Search results for "construct"

Climate Change: An Educational Proposal Integrating the Physical and Social Sciences

2014

Abstract The scientific community has been debating climate change for at least twenty years. The EU has recommended a set of innovative reforms to science teaching, incorporating environmental issues in the scientific curriculum, answering the need for making school a place of civic education. This paper focuses on the presentation of materials designed to foster both deep understanding of the basic concepts involved in climate change as well as critical thinking for addressing some cognitive and emotional barriers that have been proved to hinder individual behavioural reactions.

STRATEGIC NEED PERSPECTIVE TO STRATEGIC ALLIANCE FORMATION: A THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTION AND EMPIRICAL VALIDATION

2011

Un'occasione perduta: l'Eden Teatro Biondo di Ernesto Basile. Dai disegni di archivio alla ricostruzione digitale

2016

Il lavoro si pone come obiettivo la ricostruzione congetturale del progetto dell’Eden Teatro Biondo (1912) a Palermo di Ernesto Basile (Palermo 1857–1932) a partire dai disegni originari. L’edifico propone una tipologia che fonde cinematografo (al piano terra) e teatro (al piano superiore). Pensato su un fronte di Piazza Verdi, non sarà realizzato per i costi ritenuti troppo elevati dai committenti. Le scansioni dei disegni originari (conservati presso il Fondo Basile del Dipartimento di Architettura dell’Università di Palermo) hanno consentito la vettorializzazione piana utilizzata per l’analisi e per la modellazione 3D. Gli apparati decorativi sono stati realizzati integrando la modellazi…

TECNICHE DI RICOSTRUZIONE DELLA SUPERFICIE POSTERIORE DEL PADIGLIONE AURICOLARE E DELLA MASTOIDE CON LEMBI LOCALI

2007

B a c k g ro u n d. Reconstruction of the posterior auricular surface and of the mastoid has never been given much attention and there are no techniques described. The authors describe two techniques for reconstruction of these areas after cancer excision with local flaps. M e t h o d s . 13 patients have been treated after cancer resection with an advancement flap from the posterior auricular surface and a bilobed flap from the mastoid. R e s u l t s. All flaps healed uneventfully with a satisfactory aesthetic outcome. No relevant complications have been o b s e r v e d . C o n c l u s i o n s. Reconstruction of the posterior auricular surface and of the mastoid with the techniques describ…

Bodies in the early childhood education classroom: a Bourdieusian analysis of curricular materials

2019

To our knowledge, no studies have used Bourdieu's theoretical contributions to frame investigations on how early childhood education (ECE) teaching materials construct body differences in a way that justifies gender inequality. For Bourdieu, the power to classify and grant properties and signs to subjects, does not reside only in the power to impose, but also in the degree to which the vision is anchored within reality. Therefore, the aims of this study is to assess the representation of the body in the curricular materials of ECE classrooms in 10 public centers, by means of quantitative content analysis and to provide, using Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework on the construction of th…

Core numerical skills for learning mathematics in children aged five to eight years – a working model for educators

2015

The aim of this study was to model the most crucial numerical factors to the development of mathematical skills among children aged five to eight years (i.e. kindergarten, preschool, first and second graders). We categorised numerical skills into four main groups based on the results of longitudinal studies. A series of analyses of test batteries designed to measure the development of mathematical skills in children yielded results in support of this construct. Based on our findings we propose a working model for teachers of core numerical skills that focuses on four major factors: (1) symbolic and non-symbolic number sense; (2) understanding mathematical relations (early mathematical-logic…

Striving at partnership: parent–practitioner relationships in Finnish early educators' talk

2010

ABSTRACT In Finnish early childhood education and care, partnership has been introduced as a general approach in the parent–practitioner collaboration. Based on qualitative interviews with practitioners, the article studies, from a social constructionist and discourse analytic perspective, whether partnership is actualised in parent–practitioner relationship and how it is done. The results show that the ideas about parent–practitioner collaboration are not coherent. In the vertical frame the collaboration is considered as a hierarchical relationship but in the horizontal frame, which reflects the partnership approach, parallel expertise and proximity are emphasised. However, the ideal of pa…

COEDU-IN Project: an inclusive co-educational project for teaching computational thinking and digital skills at early ages

2021

Learning to program is the new literacy of the 21st century. Computational thinking, closely related to programming, requires thinking and solving problems with different levels of abstraction and is independent of hardware devices. The early childhood education stage provides teachers with the opportunity to lay the foundations for a comprehensive quality education using innovative tools and technologies. Educational robotics in early childhood education becomes a tool that facilitates the acquisition of knowledge to children, playfully, based on the principles of interactivity, social interrelationships, collaborative work, creativity, constructivist and constructionist learning, and a st…

Análisis de publicaciones sobre alfabetización inicial desde una perspectiva didáctica

2020

En este trabajo se elabora una revisión sistemática de estudios sobre la aproximación a la lengua escrita en Educación Infantil en España. Se consideran estudios publicados entre 2009 y 2019 que se centren en los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje en aula para conocer y analizar las prácticas docentes que se difunden desde la investigación. Los resultados permiten, por un lado, describir el tipo de investigaciones: predominio de estudios realizados en aula sobre los de carácter experimental o revisión bibliográfica; equilibrio entre investigación cuantitativa y cualitativa o mayor atención al periodo 3-6 años. Por otro lado, los datos muestran que las publicaciones científicas recogen vari…

Three- to four-year-old children’s socioemotional competencies assessed by kindergarten teachers in general and physical education settings, and by p…

2014

Summary. Early childhood education programs represent a valuable early learning opportunity for promoting the socioemotional skills. The aims of the study were to validate the socioemotional skills observation scale, to compare 3-4 year-old children’s socioemotional competencies in general kindergarten settings and in a PE session, separately by gender, and to compare 3-4 year-old children’s socioemotional competencies in general kindergarten settings and at home. The participants were 59 children (23 girls, 36 boys) from six communal kindergartens in Finland, their parents, and early educators. The data were analyzed using the confirmatory factor analysis and t-tests. The results showed th…