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Creatividad en el diseño de instrumentos de recogida de datos: Las preferencias espaciales experimentadas por escolares
2016
La experimentación del entorno escolar por parte de los escolares, y la reflexión sobre las sensaciones provocadas por los estímulos que alberga; son de interés para determinar la calidad estética de los centros educativos. Son necesarios nuevos instrumentos de recogida de datos que permitan aproximarse a las voces de los escolares de temprana edad. A partir de la Investigación basada en las Artes y mediante técnicas de fomento de la creatividad proponemos un instrumento que combina: la observación participante, como forma de acercamiento; la entrevista y el lenguaje visual para la expresión de respuestas; y el análisis documental por categorías, para la obtención de información…
Advancing collaborative creativity in the context of Greek teachers' in-service training in environmental education
2009
This paper presents the research design of a case study aiming to enhance Greek environmental educators' competence in collaborative creativity through online training. The study, which is part of an on-going research project, entails the design of an e-learning course, the development and evaluation of a collaborative creativity framework called Hybrid Synergy and an associated tool to support it, and the identification of specific patterns related to the participants' engagement with the provided e-learning activities.
The necessary distinction between methodology and philosophical assumptions in healthcare research
2012
Methodological discussions within healthcare research have traditionally described a methodological dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative methods. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that such a dichotomy presents unnecessary obstacles for good research design and is methodologically and philosophically unsustainable. The issue of incommensurability is not a question of method but rather a question of the philosophical premises underpinning a given method. Thus, transparency on the philosophical level is important for validity and consistency as well as for attempts to integrate or establish an interface to other research. I argue that it is necessary to make a distinction be…
Children’s conceptions of mental well-being and ideas for its promotion through digital environments
2021
The aim of this study is to further understanding of children’s conceptions of mental well-being and their ideas for its digital promotion. The study is based on the need to provide children an opportunity to actively participate and share their understanding of mental well-being promotion with others in light of their understanding of what online environments and their design can afford for this promotion. The study was implemented as three subsequent workshops in primary school classrooms comprising four teachers and 79 children aged 9-11 years old. In the first two workshops, children reflected on mental well-being, digital environments they utilise and their possible connections to ment…
The Key Role of Human Resource Practices for the Promotion of Creativity and Innovation: A Spanish Case Study
2013
Management literature suggests that employee creativity can contribute substantially to organisational innovation, effectiveness and survival. In addition, the ability to innovate has also emerged as a basic strategic option. Innovation models express the need to implement specific human resource practices (HRP) for the development of skills, knowledge and innovation-oriented behaviours. Human resource practices can be extremely important when organisations intend to foster creativity and innovation which are key factors in competing effectively. With this aim in mind, we suggest that the existence of certain HRP such as training, performance appraisal and reward systems have a positive eff…
Logos and Life: Understanding of Rhythm
2011
Human being exists in the flow of time and where there is interaction between time, space and energy there is some rhythm. Physical sciences tend to attribute to rhythm a mechanical overtone but phenomenology of life shows a rhythm in the context of logos and life. Phenomenology of life describes logos of life realizing in time, place and creative acts. Concept of creativity developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is similar to concept of energy recognized by Lefebvre. It means that we can investigate the problem of meaning of rhythm at the logos and life as creative experience. Rhythms appear as cosmic, natural, psychological, cultural, social and can be described as: (1) a repetition of move…
La notion de croissance chez Dewey et Rorty
2010
National audience; La notion de croissance revêt deux types d'aspects : quantitatif et qualitatif. Le premier évoque l'accroissement, l'augmentation ou le changement physiologique. Le deuxième concerne l'enrichissement, l'accomplissement de la personne ; il est lié à la tâche éducative. Les philosophes américains John Dewey et Richard Rorty s'accordent à souligner la "nécessaire indétermination" du terme "croissance", afin de laisser ouvertes les perspectives d'évolution. Cependant, leurs points de vue divergent quant à la valorisation des périodes de l'enfance. L'un souligne la créativité et la singularité de l'adolescence, tandis que l'autre se refuse à établir une telle distinction. L'an…
Self treating in the moderne era
2013
In the modern era, self healing is to respond to situations created by medicine. Its effectiveness, its limits, its interventions, its practice, its tendency to medicalize existences, its inclusion in market economy are as many factors that interact with the self healing ability as attest the disruption of the patient's identity schema during interventions to repair physical trauma, chronic patient which depends on medicine, the medicalization of the aging. As well the task assigned to the modern man is to escape from enslavements, weathering effects, interferences generated by medical activities. In this sense, self healing is, on the one hand, to decrypt the aims of medicine and to determ…
Sharing Drawings with Smartphones in the Classroom – Art-Based Education in Social Sciences
2020
This article identifies the factors that indicate the opportunity of reviewing the methods in teaching economics in order to overcome the traditional teaching-learning scheme that overvalues rote learning and find formulas that facilitate the development of analytical skills. On the other hand, this work points out the importance of developing creative competences. One way to do this is to introduce artistic practices in the classroom, even in non-artistic subjects. In this work an experience of education based on the arts is presented. Thanks to smartphone cameras, students can share and project drawings in the classroom immediately to facilitate group learning. The proposal is to represen…
Teachers’ perceptions of autonomy in the tensions between a subject focus and a cross-curricular school profile: A case study of a Finnish upper seco…
2020
AbstractRecent research has indicated global trends of decreasing teacher autonomy and increasing teacher accountability. Standardised national tests have been identified as one of many factors constraining teacher autonomy. Another trend influencing teachers’ scope of action is the profiling and branding of schools that compete for students. This qualitative case study concerns the general upper secondary level in Finland, the only level of education in the country with a high-stakes final examination—the matriculation exam. The upper secondary level is generally regarded as Finland’s most subject-focused level of education. In contrast to this subject-focused tradition, the case school fo…