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Reconstruir la identidad de aprendiz en la FP. El efecto de las experiencias escolares y las culturas de enseñanza en la construcción identitaria
2020
La Formación Profesional en España sigue siendo una vía formativa escasamente desarrollada y prestigiada, a pesar de los importantes avances que se han registrado en los últimos años. El Grado Medio, en particular, presenta unos niveles de oferta y demanda muy inferiores a los de Bachillerato. Además, en términos globales, escolariza a un porcentaje mucho mayor de jóvenes de bajo estatus socioeconómico y cultural y con trayectorias de fracaso o desvinculación escolar durante la ESO. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar cómo construyen su identidad de aprendices los alumnos de FP en base a sus experiencias escolares y formativas -tanto anteriores como presentes- y a sus proyecciones de f…
Teachers’ perspectives on collaboration with didacticians to create an inquiry community
2009
A research and development project, Learning Communities in Mathematics (LCM)1 was designed to create opportunities for ‘co-learning inquiry’ between mathematics teachers in eight schools and didacticians in a university in Norway (UiA). The focus has been on improving mathematics teaching and learning at school levels from lower primary to upper secondary and on the developmental processes and partnerships involved. A central aim was to create a community of inquiry through which aspects of mathematics teaching and learning could be explored, and through which both teachers and didacticians could learn in practice. Theoretically, ‘Community of Inquiry’ derives from ‘Community of Practice’ …
Diploma Effects by Gender in the Spanish Labour Market
2006
. The aim of this paper is to contrast the nature of the schooling effect on earnings in the Spanish labour market in terms of gender. Hungerford and Solon's (Review of Economics and Statistics 69: 175–177, 1987) methodology is used to distinguish between the returns to schooling arising from mere years of schooling as a reflection of their productivity-enhancing contribution (human capital) and the returns to schooling arising from certificates (diploma effects) as signals of the individual's productivity (sheepskin effects) or as credentialism. The results show evidence only of diploma effects in Upper Secondary Studies for men.
Student Engagement, Truancy, and Cynicism
2021
Abstract Truancy in upper secondary education is a widespread problem, which contributes significantly to school dropout risk. However, the underlying mechanisms of truancy have remained unstudied. This longitudinal study of 1853 Finnish students examined how initial levels and changes in student engagement from primary (Grade 6) to lower secondary school (Grades 7 and 9) predicted truancy in upper secondary education, and whether cynicism (losing interest in school) mediated the relationship between engagement and truancy. Growth curve models showed that high engagement levels in primary school and increases in engagement over time predicted less truancy in upper secondary education. Cynic…
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…
Exploring Variation in Norwegian Social Science Teachers’ Practice Concerning Sexuality Education: Who Teachers Are Matters and So Does School Culture
2021
This article explores teaching practice concerning sexual harassment and abuse in Norwegian upper secondary schools based on phone interviews with 64 social studies teachers. This study portrays gr...
2020
Abstract A person-centered approach was used to identify the profiles of symptoms of psychological ill-being among Finnish upper secondary education students (N = 2889); to examine whether gender and educational track (i.e., academic or vocational) are associated with these profiles; and to investigate the role of profiles in school dropout intentions. Using latent profile analysis, one asymptomatic profile (normative, 79.2%) and three symptomatic profiles (internalizing symptoms, 9.1%; externalizing symptoms, 9.1%; and comorbid symptoms, 2.6%) were identified. Boys in the vocational track were overrepresented in the externalizing-symptoms profile, whereas girls in both tracks were overrepr…
Developmental trajectories of school burnout: Evidence from two longitudinal studies
2014
Abstract To examine school burnout trajectories, in Study 1, 15-year-old adolescents ( N = 614) completed the School Burnout Inventory twice during their final term of comprehensive school and twice after the transition to upper secondary high school or vocational school. In Study 2, school burnout in 17-year-old adolescents was measured twice annually ( N = 575) during their upper secondary education. In Study 1, growth mixture modeling for school burnout yielded a four-latent-group solution: 60% of the adolescents showed a low and stable level of school burnout, 29% increasing burnout, 3% strongly increasing burnout and 8% high-decreasing school burnout. In Study 2, we identified two la…
Sevend Pounds y Biología. Zoología y transplante de órganos en el epílogo del film, una experiencia en formación de docente
2015
Las experiencias didácticas vividas en formación docente inicial tienen un fuerte impacto en la conformación del perfil profesional del profesor. Estas deben ser coincidente con los fines que se tienen para la enseñanza de las ciencias en el nivel educativo medio: formar ciudadanos críticos. Propuestas de enseñanza de la zoología con un enfoque CTS ofrecen una visión integrada, interdisciplinar, y problematizadora del saber científico, que conectan la ciencia con la realidad que vive el individuo en la sociedad. La utilización del cine como recurso didáctico permite vincular de manera muy favorable los avances científicos y tecnológicos con aspectos sociales. La experiencia didáctica que pr…