Análisis de una propuesta de trabajo desde la perspectiva del modelo de convergencia europea

The work presented here describes a part of the experience carried out during the last two academic years in a course called New Technologies Applied to Education within the Teacher Training Studies of the Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology of the University of Girona. It is a project that involves students working on a proposal closely related to their future professional lives. In it they simulate their intervention in a school staff meeting at which the introduction of ICT into the curriculum is being discussed. This proposal is presented in a WebQuest format. Various individual and group tasks allow the students to acquire knowledge about educational programmes and resources available on the web and to discuss their possible teaching applications in the context of a specific school situation, leading to an analysis of the curricular implications associated with the educational use of the ICT from the teacher’s perspective. During the last two academic years assessments by both the students and the teaching staff have been gathered in order to redesign the proposal and calculate the time necessary for the development of each task following the ECTS system. This proposal, although formulated within the context of current degree programmes, implies a way of working guided by the plans of European convergence (ECTS). In the future it is hoped to establish an interdisciplinary proposal focusing on various subjects of the degree leading to the development of some of the capabilities established in our university’s degree courses in Early Childhood and Primary Teacher Training following the plans of European convergence (ECTS)

Evolución de la Psicología Ambiental en el Contexto de PSICAMB. Análisis de las Contribuciones a los Congresos Entre 1986 y 2013

En el presente artículo se hace un breve repaso de las circunstancias académicas, institucionales y de algunos de los avatares que han venido sucediendo hasta dar lugar a la constitución de la Asociación de Psicología Ambiental (PSICAMB) y sus primeros años. Junto a este recorrido, también se ha prestado atención a los trabajos que se han presentado en las doce jornadas y congresos bianuales que se han celebrado hasta la actualidad. Para ello se ha llevado a cabo un análisis de contenido de los 1065 títulos recogidos en estos eventos. Por lo que respecta al nivel de participación se observa que cada vez este es más alto tanto en el número trabajos presentados cómo en los autores que los avalan. Por lo que respecta al análisis de los títulos, se observó que las quince categorías utilizadas se subsumían en cinco: 'aspectos teóricos, conceptuales y metodológicos', 'medio construido' 'medio natural' la 'psicología de la conservación' 'los riesgos y los desastres'. Los resultados del análisis muestran un alto volumen en cada una de estas categorías salvo en el 'medio natural' y se observa como con el devenir de los años se ha ido prestando atención más a unos temas que a otros.

Children's understanding of pretend emotions

This preliminary study aims to investigate children’s ability to understand that the emotional expressions that occur in pretend play do not necessarily coincide with the emotions people feel inside. Previous research has found that children aged 4 and 6 have difficulty to distinguish between the external and the internal emotion of a character who pretends an emotion. In the present work, thirteen 4-year-olds and eight 6-year-olds were administered stories in which a character simulated an emotion. Differently from previous research, the questions addressed to the children did not focus on the distinction external/internal emotion but on the distinction between real/pretend emotion. Furthermore, since previous research has suggested that children may understand better selfpretence than pretence of others, the participants in our study were engaged in a pretence situation where they had to pretend to be happy. The results obtained showed that, contrary to previous research, most 4- and 6-year-olds realize that pretend emotions may not be real, and this was true both for self-pretence and for the pretence of others

The usefulness of phonological information for the acquisition of grammatical structure in child language development

During the process of language development, one of the most important tasks that children must face is that of identifying the grammatical category to which words in their language belong. This is essential in order to be able to form grammatically correct utterances. How do children proceed in order to classify words in their language and assign them to their corresponding grammatical category? The present study investigates the usefulness of phonological information for the categorization of nouns in English, given the fact that it is phonology the first source of information that might be available to prelinguistic infants who lack access to semantic information or complex morphosyntactic information. We analyse four different corpora containing linguistic samples of English speaking mothers addressing their children in order to explore the reliability with which words are represented in mothers’ speech based on several phonological criteria. The results of the analysis confirm the prediction that most of the words to which English learning infants are exposed during the first two years of life can be accounted for in terms of their phonological resemblance

Psicología de la adolescencia

Estamos ante una edición actualizada de un clásico, cuya primera edición en castellano data de 1985, y que habia sido reimpreso en 1987 y 1994. Aunque la actualización nos llega en castellano con unos pocos años de retraso, le damos la bienvenida porque está trabajada a fondo. Sólo con revisar la bibliografia, por cierto, amplisima, se aprecia inmediatamente que un alto porcentaje de las referencias es de los años 90

La reforma educativa del PP o el retorn a la meritocràcia

Article d'opinió sobre la tensió entre mèrit i igualtat de la Llei de qualitat de l’educació del Partit Popular