A integração das TIC no ensino secundário em Cabo Verde : um estudo de caso

Actualmente, um desafio permanente se coloca ao sistema educativo em todo o mundo devido aos impulsos decorrentes das incomensuráveis possibilidades que as TIC oferecem ao processo de ensino e aprendizagem e na mudança que elas acarretam nas atitudes dos agentes educativos e na própria estrutura escolar. Em Cabo Verde as TIC têm despertado interesse dos responsáveis da educação no concernente ao seu uso em contexto pedagógico e a existência de projectos voltados para sua utilização no ensino secundário é uma realidade. Com efeito, iniciou-se no ano lectivo 2009/2010 a experiência de integração das TIC em duas escolas secundárias do país. Porém, volvidos cinco anos, importa saber como estão sendo vivenciadas estas experiências, particularmente no que diz respeito à disponibilidade e acessibilidade das TIC por parte dos principais agentes educativos, a forma como se organiza a escola para colocá-las à disposição destes, o grau de satisfação dos professores com relação à sua formação em TIC, as atitudes dos professores e alunos face as TIC e o nível de sua utilização em contexto de sala de aula. De modo que, o problema em estudo centra-se em saber como está a decorrer o processo de integração das TIC no ensino secundário, no âmbito das atuais políticas de incentivo ao uso das tecnologias na educação. Do ponto de vista metodológico optamos por um estudo de caso de natureza exploratória (Yin, 1993; Gil, 1994; Morgado, 2012) e para recolher os dados aplicamos dois inquéritos por questionário, em formato papel, um dirigido a alunos, (uma turma por ano) e outro a todos os professores da escola em estudo. Foram também realizadas duas entrevistas a dois dirigentes da escola. A escolha de fontes quantitativas (inquéritos) e qualitativas (entrevistas) tem base de sustentação nos argumentos apresentados por Yin (1994) e Coutinho (2005). As conclusões do estudo apontam para o reconhecimento de que há ainda muito por fazer no tocante à integração pedagógica das TIC, principalmente no que tange à disponibilidade das TIC (a maioria dos alunos não tem acesso aos computadores e não existem softwares), na organização da escola (falta de técnicos qualificados, e inexistência de projecto pedagógico para uso das TIC), na formação dos professores (necessidade de formação continua) e na ausência das TIC nas práticas pedagógicas, conforme nos ensina a literatura especializada sobre a integração das TIC (Pelgrum, 2001; Paiva, 2002; Silva & Miranda, 2005; Amante, 2007; OIE, 2008, Sunkel, 2009; Barbosa & Loureiro, 2011).

Homéostasie, marqueurs somatiques et intentionnalité : le statut de la représentation et ses implications en psychanalyse et en neuroscience

