Adriana Garcia

Biographic Data

ID3902000
NAMEAdriana Garcia
GIVEN NAMESAdriana
FAMILY NAMEGarcia
SIGNATUREGARCIA A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Groningen
ORCID0000-0002-8686-1412
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Fortaleciendo el liderazgo de los agentes comunitarios de salud en la Amazonía peruana

    Open AccessMagaly M Blas, Adriana Garcia et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2026

    Mamás del Río is a community-based intervention that, since 2015, has strengthened maternal and child health in the Peruvian Amazon by empowering community health workers. In July 2024, a leadership workshop was conducted with 24 Indigenous community health workers, employing participatory and intercultural methodologies. The workshop was structured in three stages: 1) participatory diagnosis, 2) capacity building, and (3) strategic planning. As …

  • Argentina na Cronología de América, de Patricia Galeana

    Open AccessAdriana GarciaARTICLEPatrimônio e memória2025

    sea una "herramienta til" para reconocernos en un pasado que nos constituye como regin y as comprender "cmo Amrica ha llegado a ser lo que es hoy"

  • Atreverse a Pensar. Del "pensar teórico" al "pensar epistémico

    Open AccessAdriana GarciaARTICLEVeredas da História2023

    Este artículo tiene como finalidad presentar una experiencia áulica a partir de la cátedra "Teoría de la Historia" de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo como un espacio curricular epistemológico particular de formación. El objetivo es analizar la diferencia entre "pensamiento teórico" y "pensamiento epistémico", categorías del sociólogo chileno Hugo Zemelman. Emergencia y convergencia, el mito de la objetividad, la libertad académica y la cultura de…

  • The Plus in Credit-Plus-Technical Assistance

    Open AccessAdriana Garcia, Francesco Cecchi et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2022

    Microfinance institutions traditionally focus on the provision of credit and other financial services. In light of recent evidence on the scant transformative effects of ‘standard’ microcredit models, however, some lenders are increasing efforts to offer additional non-financial services–such as business trainings and technical assistance. While literature on the effects of business trainings is quite voluminous, far less attention has been paid …

  • Aspirational hope, dairy farming practices, and milk production

    Open AccessFrancesco Cecchi, Adriana Garcia et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2022Cited by: 2References: 6

    Development economics has increasingly studied the role of diminished aspirations and other internal constraints that may form poverty traps. We present results from a controlled experiment to develop aspirational hope among 531 dairy farmers in Bolivia. Subjects in the treatment group participated in three coaching sessions that involved watching an inspiring documentary and participating in group workshops designed to augment aspirations relate…

  • La extensión de la jornada escolar en México y sus efectos en los maestros de primaria

    Open AccessAdriana Garcia, Manuel Sánchez Cerón et al.ARTICLEActa Hispanica2020

    En las últimas décadas las reformas educativas neoliberales han avanzado significativamente en América Latina. Los aspectos que han tocado son variados y van desde los que modifican el currículo hasta los que afectan las condiciones de trabajo de los maestros. Uno de estos cambios es la instauración de las escuelas de tiempo completo (ETC). En esta perspectiva, este artículo presenta un estudio exploratorio sobre los efectos que esta política ha …

  • Does microcredit increase aspirational hope? Evidence from a group lending scheme in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAdriana Garcia, Robert Lensink et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2020Cited by: 3References: 8

  • Challenging Evolution in Public Schools

    Open AccessEsmeralda Sánchez Salazar, Brandon Vaidyanathan et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2019Cited by: 6References: 42

    Researchers argue that white evangelical Christians are likely to support teaching creationism in public schools. Yet, less is known about the role religion may play in shaping attitudes toward evolution and teaching creationism among blacks and Latinos, who are overrepresented in U.S. conservative Protestant traditions. This study fills a gap in the literature by examining whether religious factors (e.g., religious affiliation and Biblical liter…

  • Palaeoenvironmental changes from semi-arid Australia

    Open AccessAdriana GarciaARTICLEQuaternary International2012

  • The sedimentary record of palaeoenvironments and sea-level change in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, through the last glacial cycle

    Open AccessJessica M Reeves, Allan R Chivas et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2008

  • Interventions for Low Health Literate Audiences

    Open AccessMichael Mackert, Pamela Whitten et al.ARTICLEJournal of Computer-Mediated…2008Cited by: 4References: 1

  • Mexican Literature

    Daniel Altamiranda, Lee H Dowling et al.BOOKMexican Literature1994