PEDAGOGICAL METHODS

Author: HIGUERAS GARCÍA MARTA.
Year: 2003.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN.

Summary: From the perspective of this research, the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language, some reflections on the controversial concept of placing that although has an extensive literature in the field of lexicography and lingüstica theoretical, is a concept the didactic novel in the lexicon of a foreign language and practically unknown in the literature of dadáctica Spanish as a foreign language. After developing a framework lingà ¼ istico, psicolingà ¼ istico and methodology for the teaching of placements in particular and the general lexicon, have been developed and evaluated proposals for didactic teaching. Three sonlas contributions of this main thesis: in pirmer place, a definition of placement, which is compressible and profitable for teachers of Spanish as the language extranjera.En second order, the proposed methodology for teaching placements to students ELE: sequence didactic, some basic principles for teaching and a typology of actividades.Por Finally, it offers practical applications to the teaching of Spanish: a material for teacher training in this concept on CD-ROM; an example for a work placements unity of a printed manual and a self-teaching materials pair of lexicon that includes placements and other lexical units. The evaluation of these proposals has enabled learning to draw conclusions about various aspects: on the one hand, we find that teachers are trained in the Spanish concept of placement without difficulty thanks to the program on CD-ROM and applied successfully to develop educational materials, and secondly , the students also discovered that this concept through the material self-learning and appreciation for the use of this strategy.

Author: JIMÉNEZ CORTÉS ROCÍO.
Year: 2004.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN . SEDE CAMILO JOSÉ CELA.

Summary: This work constitutes an empirical study that seeks to address the impact of gender stereotyping in the interpretation that faculty conducts school everyday situations. The importance of addressing the functioning of the stereotype in the speech is that it affects one's perception and the perception of others and contexts. And these aspects affect the educational process. This research intends to contribute in nature, educational and scientific fields. In the first case, inquire about the position and faculty awareness on the issue of gender in order to identify degrees of ownership of gender stereotypes, and thus know the gender role as a mediator in learning the identity. From a scientific point of view, arises explore methodologies sensitive to the subject of this study and consistent with the theoretical approach adopted. The ultimate goal of this work, from the point of view application for education, it is proposed to derive training for teachers, capable of generating a critical awareness of gender patterns that affect performance valid and best schools for education equality. In particular, this research arises as scientific challenges on the one hand, the exploration of theoretical constructs of the Sociocultural theory applied to the study of gender in educational contexts, understanding gender as a tool of cultural mediator and the cognitive processes of consciousness human gender, and secondly, the discovery of key empirical methodology to identify variables that are observable indicators of forms and levels of internalization of gender. The Sociocultural Approach, and the Theory of Ecological Bronfenbrenner used theoretical references in this investigation. These theories share a conception of the subject as being historic, built socially interact with the scenarios cultural and social contexts. These approaches, as well as assumptions and constructs derived therefrom, bring an explanatory key framework with which to explore the ways in which contexts affect gender identity and how this in turn affects perceptions of the educational environment. The research design included the screening of two sets of projective techniques, with three photographs by installment designed ad hoc, reflecting common situations in scenarios representing various schools and social structures (macro, meso and micro). The sample consists of 8 teachers and 6 teachers who exercise their professional work in different centers of Secondary Education in the province of Seville. This study addresses from a qualitative methodology, narrative and cutting through projective techniques that allow explore the forms, qualitatively different, in that people experience and perceive the world around them through their own gender identity. Through a semi-structured interview conducted on the basis of these blades design, teachers generate speeches own gender in school contexts. Data analysis is solved through qualitative techniques and cutting descriptive statistics. The results show different genres discursive gender and gender forms of appropriation by the faculty, also identify variables associated with them. There are also significant differences between sex and gender cultural mediation. The investigation has involved input in three areas: theoretical, methodological and applied. In this regard, the implementation of the Sociocultural theory to research on gender, has been the generation of specific methodological procedures for the observation of cultural identity and gender specific action proposals for education.

Author: LORENTE CATALÁN ELOISA.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: INEFC DE BARCELONA.
Place of preparation: INEFC BARCELONA.

