El potencial didáctic de la indumentaria en l’ensenyament de les ciencies socials i del patrimoni

La indumentària com a objecte d’anàlisi proporciona informacions importants per a l’estudi de la Historia. Amb tot, la indumentaria proporciona també les bases per a fonamentar una línia didáctica eficient basada en la idea que els vestits son elements que mostren sobretot els efectes dels canvis i de les continuitats. La nostra recerca, iniciada al 2006, en el si del grup de recerca consolidat DIDPATRI (Didàctica del patrimoni, noves tecnologies i museografia comprensiva) de la Universitat de Barcelona explota aquesta línia basada en el potencial de la didàctica de la història social i cultural a través de l’objecte indumentari.

Historias de vida en educación: biografías en contexto

[spa] Esta publicación recoge los trabajos presentados en las I Jornadas de Historias de Vida en Educación: Cuestiones epistemológicas, metodológicas, éticas y de formación que, organizadas por el grupo de investigación consolidado ESBRINA (Subjetividades y entornos educativos contemporáneos -2009SGR 503), se celebraron en el Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Educativa de la Universidad de Barcelona los días 10 y 11 de junio de 2010.A las mismas asistieron unas 50 personas -docentes e investigadores universitarios y estudiantes de máster y doctorado de España, Portugal, México, Chile, Italia, Francia y Brasil- quienes, después de una introducción por parte de las personas que coordinaban los temas, debatieron con intensidad las cuestiones que emergieron de la lectura de las contribuciones que algunos de los participantes enviaron previamente. Con posterioridad, la mayoría revisaron sus presentaciones para acomodarla al formato de esta publicación.

Historias de vida en educación: biografías en contexto

[spa] Esta publicación recoge los trabajos presentados en las I Jornadas de Historias de Vida en Educación: Cuestiones epistemológicas, metodológicas, éticas y de formación que, organizadas por el grupo de investigación consolidado ESBRINA (Subjetividades y entornos educativos contemporáneos -2009SGR 503), se celebraron en el Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Educativa de la Universidad de Barcelona los días 10 y 11 de junio de 2010.A las mismas asistieron unas 50 personas -docentes e investigadores universitarios y estudiantes de máster y doctorado de España, Portugal, México, Chile, Italia, Francia y Brasil- quienes, después de una introducción por parte de las personas que coordinaban los temas, debatieron con intensidad las cuestiones que emergieron de la lectura de las contribuciones que algunos de los participantes enviaron previamente. Con posterioridad, la mayoría revisaron sus presentaciones para acomodarla al formato de esta publicación.

Historias de vida en educación: biografías en contexto

[spa] Esta publicación recoge los trabajos presentados en las I Jornadas de Historias de Vida en Educación: Cuestiones epistemológicas, metodológicas, éticas y de formación que, organizadas por el grupo de investigación consolidado ESBRINA (Subjetividades y entornos educativos contemporáneos -2009SGR 503), se celebraron en el Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Educativa de la Universidad de Barcelona los días 10 y 11 de junio de 2010.A las mismas asistieron unas 50 personas -docentes e investigadores universitarios y estudiantes de máster y doctorado de España, Portugal, México, Chile, Italia, Francia y Brasil- quienes, después de una introducción por parte de las personas que coordinaban los temas, debatieron con intensidad las cuestiones que emergieron de la lectura de las contribuciones que algunos de los participantes enviaron previamente. Con posterioridad, la mayoría revisaron sus presentaciones para acomodarla al formato de esta publicación.

Assessing positive mental health in people with chronic physical health problems: correlations with socio-demographic variables and physical health status

