Promoting the health of marginalized populations in Ecuador through international collaboration and educational innovations

This paper examines two innovative educational initiatives for the Ecuadorian public health workforce: a Canadian-funded Masters programme in ecosystem approaches to health that focuses on building capacity to manage environmental health risks sustainably; and the training of Ecuadorians at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba (known as Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina in Spanish). We apply a typology for analysing how training programmes address the needs of marginalized populations and build capacity for addressing health determinants. We highlight some ways we can learn from such training programmes with particular regard to lessons, barriers and opportunities for their sustainability at the local, national and international levels and for pursuing similar initiatives in other countries and contexts. We conclude that educational efforts focused on the challenges of marginalization and the determinants of health require explicit attention not only to the knowledge, attitudes and skills of graduates but also on effectively engaging the health settings and systems that will reinforce the establishment and retention of capacity in low- and middle-income settings where this is most needed.

Connections 1999 : Education to Careers Illinois : a compendium of award winning educational innovations.

"Connections 2000 is a program devoted to developing and disseminating activities which further Education-to-Careers innovations throughout the State of Illinois. In 1999, Connections 2000 awards were presented to instructors and/or administrators who successfully developed activities or programs which enhanced Education-to-Careers programs"--P [i].

Bones pràctiques a drets reals

La present comunicació explica el plantejament innovador d’una assignatura troncal de 3r curs de llicenciatura en Dret a la UdG. Tot i no tractar-se d’una assignatura de Grau, se’n presenta el sistema d’avaluació contínua (AC) i les millores docents introduïdes, que poden ser d’interès per a altres estudis en l’àmbit de les ciències socials en general i del Dret en particular. S’aporta una experiència de realització de pràctiques innovadores en connexió amb una matèria que tradicionalment s’havia enfocat d’una forma teòrica i memorística. El resultat és una millora en el rendiment, èxit i satisfacció de l’alumne, així com l’avaluació del professor

Competències acadèmiques i professionals integrades: què aportem d'innovador?

Competències Acadèmiques i Professionals Integrades (d’ara en davant CAPI) és un mòdul de 12 crèdits del Grau en Psicologia que es reparteixen de 3 en 3 crèdits al llarg del 1er i 2on semestre del primer curs, el 1er semestre del segon curs i el 1er semestre del 3er curs. El curs 2009-10 hem desplegat 6 dels primers crèdits. Amb la introducció d’aquest mòdul en el pla d’estudis del grau en Psicologia es pretén donar una dimensió més professionalitzadora al perfil de la titulació, atenent de manera particular al desenvolupament de la competència reflexiva com a fil vertebrador dels processos d’aprenentatge

El Portafoli manual combinat amb l'e-portafoli: una estratègia metodològica mixta

Aquest article presenta el resultat del procés d’implementació del portafoli manual combinat amb el portafoli electrònic, el qual se li donarà el nom de Portafoli mixt, com a estratègia didàctica inclosa per primera vegada al primer curs de grau dels estudis d’infermeria, concretament en l’assignatura d’anatomofisiologia

La Metodologia d'aprenentatge basat en problemes com a pràctica docent en fase experimental dins la xarxa d'innovació docent de la UdG

Aquesta comunicació exposa l’experiència desenvolupada a través de la xarxa d’Innovació Docent (XID) d’Aprenentatge Basat en Problemes (ABP) de la nostra Universitat. La xarxa d’ABP forma part d’una proposta d’innovació docent endegada per l’ICE el curs 2009-2010 dins un conjunt d’iniciatives entre les que hi ha altres xarxes. Els membres de la xarxa d’ABP pertanyem a diferents disciplines: Ciències de la Salut, Socials, Educació i Enginyeria. El grup es va organitzar a partir d’una coordinació que, alhora, es vehiculava amb les altres xarxes d’innovació docent de l’ICE. A banda de les sessions presencials, es van utilitzar altres formes de comunicació i relació, a través de la plataforma Moodle i el correu electrònic

Xarxa d’innovació docent sobre TIC i docència

Presentació de la Xarxa d’innovació docent sobre TIC i docència a la Jornada de Bones Pràctiques 2010