Résumé : Si la psychanalyse est régulièrement remise en cause pour son manque de fondement scientifique, de nombreux travaux issus des neurosciences en appellent paradoxalement à un retour aux thèses freudiennes. Cette étude se propose, dans ce contexte, de revisiter les bases neurobiologiques de la métapsychologie et de montrer comment celle-ci repose sur une conception homéostatique du vivant. On en tire plusieurs conséquences. Premièrement, contre Brentano, selon qui l'intentionnalité est la marque du psychologique, on propose que celle-ci s'avère être, plus originellement, la marque des régulations biologiques. Deuxièmement, on montre comment Freud et Damasio développent des conceptions similaires sur le fonctionnement homéostatique de la cognition. Sur le plan épistémologique, on plaide en faveur de la complémentarité de ces deux approches. Si Damasio met au jour les variables somatiques permettant de mesurer les effets de la vie psychique, la théorie pulsionnelle permet de dépasser les problèmes liés à l'ambiguïté de la notion de «représentation cérébrale ». C'est à partir de cette thèse que l'on peut, selon nous, appréhender la psychanalyse comme un double projet visant à articuler une naturalisation de l'appareil psychique à une herméneutique de ses productions. On considère cette double visée comme une réponse à la difficulté centrale que rencontrent les sciences de l'esprit quant aux conditions de possibilité d'une naturalisation de l'intentionnalité. A partir de cette problématique, il devient pertinent d'évaluer la solution freudienne à la lumière de la posture intentionnelle dennettienne et de la théorie gazzaniguienne de l'interpreter. II ne s'agit pas, selon ces dernières approches, de naturaliser directement l'intentionnalité, au risque de commettre une erreur de catégorie. Il est question, au contraire, d'utiliser les principes du fonctionnement homéostatique comme autant de «règles »interprétatives permettant, sur le plan psychologique, de construire du sens. On trouve enfin dans le modèle de l'espace global de travail un moyen de remettre au goût du jour la conception freudienne, dynamique et conflictuelle, du fonctionnement psychique. On avance enfin, à partir de ce modèle, des hypothèses sur les mécanismes cérébraux susceptibles de sous-tendre l'efficacité thérapeutique de la cure analytique. Abstract : While Psychoanalysis' scientific basis is open to question, some neuroscience works are paradoxically calling for a return to Freud. Therefore, the first aim of our study consists in revisiting metapychology's neurobiological roots and to show how it is grounded on a homeostatic theory of life. Several consequences can be drawn from this statement. Firstly, in opposition to Brentanian definition of intentionality, as the specific mark of psychology, we argue that it is more specifically the mark of biological balance. Secondly, this statement allows to show how Freud's and Damasio's theories share common views on the homeostatic functioning of cognition. From an epistemological point of view, they complete one another. If Damasio has highlighted the measurable somatic variables from which we can infer psychic life, the theory of drives allows conceptual difficulties linked to the use of the ambiguous notion of "cerebral representation" to be overcome. According to us, this thesis leads psychoanalysis to be approached as a twin project aiming to articulate psyche naturalization, to a hermeneutic of its productions. It maybe seen as a way to respond to the central issue of mind sciences, that is, to account for the naturalization of intentionality. Given this theoretical framework, it seems relevant to reconsider freudism in the light of the dennettian intentional stance and the gazzanigan theory of interpreter. Then, freudism can be seen as a way to avoid a category mistake. Its solution rejects direct intentionality naturalization in favor of a construction of sense. In this framework, interpretation is regulated by the rules abstracted from the homeostatic functioning of life. Furthermore, we show how the dynamic and conflictual Freudian psyche can be evaluated using the Global workspace model, which allows us to put forth hypotheses on the cerebral mechanisms that may underlie the efficiency of analytical cure.

L’alè del clarinet : la respiració en la interpretació musical amb el clarinet

El projecte és una proposta d’exploració i reflexió personal sobre la respiració en la interpretació musical amb el clarinet i els aspectes corporals i pedagògics relacionats que fan possible l’estat psicofísic necessari per a una interpretació fluïda, creativa i amb veu pròpia. Per al seu desenvolupament, s’ha aprofundit en el coneixement de l’anatomia i fisiologia de la respiració, així com en la consciència corporal per aplicar-ho a la interpretació amb el clarinet i desenvolupar unes eines per a la seva didàctica. El mètode de treball consta de tres fases: la documentació, les entrevistes i les sessions didàctiques. Tot plegat ha significat un profund aprenentatge a nivell personal.

Presència de Rousseau a Catalunya: entre el mite i la realitat

En aquest article s’ofereix un perfil del pensament de Rousseau a partir de la seva relació amb la filosofia estoica i la seva dependència respecte de les idees de Montaigne, alhora que es remarca —atenint-se a la Professió de fe del vicari savoià— la dimensió religiosa i espiritual de la seva cosmovisió. Sobre la base d’aquests supòsits es revisa l’impacte de les idees de Rousseau en el Romanticisme del segle xix, sense perdre de vista les crítiques que la seva pedagogia va merèixer dels ideòlegs del Noucentisme (Eugeni d’Ors, Joaquim Xirau). Finalment, es conclou que la presència de la pedagogia de Rousseau en el Moviment de Renovació Pedagògica, viscut durant les primeres dècades del segle xx a Catalunya, constitueix més un horitzó que no pas una realitat bastida sistemàticament i sòlidament.

Barnbyn Skå (Skå, la vila dels infants) 1947-1972: L’experiència terapèutica de Gustav Jonsson amb infants «irrecuperables»

The article presents the trajectory of the Swedish psychiatrist Gustav Jonsson (1907-1994) who, in the 1940s, revolutionised the therapeutic and educational treatment of children and young people, considered irreclaimable from the social point of view, who were committed to educational institutions. It analyses the social development of the Welfare State in Sweden, the legal framework of child protection, as well as the context of Swedish residential care centres for children and young people in the first half of the 20th century in order to go further into the psychological and educational work conducted with the Barnbyn Skå group. Jonsson redirected the analysis of violent behaviours that were manifest in these children and young people which made them intractable from the educational point of view and established elements of psychoanalytical understanding, based on a systemic approach in which the family context became essential in order to understand the children’s difficulties. Barnbyn Skå was the centre which, under the guidance of Jonsson, developed this new therapeutic and pedagogic approach. The educational work carried out there exceeded the traditional model in terms of control and surveillance. The methods were considered radical from within pedagogy and caused great controversy which led the centre to continuous investigations on behalf of the Social Services of Stockholm between 1960 and 1970. For several decades Barnbyn Skå has been considered a pioneering experience in the field of Scandinavian child psychiatry.

