Taller de autonomía personal, social y laboral.

El proyecto consiste en una enseñanza guiada de ciertos aprendizajes útiles para que los alumnos con necesidades educativas especiales se desenvuelvan en la vida cotidiana con más autonomía y de acuerdo a sus posibilidades. Está dirigido a los alumnos del programa de integración y de educación compensatoria. Sus objetivos son promover el desarrollo de capacidades y habilidades básicas que favorezcan una actuación progresivamente autónoma de los alumnos en la vida cotidiana; y desarrollar la competencia instrumental, con el fin de afianzar la comunicación, la capacidad de razonamiento y la resolución de problemas de la vida cotidiana. La metodología es activa, con actividades fundamentalmente prácticas que se realizan en grupo e individualmente. La evaluación es continua y la realizan el profesorado y los alumnos. Se utilizan varios instrumentos, como son una plantilla que rellenan las familias trimestralmente, y otra plantilla para evaluar el taller. Los alumnos elaboran sus propios materiales, como fichas de registro, catálogos y planos. Se incluyen unidades didácticas de las actividades, las plantillas de evaluación y algunos materiales de las actividades..

Effect of background, attitudinal and social network variables on PhD students' academic performance : a multimethod approach. 'Efecto de las variables personales, actitudinales y de red social en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de doctorado : un enfoque multimétodo'.

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La integración personal, social y vocacional de los deficientes psíquicos adolescentes : elaboración y aplicación experimental de un programa conductual.

Premios Nacionales de Investigación e Innovación Educativas del CIDE 1988 (Premio de Tesis Doctoral). Investigación original con el mismo título.

La integración personal, social y vocacional de los deficientes psíquicos adolescentes : elaboración y aplicación experimental de un programa conductual.

Realizar una contribución a los métodos y programas existentes que preparan al deficiente mental para la integración socio-vocacional en la edad adulta. Estudiar la deficiencia mental y proponer alternativas de trabajo validadas experimentalmente. Construir un programa conductual que incluya tres tipos de habilidades o subprogramas: habilidades de orientación al trabajo, habilidades de la vida diaria y habilidades sociales. 62 deficientes mentales adolescentes, con un nivel de deficiencia ligera, media y severa. 31 forman parte del grupo experimental y los otros 31 del grupo control. En la primera parte se realiza una amplia revisión de la literatura actual relacionada con la deficiencia mental. En la segunda parte se elabora y describe un programa conductual de entrenamiento para deficientes mentales adolescentes. La validación experimental se realiza en la tercera parte. El diseño experiemental de la investigación es combinado: un grupo de control pretest-posttest y un grupo control con posttest únicamente. Mientras el grupo experimental recibió el programa alternativo, el grupo control atendia un programa educativo tradicional. Hubo 4 tipos de variables dependientes : tests estandarizados (Raven, Beta y Mcquarrie); tests situacionales, uno por cada subprograma, de tareas no directamente entrenadas en el programa; puntuación de logro en cada subprograma y escala de evaluación del sistema de West Virginia. Test de Raven; test Beta y Mcquarrie; tests situacionales; escala de evaluación del sistema de West Virginia. Los resultados favorecieron al grupo experimental frente al grupo control, obteniendo diferencias significativas estadísticamente en 15 de las 18 variables dependientes medidas. Se demostró la eficacia del programa propuesto frente a los tradicionales de habilidades académicas, al conseguir incrementar significativamente: habilidades socialmente relevantes para la vida adulta del deficiente, habilidades de tipo práctico y mecánico que facilitan la preparación profesional para desempeñar un trabajo, Habilidades adaptativas de autonomía personal y habilidades intelectuales generales. El programa propuesto proporciona un instrumento que servirá para orientar el trabajo educativo con los adolescentes retrasados de cara a su integración sociolaboral en la edad adulta. Posteriores aplicaciones y experimentaciones del programa permitirán generalizar adecuadamente los resultados obtenidos.

Análisis de la competencia lingüística y de la adaptación personal, social, escolar y familiar en niños institucionalizados en centros de acogida

Análisis de la relación entre la desprotección infantil y el el desarrollo del lenguaje, mediante el estudio de las habilidades lingüísticas (morfología, sintaxis, semántica y pragmática) de menores en situación de acogimiento residencial. Por otra parte, se analizan los rasgos de la personalidad de los niños y la relación entre el grado de inadaptación personal, escolar y social y las repercusiones lingüísticas. La muestra sobre la que se basa el estudio es de 74 niños institucionalizados en los 4 centros de acogida de la provincia de Badajoz, de edades comprendidas entre los 6 y los 18 años, distribuidos en 4 grupos diferenciados atendiendo al intervalo de edad (6-8 años, 8-12 años, 12-14 años y 14-18 años) y 2 grupos atendiendo al sexo. Dicha muestra es sometida a las siguientes baterías y tests: BLOC-S para evaluar el desarrollo lingüístico; TAMAI para medir el grado de inadaptación personal, social y escolar; y ESPQ, CPQ y HSPQ para evaluar la personalidad. Los resultados obtenidos indican que todos los componentes lingüísticos están comprometidos, constatándose mayores dificultades en los módulos de morfología y pragmática. Se incide además en que estos menores tienden a la ansiedad elevada y la tensión y manifiestan inseguridad, baja tolerancia a la frustración y autodesaprobación. Todos estos factores les dificultan el mantenimiento del control emocional, con lo que se hace difícil su socialización. El trabajo concluye con una propuesta de implementación de un programa de intervención dirigido a estimular y reorganizar el lenguaje oral de los niños, siendo fundamental el adiestramiento en el uso social del lenguaje en situaciones concretas

Using Social Network Research in HRM: Scratching the surface of a fundamental basis of HRM

This article is the guest editors' introduction to a special issue on using Social Network Research in the field of Human Resource Management. The goals of the special issue are: (1) to draw attention to the points of integration between the two fields, (2) to showcase research that applies social network perspectives and methodology to issues relevant to HRM and (3) to identify common challenges where future collaborative efforts could contribute to advancements in both fields.

