Teaching, Learning, and Loving: Reclaiming Passion in Educational Practice

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Orr ◽  
Daniel Liston ◽  
Jim Garrison
Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 2123
Author(s):  
Raúl Tárraga-Mínguez ◽  
Julio Tarín-Ibáñez ◽  
Irene Lacruz-Pérez

A textbook constitutes the hegemonic material of the educational institution. It acts as a mediator between the official curriculum and the educational practice. Given its potential influence in the classroom, this study analyzes the treatment of word problems included in the mathematics textbooks published by the publishing houses with the greatest diffusion in Spain at every primary education grade. Three variables were analyzed: their semantic structure, their degree of challenge, and their situational context. The results indicate that most of the problems included in textbooks are characterized by low complexity and variability regarding their semantic structure. They are also characterized by a limited degree of challenge and by being presented in highly standardized situational contexts. Likewise, it is found that there is no evolution in the treatment of these problems with respect to previous studies carried out in the Spanish context. Therefore, it is concluded that the mathematics textbooks currently used in schools are not effective tools to address the process of teaching-learning problem solving.


2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. i-i ◽  

Phil Benson's state-of-the-art review of autonomy in L2 learning and teaching is a timely response to an ever-growing interest in autonomous language learning. Focusing his attention on the recent literature, he explores how this interest in autonomy is influencing theory and practice, leading to the emergence of new research agendas in the field. He focuses particularly on the ways in which conceptions of autonomy have evolved and continue to change, and how these new conceptions fit in with broader developments in language teaching and learning theory, educational practice, and social thought.This issue includes also a call for papers on Replication Research Studies, two features marking the publication of this fortieth volume of the journal, and reports on a series of research seminars.Richard Johnstone's article in which he reviews research published in 2004 and 2005 on language teaching, learning and policy is available online at <http://journals.cambridge.org/jidLTA&volumeId=39&issueId=04>.


2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-145
Author(s):  
Mirelle Finkler ◽  
Silviamar Campogara ◽  
Kenya Schmidt Reibnitz ◽  
Vânia Marli Schubert Backes

Este trabalho consiste em uma reflexão teórica sobre a utilização de metodologias ativas de ensinoaprendizagem, tais como a Metodologia da Problematização e da Aprendizagem Baseada em Problemas, no atual contexto de mudanças na formação de profissionais de saúde, buscando ressaltar os pressupostos teóricos e metodológicos que fundamentam uma prática educativa mais participativa e adequada à sociedade.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Edynei Miguel Cristino ◽  
Marliane De Cássia Soares Da Silva ◽  
Paulo Prates Prates Júnior ◽  
Fabrício Vassali Zanelli ◽  
Fernanda Maria Coutinho Andrade

