Reconstruyendo el conocimiento práctico en confinamiento. Una experiencia de enseñanza en la formación inicial de docentes.

Este artículo presenta la experiencia y los dilemas de enseñanza de un grupo de docentes en la formación inicial de profesorado del Grado en Educación Infantil, en su adaptación a la virtualidad ocasionada por la COVID-19. Un proyecto que, con 10 años de andadura, ofrece una oportunidad para repensar la formación inicial en el marco del confinamiento. Inicialmente se describe el complejo e incierto contexto social actual y los retos ineludibles para la formación inicial del profesorado: la reconstrucción del conocimiento práctico de nuestras estudiantes y el diseño de un habitus vivencial y crítico como sostén de los principios pedagógicos de la experiencia que describimos en la segunda parte. Un triángulo didáctico en relación permanente con las reflexiones de las estudiantes y los debates e inquietudes que como docentes hemos compartido en los espacios de coordinación y adaptación a la virtualidad. Las conclusiones de esta experiencia sitúan la coordinación y la tutorización como ejes relevantes, al mismo tiempo en el que se advierten las dificultades e imposibilidad de que una experiencia de formación inicial de docentes íntegramente virtual -sin una práctica en relación y presencia de los niños y niñas- facilite la reconstrucción del conocimiento práctico de maestras y maestros de Educación Infantil. This article presents the experience and teaching dilemmas of a group of teachers in the Initial Early Childhood Teachers’ Training, in their adaptation to the virtuality caused by COVID-19. A 10-year-old project that offers an opportunity to rethink Initial Teacher Training in confinement. Initially, the complex and uncertain current social context and the inescapable challenges for Initial Teacher Training are described: the reconstruction of the practical knowledge of our students and the design of an experiential and critical habitus as support for the pedagogical principles of the experience that we describe in the second part. A didactic triangle in permanent relationship with the students’ reflections and the debates and concerns that we, as teachers, have shared in the spaces of coordination and adaptation to virtuality. The conclusions of this experience place coordination and tutoring as relevant axes. At the same time, the difficulties and impossibility of a fully virtual Initial Teacher Training experience facilitating the reconstruction of the practical knowledge of Early Childhood Education teachers without a practice in relation to children are noted.

Impact of a New Teaching and Learning Approach in an Introductory Programming Course

High failure and dropout rates are reported in introductory programming (IP) courses in different studies despite extensive research attempting to address the issue. In this study, we introduced an ADRI (Approach, Deployment, Result, Improvement) approach in the teaching and learning process of an IP course to improve learning and success rates. All three entities of the didactic triangle (student, instructor, and content) were involved in the research to better understand and execute the proposed approach. The IP course materials were redesigned based on the ADRI approach, and an editor was developed to promote the new approach and encourage students to complete the various stages required in the approach. Two surveys were conducted, and final exam grades over four semesters were compared with determine the impact of including the ADRI approach in the course. We concluded that the ADRI approach provides a positive impact on outcomes that the students achieved during the course. It engages students in practicing their programming skills and provides a new presentation style for examples and exercises which discourages students from taking programming shortcuts. It not only helps to reduce the failure and, significantly, the dropout rates from the IP course but also impacts positively on all students who passed the IP course.

Difficultés De Mise En Œuvre De La Continuité Didactique Mathématique-Mécanique Au Secondaire Collégial, Registre Sémiotique Et Transfert Comme Éléments D’analyse

This article deals with the numerous pedagogical and didactic constraints to the transdisciplinary knowledge transfer between mathematics and physics (mechanics) at the last year of secondary school. By taking into consideration the three entities of the didactic triangle (Content, students and teachers), we analyzed in this exploratory study official pedagogical orientations, curricula and textbooks of mathematics and physics. Then, we administered to a sample of 12 to 15-year-old pupils, mathematical and physical written questionnaires in which they have to use proportionality/linearity concept by considering different register of semiotic representation and the rationality frame of each discipline., the analysis of the results reveal some difficulties that can be explained by a lack of knowledge related to the change of rationality frame and semiotic register rules. In order to understand the origin of these difficulties, we proceeded by analyzing the transdisciplinary practices of mathematics/physics teachers by means of a written semi-open questionnaire whose results highlight interdidactic rupture between mathematics and physics. To remedy that, we propose some strategies and possible lines of actions.