Educational change and youth voice: Informing school action on cyberbullying

Change is a regular part of school life. Educational innovations are constantly being implements in order to benefit students, improve outcomes and meet the obligations and accountability demands of governments. Rapid social and technological change has occurred within and around schools during the past 15 or more years, impacting upon curricula and pedagogies. Simultaneously, there has been a trend towards incorporating youth voice, where young people share in the decisions that will impact on their school experiences (Mitra, 2008a, 2004). Most recently, with the advent of the first National Australian Curriculum (McGaw, 2010), there is an imposed curriculum change, which reflects the growing global trend towards centralised control over what students learn in school (Zhao, 2011) and highlights that schools have to respond to change from all levels. Spears (in press) also notes that parents are raising children in an increasingly wireless world which is far removed from the one in which they were raised. Educators are teaching in schools that are vastly different technologically from those they knew as children and adolescents, or even those in which they were teaching a decade ago. Children born in 1995, the year when the Internet was first commercialised, are 16 years old in 2011 and, whilst parents may have embraced technological advances in their own adult working or social lives, they are yet to fathom fully what it means for their children and their relationships: to be educated and to socialise in the midst of mobile social media. Young people have greater access to more information than at any time past and move seamlessly between online and offline environments, often referring to them as ‘the same life’ (Spears, Kofoed, Bartolo, Palermiti and Castabile, in press). Along with these changes has come the transformation of traditional forms of bullying to cyberbullying, amid the public perception that bullying generally is becoming worse in schools.

Teachers' likes and dislikes as factors in educational change

Teachers at local elementary and secondary schools were invited to participate in a survey research study by completing a questionnaire containing 26 statements regarding educational issues (e.g., "I am satisfied with the quality of my interactions with students."). Teachers were asked to indicate whether they agreed, were neutral, or disagreed with each statement; and further, to make a suggestions for appropriate change; to indicate a level at which the change could be implemented (classroom, school, board, ministry, society); and to indicate to what extent they perceive they have influence on change in the area represented in the statement. The responses of 50 elementary and 50 secondary teachers were randomly chosen from among the completed questionnaires and the information was recorded for analysis. Results of frequency counts of responses showed teachers were generally satisfied with their experiences of the areas referred to in the statements. Seventy-two percent of the responses agreed with the statements; 15% of the responses indicated disagreement, and 13% of the responses were neutral. Cross-tabulations of the survey data with demographic information showed differences among the responses of female and male teachers; elementary and secondary teachers; and teachers grouped according to their total years of teaching experience.

Innovations pédagogiques et culture disciplinaire en enseignement supérieur

Cette recherche qualitative porte sur les innovations pédagogiques utilisées à l’Université de Montréal en contexte de cultures disciplinaires. La recherche visait à étudier les innovations pédagogiques, entendues comme tout enseignement dispensé de manières différentes de la pratique traditionnelle du cours magistral, proposées par les professeurs dans une université fortement engagée en recherche. ll nous a paru utile de contribuer à compléter les savoirs existants dans ce domaine peu exploré, particulièrement lorsque nous savons que les innovations pédagogiques en contexte de cultures disciplinaires n’ont encore pas été étudiées à l’Université de Montréal. D’un point de vue social, la pertinence de cette recherche réside dans le cadre de la valorisation de l’enseignement universitaire souhaitée tant par les politiques, les institutions et la société que les professeurs et, au-delà, elle invite au rééquilibrage des deux piliers indispensables à l’université centrée sur la recherche qui laisse paraître une relation dichotomique marquée entre enseignement et recherche. Deux modes de cueillettes de données ont été privilégiés : les entrevues individuelles semi-structurées et un entretien de groupe auprès de trente-deux professeurs lauréats du Prix d’excellence en enseignement de l’Université de Montréal. Pour cette recherche, nous avons employé la théorisation ancrée comme méthode d’analyse de données recueillies selon d’autres approches. En d’autres mots, nous avons souhaité utiliser la théorisation ancrée comme un « processus » (Paillé, 1994, p. 149) d’analyse des données avec pour objectif d’approfondir l’objet de notre recherche par-delà la simple analyse descriptive sans pour autant prétendre à une théorisation avancée. En premier lieu, nos résultats nous ont permis de connaître les innovations pédagogiques utilisées dans l’enceinte de notre terrain de recherche, l’Université de Montréal et de dresser un portrait actualisé de leurs innovateurs. Nous avons aussi exploré les raisons qui amènent les professeurs à innover, décrit le processus nécessaire à l’innovation pédagogique et expliqué les freins s’opposant à cette dernière. En second lieu, nos résultats énumèrent les différences liées à la matière d’enseignement, au champ de recherche et soulignent le rapport de la discipline à l’innovation comme critère déterminant à son implication. En dernier lieu, nos résultats révèlent l’existence d’une expertise pédagogique partagée au sein de l’Université de Montréal qui permet de rompre la solitude des professeurs par un soutien entre pairs et favorise la transférabilité des innovations pédagogiques d’une culture disciplinaire à une autre. Finalement, nous présentons une théorisation actualisée des paramètres constituant une innovation pédagogique et détaillons les nouveaux paramètres qui influent sur la construction d’une innovation pédagogique. Nous concluons cette thèse par des recommandations et des pistes de recherches.