O ensino-aprendizagem das Ciências da Natureza e da Agroecologia podem ser contextualizados para contemplar a realidade da escola e motivar o interesse dos estudantes. O cultivo de cogumelos comestíveis é uma alternativa para o reaproveitamento de resíduos agroindustriais e pode ser utilizado no ensino, contribuindo com a formação da juventude do campo. Este trabalho teve como objetivo divulgar o cultivo de cogumelos pela utilização de resíduos agroindustriais na Escola Família Agrícola (EFA) Puris, como ferramenta de ensino-aprendizagem das Ciências da Natureza e da Agroecologia. A EFA Puris está localizada na comunidade de Novo Horizonte, Araponga, MG, e oferece o Ensino Médio integrado com o curso Técnico em Agropecuária, sendo a Agroecologia um eixo importante. Para reconhecer as necessidades da EFA Puris, antes da realização do trabalho, foi organizada uma roda de conversa com os monitores da escola. Foi realizada uma oficina com os alunos do 1° ano do Ensino Médio, que contou com exposição teórica, atividades práticas, uma atividade denominada ‘colocação em comum’ (quando todos partilharam suas experiências e perspectivas com relação ao tema da atividade), e a resolução de um questionário de avaliação. Nos questionários evidenciou-se que conceitos fundamentais das Ciências da Natureza e princípios da Agroecologia, como por exemplo, ciclagem de matéria e energia, homeopatia, decomposição da matéria orgânica, poluição ambiental e alimentação saudável foram assimilados. Conclui-se que o cultivo de cogumelos comestíveis é um tema gerador que pode dialogar com o cotidiano dos educandos, permitindo interação com o ensino das Ciências da Natureza e da Agroecologia. Palavras-chave: Prática educativa; licenciatura e educação do campo; alimentação saudável; Pleurotus   Cultivation of edible mushrooms as a teaching proposal of Natural Sciences and Agroecology in the Puris Agricultural Family School Abstract: The teaching-learning of the Natural Sciences and Agroecology can be contextualized to contemplate the reality of the school and motivate the interest of the students. The cultivation of edible mushrooms is an alternative for the reuse of agroindustrial residues and can be used in education, contributing to the formation of rural youth. This work aimed to promote the cultivation of mushrooms by the use of agroindustrial residues in the Puris Agricultural Family School (EFA Puris), as a teaching and learning tool of Natural Sciences and Agroecology. EFA Puris is located in the community of Novo Horizonte, Araponga, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, and offers the Secondary Education integrated with the Agricultural Technical Course, with Agroecology being a principal axis. In order to recognize the needs of the EFA Puris before the work was carried out, a conversation with the monitors of the school was organized. A workshop was held with the students of the 1st year of High School, which included a theoretical exposition, practical activities, an activity when everyone shared their experiences and perspectives on the subject, and an evaluation questionnaire. The answers to the questionnaires evidenced that fundamental concepts of the Natural Sciences and Agroecology principles, such as cycling of matter and energy, homeopathy, organic matter decomposition, environmental pollution, and healthy eating were assimilated. It is concluded that the cultivation of edible mushrooms is a generative theme that can dialogue with the daily life of the students, allowing interaction with the teaching of the Natural Sciences and Agroecology. Keywords: Educational Practice; Graduate and Rural Education; Healthy Food; Pleurotus   Cultivo de setas comestibles como propuesta de enseñanza de Ciencias de la Naturaleza y de la Agroecología en la Escuela Familia Agrícola Puris Resumen: La enseñanza-aprendizaje de las Ciencias de la Naturaleza y de la Agroecología puede ser contextualizada para contemplar la realidad de la escuela y motivar el interés de los estudiantes. El cultivo de setas comestibles es una alternativa para el reaprovechamiento de residuos agroindustriales y puede ser utilizado en la enseñanza, contribuyendo con la formación de la juventud del campo. Este trabajo tuvo como objetivo divulgar el cultivo de setas por la utilización de residuos agroindustriales en la Escuela Familia Agrícola (EFA) Puris, como herramienta de enseñanza-aprendizaje de las Ciencias de la Naturaleza y de la Agroecología. La EFA Puris está ubicada en la comunidad de Novo Horizonte, Araponga, Minas Gerais, Brasil, y ofrece la Enseñanza Media integrada con el curso Técnico en Agropecuaria, siendo la Agroecología un eje importante. Para reconocer las necesidades de la EFA Puris, antes de la realización del trabajo, se organizó una rueda de conversación con los monitores de la escuela. Se realizó un taller con los alumnos del 1er año de la Enseñanza Media, que contó con exposición teórica, actividades prácticas, una actividad en la que todos compartieron sus experiencias y perspectivas sobre el tema, y la resolución de un cuestionario de evaluación. En los cuestionarios se evidenció que conceptos fundamentales de las Ciencias de la Naturaleza y principios de la Agroecología, como por ejemplo, ciclo de materia y energía, homeopatía, descomposición de la materia orgánica, contaminación ambiental y alimentación sana fueron asimilados. Se concluye que el cultivo de setas comestibles es un tema generador que puede dialogar con el cotidiano de los educandos, permitiendo interacción con la enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Naturaleza y de la Agroecología.  Palabras-clave: Práctica Educativa; Licenciatura y Educación Rural; Alimentación Sana; Pleurotus.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
Henrietta Torkos ◽  
◽  
Anca Manuela Egerau ◽  