Summary: The purpose of studying the theory is self-management, a proposal for practice teaching and learning of physical education which seeks to involve students in the maximum teaching-learning process. The students choose, design and carry out the meetings by adopting the role of teacher from their own peers. This work is part of a more holistic approach that seeks to empower the student in managing their own learning. The purpose of the study is to extract knowledge about how they are carried out by the self-management class by the students and how they perceive the experience of the participants and learn what they learn and use it to provide for their daily lives. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first deals with the merits and design of the study, trying on the one hand, self locate in the general framework for the teaching of the FE and also justify the research design based on the idea that any educational situation is single and therefore, should be studied in place that happens. Therefore, the epistemological foundation of the research is based on the naturalistic paradigm and methodology best suits claims the study is the educational interaccionista etnografia. The strategy research design is the case study, so that the second part of the thesis has been earmarked for the reconstruction of the same. The case is set studied by two groups of students 8Â ° of the former General Basic Education and a professor of FE with an ideology close to the critical pedagogy. The study focuses especially on the first year of experience but continued contact with the same group throughout high school, gathering information for four years, which led to a temporary triangulation. Later, after three years away from the influence of professor, was again resume contact with some of the students involved in the experience to know the functionality of learning caused by the experience of self-management. This additional information is reflected in the epilogue of the thesis. The teaching-learning process the first year of experience has been rebuilt taking into account three major blocs. The first context, theories and beliefs from the center for students taken as key informants and the teacher herself represents the starting point of the proposal. This context conditioned process design that represents the second block, and finally, the development of the proposed reconstructed taking into account the perspectives of participants and taking as the unifying theme of the analysis of the concept and practice of curriculum David Kirk (1990) . The critical analysis of the proposal has helped to answer the questions of research and draw patterns identifying under what conditions can be carried out as described an approach. Also we have seen the great potential of educational self-management, seeing as apprenticeships that causes are directly related to personal and social skills that help to some of the skills that are considered essential to function in adult life, such as creativity, initiative, the ability to make decisions, to work in teams, to engage in joint projects, tolerate and accept views, among others.

Author: CAVALCANTE SILVA JERONIMO.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIES DE L'EDUCACIÓ.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Author: SERRAT ANOLÍ NÚRIA.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA , UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: The research is hit in an adjacent area of study among disciplinary fields: education and the field of museología.Por So, it is an investigation that seeks to know the points of connection between teaching and museology , ie the teaching of museums. Its purpose is to analyze and understand the various educational resources that museums used in the task of publicizing his message beyond the strict filing museum embodied in a exposición.Pero beyond knowing these materials, is intended to investigate what kind of there materials, and especially what their mood teaching, focusing on the analysis of the types of teaching-learning activities that they advocated. The purpose of the investigation is to bring awareness to the body in the field of theoretical teaching on the treatment of procedural content in the proposals teaching of museums, especially their educational materials, as well as analyze the use of such proposals by teachers and students / ace.

Author: BRAVO LÓPEZ GISELA.
Year: 2004.
University: OVIEDO [www.uniovi.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO-UNIVERSIDAD DE CIENFUEGOS.

Summary: This research consists of the design, implementation and evaluation of a strategy for lifelong learning from the didactic communication, specifically designed to articulate and promote the formation of a professor in the exercise from the practice of a school of secondary education Cuban. It has been developed in the framework of qualitative research, using techniques such as participant observation, discussion groups, newspapers, as well as methods of collecting information own studies on the didactic communication. In addition, it is organized around a process of intervention researcher in which faculty are involved in a direct way, and whose main focus has been the process of exchange, reflection and professional enrichment. Research has shown in the Cuban context it is possible to combine theory and practice lifelong learning and involves a rigorous and original contribution to these studies in the landscape of teacher training in Cuba.

Author: LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ DEL REY M. MAGDALENA.
Year: 2004.
University: OVIEDO [www.uniovi.es].
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO.

