Inquiry-Based Learning for Older People at a University in Spain     

Ingrid Martorell  Marc Medrano  Cristian Solé  Neus Vila  Luisa F. Cabeza 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(8):712-731

With the increasing number of older people in the world and their interest in education, universities play an important role in providing effective learning methodologies. This paper presents a new instructional methodology implementing inquiry-based learning (IBL) in two courses focused on alternative energies in the Program for Older People at the University of Lleida (UdL) in Spain. The instructional methodology is evaluated and results are discussed after two years of studies. The instructional methodology presented in this paper helped students to build and reinforce scientific skills and knowledge construction. This work may have potential relevance to other instructors involved in adult education.  相似文献   

Représentations et Significations de Savoirs Scolaires     

Schubauer-Leoni  Maria Luisa  Perret-Clermont  Anne-Nelly 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1988,3(1):55-62

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Helping doctors put patients first: an innovative service from health libraries     

Bruno F  Vercellesi L  Miranda GF 《Health information and libraries journal》2005,22(3):219-223

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Children’s rights in educational relationships     

Luisa Molinari  Giannino Melotti  Francesca Emiliani 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2002,17(2):139-155

The aim of this study is that of reaching a better comprehension of the topic of children’s rights within educational relationships. In a first stage, we analysed the representational field of children’s rights produced through free associations by the two partners who are in conflict in everyday life, namely adults (n=267) and adolescents (n=143). In a second stage, we chose a sample of 690 adult subjects that were all parents, half of whom were also teachers; through a structured questionnaire we investigated the role of several aspects (responsibility, respect, values, conditions influencing children’s growth and sense of justice) in the organisation of social representations of children’s rights. The results outlined different contrasts in the organisation of the representational scenario. The first opposes adults and adolescents, in the sense that adults emphasise their duties of offering protection and care, while the youngsters describe rights in terms of autonomous field of experience. Within the group of adults, several differences emerged between teachers and parents: the first seem more doubtful about the positive outcomes of personal involvement, while parents are moved by a general feeling of optimism, anchored in the faith in the family’s strength and integrity.  相似文献   

Contributions from the Philosophy of Science to the Education of Science Teachers     

Vicente Mellado  Constantino Ruiz  María Luisa Bermejo  Roque Jiménez 《Science & Education》2006,15(5):419-445

One of the most important topics on the international agenda in educational research is to gain an understanding of the processes of educational change in teachers and of the factors that favour or hinder it. Such understanding is, for instance, an essential element in planning and putting into practice initial and ongoing teacher education programs. This article reviews the research on science teachers’ educational change. To organize the information, an analogy is made with the process of scientific change, analyzing and evaluating the contributions of the different models taken from the philosophy of science – positivism, Popper’s principle of falsifiability, Lakatos’ scientific research programs, Laudan’s research traditions, Toulmin’s evolutionism, and Kuhn’s relativism. We conclude the article with the implications for science teacher education.  相似文献   

Negotiating the meaning of questions in didactic and experimental contracts     

Maria Luisa Schubauer-Leoni  Michèle Grossen 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1993,8(4):451-471

In recent years, the notion of communication contract has stimulated a lot of research in social developmental psychology as well as in education. This article presents two series of investigations using different methods for the study of the didactic and experimental contracts. The discussion focuses on some theoretical issues raised by these studies: the risk of sociological vs psychological reductionism, the risk of neglecting the specificity of cognitive activity and the risk of reifying the notion of context. Possible developments for future research will be suggested. The problem of the articulation between social, institutional and interactional contexts in the study of cognitive activity is a central argument.  相似文献   

What everybody knows about children: Mothers' ideas on early childhood     

Francesca Emiliani  Luisa Molinari 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1988,3(1):19-31

A sample of 364 mothers were interviewed with a questionnaire investigating 4 topics: developmental conceptions, socialization rules, parental social roles and sexual stereotypes. A subsample of 107 of the same mothers was then submitted to an attitude scale testing the importance they attributed to 19 traits of children's behaviour and the influence they perceived as having on the development of the same traits. The results give evidence of a social representation shared by our sample; this representation refers to a traditional way of rearing children and to a traditional division of parental social roles. The mothers' working positions and levels of instructions are found to discriminate as to their agreement on such a view. Analyses on the degree of importance and of perceived influence on the behavioural traits confirm the same results, but they also define a new emerging image of the child, which stresses different values from the traditional ones.  相似文献   

Adolescents’ profiles based on student agency and teacher autonomy support: does interpersonal justice matter?     

Grazia  Valentina  Mameli  Consuelo  Molinari  Luisa 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2021,36(4):1117-1134

In this study, we adopted a person-oriented approach to (a) identify latent profiles of adolescents characterized by unique patterns of perceived teacher autonomy support and student agency, (b) investigate whether perceived interpersonal justice can predict profile membership and (c) compare different profiles in relation to personal responsibility. Participants were 545 Italian secondary school students (55% boys, 94% born in Italy, M_age = 14.24, SD_age = .53). Five adolescents’ profiles emerged: disengaged (24%), average students (34%) and committed (28%), with low, mean and high scores, respectively, in both teacher autonomy support and agency; resistant (5%), with low scores in teacher autonomy support and high scores in agency; compliant (9%), with high scores in teacher autonomy support and low scores in agency. Perceptions of interpersonal justice significantly predicted profile membership in the comparison of almost all profiles. Several significant differences in responsibility among profiles also emerged. Implications of the findings for practices and policies are discussed.

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Changing How We Teach Acid-Base Chemistry     

Jiménez-Liso  Maria Rut  López-Banet  Luisa  Dillon  Justin 《Science & Education》2020,29(5):1291-1315

Science & Education - We propose explicit and implicit approaches for the teaching of acid-base chemistry based on research into the history and nature of science (NoS). To support these...  相似文献   

Strategy and factors for success: The Mexican handicraft sector     

Jos de la Paz Hernndez Girn  María Luisa Domínguez Hernndez  M. C. Julio Cesar Jimnez Castaeda 《Performance Improvement》2007,46(8):16-26

This study analyzed the success factors in the Mexican handicraft sector on the basis of marketing strategies. As a result of this work, 23 factors for success that artisans use as marketing strategies were determined. The most important, because it was related to all of the other elements of success, was a pricing strategy oriented to profits. The second most important strategy was to use personal recommendations to promote the products. Product diversification and the information artisans gave to customers were, respectively, the third and fourth strategies.  相似文献