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Engineering students’ conceptions of entrepreneurial learning as part of their education
2015
The purpose of this study was to examine what kinds of conceptions of entrepreneurial learning engineering students expressed in an entrepreneurship course integrated in their study programme. The data were collected during an entrepreneurship course in Estonia that was organised for fourth-year engineering students, using video-recorded group interviews (N = 48) and individual in-depth interviews (N = 16). As a result of the phenomenographic analysis, four qualitatively distinctive conceptions of entrepreneurial learning were discerned. Entrepreneurial learning was seen to involve (1) applying entrepreneurial ideas to engineering, (2) understanding entrepreneurial issues in a new way, (3) …
The Gender diverse and the Genderless Conceptions of Marriage and Children’s Right to Develop their Sexual Identity
2016
The article is a philosophical analysis of the meaning structure of two competing conceptions of marriage with regard to children’s right to develop their sexual identity. These two conceptions of marriage make different metaphysical assumptions about human nature, which lead to different conceptions about the preconditions of children’s sexual development. The gender diverse conception assumes that human beings are born with a biological sex and they can be integrated persons only when living in terms with it. In order to develop their sexual identity they benefit from male-female interaction within the nuclear family. The genderless conception assumes that children are free to construct t…
Children’s beliefs concerning school transition
2016
This study examines preschoolers’ beliefs concerning their transfer into primary education. Data from 1386 Finnish preschoolers were obtained using interviews with parents at the end of the children’s preschool year. The qualitative content analysis revealed categories, which encompassed peer relationships, relationship with teacher, learning, formal schoolwork, informal activities, comfortable school entry and no concerns. The results indicated that children’s beliefs concerning their prospective school entry centred on maintaining and making friendships, and that children possessed both negative and positive expectations about their relationship with their future teacher. Both girls and b…
Personal conceptions of intelligence: Cross-cultural comparisons between Portuguese and Italian students
2006
This article presents some results of an intercultural study on personal conceptions of intelligence. The sample includes 1,540 students, 811 Italians and 729 Portuguese, from both sexes and of different socioeconomic statuses, of secondary Grades 10 and 12 and of the 1st grade of several university courses in both countries. The instrument used was The Personal Conceptions of Intelligence Scale (Faria, 2003), with 26 items, translated and adapted to Portuguese and Italian. The level of education and the cultural context appear as the only variables with either principal and interaction effects on the differentiation of personal conceptions of intelligence, which are analyzed according to t…
La atención a la situación del mundo en la educación científica
2021
Protagonizamos en la actualidad una epoca de profundas y aceleradas transformaciones que, unida a una multiplicidad de problemas medioambientales y sociales cuyos efectos vienen agravandose a nivel planetario, ha convertido la "situacion del mundo" en objeto directo de preocupacion. En la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo, celebrada en Rio de Janeiro en 1992 y conocida como Primera Cumbre de la Tierra, se reclamo una decidida accion de los educadores, de todas las areas, para que los ciudadanos y ciudadanas adquieran una correcta percepcion de cual es esa situacion y puedan participar en la toma de decisiones fundamentadas. Un primer proposito de esta inve…
Influence du rapport à l’apprendre sur l’évolution des conceptions scientifiques
2016
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Impact des activités de recherches sur l’acquisition des connaissances en classe de CM2 thème : respiration-circulation sanguine
2006
Mémoire professionnel - 30 pages
Conceptions of teachership in the professional identity construction of adult educator graduates
2019
The aim of this study was to investigate the conceptions of teachership among graduates (n = 126) from a Finnish higher education study programme called Pedagogical Studies for Adult Educators. The conceptions of teachership comprise notions of teaching and of oneself as a teacher. Accordingly, the conceptions of teachership are viewed as one element in the process of constructing teacher identity. Currently, we have little knowledge about the professional identity construction of adult educators, even though there is a growing need for adult pedagogics in the changing professional life. Based on a qualitative thematic analysis of open-ended questionnaire data, three main conceptual categor…
Quelles différences entre enseignement explicite et modèle allostérique ?
2012
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