scholarly journals Didactic Operation

Author(s):  
Carmen Burgos Videla ◽  
Juana Pizarro Toro ◽  
Maria Teresa Fajardo ◽  
Javiera Martinez Diaz

The case study of the Elementary Education Pedagogy program, practical axis of the University of Atacama, Copiapó, Chile (UDA), sought to generate the theoretical-methodological category Didactic Operation, as a possibility of improvement in the processes given in the practical-procedural dimension of the curriculum. The subjects of the research were seven academics related to professional training processes. The assumption that was handled is that only the curricular problem of the practical-procedural dimension of the curriculum can be approached in its complexity with analytical devices that provide the curricular adaptations of conceptual-theoretical support possible to be mediated by the subject and implemented in the classroom. With this, the presentation is organized in three moments. In the first moment, the context of the program is described, then the category Creative Action in triangulation is alluded to with the information collected from group discussion interviews. It concludes with the field of Didactic Operation. Keywords: creative action, didactic operation, professional practice, didactics.  

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Calleja ◽  
Patrick Camilleri

PurposeThe research reported in this paper brings forth the experiences of three teachers working in different schools. These teachers learned about lesson study through a course offered at the University of Malta while, at the same time, leading a lesson study with colleagues at their school. With the COVID-19 outbreak, these teachers had, out of necessity, to adopt and accommodate for their lesson study to an exclusive online approach. This paper, hence, focuses on teachers' learning as they shifted their lesson study online.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a case study that delves into the experiences and perceptual insights that these teachers manifested in shifting to an exclusive online lesson study situation. Data collection is derived from a focus group discussion, teacher reflective entries and detailed reports documenting the lesson study process and experiences. Employing technological frames as the theoretical lens, a description-analysis-interpretation approach was employed to analyse and interpret reflections and grounded experiential perceptions that the respondents disclosed during their lesson study journey.FindingsNotwithstanding their initial discerned sense of loss and unpreparedness of being constrained to migrate lesson study to exclusive online means, teachers eventually recognised that digitally mediated collaborative practices enhanced self-reflection about the lesson study process. Therefore, the extraordinary situation that the teachers in this study experienced not only disrupted their modus operandi but also allowed them to discern new opportunities for learning about digital technology use in lesson study.Practical implicationsDisruption, brought about by unforeseen circumstances, takes teachers and professional development facilitators out of their comfort zones, invariably helping them grow out of their limitations and rethink lesson study practices.Originality/valueIntentionally driven disruptions prompt teachers to resolve their dissatisfactory situations by thinking out of the box, eventually helping them to improve their professional practices.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Theroux ◽  
Cari Carpenter ◽  
Clare Kilbane

A new type of case study, called the real-time case (RTC), was produced in the fall of 2001 and distributed via the Internet to business classes at four universities in the US and Canada. The real-time case presented the story of one company's growth and development throughout a 14-week semester. A case writer stationed full-time at the subject company published case installments weekly on the Web, allowing students to view the company-building process as it happened. The 14-week coverage of RTC enabled students to study the subject company in unprecedented depth and detail. RTC's real-time interactivity allowed students to share their analyses and best thinking with the company leadership during the company’s decision-making process.A major objective in producing the case was to heighten student engagement with the case material. To evaluate whether this objective was achieved, a survey and a focus group discussion were conducted with one of the participating MBA classes. Results from the survey and the focus group showed a high degree of engagement, plus many other benefits from the new type of case study.


2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Yasmany García-Ramírez

The flipped classroom, as an active learning model, has given remarkable results in several areas in the university teaching; however, its execution is still able to improve. This research shows the implementation and improvement of the flipped classroom model in the course of Pavements. It evaluates their influence on the students’ final grades and their learning experience. Three groups of students participated in this study, who enrolled in the course of Pavements in the Civil Engineering. Group A took the course with the traditional model, while Group B took it with a flipped classroom, and Group C experienced it with a reinforced flipped model. Groups did the course the subject in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. Results show that even though with the flipped classroom models, the finals grades did not increase compared to the scores of the traditional model; however, it improved their learning experience. The students were more satisfied with the method; they even asked for fewer modifications than they did in the traditional model. This research shows that adding little academic things to the course, it would greatly influence their students' opinion.