Proceso de diseño e implantación de los nuevos grados de Pedagogía y Educación Social de la Facultad de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad del Pais Vasco

La comunicación presenta las principales conclusiones que se están extrayendo del proceso de puesta en marcha de los nuevos Grados de Pedagogia y Educacion Social en la Facultad de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad del País Vasco. Se explican el diseño de las nuevas titulaciones basado en un Esquema Modular, los pasos dados en la Coordinación Docente y se subrayan experiencias como la Actividad Interdisciplinar de Módulo, en un contexto de cambio de la gestión organizacional. Se recogen también las experiencias del Módulo 1 y el Módulo 2 durante el curso 2010-11, y los resultados de las evaluaciones realizadas por los equipos docentes y los alumnos

Biotecnologia: concepção e validação de trabalhos práticos

É hoje geralmente aceite que a educação em ciências, além da aprendizagem de conhecimento conceptual e procedimental, deve promover nos alunos o desenvolvimento de competências investigativas, ou seja, competências para identificar, formular e resolver problemas. Porém, o desenvolvimento de actividades práticas de natureza investigativa é difícil, pela carência, ou mesmo ausência, de vivências dos professores em investigações, sobretudo em projectos aplicáveis nas práticas lectivas. A frequente falta de formação inicial e contínua dos professores de ciências, relativamente ao desenvolvimento de competências indispensáveis à implementação desta perspectiva de trabalho prático, constitui um obstáculo à concretização de inovações educativas preconizadas para a educação em ciências, referidas em documentos aprovados e publicados pelo Ministério da Educação, em particular, orientações curriculares e programas disciplinares. A abordagem de temáticas em biotecnologia configura-se como uma necessidade das sociedades actuais, de modo que, atendendo aos avanços que se têm vindo a verificar nesta área, deverá integrar-se em educação científica formal, relacionando-a com a vida quotidiana dos cidadãos. Além de componentes científicas inovadoras, os seus desenvolvimentos têm diversas implicações, designadamente éticas, políticas, económicas e sociais. A investigação apresentada nesta dissertação insere-se neste quadro, a qual se baseou no seguinte problema: “Partindo de temáticas em biotecnologia, como estimular o desenvolvimento de trabalho prático numa perspectiva investigativa por professores de Biologia e/ou Geologia?”. Definiram-se dois objectivos gerais: 1) testar, conceber e optimizar actividades laboratoriais e experimentais em biotecnologia, transponíveis para contextos educativos dos ensinos básico e secundário, desmistificando a complexidade associada ao trabalho prático nesta área; 2) conceber, implementar e avaliar uma acção de formação para professores de Biologia e/ou Geologia, na modalidade de Oficina de Formação, visando em contextos escolares e em temáticas de biotecnologia, desenvolver percursos investigativos. A acção de formação “Desenvolvimento de actividades práticas em biotecnologia numa perspectiva investigativa: um contributo na (re)orientação de ensino e aprendizagem de ciências” estimulou os professores-formandos a participarem activamente num programa que integrava abordagens inovadoras de trabalho prático, e criou condições para, com orientação e apoio, desenvolverem percursos investigativos a partir de situações-problema em temáticas de biotecnologia. Na generalidade, as reflexões dos professores-formandos sobre os percursos investigativos planeados e implementados, e os ganhos a nível profissional e/ou pessoal, além de referências elogiosas à estrutura e sequência das actividades propostas na formação, realçaram os seguintes aspectos positivos: a) o enriquecimento de conhecimentos científico-tecnológicos em biotecnologia; b) a oportunidade de reflexão sobre as suas práticas e a necessidade de uma nova forma de olhar para o trabalho laboratorial e experimental e para o seu papel nas aulas de ciências; c) as potencialidades de trabalho prático numa perspectiva investigativa em termos de mobilização de competências de natureza conceptual e processual; d) o desenvolvimento de competências técnicas e processuais necessárias à implementação de percursos investigativos com recurso a procedimentos em biotecnologia. Do presente estudo decorrem implicações educacionais que se esperam pertinentes para a formação de professores de ciências e elaboração de recursos didácticos, designadamente manuais escolares, assim como, para a gestão dos programas disciplinares. Este estudo permitiu, ainda, apresentar propostas para futuras investigações.

Changes in education and student-centred learning as related to senior secondary school English

The main purpose of this thesis is to t r ace broadly the educational changes in the past two decades showing a shift of emphasis from a teacher-directed, content-centred philosophy of teaching to a self-directed, student-centred mode of learning. The major justification for an Independent or an Individualized Learning programme with emphasis on "the response to literature approach" is 2 to produce the independent learner. Comprehensive r eading and t he use of t he ERIC system reveal widespread educational thought and practice related t o Individualization and Independent Study as a really democratic way of learning with freedom, independence and responsibility.