Research on teaching and learning in Physics and Chemistry in NorDiNa Papers

This article provides an overview of teaching and learning processes in research on physics and chemistry education published in NorDiNa 2005–2013. Using the didactic triangle as our theoretical framework we developed a typology to analyse the data and used this to categorise 89 related research papers, from all levels of education (primary, secondary and tertiary). The results suggest that students’ characteristics, their understanding of the content and learning outcomes are studied frequently. In contrast, science teachers are studied much less. Most papers reported studies that had been done at the teaching organisation level. Course level studies and society level studies were also frequent. However, international level studies were few in this data pool. We conclude by discussing less popular research topics in the science education field.

Good Practices to Substantiate Digital Learning with Textbooks

At the core of any learning process is a didactic triangle with three basic components: teacher, student and didactics. Globalization places the didactic triangle in an open learning environment. The “open” didactic triangle can be considered a conceptual tool for designing new learning models, including those for digital textbooks' use and development. These textbooks are more than digitalized versions of printed textbooks. Connected to the Internet/Intranet and with advanced technologies, digital textbooks offer more freedom for teaching, learning and assessment as well as connectivity, adaptivity, flexibility and interactivity. Moreover, digital textbooks have well-established psycho-pedagogical foundations. The post-modernism philosophy indicates at keeping good practices, namely visual instruction, audiovisual instruction, programmed instruction and computer aided instruction (assessment). This chapter emphasizes the effectiveness of good practices and concludes with a call for the future research of the best solutions in the area of digital textbooks use and development.

Revisiting the Didactic Triangle in the Case of an Adaptive Learning System

In this paper we revisit the classical approach of the didactic triangle designed for the classical learning situation (face to face) and adapt it to the situation of an adaptive learning system, we discuss also the different components involved in this didactic triangle and how they interact and influence the learning process in an adaptive learning system.

Barnesentrert pedagogikk i barnehagen

Artikkelen undersøker kva som kjenneteiknar barnesentrert pedagogikk i barnehage og samfunn, og kva konsekvensar ei slik pedagogisk retning kan ha for barn i vår tid som ofte blir omtala som den postmoderne tidsalderen. Barnesentrert pedagogikk blir for det første omhandla ved å bli definert teoretisk, knytt til danningsteoriar og den didaktiske trekanten. For det andre blir det vist til historiske trekk ved samfunn og kultur som kan ha støtta opp under utvikling av denne typen pedagogikk i barnehagen. For det tredje presenterer artikkelen nyare empirisk forsking som problematiserer om pedagogiske retningar førekjem i reindyrka form eller som hybridar. Til saman legg dette grunnlag for drøfting av om barnesentrert pedagogikk både underbygger narsissistiske tendensar og gir barn eit for stort ansvar for eiga utvikling og læring.Nøkkelord: danning, narsissisme, sjølvverksemd, hybrid pedagogikk, didaktikk, barnehageAbstract: The article looks into the concept of child-centered pedagogy in kindergarten and society and what consequences these pedagogical directions might have for children in our time. Child-centered pedagogy will firstly be theoretically defined through educational theories and the didactic triangle, secondly, through historical aspects of society and culture that might have helped the development of this type of pedagogy in kindergarten. Thirdly, the article presents recent empirical research questioning whether pedagogical directions appear in pure form or as hybrids. Together, this creates a foundation for a discussion of whether child-centered pedagogy both substantiates narcissistic tendencies and gives children too much responsibility for their own development and learning.Key words: education (Bildung), narcissism, self-activity, hybrid pedagogy, didactic, kindergarten