La salut laboral dels docents estudi de les causes psicosocials del malestar docent

El treball de recerca que he realitzat porta per títol: "LA SALUT LABORAL DELS DOCENTS. ESTUDI DE LES CAUSES PSICOSOCIALS DEL MALESTAR DOCENT", perquè tenir una bona salut laboral i arribar cada dia a la feina amb il•lusió i optimisme són essencials per poder ser un bon professional en el camp de l’educació i saber transmetre als alumnes i als companys de treball: energia, vitalitat, entusiasme i ganes d’aprendre. La salut laboral és l’element clau de la satisfacció professional, de la qualitat de la feina educativa i de la consolidació dels centres com a veritables entorns d’aprenentatge. La qualitat personal dels docents i, per tant, la seva salut laboral, contribueixen a la qualitat educativa i a garantir uns veritables entorns inclusius d'aprenentatge. D'aquest treball inicial en sorgeix un segon volum que porta per títol: "CURS DE FORMACIÓ EN EDUCACIÓ EMOCIONAL PER A LA PREVENCIÓ DEL MALESTAR DOCENT", on es suggereix un currículum per treballar l'educació emocional dels docents i diverses activitats per fer un veritable creixement personal, que portin cap a la satisfacció professional dels docents.

Designing online interaction to address disciplinary competencies: A cross-country comparison of faculty perspectives

This study was conducted at colleges in three countries (United States, Venezuela, and Spain) and across three academic disciplines (engineering, education, and business), to examine how experienced faculty define competencies for their discipline, and design instructional interaction for online courses. A qualitative research design employing in-depth interviews was selected. Results show that disciplinary knowledge takes precedence when faculty members select competencies to be developed in online courses for their respective professions. In all three disciplines, the design of interaction to correspond with disciplinary competencies was often influenced by contextual factors that modify faculty intention. Therefore, instructional design will vary across countries in the same discipline to address the local context, such as the needs and expectations of the learners, faculty perspectives, beliefs and values, and the needs of the institution, the community, and country. The three disciplines from the three countries agreed on the importance of the following competencies: knowledge of the field, higher order cognitive processes such as critical thinking, analysis, problem solving, transfer of knowledge, oral and written communication skills, team work, decision making, leadership and management skills, indicating far more similarities in competencies than differences between the three different applied disciplines. We found a lack of correspondence between faculty¿s intent to develop collaborative learning skills and the actual development of them. Contextual factors such as faculty prior experience in design, student reluctance to engage in collaborative learning, and institutional assessment systems that focus on individual performance were some of these reasons.

Educació ambiental i el valor de sentir allò que és comú

Raimon Pannikar deia, ja fa uns anys, que «no és possible un jo i un tu sense una tercera persona, i aquesta tercera persona existent en tot diàleg és sempre la matèria, l'espai, el temps, el cosmos, la terra». I Jo penso que és molt intel·ligent parlar d'una «tercera persona», d'un tercer element que en realitat és i no és una persona. En tot el que seguira intentaré explicar aixà que die, perquè em sembla quelcom interessant per a l'educació ambiental.

The use of ISO 9001 quality standard in higher education institution libraries

[eng] ISO standard 9001 is one of a set of management tools that libraries have adopted in recent years. This article focuses on libraries in higher education institutions that have received ISO certification of their quality management systems (ISO standard 9001:2000). We examine their reasons for seeking certification and the advantages and difficulties they have encountered in applying this ISO standard. Finally, we consider the future prospects of ISO standard 9001 in university libraries.

The Causal effect of education on aggregate income

Empirical studies assume that the macro Mincer return on schooling is con- stant across countries. Using a large sample of countries this paper shows that countries with a better quality of education have on average relatively higher macro Mincer coeficients. As rich countries have on average better educational quality, differences in human capital between countries are larger than has been typically assumed in the development accounting literature. Consequently, factor accumulation explains a considerably larger share of income differences across countries than what is usually found.

Quality of Learners' Time and Learning Performance Beyond Quantitative Time-on-Task

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Job accessibility, employment and job-education mismatch in the metropolitan area of Barcelona

This paper analyses the effect of job accessibility by public and private transport on labour market outcomes in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Beyond employment, we consider the effect of job accessibility on job-education mismatch, which represents a relevant aspect of job quality. We adopt a recursive system of equations that models car availability, employment and mismatch. Public transport accessibility appears as an exogenous variable in the three equations. Even though it may reflect endogenous residential sorting, falsification proofs suggest that the estimated effect of public transport accessibility is not entirely driven by the endogenous nature of residential decisions.

Innovación y Aprendizaje: un nuevo modelo para la formación universitaria: ¿Por qué y para qué? = Innovation and Learning: a New Model for University Education: Why and for What?

The legislative reforms in university matters driven in recent years, beyond the provoked controversies, offer to universities the possibility to develop a new model in line with the European environment, focusing on quality aims and adapting to the socioeconomic current challenges. A new educational model centered on the student, on the formation of specific and transverse competitions, on the improvement of the employability and the access to the labor market, on the attraction and fixation of talent, is an indispensable condition for the effective social mobility and for the homogeneous development of a more responsible and sustainable socioeconomic and productive model