Author(s):  
Marina Minussi Franco

Este artigo trata de descrever os processos de formação profissional de educa-dores sociais no âmbito da educação universitária na Comunidade Autônomada Catalunha, na Espanha. Nos últimos anos, devido ao surgimento de novasformas de exclusão social, ao aumento das desigualdades e à crescente globali-zação, verifica-se um aprofundamento do debate sobre a profissão do educadorsocial, suas competências e funções e, ao mesmo tempo, sobre a necessidade derepensar sua formação. Este trabalho faz parte de um projeto mais amplo sobreo assunto e apresenta uma revisão bibliográfica baseada no contexto acadêmicoespanhol, com uma descrição das propostas formativas dos cursos de graduaçãode Educação Social de duas universidades catalãs de importante reconhecimentointernacional: Universidade de Barcelona e Universidade Autônoma de Barce-lona. Os resultados evidenciam a necessidade de uma maior aproximação entreo processo formativo que os educadores recebem no âmbito universitário e asnecessidades reais presentes nas instituições socioeducativas.Palavras-chave: Educação social. Educador social. Formação profissional.Competências.ResumenEste artículo trata de describir dos procesos de formación profesional de educa-dores sociales en el ámbito de la educación universitaria en la Comunidad Autó-noma de Cataluña, España. En los últimos años, a consecuencia del surgimientode nuevas formas de exclusión social, del aumento de las desigualdades y de lacreciente globalización, se verifica una intensificación del debate sobre la profe-sión del educador social, sus competencias, sus funciones y a la vez sobre la ne-cesidad de repensar su formación. Este trabajo forma parte de un proyecto másamplio acerca del tema y presenta una revisión bibliográfica basada en el contex-to académico español, al lado de una descripción de las propuestas formativas delas carreras de Educación Social de dos universidades catalanas de importante re-conocimiento internacional: Universidad de Barcelona y Universidad Autónomade Barcelona. Los resultados evidencian la importancia de la aproximación entreel proceso formativo que los educadores reciben en el ámbito universitario y lasnecesidades reales presentes en las instituciones socioeducativas.Palabras clave: Educación social. Educador social. Formación profesional.Competencias.AbstractThis article looks at the courses offered at two higher-education institutions fortraining social educators in the autonomous region of Catalonia, Spain. In recentyears, due to new forms of social exclusion, the escalation of inequality andincreasing globalization, there is a more intense debate on the profession of thesocial educator, their competences, roles and, at the same time, on the need torethink their training. This work is part of a larger project on the subject and pre-sents a bibliographical review based on the Spanish academic context, along witha description of the training proposals of the Social Education careers withintwo Catalan universities: University of Barcelona and Autonomous University ofBarcelona. The results show the importance of combining the training processoffered to social educators in the university context with the real needs of thesocio-educational institutions where they will practice their profession.Keywords: Social education. Social educator. Professional training. Competencies.


1960 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-146
Author(s):  
Elbert Fulkerson

For the Past Several Years the College of Education of Southern Illinois University has required its students majoring in elementary education to take a course known as Mathematics 210, which is described in the University Bulletin as a “professional treatment of the subject matter of arithmetic methods and a study of trends and current literature on the teaching of arithmetic.” This course is offered by the Mathematics Department of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and carries four quarter hours of credit. I ts prerequisite is a general mathematics course which does not count toward a major or minor in mathematics but which does include, however, a careful study of the real number system and other topics providing a better understanding of arithmetic and elementary algebra.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (86) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Maliy ◽  
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Larysa Dyachenko ◽  

The article considers the formation of professional motivation in future speech pathologists. The importance of solving this issue is emphasized, because the work of a defectologist requires the presence of special characteristics in his personality, the formation of which is carried out during their training. Issues of personal development of the student and the formation of his readiness for future professional activity become the main in the outlined situation. The psychological and personal readiness of the specialist for professional self-realization in modern conditions is important. It is emphasized that the transformation of the requirements for professionals of different natural influences the solution of the question of the complex relationship of personal and professional development of the subject. The question of quality criteria for the training of future speech pathologists can not be considered separately from the requirements of a particular environment in which the specialist works. It is at the stage of professional training in the university begin to develop in a specialist-defectologist those values and motives that determine the success of his work in the profession, and for this it is necessary to study the formation of professional values and motives in the formation of future defectologists.


