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Transformando las prácticas de evaluación en las agencias de innovación para fomentar transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad
2019
The aim of the study is to identify different styles and practices for evaluation of innovation policies based on different orientations, focusing on the case of the paradigm of transformative change to foster transitions towards sustainability, and the problems associated with its application. The study is exploratory, and it uses public funding agencies for innovation as strategic research settings. Based on the information provided by the experience of an international consortium participated by funding agencies from different countries, the main concepts and problems presented in the theoretical debate are illustrated. Finally, the main contributions of the study to the theory and pract…
La evaluación de la socialización familiar: ESPA29
2016
Traditionally, family socialization has been conceptualized as an important correlate of psychological well-being and a basic theoretical construct for explaining adjusted and adaptive behaviors into society. The assessment of the socialization process requires of a theoretical perspective that conceptualizes how parents can influence their children. Based on the classic two-dimensional model of socialization, with the dimensions of acceptance/involvement and strictness/imposition, four parenting styles were defined: indulgent, authoritative, neglectful and authoritarian. The ESPA29 scale is suitable for evaluation of family socialization.
An Analytical Scheme to Characterise the Mathematical Discourse of Biology Tasks
2021
The chapter describes an analytical scheme designed for investigating the mathematical discourse of biology tasks. The scheme was developed in the context of analysing tasks that are part of a fisheries management graduate-level course at a Norwegian university. Grounded in the commognitive perspective, the scheme focuses on the following aspects of the tasks: the mathematical content, its relation to biology discourse and students’ expected engagement with both discourses. To illustrate the potential of analysis, I present and justify the choice of the categories included in the scheme, exemplify its use on one specific task and discuss some of the limitations of this approach to task anal…
Fuzziness, Cognition and Cybernetics: a historical perspective
2015
In the present paper, we connect some old reflections about the relationships existing between the theory of fuzzy sets and cybernetics with modern, contemporary analyses of the crucial (better: unavoidable) role that fuzziness plays in the attempts at scientifically describing aspects of information sciences. The connection, which has a basic conceptual origin, has been triggered also by the recent 50th anniversary of Norbert Wiener’s death which has been instrumental in looking again at some crucial aspects of the birth of information sciences in the midst of the last century. Fuzzy sets are an essential part of this revolution and share all the innovations as well as the difficulties of …
User Evaluation of the Smartphone Screen Reader VoiceOver with Visually Disabled Participants
2018
Touchscreen assistive technology is designed to support speech interaction between visually disabled people and mobile devices, allowing hand gestures to interact with a touch user interface. In a global perspective, the World Health Organisation estimates that around 285 million people are visually disabled with 2/3 of them over 50 years old. This paper presents the user evaluation of VoiceOver, a built-in screen reader in Apple Inc. products, with a detailed analysis of the gesture interaction, familiarity and training by visually disabled users and the system response. Six participants with prescribed visual disability took part in the tests in a usability laboratory under controlled con…
The Book in a Nutshell
2016
In second language (L2) learning and teaching, an emic (or insider) perspective has gained ground in the past few years. This perspective highlights the subjective nature of L2 learning: it throws light on the learner’s beliefs about the language to be learned (when compared, for example, with his or her first language (L1) or other languages he or she may know), being a learner, the learning process, and the learning contexts, all of which are charged with positive and negative experiences and loaded with personal meanings. We would argue that this is also true of aspects of teaching.
Estudio cuasiexperimental para el análisis del pensamiento crítico en secundaria
2018
Ante la preocupación por los bajos niveles de comprensión lectora del alumnado adolescente y la creciente influencia de modelos externos en sus procesos de construcción identitaria, el presente estudio propone una construcción más activa, reflexiva y autónoma para formar lectores críticos desde la educación literaria. Tras una aproximación a la noción de lectura crítica, la investigación se decanta por un comentario textual orientado al estímulo de dos manifestaciones básicas del pensamiento crítico, como actividad nuclear de una secuencia diseñada y puesta en práctica con un grupo de estudiantes de cuarto curso de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. Utilizando un diseño cuasiexperimental se …
Perspectives on Global Understanding in Ibero-American Countries
2018
This chapter analyzes the different aspects of geographical education in Ibero-America, and more precisely, its contribution to global understanding from a spatial and territorial perspective thanks to the composition of networks such as Geoforo, Redladgeo and the NosPropomos! project. The authors debate the significance of this discipline in the building of a geographically informed citizen, aware of the potentials and limits of the territories in which he or she lives. Geographical education is presented as an ensemble of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of great importance for human education in each of the scales of the world-system. This discipline is also regarded as a pedagogical and…
A parental voice: parents as equal and dependent – rhetoric about parents, teachers, and their conversations
2009
This study analyses texts from the National Parents’ Committee for Primary and Lower Secondary Education in Norway and addresses how parents describe their own role, the teachers’ role, and their conversations. The theoretical perspective employed is Koselleck’s conceptual theory. The findings show that, despite having formal legal rights, parents must constantly legitimize these rights in school. Parents are expected to assume a passive role, while the teachers’ role is held to be active. Furthermore, the diversity among parents is not discussed. Parents moreover resign their own involvement in their children’s education in spite of the fact that teachers and parents may have different per…