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Students’ self-reported learning outcomes after a business start-up education program

2019

The aim of the present study is to examine the breadth of influence of a business plan-based entrepreneurship education. This task is implemented by examining students’ (n = 227) self-reported learning outcomes concerning entrepreneurial skills, attitudes and abilities after education. In addition to proposing a classification of the self-reported learning outcomes, this study explores how these outcomes are related to the background characteristics of those taking part in an education program, and of the companies involved. Based on this study, four main areas of self-reported learning outcomes were found: (i) working-life key skills, (ii) management skills, (iii) entrepreneurial empowerme…

TO BE PSYCHOLOGISTS OR TO BECOME A PSYCHOLOGIST? A STUDY ON UTILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF AN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING GROUP ACTIVITY IN ACADEMIC COURSES.

2015

1 INTRODUCTION Professors of Psychology well know that the most of their students start attending academic courses intending Psychology, and psychological work too, in a not much realistic and strongly idealizing way. This happens, on the one hand, due to an unsatisfactory knowledge of the subject, on the other hand because of a marked discrepancy between the representation/image of the psychologist as presented by media and the one which is shared by the scientific and professional community. According to the representation given by media, for example, anyone in possession of strong empathic and interpretational skills – to be simply strengthened through academic studies – may pursue the c…

The network of global corporate control.

2011

The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally. We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy make…

Transformations and new Professional and Academic Perspectives of Health Psychology

2013

Se realiza una visión de la Psicología de la Salud en tres grandes momentos. Uno inicial que se puede denominar como profesional, en el que los psicólogos se introducen en el campo de la salud, junto a los profesionales de la medicina y desarrollan un campo específico, intentando relacionar aspectos psicológicos con aspectos biomédicos. Un segundo momento, que denominamos lego, en el sentido de que la salud se convierte en un tema de responsabilidad de las personas. A niveles académicos coincide con la construcción social de la salud como enfoque dominante. Por último, un tercer momento que está en marcha actualmente, es la homogeneización o esquemas de integración de los servicios de salud…

The Fifteenth ICMI Study: The Professional Education and Development of Teachers of Mathematics

2004

Comparative Analysis of Terminology and Alternative Financing Types on the Example of Estonia

2021

Alternative financing has gained great popularity since new market players appeared to offer new types of financing in Estonia as well as in other countries of the world. The extent of the alternative financing penetration across the population in Estonia was second highest in European countries after the United Kingdom, in 2016. In recent years, the Estonian market of alternative financing has grown and transformed, taking different complicated forms. The research therefore reveals major types of financing process of the licensed alternative financing providers of Estonia, highlighting its crucial elements, namely, possessors of funds, legal status of fundraising originators and addressees…

Learning from Differences

2018

This paper presents a case study of an intensive international course aimed at pre-service teachers and having a focus on inclusion. The course was funded by Nordplus. Twenty-three students from six Baltic and Nordic countries were interviewed during and after the course on their views on professionalism and their future work as teachers. The results show that the students’ understanding of professionalism was multifaceted, and they had gained several experiences of professionalism during the course. One of the main results of this study is, in our opinion, the co-operation and the opportunities the intensive course afforded the students in developing skills to work together with different …

Seeking Understanding of Foreign Language Teachers’ Shifting Emotions in Relation to Pupils

2016

Teaching is recognised as an emotional practice. Studies have highlighted the importance of teachers’ emotional literacy in the development of pupils’ emotional skills, the central position of emotions in teachers’ ways of knowing, and in their professional development. This longitudinal study draws on a dialogic understanding of emotion to present findings from qualitative interviews with teachers. This study aims to provide further understanding in this area by offering a perspective into 7 foreign language teachers’ emotions in relation to their pupils during their first decade in the profession. The most important finding was that negative emotions decreased while the positive emotions …

Initiation of the professional development of the teachers of primary (Argentine, Colombia, Spain and France). Comparative study.

2016

espanolUno de los aspectos fundamentales en la consecucion de una educacion de calidad es la figura del maestro, su formacion y su forma de intervenir en las aulas de educacion primaria en tanto en cuanto la profesionalidad de los docentes puede marcar la diferencia en el aprendizaje de los estudiantes incluso contrarrestando las dificultades de origen. De hecho: �Las escuelas que desafian sus condiciones adversas y logran buenos resultados de aprendizaje son aquellas en las que los docentes han asumido una mayor participacion en la toma de decisiones institucionales y un mayor compromiso con los resultados de aprendizaje de los alumnos (OREALC/ UNESCO, 2007, p.60)�. Por todo ello, desde es…

Percepción del estudiante sobre el entorno educativo clínico en asignaturas prácticas en programas académicos de salud: revisión bibliográfica

2019

El ambiente educacional refleja las condiciones a las que se somete un estudiante dentro de su proceso formativo; en etapas prácticas, dada la ausencia de aulas intermediarias y contextos tradicionales de formación, habitualmente se desestima cual es el impacto de un ambiente favorecedor, e inclusive, el propio cumplimiento de los estándares de aprendizajes asociados a cada programa de asignatura dentro del proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje. Esto ocurre aun cuando su análisis positivo refleje un listado indiscutible de beneficios que trascienden al contexto educativo y que incluso puede impactar esferas personales del desarrollo profesional. El objetivo de esta revisión bibliográfica fue doc…