Background: A holistic perspective on health implies giving careful consideration to the relationship between physical and mental health. In this regard the present study sought to determine the level of Positive Mental Health (PMH) among people with chronic physical health problems, and to examine the relationship between the observed levels of PMH and both physical health status and socio-demographic variables. Methods: The study was based on the Multifactor Model of Positive Mental Health (Lluch, 1999), which comprises six factors: Personal Satisfaction (F1), Prosocial Attitude (F2), Self-control (F3), Autonomy (F4), Problem-solving and Self-actualization (F5), and Interpersonal Relationship Skills (F6). The sample comprised 259 adults with chronic physical health problems who were recruited through a primary care center in the province of Barcelona (Spain). Positive mental health was assessed by means of the Positive Mental Health Questionnaire (Lluch, 1999). Results: Levels of PMH differed, either on the global scale or on specific factors, in relation to the following variables: age: global PMH scores decreased with age (r=-0.129; p=0.038); b) gender: men scored higher on F1 (t=2.203; p=0.028) and F4 (t=3.182; p=0.002), while women scored higher on F2 (t -3.086; p=0.002) and F6 (t=-2.744; p=0.007); c) number of health conditions: the fewer the number of health problems the higher the PMH score on F5 (r=-0.146; p=0.019); d) daily medication: polymedication patients had lower PMH scores, both globally and on various factors; e) use of analgesics: occasional use of painkillers was associated with higher PMH scores on F1 (t=-2.811; p=0.006). There were no significant differences in global PMH scores according to the type of chronic health condition. The only significant difference in the analysis by factors was that patients with hypertension obtained lower PMH scores on the factor Autonomy (t=2.165; p=0.032). Conclusions: Most people with chronic physical health problems have medium or high levels of PMH. The variables that adversely affect PMH are old age, polypharmacy and frequent consumption of analgesics. The type of health problem does not influence the levels of PMH. Much more extensive studies with samples without chronic pathology are now required in order to be able to draw more robust conclusions.

Students’ viewpoint on engineering subjects taught in English

The European Educational Institutions have the challenge and the commitment to enhance multilingual competence and teaching curricular subjects in a foreign language is seen as one of the most promising alternatives. In that context, professors teaching different engineering subjects at the School of Engineering of the UPC at Manresa (EPSEM) have been involved in projects aiming at analyzing the current linguistic situation and developing some on-line open access materials using CLIL as a strategy. They formed the u-Linguatech Research Group on Multilingual Communication in Science and Technology in order to provide such resources in an effective and efficient way. In this paper, we focus on students’ perception of the improvement of their multilingual competence throughout their Engineering degree, by means of subjects taught in English by non-native speakers. Data about the English level of current students are taken into account. We also describe the use of the above resources to improve the quality of subjects learning related to Chemical Engineering curricula.

Arxiu de Relacions Laborals Teresa Claramunt

The "Teresa Claramunt Industrial Relations Registry" started as an initiative of the Grup d'Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (Everyday Life and Work Sociological Research Group), with the aim of starting a compilation where could be centralized the main working papers and publication from enterprise and labour organizations, and to achieve a compilation of the edited production done by the labour ambit.

Aprendizaje cooperativo y apoyo a la mejora de las prácticas inclusivas

El objetivo de este artículo es presentar una investigación sobre el desarrollo del Programa Cooperar para Aprender /Aprender a Cooperar a través de un proceso de formación-asesoramiento, diseñado por el Grup de recerca Atenció a la diversitat (GRAD) de la Universidad de Vic. Presentamos los objetivos, centrados en el aprendizaje cooperativo y la inclusión del alumnado que encuentra más barreras para el aprendizaje y la participación en las aulas ordinarias. Describimos el diseño de investigación y los instrumentos para identificar los cambios en las representaciones del profesorado, la evaluación de los aprendizajes realizados con estructuras cooperativas, la cohesión del grupo clase y la evolución de los procesos de inclusión desde las fases de introducción hasta la consolidación del aprendizaje cooperativo, en los seis centros escolares en que se realiza la investigación. Finalizamos presentando algunos resultados iniciales de la investigación.

Estudio cualitativo sobre factores psicosociales de riesgo en profesionales de enfermería (Catalunya-España).

Peer-reviewed

Prácticas de gestión del conocimiento en los grupos de investigación: estudio de un caso

La gestión del conocimiento es una práctica organizativa que se está extendiendo a todo tipo de organizaciones, incluidas las universidades. Su estudio cuenta con distintos marcos basados en alguno, o en todos los procesos del ciclo de gestión del conocimiento. La presente investigación centra su atención en las prácticas de gestión del conocimiento dentro de los grupos de investigación de una universidad colombiana, así como en las características de dichos grupos, tomando como base el marco holístico del ciclo de gestión del conocimiento. Para captar el contexto de dichas prácticas, la metodología sigue la teoría fundamentada, por lo que se realizan entrevistas en profundidad dirigidas a los coordinadores de los grupos de investigación, de una muestra seleccionada aleatoriamente. Los resultados apuntan la necesidad de desarrollar en los grupos de investigación actividades que incidan en la identificación, el almacenamientoy el uso del conocimiento. Para ello se requiere, entre otras cosas, cualificar y asesorar a los investigadores en la planificación de las acciones de gestión del conocimiento cuando investigan y gestionan proyectos. Es preciso profundizar en el estudio de las etapas del ciclo vinculado con las dinámicas de los grupos de investigación, para fortalecer las capacidades de generación y transferencia de conocimiento.

