecosistémico de una manera alternativa de desarrollar el acto económico, reenfocándolo en el bienestar de la persona desde una perspectiva multidimensional y alineada con los valores de ESS.Partiendo de una revisión teórica, se han analizado la manera en que estas características se dan, en diferentes tipos de entidades de ESS del País Vasco, mediante entrevistas en profundidad semiestructuradas.Por último, se ha validado el instrumento de producción de datos sobre las características de un Ecosistema.Los resultados muestran que, aunque es un primer acercamiento, el ecosistema es una realidad, capaz de generar capacidades en sus miembros y su entorno territorial.---In this paper we try to identify the characteristics of an Ecosystem of Social and Solidarity Economy ...
Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e Innovación Socioecológica, 2018
El artículo argumenta el porqué las micro-finanzas, amparadas por los valores de la ESS, son pro... more El artículo argumenta el porqué las micro-finanzas, amparadas por los valores de la ESS, son promotoras de cambios estructurales en las relaciones sociales y económicas de las mujeres en contextos donde el derecho al crédito no está garantizado. Dicha valoración se realiza por medio del análisis de las prácticas realizadas por la mutua de crédito FADEC Njambur, en el entorno del Departamento de Kebemer, Senegal, y su comparación con los principios de la economía social y solidaria y su real aplicación en el terreno.
Gizarte Ekonomiaren Euskal Aldizkaria - Revista Vasca de Economía Social, 2021
Este artículo presenta una revisión de diferentes propuestas desarrolladas desde el marco de Econ... more Este artículo presenta una revisión de diferentes propuestas desarrolladas desde el marco de Economía Social y Solidaria como alternativas de carácter integral al modelo de desarrollo capitalista imperante. Diversos organismos, redes y la propia academia estructuran propuestas identificadas de manera diferente -redes, circuitos, mercados sociales, sistemas o ecosistemas- con las que ofrecen marcos de actuación que ayuden a delimitar, implantar y desplegar conjuntos articulados de entidades que operen con objetivos trascendentes al bienestar de sus propios componentes y que apunten al bienestar común. Se aborda la revisión de las diferentes propuestas a través de un estudio comparativo del que se extraen las principales variables comunes a todas ellas, así como la intensidad en la implantación de las mismas. Sin embargo, existen limitaciones y quedan retos a la hora de llevar a cabo los diversos objetivos de despliegue que se plantean, como son el mantener los principios y valores co...
Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This paper presents a study of university social responsibility (USR), carried out through an inn... more This paper presents a study of university social responsibility (USR), carried out through an innovative educational action. The students of the studied classrooms in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) collaborated with a social entity Emmaus Social Foundation dedicated to environmental sustainability, social justice and the social and solidarity economy to provide community services through a service-learning methodology. Using a mixed method approach, we combined the practical experience of the social entity with an active student-centred teaching methodology in order to foster the acquisition of general and specific competencies related to sustainability and social justice. The aim was to create learning connections between members of the university community and links with the environmental and social reality of the Basque Country. This pilot study was carried out in the first term of the 2018–2019 academic year. This work allowed (a) critical knowledge to be generat...
Sustainability, 2020
The social and solidarity economy (SSE) has gained worldwide attention over the last decade. It r... more The social and solidarity economy (SSE) has gained worldwide attention over the last decade. It represents a host of diverse economic activities which take different forms in each country, but which share solidarity values that are alternatives to mainstream market economic logics. In Ecuador, the SSE acquired legal status in the 2008 Constitution that aimed to foster an alternative development model based on the Buen Vivir (BV) paradigm. However, despite a broad new regulatory framework for the SSE, the implementation of specific policies faces significant challenges. This article, based on fieldwork and interviews with many stakeholders, critically analyzes the transformative scope of the policies of the main newly created institution (IEPS—Instituto de Economía Popular y Solidaria). We discuss policy challenges focusing on trade-offs for small rural producers due to their dependent market integration and overall flaws in fulfilling SSE solidarity values.
Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues, 2018
The -SSE- tries to build complex relations of production, consumption, distribution and financing... more The -SSE- tries to build complex relations of production, consumption, distribution and financing based on justice, cooperation, reciprocity and mutual help, In this study an ESS educational model for the development of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASSM) that incorporates women in Colombia is proposed. The ASSM is the mining subsector where the situation of women is more precarious. a subsistence economy and are in serious situations of inequality. Promoting and educating for a social and solidarity ASSM with a strong gender focus could break down obstacles, stereotypes and build more equitable gender relations. An intersectional and differential approach complements the necessary analysis to address this problem and proposes local built models, that are flexible, participatory and liberating, where the economic, cultural and social causes of women´s labour are tackled with . Keywords: Social economy, Solidarity economy, education in values, women mining;
Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
This article presents an experience of teaching innovation based on the application of active met... more This article presents an experience of teaching innovation based on the application of active methodologies in economics and business education at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). The proposal builds on a competency teaching approach, whose objectives were to verify the effectiveness of these methodologies in the area of economics in order to reconnect the university with its social environment and enhance the competency and student-learning values. During the 2019–2020 academic year, a multidisciplinary process based on the Problem-Based Learning methodology was developed in the Introduction to Economics II: Principles of Macroeconomics course. Various teaching techniques were applied to encourage participation, autonomous student work, group work, as well as elements of social responsibility and values education. The results of the process collected quantitatively and qualitatively show improvements in the acquisition of knowledge by students and greater appropriati...
Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences
This manuscript presents an innovative experience in the teaching–learning process with three obj... more This manuscript presents an innovative experience in the teaching–learning process with three objectives. The first is to incorporate the principles and values of social justice, reciprocity and solidarity in the subject ‘Statistics Applied to Business’ in the bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management at the University of the Basque Country. The second objective addresses how to apply active methodologies in the teaching of economics and business from a competency-based approach in order to investigate its impact. The third one, on the other hand, tries to explore how to provide students with active distance learning tools to improve and guarantee the quality of the teaching–learning process. The results of the experience demonstrate the potential of technical subjects for the development of transversal competencies and the capacity of students to design and solve complex problems with creativity and knowledge of social and labour realities. Likewise, greater motiv...