Intrinsic subspace convergence in TDD MIMO communication

In numerical linear algebra, students encounter earlythe iterative power method, which finds eigenvectors of a matrixfrom an arbitrary starting point through repeated normalizationand multiplications by the matrix itself. In practice, more sophisticatedmethods are used nowadays, threatening to make the powermethod a historical and pedagogic footnote. However, in the contextof communication over a time-division duplex (TDD) multipleinputmultiple-output (MIMO) channel, the power method takes aspecial position. It can be viewed as an intrinsic part of the uplinkand downlink communication switching, enabling estimationof the eigenmodes of the channel without extra overhead. Generalizingthe method to vector subspaces, communication in thesubspaces with the best receive and transmit signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) is made possible. In exploring this intrinsic subspace convergence(ISC), we show that several published and new schemes canbe cast into a common framework where all members benefit fromthe ISC.

Innovar, renovar, avaluar

[eng] The new educational context in which we are involved and the facilities of the TIC (Communication Information Technologies) have led to the necessary modification of didactic approach that during years has been used for Pharmaceutical Technology teaching. However, changes/updating and innovation require a simultaneous reflection in order to avoid excessive dispersion of the approach and to channel adequately the pedagogic and didactic effort. On the other hand, it is necessary to evaluate the above initiatives to determinate if these one are on the right track. The Pharmaceutical Technology Teaching Innovation Group of the University of Barcelona has been formed and consolidated in this point of view. In this work, a review of studies carried on by the group, in the exposed purposes, from the beginning of their activities is presented. [spa] El nuevo contexto docente en el que estamos inmersos así como las posibilidades de las TIC (Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación) han conllevado la necesaria modificación de los planteamientos didácticos que durante años han servido de base para las enseñanzas de la Tecnología Farmacéutica. Sin embargo, la renovación/actualización e innovación precisan de una simultánea reflexión a fin de evitar una excesiva dispersión del enfoque y para encauzar adecuadamente el esfuerzo pedagógico y didáctico. Por otra parte, es necesario evaluar dichas iniciativas para determinar si están bien encaminadas. El Grupo de Innovación Docente de Tecnología Farmacéutica de la Universidad de Barcelona se ha creado y consolidado desde esta óptica. En este trabajo se presentan un conjunto de estudios que el grupo ha llevado a cabo, con los fines expuestos, desde el comienzo de sus actividades.

Teaching how to learn with a wiki in Primary Education: what classroom interaction can tell us

Understanding how wikis are used to support collaborative learning is an important concern for researchers and teachers. Adopting a discourse analytic approach, this paper attempts to understand the teaching processes when a wiki is embedded in a science project in primary education to foster collaborative learning. Through studying interaction between the teacher and students, our findings identify ways in which the teacher prompts collaborative learning but also shed light on the difficulties for the teacher in supporting student collective collaboration. It is argued that technological wiki features supporting collaborative learning can only be realized if teacher talk and pedagogy are aligned with the characteristics of wiki collaborative work: the freedom of students to organize and participate by themselves, creating dialogic space and promoting student participation. We argue that a dialogic approach for examining interaction can be used to help to design a more effective pedagogic approach in the use of wikis in education, to shift into Web 2.0 learning paradigm and to equip learners with the competences they need to participate in knowledge co-construction.

