Adapted Physical Education teachers and teaching knowledge

In the 1980's, there was a suggestion of including the Adapted Physical Education discipline in the Physical Education Graduation Course. In this perspective, starting from the Adapted Physical Education teacher's routine, the aim of this research was to verify what these teachers know and how they manage to plan, elaborate and apply their knowledge with their students with educational special needs. It's an exploring study that had in its interview and silabus analisis technics the source of its data. Among its most important results, it showed teaching, experimental and pedagogical knowledge as part of Physical Education and Adapted Physical Education, in the arrangement, building and knowledge apliance.

Codeship: Financing growth: Case study and Teaching note

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Task Force on the Physical Sciences Report and Recommendation

Ireland has positioned itself to take advantage of technological change by encouraging the inward investment of high-tech industries and by providing a highly-educated workforce to sustain and enlarge them. Employment of science, engineering and technology graduates at all levels has been a hallmark of the modern Irish economy, as the educational sector responded to the mix of skills demanded by industry. An outstanding record of graduate output has contributed to the phenomenal growth in Irish-based technology. In an era of rapid technological change, the goal of "scientific literacy for all" has become a primary objective of a general education. Science is one of three literacy domains, along with reading and mathematics, that is included in measures of educational achievement by the OECD.

Conflicto, colaboración y consenso en la enseñanza de las ciencias sociales = Conflict, collaboration and consensus in the teaching of the Social sciences

This article suggests the study of the key concept of conflict as a means of implementing a critical and communicativecurriculum based on the study of relevant social themes. To this end we put forward the principal characteristics of thecritical/communicative curriculum. We offer a didactic proposal about conflict and explain the results of its application intwo Secondary Education classrooms

Examining and describing professional development and continuing education in the personal training and fitness industry : sites and issues of disconnect

The following phenomenologically oriented study examines and describes the relevance and effectiveness of professional development and continuing education programs for real-world situations of personal trainers. The participants were personal trainers, facility managers, and persons involved in the accreditation process. Data collection took place in 3 phases. The first phase consisted of the participants completing the PUMP Questionnaire, followed by focus groups with personal trainers and interviews with managers. The study's 3 data sets required reduction via a content analysis by question, content analysis by existential categories, and further thematic analysis using the lived relation existential dimension. The discussion contains the salient sites and issues of disconnect between clients, personal trainers, and facility managers and how they might affect the personal training experience. The intergenerational disconnect emphasized between Boomers as clients and Millennials as personal trainers requires further exploration and dialogue and underscores the need for different approaches to content and delivery of professional development and continuing education experiences for personal trainers and managers of fitness facilities.

Otra mirada al tema del cambio de escala: los nuevos espacios de comercio, ocio y turismo = Another look at the theme of the change of scale: new spaces in commerce, leisure and tourism

The technological advances and new organisation of the economy together with a change in ideas in consumer habits andlifestyle that have happened in the last 25 years have placed us in a new state of capitalism. The spatial translation of thisnew state has been immediate and implies among other changes the overcoming of the concept of scale. Commercialspaces and those of leisure and tourism offer us an unbeatable opportunity of exemplifying these changes because they arethe most effected by the new postmodern tendencies

Enhancing physical therapy students' attitudes toward telecommunication technology by using a demonstration model

The purpose of this study was to assess and enhance the attitudes and knowledge of physical therapy students toward telecommunication technology. A questionnaire was given to appraise the attitudes and knowledge of 156 physical therapy students toward telecommunication technology. The intervention was a one hour presentation on applications relevant to physical therapy practice. The majority of students expressed interest in telecommunication before the presentation, and felt that expanded use of telecommunication was important to the profession. However, only a minority of students demonstrated knowledge about specific medical telecommunication applications. The post-intervention questionnaire showed the presentation to be effective in changing students' attitudes toward telecommunication, and increasing their knowledge relevant to the practice of physical therapy. If physical therapy curricula were to include exposure to telecommunication, perhaps physical therapists will be more inclined to use the technology in the future.