One of the main priorities of current educational systems is a strong connection between education provided by schools and the requirements of a successful integration in the social life and work field. This article offers the teachers’ perspective on the various ways in which outdoor learning can be useful in creating teaching-learning situations that prepare pupils to be active citizens and to have smoother integration in the social life and this way, on the labor market. The findings of a brief study among teachers from Arad County is presented. The method that was used is the survey based on a questionnaire. The main instrument that used was the questionnaire, which was based on a number of 12 variables. The quantitative data obtained was processed in the SPSS statistical program. The preliminary results show that even if teachers have some knowledge on the benefits of outdoor education regarding future involvement of pupils in social life, they tend to rarely use it in their educational practice. This happens because of the lack of correct and valid information they have on this type of education, and also because of the misconceptions of parents, who refuse to cooperate regarding this issue. The present study brings and important contribution in this research field, highlighting the values of outdoor education, both theoretically and practically.


Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerardo Gómez-García ◽  
José Antonio Marín-Marín ◽  
José-María Romero-Rodríguez ◽  
Magdalena Ramos Navas-Parejo ◽  
Carmen Rodríguez Jiménez

Currently, there are several methodological models that have broken into different disciplines of knowledge with the aim of making the teaching/learning process more dynamic, active and participatory for students. This is the case of Flipped Classroom, which is based on a mixed approach between e-learning and face-to-face teaching, as well as gamification, which bases its didactic principles on the recreational components of the games. Within this context, the aim of this research is to observe what effect the application of Flipped Classroom and gamification has in the development of motivation, autonomy and self-regulation towards learning through a didactic unit on healthy habits and diet in 202 students of 6th grade of Primary School from four different schools (public and state-subsidized) in the city of Granada (Spain). For this purpose, a methodological design was used with pre-test and post-test to check the effects of the experience on the students. The findings obtained showed that the application of these methods promoted an increase in students’ motivation, as well as in their autonomy and self-regulation when facing the contents of the subject. For this reason, it is advocated that there is a need to continue promoting a quality and innovative educational practice according to the figure of the student today.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Pere Molina ◽  
Alejandro Martínez-Baena ◽  
Fernando Gómez-Gonzalvo

El sistema educativo español ha sufrido, en los últimos años, numerosas modificaciones que lo han ido transformando. Una parte de ellas se ha centrado en la introducción de nuevos elementos en el currículum, como las competencias clave y los estándares de aprendizaje evaluables, que han cambiado la forma de concebir la educación y que se perciben como posturas innovadoras por parte del profesorado. Desgraciadamente, este modelo por competencias y por estándares ha recuperado un paradigma educativo centrado en el producto, es decir, la pedagogía por objetivos. Este modelo centra la atención del profesorado en ajustar la práctica educativa a criterios preestablecidos por las propias leyes a través de una homogenización y uniformización del currículum en la que se mide la calidad de la educativa en términos de eficiencia y eficacia. A pesar de esta realidad, existen alternativas al modelo por objetivos que centran la atención en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje en vez de en el producto. El modelo procesual se preocupa por desarrollar contenidos valiosos para la práctica educativa y la entiende como una situación incierta en la que el profesorado debe dar solución a los problemas que se presentan. La práctica docente es más abierta y flexible y se pretende educar atendiendo a las particularidades del contexto donde se desarrolla la enseñanza donde el profesorado se postula como un profesional implicado en su práctica. El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una respuesta crítica al modelo por competencias y aportar una alternativa basada en la recuperación de los principios de procedimiento. Para esto desarrollamos los postulados que orientan la práctica educativa desde el modelo procesual y presentamos una propuesta de principios de procedimiento para la asignatura de Educación Física, basados en el desarrollo del componente motriz, la justicia curricular y la dimensión estética del movimiento. ABSTRACT:Spanish educational system has suffered, in last years, very modifications that have been transforming it. These transformations have focused in introduction of new elements in the curriculum, such as key competences and learning standards, which have changed the way of education and teachers are perceived these changes that as educational innovation. Unfortunately, this model based in competences and standards has returned an educational paradigm focus in the product. In this model, emphasis teachers' attention in readjusting your educational practice to criteria pre-established by the laws themselves through a homogenization and standardization of the curriculum. The quality of education is measured in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. Despite, there are alternatives to this model that focus on the teaching-learning process instead of the product. The process model is concerned for developing valuable content for educational practice and this model have understood in uncertain situation to which teachers must solve the problems that appear. The teaching practice is more open and flexible and it is intended to learn attending to the particularities of the context where is developed. The teachers are posited as a professional involved in their practice. The objective of this paper is to offer a critical thinking to the competences model and provide an alternative based on the recovery of the principles of procedure. We develop the suggestions that guide the educational practice from the process model and we present a proposal of principles of procedure for the subject of Physical Education. This proposal is based on the development of the motor component, curricular justice and the esthetic dimension of the movement.


