Los problemas de conducta como criterio para la agrupación del alumnado.

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Aula Coral : aprendiendo a vivir la música.

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Aula Coral.

La intención de este proyecto ha sido la creación de ocho coros infantiles. La base de la formación se realizó a través de un grupo de profesores de música con la colaboración de las familias y las AMPAS, de la dirección de los centros de enseñanza y el CPR de Albacete. El proyecto consta de tres fases, la primera: formación de directores, la segunda: fase de concienciación, y la tercera: fase de formación de coros. Como motivación más importante para llevar a cabo este proyecto destaca el hecho de que esta actividad fomenta valores educativos y sociales como son la tolerancia, el trabajo en equipo, la responsabilidad, la puntualidad, el compromiso personal hacia el grupo, el afán de superación, el acercamiento a otras culturas y sus lenguas, la disciplina, el respeto tanto al trabajo personal como al de grupo, la comunicación, y, en definitiva, al desarrollo integral de la persona.

Programa CORAL : una herramienta de trabajo útil para compensar desigualdades.

Monográfico con el título: 'Programas de intervención'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Aportaciones científicas a las formas de agrupación del alumnado.

Monográfico con el título: 'Formas de agrupamiento del alumnado y éxito escolar'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Fent cr??ixer la societat a trav??s del cant coral

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El cant coral a Catalunya durant l???edat mitjana : les influ??ncies franceses

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El cant coral infantil i juvenil educa en valors, hàbits i competències

This doctoral thesis is the result of the experience, continuous practice and day to day work as head of infant and youth choirs that the candidate has developed for over more than thirty years. The motivation, the concerns and the questions formulated with regards to choral singing, have underpinned this research. The thesis has focused on the learning of values, habits and competences in order to demonstrate that singing in an infant or youth choir is educational and goes far beyond the mere act of singing in a choir. We can therefore state that education is continuous, it never comes to an end and, furthermore, it unfolds in divergent ways. In summary to show that singing in an infant or youth choir is educational in the widest possible sense.

Record of natural and anthropogenic changes in reef environments (Barbados West Indies) using laser ablation ICP-MS and sclerochronology on coral cores

Coral growth rate can be affected by environmental parameters such as seawater temperature, depth, and light intensity. The natural reef environment is also disturbed by human influences such as anthropogenic pollutants, which in Barbados are released close to the reefs. Here we describe a relatively new method of assessing the history of pollution and explain how these effects have influenced the coral communities off the west coast of Barbados. We evaluate the relative impact of both anthropogenic pollutants and natural stresses. Sclerochronology documents framework and skeletal growth rate and records pollution history (recorded as reduced growth) for a suite of sampled Montastraea annularis coral cores. X-radiography shows annual growth band patterns of the corals extending back over several decades and indicates significantly lower growth rate in polluted sites. Results using laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) on the whole sample (aragonite, organic matter, trapped particulate matter, etc.), have shown contrasting concentrations of the trace elements (Cu, Sn, Zn, and Pb) between corals at different locations and within a single coral. Deepwater corals 7 km apart, record different levels of Pb and Sn, suggesting that a current transported the metal pollution in the water. In addition, the 1995 hurricanes are associated with anomalous values for Sn and Cu from most sites. These are believed to result from dispersion of nearshore polluted water. We compared the concentrations of trace elements in the coral growth of particular years to those in the relevant contemporaneous seawater. Mean values for the concentration factor in the coral, relative to the water, ranged from 10 for Cu and Ni to 2.4 and 0.7 for Cd and Zn, respectively. Although the uncertainties are large (60-80%), the coral record enabled us to demonstrate the possibility of calculating a history of seawater pollution for these elements from the 1940s to 1997. Our values were much higher than those obtained from analysis of carefully cleaned coral aragonite; they demonstrate the incorporation of more contamination including that from particulate material as well as dissolved metals.

Monitoring growth of hard corals as performance indicators for coral reefs

Digital videophotography, computer image analysis and physical measurements have been used to monitor sedimentation rates, coral cover, genera richness, rugosity and estimated recruitment dates of massive corals at three different sites in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia, and on the reefs around Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in the Wakatobi Marine National Park indicated that coral mining was extensively practised, and is responsible for the absence of large non-branching corals on the Sampela reef Blast fishing is also practised in the Wakatobi Marine Park, and the authors, together with students, showed that blast fishing resulted in coral bleaching and not mortality of two Porites lutea colonies. In addition, we showed that monitoring of bleaching in Porites colonies induced by blast fishing could be a useful way of monitoring blast fishing practices in susceptible areas in the Indo-Pacific. The techniques used in this study are appropriate for use by volunteers with sufficient training, and provide excellent projects for dissertation students reading undergraduate degrees.