The role of different factors related to social impact of heavy events: considerations about the intensity thresholds in densely populated areas

In the assessment of social impact caused by meteorological events, factors of different natures need to be considered. Not only does hazard itself determine the impact that a severe weather event has on society, but also other features related to vulnerability and exposure. The requests of data related to insurance claims received in meteorological services proved to be a good indicator of the social impact that a weather event causes, according to studies carried out by the Social Impact Research Group, created within the framework of the MEDEX project. Taking these requests as proxy data, diverse aspects connected to the impact of heavy rain events have been studied. The rainfall intensity, in conjunction with the population density, has established itself as one of the key factors in social impact studies. One of the conclusions we obtained is that various thresholds of rainfall should be applied for areas of varying populations. In this study, the role of rainfall intensity has been analysed for a highly populated urban area like Barcelona. A period without significant population changes has been selected for the study to minimise the effects linked to vulnerability and exposure modifications. First, correlations between rainfall recorded in different time intervals and requests were carried out. Afterwards, a method to include the intensity factor in the social impact index was suggested based on return periods given by intensity duration frequency (IDF) curves.

Researching on and with Young People: Collaborating and Educating. Investigar con y sobre los jóvenes colaborando y educando

This paper reports on collaborative research on and with young people. In this study five groups of students in the final year of their Compulsory Secondary Education (CSE) from five different schools developed five ethnographic studies about how they communicate, express themselves and learn inside and outside school, with the support and collaboration of teachers and members of our research group. The paper begins by discussing the dimensions of collaboration in education, taking into account the contribution of collaborative and ooperative learning, and the potential of digital resources, situating earlier influences and characterizing the work realised. Then there is a description of the research carried out on and with the young people we invited to perform as investigators. The results focus on the description and conceptualization of the different types of collaboration that have emerged while carrying out the ethnographic studies in each of the schools using digital technologies. Finally, we discuss the implications and limitations of the work as a contribution to anyone interested in researching on and with young people, collaborating, educating and using digital resources.

A Case-based reasoning approach to validate grammatical gender and number agreement in Spanish language

Across Latin America 420 indigenous languages are spoken. Spanish is considered a second language in indigenous communities and is progressively introduced in education. However, most of the tools to support teaching processes of a second language have been developed for the most common languages such as English, French, German, Italian, etc. As a result, only a small amount of learning objects and authoring tools have been developed for indigenous people considering the specific needs of their population. This paper introduces Multilingual–Tiny as a web authoring tool to support the virtual experience of indigenous students and teachers when they are creating learning objects in indigenous languages or in Spanish language, in particular, when they have to deal with the grammatical structures of Spanish. Multilingual–Tiny has a module based on the Case-based Reasoning technique to provide recommendations in real time when teachers and students write texts in Spanish. An experiment was performed in order to compare some local similarity functions to retrieve cases from the case library taking into account the grammatical structures. As a result we found the similarity function with the best performance

Análisis del proceso de adquisición del código audiovisual y de la intervención de los agentes que forman a los ciudadanos en el conocimiento de los medios

The research group Gre‐TICE (Grupo de investigación en tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación en Educación) has the acquisition of the multimedia language and their use as a form of expression as one of their lines of research. During the academic year 2002‐ 2003, following previous work in the use of ICT in Education, commenced upon the project: “The acquisition of visual and sound codes and the processes related to the visual media”. The intention of this project is to study how formal or non‐formal education context can help young adults and children to acquire visual and sound codes to become ‘critical consumers’ with the media and to use the tools in a creative way. To achieve this objective, the project team has developed a partner group which includes professional from different European regions; including teachers and managers from across the age spectrum, government institutions and cultural organisations. Whilst the project will call upon qualitative analysis of the previous projects / research, it will seek to develop ‘Good Practice’ guides and other resources/ materials to be disseminated to project partners (and others) to build innovative actions throughout the European region

Project «Water and Environment»: Improving educational practices in the aquatic environment

The project "Water and Environment"for the improvement of educational practices in the aquatic environment, is a research project led by four members of the Research Group of Physical Education at the University of Vic (GREF) experts in water activities. The aim is to train the technicians who teach swimming during school hours. The training is based on improving water treatment practices and competence to face a contradictory scene where clubs develop educational content and where schools transfer to clubs part of its educational activity to contribute significantly and positively to water activities fitting the educational curriculum.