1978 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
M. Spoelders

Empirical investigations of the so- called affective factors in foreign- language teaching /learning processes regularly make use of instruments which are designed to measure the general attitude towards foreign- language learning. They frequently consist of ad hoc construc-ted, often insufficiently refined scales. The step- by-step construction of a Likert- type foreign- language attitude scale (TAS: Taal-Attitude-Schaal) is discussed. Though originally conceived to meet certain scientific needs, TAS may also be used in educational practice. The results of a first investigation concerning the predictive validity of TAS and the determination of the initial attitudes of pupils at the beginning of the first year of the secondary school are reported. They fehow that the predictive power of the general attitude towards foreign-language learning (as measured by TAS> is rather weak.


Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Carlos De Pro Chereguini ◽  
Ana Isabel Ponce Gea

Social changes have brought educational challenges at all levels of education. One of the most important elements has been adopting the development of competences as a main goal. As regards teacher training, competences have been included in university degrees responding to a traditional concern related to teacher training: the necessary relationship between theory and educational practice. The objective of this work, in the Spanish context, is to define a model for the evaluation of didactic-disciplinary competences (frequently taught in university classrooms, in a theoretical way) within the framework of the school practicums of the degree in early childhood education (the unique practical context where a real application of competences may be assessed before professional performance). For this purpose, we analyzed the legislation (the specific didactic-disciplinary competences of the ECI/3854/2007 Order) and the school practicum plans of Spanish universities, in order to provide a useful tool to know how students apply theoretical learning in their classroom practices. The resulting model, focused on the learning of natural sciences, social sciences and mathematics, enables understanding the level of development of the didactic-disciplinary competences and can be considered as a conceptual framework to design instruments for different contexts.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
Youhasan P ◽  
Sivanjali M ◽  
Sathaananthan T

Outcome based education has become vital in Medical curriculum worldwide. It's practiced successfully in many countries. After evidencing the practice worldwide, Eastern University, Sri Lanka (EUSL) developed its curriculum to outcome based. Identifying educational programme outcome is crucial process in outcome based educational practice. The educational outcomes of MBBS programme of EUSL have been matched with international standards. The graduate profile reflects the attributes of graduates, which is physician's potentials at the end of the course. Constructive alignment of curriculum is exhibited in accordance with the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) guidelines, MBBS programme outcome, the organization of learning contents, teaching learning experiences to achieve the intended learning outcomes and assessments for learning. Assessments for learning (formative assessments) are conducted at the end of the modules and feedbacks are expected to be given to drive the learning. Educational outcomes involve several competencies such as Knowledge, Skills and Attitude. There are several assessment methods have been followed to assess various attributes in EUSL. Teacher takes part in facilitating learning or mentoring students. Assessing the team work skills, critical thinking, problem solving are also the salient features as this outcome based medical curriculum has been implemented to foresee the graduates treating patients in a holistic manner. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education Vol.10(1) 2019: 34-38


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