Performing knowledge requirements analysis for public organisations in a Virtual Learning Environment: a social network analysis approach

This paper describes an application of Social Network Analysis methods for identification of knowledge demands in public organisations. Affiliation networks established in a postgraduate programme were analysed. The course was executed in a distance education mode and its students worked on public agencies. Relations established among course participants were mediated through a virtual learning environment using Moodle. Data available in Moodle may be extracted using knowledge discovery in databases techniques. Potential degrees of closeness existing among different organisations and among researched subjects were assessed. This suggests how organisations could cooperate for knowledge management and also how to identify their common interests. The study points out that closeness among organisations and research topics may be assessed through affiliation networks. This opens up opportunities for applying knowledge management between organisations and creating communities of practice. Concepts of knowledge management and social network analysis provide the theoretical and methodological basis.

Official use of social network sites by African universities

The use of social network sites (SNS) has become very valuable to educational institutions. Some universities have formally integrated these social media in their educational systems and are using them to improve their service delivery. The main aim of this study was to establish whether African universities have embraced this emerging technology by having official presence on SNS. A purposive sampling method was used to study 24 universities from which data were obtained by visiting their official websites and following the official links to the most common SNS.

Use of social network analysis to indentify the coopetition in a commercial cluster plan

The cluster provides a greater commercial relationship between the companies that comprise it. This encourages companies to adopt competitive structures that allow solving problems that would hardly alone (Lubeck et. Al., 2011). With that this paper aims to describe the coopetition between companies operating on a commercial cluster planned, from the point of view of retailers, taking as a basis the theoretical models proposed by Bengtsson and Kock (1999) and Leon (2005) and operationalized by means of Social Network Analysis (SNA). Data collection consisted of two phases, the first exploratory aspect to identify the actors, and the second was characterized as descriptive as it aims to describe the coopetition among the enterprises. As a result we identified the companies that cooperate and compete simultaneously (coopetition), firms that only compete, companies just cooperate and businesses that do not compete and do not cooperate (coexistence)

Forum: social network for the surveillance and prevention of workplace accidents

In 2008, academic researchers and public service officials created a university extension studies platform based on online and on-site meetings denominated "Work-Related Accidents Forum: Analysis, Prevention, and Other Relevant Aspects. Its aim was to help public agents and social partners to propagate a systemic approach that would be helpful in the surveillance and prevention of work-related accidents. This article describes and analyses such a platform. Online access is free and structured to: support dissemination of updated concepts; support on-site meetings and capacity to build educational activities; and keep a permanent space for debate among the registered participants. The desired result is the propagation of a social-technical-systemic view of work-related accidents that replaces the current traditional view that emphasizes human error and results in blaming the victims. The Forum uses an educational approach known as permanent health education, which is based on the experience and needs of workers and encourages debate among participants. The forum adopts a problematizing pedagogy that starts from the requirements and experiences of the social actors and stimulates support and discussions among them in line with an ongoing health educational approach. The current challenge is to turn the platform into a social networking website in order to broaden its links with society.

A social network approach to trust management in VANETs

In the past few years, vehicular ad hoc networks(VANETs) was studied extensively by researchers. VANETs is a type of P2P network, though it has some distinct characters (fast moving, short lived connection etc.). In this paper, we present several limitations of current trust management schemes in VANETs and propose ways to counter them. We first review several trust management techniques in VANETs and argue that the ephemeral nature of VANETs render them useless in practical situations. We identify that the problem of information cascading and oversampling, which commonly arise in social networks, also adversely affects trust management schemes in VANETs. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to introduce information cascading and oversampling to VANETs. We show that simple voting for decision making leads to oversampling and gives incorrect results in VANETs. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel voting scheme. In our scheme, each vehicle has different voting weight according to its distance from the event. The vehicle which is more closer to the event possesses higher weight. Simulations show that our proposed algorithm performs better than simple voting, increasing the correctness of voting. © 2012 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC.

Comparative analysis of different meat traceability systems using multiple criteria and a social network approach

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Forum: social network for the surveillance and prevention of workplace accidents

In 2008, academic researchers and public service officials created a university extension studies platform based on online and on-site meetings denominated "Work-Related Accidents Forum: Analysis, Prevention, and Other Relevant Aspects. Its aim was to help public agents and social partners to propagate a systemic approach that would be helpful in the surveillance and prevention of work-related accidents. This article describes and analyses such a platform. Online access is free and structured to: support dissemination of updated concepts; support on-site meetings and capacity to build educational activities; and keep a permanent space for debate among the registered participants. The desired result is the propagation of a social-technical-systemic view of work-related accidents that replaces the current traditional view that emphasizes human error and results in blaming the victims. The Forum uses an educational approach known as permanent health education, which is based on the experience and needs of workers and encourages debate among participants. The forum adopts a problematizing pedagogy that starts from the requirements and experiences of the social actors and stimulates support and discussions among them in line with an ongoing health educational approach. The current challenge is to turn the platform into a social networking website in order to broaden its links with society.