Elogi dels instituts

Us presentem, pel seu interès, uns extractes de la conferència que l’escriptor Antoni Puigverd va dictar a la Facultat de Ciències de l’Educació i Psicologia de la UdG el dia 18 de novembre de 2009, en la sessió inaugural del «Màster en Professorat d’ESO i de Batxillerat, Formació Professional i Ensenyament d’idiomes»

Viure les didàctiques

Del 3 al 6 de febrer va tenir lloc a la nostra universitat el II Congrés Internacional de Didàctiques, en què van participar més de quatre-cents especialistes d’Europa i d’Amèrica del Sud

Discurs d'agraïment

Discurs d'agraïment i resposta al premi Gonzalo Sánchez Vázquez

Projecte Pol·len: Girona, ciutat llavor de la ciència

Del 12 al 15 de maig va tenir lloc a la Facultat d'Educació i Psicologia la celebració del seminari del projecte europeu d'educació científica “Pol·len: Ciutats llavor de ciència”, organitzat entre d'altres, pel Grup de Recerca en Educació Científica i Ambiental del Departament de Didàctiques Específiques

The Pedagogical Congresses of Portuguese Secondary Teaching : the participation of female teachers (1927-1928)

This paper was written within the context of the research project “The development of teacher’ associative organizations and unionism (1889-1990)” funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology). Five important congresses about secondary education were organized in Portugal between 1927 and 1931. These congresses served to claim the rights of teachers and the consolidation of the class, as well as to promote the discussion of scientific and pedagogical problems. In these congresses, the presence of female teachers was residual. However, the few teachers who participated had a significant contribution to the definition of secondary education during the following decades. Among other issues, it contributed to the discussion of female education and to analyze the importance of Biology and Physical Education in high schools. This paper presents the analysis of the minutes of the 1927s and 1928s Congresses. This analysis allowed the assessment of the important role played by a group of teachers to define, at the end of the first third of the 20th century, the future guidelines of Portuguese secondary education. It also reported that these teachers were pioneers who opened the way for the increasing number of teachers in secondary education during the 20th century.

A Low Cost Controller Board for Teaching Robotics

This paper presents the Smarty Board; a new micro-controller board designed specifically for the robotics teaching needs of Australian schools. The primary motivation for this work was the lack of commercially available and cheap controller boards that would have all their components including interfaces on a single board. Having a single board simplifies the construction of programmable robots that can be used as platforms for teaching and learning robotics. Reducing the cost of the board as much as possible was one of the main design objectives. The target user groups for this device are the secondary and tertiary students, and hobbyists. Previous studies have shown that equipment cost is one of the major obstacles for teaching robotics in Australia. The new controller board was demonstrated at high-school seminars. In these demonstrations the new controller board was used for controlling two robots that we built. These robots are available as kits. Given the strong demand from high-school teachers, new kits will be developed for the next robotic Olympiad to be held in Australia in 2006.