...Mart Watters Ana Carina Rote. Origenes del Militarismo heroico en Venezuela . By Terrero Monagas Brigadier J. C. . ( Caracas : Editorial Elite , 1933 . Pp. 256 .) Copyright 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 ...

... the thinking of Antonio Gramsci and the Austro-Marxists as more appropriate to Chile’s complex civil society than either orthodox Leninist dogma or Castro’s guerrilla heterodoxy. As a result, Cancino chides the Chilean Left for its rote application of inappropriate revolutionary models during 1970-73, which...

...?] that teaching was by rote and was not designed to encourage questions” (p. 345). The first third of the book is a description of productive methods little if at all different from that found in anthropological studies. Subsequent chapters deal with capital and its formation, entrepreneurship, population...

... do student ethics or values in Latin America compare with those of students in the United States? To what extent does preference for rote learning rather than interest in developing critical analysis in students impede educational progress even at the highest level? Benjamin concludes...

... strongly through the Maya Christian copybooks. Christensen emphasizes both the similarities and the divergences in the unique editing of each copyist in several Maya manuscripts. The fourth chapter includes rote prayers for Marian- and Christ-centered devotion. This chapter also touches on the popes who...

... and rituals that copied the true faith in order to lead the Indians astray. To ensure the orthodoxy of its new converts, the role of Indian parishioners was to be strictly passive. No questions about or interpretations of doctrine were permitted, and the faith was to be taught — and learned — by rote. A line...

... Friedrich Harbart (1776 – 1841) and Andrés Bello (1781 – 1865) that served the interests of the status quo by stressing discipline, rote learning, and hierarchy, and which were unsuccessfully adapted to changing times with the founding of the briefly German-dominated Instituto Pedagógico Nacional in 1889...

..., ragged children without books learned by rote their lessons in reading and the catechism. Examinations consisted of a fixed series of questions requiring memorized answers. On his travels through northern Colombia, Manuel Ancízar found that most children forgot all they had learned on leaving school. He...

... failed to arouse the interest of more than a handful of students. At least one professor had the misfortune of being accused of being uninspiring, largely because he delivered his lectures by rote, and of refusing to present his students for examinations as required by the regulations of the Instituto...

..., occurred in Ferreñafe among native Spanish imperial subjects as well. But something else, even more historical, was afoot in the case. Juan Damaso Temoche's reference to his fidelity to the crown was not rote. In the early 1780s, most of Indian Peru was rocked by a chain of bloody uprisings touched off...

..., was the level of colonial culture? In his Academic Culture in the Spanish Colonies (1940), John T. Lanning conceded that “in ordinary circumstances the regimen produced men of stupendous rote memory, along with imposing but inappropriate and artificial allusions to the ancients and the myths.” 31 He...

... in society—a rote question in Spanish legal proceedings. He introduced himself as an unmarried 21-year-old “Maestro de Cosina.” He claimed to have been born in Cádiz, an “hijo legitimo” to married parents who were “naturales de la Capital de la Isla de la Havana” and were “todos personas libres...

... The second reason that the document is compelling is that, it should be stressed, the Relación was ad hoc and devoid of routinization, unlike, say, the rote monastic censuses of imperial China: there had never been such a census in Mexico, at least not since the colonial period. 70 Registrants, moreover...

... to great lengths to put together outfits “in American styles,” and who, as if by rote, “know everything about soul — historical details, dates of record releases, North American groups and singers.” Soul dances, she showed, often included contests whose explicit goal was imitation...

... as written, above all else in the cultural mestizaje that underpinned royal power. One element was the Mesoamerican rhetorical canon and its rote formulae for social order based in myth. The other was the primacy of natural law and the written word in Spanish Catholic government. As further evidence...