Author(s):  
Vivienne Tam ◽  
Marta Cerruti

Case studies are used to guide students’ natural curiosity-driven learning instead of traditional content-heavy lectures. In collaboration with Dr. Marta Cerruti and one other co-teacher, I developed case studies for the undergraduate pre-requisite course “Analytical and Characterization Techniques” (MIME 317) to teach the material characterization concepts such as Atomic Absorption or UV/Vis spectroscopy in case-study driven manner.  The process included understanding the professors’ desired learning outcomes and finding journal articles that used such concepts to solve real-world problems.  Then, I developed handouts to simplify the complicated concepts presented in the articles and crafted questions that students with no background knowledge could still answer given the information provided and the figure/graph from the article.  Finally, in delivering the case studies in class, I facilitated group discussion and found that guiding the discussion based on the students’ curiosity deepened their understanding of the subject.  


Author(s):  
James J. Sosnoski ◽  
Kevin Q. Harvey ◽  
Jordan Stalker ◽  
Colleen Monahan

BACKGROUND: The Center for the Advancement of Distance Education (CADE) is a self-supporting unit within the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The center’s services range from online continuing education and professional training to multimedia Web-casting and research data management, analysis and presentation. TECHNOLOGY USED: In public health emergency response training, an isolation and quarantine situation is one of the most challenging. Second Life has the capability and potential to address many of the training and planning challenges associated with such a sensitive topic. It enables public health emergency responders to test and refine existing plans and procedures in a safe, controllable, immersive and repeatable environment. CASE STUDY: A quarantine scenario designed for emergency training. The authors designed “The Canyon Crossroads” as a key transit point between two quarantine areas and two uninfected areas. They placed a state border to divide the crossroads leaving quarantine zones in each jurisdiction. The local hospital was located in one of the quarantine zones and it is an official holding and treatment location for infected victims. The exercise involves transmitting persons in and out of the four areas. CHALLENGES: There are three challenges the authors are currently addressing: (a) how to increase the levels of engagement in the training process, (b) how to construct a virtual world that fosters collaboration, and (c) how to measure the levels of engagement in this collaborative environment.


Leonardo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 526-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Zeeuw

Many art academics within U.S. institutions have little understanding of the Creative Arts PhD. Moreover, this has lead to the proliferation of a great deal of misinformation as U.S. academics struggle to sift through a growing body of literature on the subject. The author, who believes there is a very real and demonstrated need for more critical “nuts and bolts” or basic information on how such programs have been developed, implemented, staffed and legitimated, created a case study that focuses upon the developmental path and outcomes of a practice-led Creative Arts PhD program. A primary goal of the study was to critically assess the viability of applying the gathered data/findings toward the development of an appropriately adjusted program within a specific U.S. institution. Access to the complete “Case Study: The Development and Evolution of the Creative Arts Practice-led PhD at the University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts” is available on www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/50/5 .


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Rodrigues ANDRADE ◽  
Suzana Pedroza da SILVA ◽  
Carina Siqueira MORAIS ◽  
José Euzebio SIMÕES NETO

Fuels are materials that possess the ability to release energy when there is change in the chemical structure, and are part of everyone's life in society, including students of basic education. This work aims to analyze the potential of teaching strategy Jury Simulated in the construction of chemical knowledge on fuels approach, in perspective of development conceptual, procedural and attitudinal. The survey was conducted in a municipal public school in the city of Carnaíba, countryside of Pernambuco, in Primary Education II, using as main pivot axis of a fictional case study about the closing of a gas station. To obtain the data, was use as research tools: notes the observation of the field during the course of the jury and interviews with students. After completion of the jury, students demonstrated arguments and more profound chemical knowledge on the subject, and prove motivated and interested throughout the process. It was concluded that the simulated jury performed in a powerful didactic and methodological strategy, effective and interesting for addressing chemical knowledge related to the daily lives of students, in case the fuels, issue not yet worked in recreational activities in chemistry teaching.


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