Wiki-supported collaborative learning in primary education. How a dialogic space is created for thinking together

This paper explores how wikis may be used to support primary education students’ collaborative interaction and how such an interaction process can be characterised. The overall aim of this study is to analyse the collaborative processes of students working together in a wiki environment, in order to see how primary students can actively create a shared context for learning in the wiki. Educational literature has already reported that wikis may support collaborative knowledge-construction processes, but in our study we claim that a dialogic perspective is needed to accomplish this. Students must develop an intersubjective orientation towards each others’ perspectives, to co-construct knowledge about a topic. For this purpose, our project utilised a ‘Thinking Together’ approach to help students develop an intersubjective orientation towards one another and to support the creation of a ‘dialogic space’ to co-construct new understanding in a wiki science project. The students’ asynchronous interaction process in a primary classroom -- which led to the creation of a science text in the wiki -- was analysed and characterised, using a dialogic approach to the study of CSCL practices. Our results illustrate how the Thinking Together approach became embedded within the wiki environment and in the students’ collaborative processes. We argue that a dialogic approach for examining interaction can be used to help design more effective pedagogic approaches related to the use of wikis in education and to equip learners with the competences they need to participate in the global knowledge-construction era.

Tendencias en la educación : aprendizaje combinado

El aprendizaje combinado se define como la integración eficaz de dos componentes: la enseñanza presencial y la tecnología no presencial. Este modelo intenta generar un aprendizaje que influya positivamente en el alumno y que a su vez mejore la calidad de enseñanza y los costos destinados a ello. Es importante señalar que el papel que tiene el profesor y su implicación, así como el proceso de mediación pedagógica, son los elementos clave del proceso. Este artículo hace una revisión del estado del arte y describe el significado del aprendizaje combinado, sus posibilidades, sus características, así como las teorías del aprendizaje que intervienen en el modelo, y concluye hablando de las herramientas utilizadas en los entornos de aprendizaje.

Innovar, renovar, avaluar

[eng] The new educational context in which we are involved and the facilities of the TIC (Communication Information Technologies) have led to the necessary modification of didactic approach that during years has been used for Pharmaceutical Technology teaching. However, changes/updating and innovation require a simultaneous reflection in order to avoid excessive dispersion of the approach and to channel adequately the pedagogic and didactic effort. On the other hand, it is necessary to evaluate the above initiatives to determinate if these one are on the right track. The Pharmaceutical Technology Teaching Innovation Group of the University of Barcelona has been formed and consolidated in this point of view. In this work, a review of studies carried on by the group, in the exposed purposes, from the beginning of their activities is presented. [spa] El nuevo contexto docente en el que estamos inmersos así como las posibilidades de las TIC (Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación) han conllevado la necesaria modificación de los planteamientos didácticos que durante años han servido de base para las enseñanzas de la Tecnología Farmacéutica. Sin embargo, la renovación/actualización e innovación precisan de una simultánea reflexión a fin de evitar una excesiva dispersión del enfoque y para encauzar adecuadamente el esfuerzo pedagógico y didáctico. Por otra parte, es necesario evaluar dichas iniciativas para determinar si están bien encaminadas. El Grupo de Innovación Docente de Tecnología Farmacéutica de la Universidad de Barcelona se ha creado y consolidado desde esta óptica. En este trabajo se presentan un conjunto de estudios que el grupo ha llevado a cabo, con los fines expuestos, desde el comienzo de sus actividades.

Discursos crítics, pràctiques ètiques. Repensant la funció docent a la Universitat

El nexe d'unió com a professores va ser a partir de la preocupació i reflexió que anavem compartint sobre les nostres practiques a l'aula. El que sovint ens preguntavem era com podíem assumir el compromís perqué els nostres pressuposits educatius no ens tra'issin a I'hora de posar-los a la practica. La recerca d'aquesta coheréncia va fer-nos plantejar, analitzar i compartir els nostres suposits, sobretot pel que fa al sentit i a la visió del coneixement que transmetem relacionats amb un tipus determinat d'entendre la practica, és a dir, d'entendre les relacions amb I'alumnat, el tipus de tasques que es realitzen a classe i els processos d'avaluació que portem a terme. El que plantejarem a continuació és fruit, com hem dit, de les converses i reflexions que periodicament compartíem, pero també de les valoracions que, de manera anomina, realitzava I'alumnat de les nostres classes i d'algunes observacions que ens féiem mútuament. Agruparem les nostres reflexions a partir d'explorar tres temes: la transmissió del saber, I'enfocament pedagogic de la practica i les dificultats o limitacions d'uns estils determinats d'ensenyanya.

How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies.