Building a Social Education curriculum based on Professional Competences : the experience of University of Girona

This article describes the process of adapting Social Education studies to the European Higher Education Area undertaken by a team of the teaching staff at the University of Girona (Spain). The aim of the experience is to build a curriculum based on thecompetencies recognized as such by professionals in the field of social education in our region. The article specifies the development of the various phases, each involving the active participation of professionals and teaching staff from the universities. To conclude, main characteristics of the curriculum are highlighted

La escala de análisis: un tema central en didáctica de la geografía = The scale of analysis a central didactic theme in Geography

Geographical scale is not merely a technical question. The learning of geographical scale goes beyond geometricunderstanding; it implies the etymological comprehension of the concept, the recognition of the importance of scale in theelaboration of the geographical discourse. It implies placing oneself in the centre of the teaching and learning of Geographyand asking oneself, what scale? Why this scale? What progression of scales? The answer to these questions puts in doubtthe scientific discourse that is presently taught in schools especially on the scale of analysis, the sequencing of studiedspaces and the false dichotomy local and global

Concept analysis in social studies

This project was undertaken because of a need to analyse concepts in social science more specifically and sequence them more carefully in a social science program. Concepts have been identified vaguely on many curriculum documents or left in isolation from each other when they are specifically identified. The project's aim was to identify a method for analysing concepts and sequencing their teaching on some rational basis. Once the method for analysing concepts was identified a questionnaire was designed and administered to a random sample of students at the grade three, five and eight levels. The questionnaire attempted to measure their comprehension of specific social science concepts at several levels which became progressively more complex. The major hypothesis was that there would be a direct correlation between age and achievement on the questionnaire. The raw scores were seriated and correlated with the ages of the students using the rankdifference- squared method. For the majority of areas tested it was found that there was a significant correlation between age and achievement on the questionnaire. Variation in the correlation coefficients generated suggests that comprehension of social science concepts is not simply a function of age but is probably a function of several inter-related factors such as reading ability, skill in Basic Thinking Skills and age. Thirty students completed each test. There were three tests in the questionnaire.

Una Experiència d'aplicació de l'aprenentatge basat en projectes (ABP) en una assignatura de l'àmbit de les ciències socials: potencialitats i limitacions

L’experiència que es descriu en aquesta comunicació consisteix en una aplicació de l’ABPrj (Aprenentatge Basat en Projectes) a l’assignatura de psicologia de les organitzacions que s’imparteix en el cinquè curs dels estudis de psicologia a la Universitat de Girona i que va tenir lloc durant el curs acadèmic 2008-09. Aquesta aplicació es va materialitzar a través del disseny d’un projecte d’intervenció psicosocial en una organització real. Els objectius de l’assignatura i el curs en que situa en el conjunt del pla d’estudis, varen portar a considerar que aquesta metodologia podia fer una incidència important en l’aprenentatge autoregulat dels estudiants tot augmentant la seva motivació vers els continguts de l’assignatura. A la comunicació s’exposa el procediment que es va seguir en la implantació i seguiment de l’ABPrj. També es comenten els aspectes més forts i els més febles d’aquest procés i s’aporten suggerències de millora

Les Competències professionals dels mestres des de la didàctica de les ciències socials: continuïtats, canvis i perspectives de futur

En els propers cinc anys es configura un nou panorama en la formació inicial que cal aprofitar per millorar l’ensenyament-aprenentatge-avaluació de la DCS i vincular-la amb l’educació per a la ciutadania, a més de donar resposta als reptes emergents d’una societat del segle XXI. Considerem que les decisions que s’han de prendre han de tenir en compte l’experiència acumulada al llarg dels anys. Per aquest motiu, plantegem una reflexió basada en els canvis i les continuïtats que ha anat tenint la DCS en la formació dels mestres, amb la finalitat d’orientar la presa de decisions futures

La Col·laboració entre la docència universitària i els centres escolars. Reflexions a partir d’una experiència a educació infantil. Intervenció-didàctiques a les institucions educatives

L'objectiu d’aquesta comunicació és, a partir d’una experiència pràctica desenvolupada des de fa anys a l’assignatura “El medi social i la seva didàctica” de la Diplomatura de Mestre en Educació Infantil de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona), plantejar algunes qüestions que afecten la docència universitària. I abordar-les no solament des de la perspectiva de l’autor d’aquest treball sinó també des de l’opinió dels estudiants que l’han portada a terme

Aprendizaje basado en problemas: aplicaciones a la didáctica de las ciencias sociales en la formación superior

Una de las estrategias metodológicas aplicadas a la docencia que, probablemente, ha intervenido en el desarrollo de la didáctica en diferentes disciplinas corresponde al Aprendizaje basado en Problemas (ABP). Su uso está arraigado en numerosas disciplinas, como medicina e ingeniería, más aún, por cuanto propugna una aplicación directa sobre casos reales a la actividad profesional mediante la adquisición de determinadas habilidades