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Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Criticism of Amoral Sex Education
2019
This article analyzes Dietrich von Hildebrand’s criticism of amoral sex education, which he regards as misleading and anti-educational in many crucial respects. Its content is misleading, because it separates human sexuality from its inherent connection with married love and thereby fails to do justice to the personal and intimate nature of sexuality. Its reductive and neutralizing approach not only fails to develop young people’s capacity for the transcendence implicit in moral agency, it also fails to provide the preconditions for the development of their authe-antic subjectivity. Instead of fostering objectivity, critical thinking and autonomy, amoral sex education promotes a normatively…
Teachers’ beliefs about gamification and competencies development: A concept mapping approach
2020
Despite an increasing academic attention towards both gamification and competencies-based education, little is known about Higher Education teachers’ beliefs regarding the use of gamification to develop students’ competencies. To fill this research gap, concept mapping was used to cluster teachers’ beliefs in 4 dimensions regarding the use of gamification to develop students’ competencies. Our findings suggest that teachers believe that gamification encourages team working and oral communication skills. Moreover, critical thinking and social skills development were also found as some of the benefits that teachers believe the use of gamification can provide to the development of students’ co…
Student teachers and their attitudes towards ICT: Lessons learned from three different countries
2021
This paper explores the attitudes that student teachers in Malta, Norway, and Spain convey to digital technologies in formal educational settings as they start the 1st semester. A number of studies look at educational inclinations and employment of digital technologies (Granić & Marangunić, 2019; Ritter, 2017; Scherer & Teo, 2019). We have chosen to examine student teachers’ attitudes towards the professional use of digital technologies within a pedagogical framework. In this respect, a comparative qualitative analysis of one open-ended question that forms part of a more extensive questionnaire distributed to all participants is considered. The employed analytical lens subsequently …
Videojuegos para el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico y el diálogo
2020
El presente artículo retoma los resultados de la investigación realizada por la autora, cuyo título es Videojuegos en el aula: una propuesta asociada al desarrollo del pensamiento crítico (2016). Las inquietudes generadas en el estudio guardan relación con los lineamientos para desarrollar una propuesta de uso de los videojuegos en el aula, asociada al desarrollo del pensamiento crítico, en un grupo de jóvenes venezolanos escolarizados con edades comprendidas entre 13 y 17 años. Se procuró entender el videojuego como producto cultural en el contexto venezolano, los hábitos de consumo por parte de los sujetos estudiados y su relación con el pensamiento crítico y el desarrollo de procesos de …
Life Experience, Values and Education
2016
The paper deals with the contemporary problems of education – its functions, mission, humanistic essence and need for the understanding of value. Education is not only school training or getting competences at the highest educational institutions. It is understood as a life experience, where cognition, judgement and practical activity come together in one complex. Nowadays the most popular systems of education are structured on the model based mainly on pragmatism, professionalism, information, technology, to which philosophers are trying to attach moral and cultural dimensions, but their views do not carry much weight. The author agrees with R. Dahrendorf that we need empathetic education …
Integrative thinking is the key: An evaluation of current research into the development of adult thinking
2011
Post-formal relativistic-dialectical thinking has been widely claimed to be a new developmental stage of intellectual development. Other theoretical models come very close to post-formal thinking, with overlapping features such as the study of wisdom and epistemic understanding, as well as models of expertise, critical thinking, and scepticism. No coherent theory exists in the fields of post-formal and relativistic-dialectical thinking, though scholars have claimed that there is some similarity between the models. While empirical evidence of interconnectedness between them exists, a major difficulty lies in the theoretical definition of concepts. We critically assess the definitions of rel…
Espressione scritta per lo sviluppo della creatività e della capacità critica in Università
2018
La scoperta della scrittura ha svincolato il pensiero dal contesto e lo ha reso capace di interpretare i messaggi linguistici a partire solamente dalla parola e dalle loro connessioni logiche, ragionamento logico che permette argomentazioni più ampie, categorizzazioni più sistematiche, codificazioni sempre più precise. L’attività di scrittura favorisce l’acquisizione di schemi cognitivi utili alla strutturazione logica del pensiero, promuove abilità di pianificazione e di organizzazione delle proprie idee in modo rigoroso, contribuisce allo sviluppo di capacità espressive formali. I saggi sono stati corretti usando “la Guida per la correzione dei temi” di Calonghi e Boncori (2006). Dalla co…
The development of a multiliteracy-based approach in language learning: engaging students in aesthetic reading
2018
Actualmente se necesita un paradigma teórico dinámico, un enfoque ecléctico para reorientar las dos metodologías que prevalecen sobre la enseñanza L2, dadas las limitaciones de patentes de ambos métodos: el enfoque comunicativo y la lectura y análisis de textos. La literacidad es un indicador clave de nuestra capacidad para construir y comunicar signicados, así como para elaborar nuestros propios pensamientos. Mediante este trabajo aseguramos que la literacidad debe entenderse como un proceso pedagógico que va de la mano de la integración de la literatura en la enseñanza de un idioma, no como producto final. Para ello partimos de algunas propuestas que pretenden adaptar los modelos de lite…
Critical thinking skills in classe tra sfida e impegno
2020
A scuola devono essere previsti ed attuati interventi sistematici che promuovano negli alunni abilità quali l’uso corretto di ragionamenti, la formulazione adeguata di giudizi, la generazione e l’espressione di idee originali, lo sviluppo di ipotesi per la soluzione di problemi, la costruzione di piani d’azione, l’assunzione di scelte autonome e controllate. L’espansione tecnologica alimenta piuttosto la difficoltà di bambini e ragazzi di organizzare i dati conoscitivi provenienti da più fonti, di selezionare e valutare le informazioni secondo scopi definiti. Si tratta di identificare azioni educative e procedure didattiche efficaci ad impegnare la capacità critica degli alunni. Il contesto…
Determinants of the Effectiveness of Using Renewable Resource Management-Based Simulations in the Development of Critical Thinking: An Application of…
2019
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