What drove the transition from small-scale human societies centred on kinship and personal exchange, to large-scale societies comprising cooperation and division of labour among untold numbers of unrelated individuals? We propose that the unique human capacity to negotiate institutional rules that coordinate social actions was a key driver of this transition. By creating institutions, humans have been able to move from the default 'Hobbesian' rules of the 'game of life', determined by physical/environmental constraints, into self-created rules of social organization where cooperation can be individually advantageous even in large groups of unrelated individuals. Examples include rules of food sharing in hunter-gatherers, rules for the usage of irrigation systems in agriculturalists, property rights and systems for sharing reputation between mediaeval traders. Successful institutions create rules of interaction that are self-enforcing, providing direct benefits both to individuals that follow them, and to individuals that sanction rule breakers. Forming institutions requires shared intentionality, language and other cognitive abilities largely absent in other primates. We explain how cooperative breeding likely selected for these abilities early in the Homo lineage. This allowed anatomically modern humans to create institutions that transformed the self-reliance of our primate ancestors into the division of labour of large-scale human social organization.

The practical application of e-Portfolio at the Open University of Catalonia : assessment of competence based learning

The paper presents the results of the piloting or pilot test in a virtual classroom. This e-portfolio was carried out in the 2005-2006 academic year, with students of the Doctorate in Information Society, at the Open University of Catalonia. The electronic portfolio is a strategy for competence based assessment. This experience shows the types of e-portfolios, where students show their work without interactions, and apply the competence-based learning theories in an interactive portfolio system. The real process of learning is developed in the competency based system, the portfolio not only is a basic bio document, has become a real space for learning with competence model. The paper brings out new ideas and possibilities: the competence-based learning promotes closer relationships between universities and companies and redesigns the pedagogic act.

Aprendizaje y servicio: estudio del grado de satisfacción de estudiantes universitarios

El aprendizaje y servicio es una metodología pedagógica que fomenta el aprendizaje de los estudiantes mediante su participación activa en experiencias asociadas al servicio comunitario. Esta metodología permite al estudiante involucrarse directamente con aquellos a quienes ofrece un servicio, adaptándose a sus necesidades y a una realidad que a menudo es muy diferente de la que vive en el aula. En esto radica uno de sus mayores impactos. Además, este tipo de prácticas contribuye a despertar en los alumnos su interés por la acción colectiva, su formación ciudadana, etc. La investigación que se presenta ha consistido en un estudio diagnóstico- comprensivo con 39 estudiantes, donde a partir del modelo de satisfacción con el que se ha trabajado se han analizado cuatro dimensiones clave (conocimiento e intención atribuida, valoración de la utilidad atribuida, valoración del proceso y proyección social). Estas dimensiones nos han conducido a reflexionar sobre elementos claves del aprendizaje y servicio (aprendizajes ciudadanos, aprendizajes personales, aprendizajes curriculares, procesos de reflexión, etc.). La muestra del estudio ha estado formada por 39 estudiantes y la principal técnica de análisis de la información recogida ha sido el análisis de contenido, mediante la triangulación de técnicas (cuestionario, entrevista y grupos de discusión) e informantes (estudiantes, profesores, coordinadores y miembros de entidades). El análisis de la información muestra un alto grado de satisfacción de los alumnos participantes. La dimensión que ha influido más en este resultado ha sido la valoración de la utilidad atribuida; en concreto, la percepción que tienen los alumnos sobre la adquisición de unos aprendizajes conceptuales, personales y ciudadanos. Atendiendo a lo anterior, cabe señalar que la relación generada entre profesores, entidades y estudiantes, así como la posibilidad de vincular la teoría con la práctica han condicionado los resultados. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Service learning projects promote student learning through active participation in community service. Thus, the service learning method enables students to engage directly with the people to whom they offer their services and requires them to adapt to other peoples' needs and to a reality that is often very different from the classroom. This is one of the major ways in which service learning has an impact. In addition, service learning helps to awaken students' interest in collective action, citizenship, etc. A comprehensive diagnostic study of 39 students was conducted to analyse four key dimensions (attributed knowledge and intentionality, evaluation of usefulness, evaluation of the process and social impact) on the basis of the chosen satisfaction model. The four dimensions led to reflection on key elements of learning and community service (learning about citizenship, learning about oneself, learning of a curriculum, processes of reflection, etc.). The main data analysis technique was content analysis, involving the triangulation of various techniques (questionnaires, interviews and discussion groups) and informants (students, teachers, coordinators and members of other organisations). Data analysis showed a high degree of satisfaction among the participating students. The dimension that most influenced the results was assessment of the attributed value, more specifically the students' perception of their acquisition of conceptual, personal and citizenship knowledge. It should be cautioned that the results were swayed by the relationship generated among teachers, students and institutions and the possibility of linking theory with practice.