Summary: This research provides a curriculum proposal that revaloriza place of the History of Education and knowledge in teacher training Secondary Basic cuba. It assumes the paradigm qualitative taking into account their virtuality in the design and development of the curriculum as a practice associated with the work of a university professor. The investigative process takes nine years. The experience developed in Cienfuegos (Cuba) includes nine years of investigation, reflection and curriculum innovation associated with professional development of teachers and teacher groups linked to the process. The key input reflected in a model curriculum that will allow the proposal to extend to other races.

Author: RUIZ RODRÍGUEZ CARLOS.
Year: 2004.
University: MÁLAGA [www.uma.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN - UMA.

Summary: The research work presented that consists of two distinct parts. The first part is devoted building a conceptual and theoretical foundation which, through the integration of those more interesting and relevant perspective to the work psychoeducational, leading to the submission of a comprehensive and integrated it introduces the Learning Styles as one of the variables involved in the development of creative capacity along with other variables (motivation, emotional intelligence and wealth of conocimiento9 that found strong backing in empirical research for this consideration. In the process of preparation and realization of this first part labor is manifested conducting a thorough literature search of the various research and publications available on the Creativity and on other topics that affinity or "proximity" are considered important. The second part is directed to development of a whole approach and / or investigative processes that, after the analysis of data collected through the application of Test Generation Issues Corbalán (2002), the Inventory of Emotion Creative Averill (2002) and Questionnaire Honey-Alonso Learning Styles a large sample of students in teaching specialties studied at the University of Malaga, provides the empirical support for the consideration of the Learning Styles as a variable that education plays an active role in the development of different levels of creativity, the stress as a main conclusion the relationship between Learning Styles and emotional components of Creativity.

Author: Chao Fernández Rocío.
Year: 2004.
University: A CORUÑA [www.udc.es].
Place of defense: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación.

Summary: PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this research is to know if the teachers responsible for the musical education in the CEIP Galician used folk music galician in supráctica teaching as usual and thus contribute to the preservation and transmission of the musical heritage. STRUCTURE AND METHODOLOGY The research is divided into two sections: Part I-theory - which examines what is the initial teacher training, continuing an analysis of the teaching methods most important of the twentieth century, to proceed with a classification of the songs, dances and instruments Galicia. It also makes an analysis of the first and most rigorous collections of folk galician (S. XIX), and what is the problem of today. It concludes this section with a proposal to use in the classroom. Second-hand thumb-em - which performs field work, which is carried out through a methodological pluralism, based on the implementation of a questionnaire, complete with interviews with several of these professionals. Complementing an analysis of the texts used by lso teachers for the development of their teaching work, as well as material support assistant. After making an analysis of the results, compiled the findings. CONCLUSIONS-Only 30% of the songs that are taught in our schools belong to the folk galician. - There are changes in some of the songs of our folklore that are taught to our schoolchildren. - There is a great ignorance with respect to the instruments by Galicians pate teacher, and therefore does not enter their students in their technique. - The teaching of our folk dances is scarce. With the passage of time can change our folklore

Author: CACHADIÑA CASCOS PILAR.
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID [www.upm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA Y EL DEPORTE (INEF).
Place of preparation: E.T.S. DE ARQUITECTURA.

Summary: The research aims to discover the presence of creativity in four work in the field of bodily expression in physical education at the National Institute of Physical Education in Madrid, in working with Professor D. Pelegrín Ana Sandoval and his colleague, D. Eduardo Castro Ulled and creative movement workshop "Corps" between the years 1996 and 2000. This builds a theoretical foundation on which it is the corporal expression within the scope of these studies, before moving to see how works extresión body of this professor in this institution. After trying creativity, establishing its conceptual framework, the development of their education, their role in dental education in the field of physical education, going to finally deal with two aspects that we used to analyze data from the research: indicators the creativity and the creative process. The research method used is the quality, and in this case studies. It describes the case selected to go to the exhibition and classification of data research. To assess the presence of creativity and the creative process. Both tools were validated by experts in the field of creativity and expression body, the Research qualification of credibility, reliability, validity, triangulation, portability, dependency and formability. The investigation was temporaliza over six years, ranging from 1998 to 2004. The results of the investigation, after conducting an analysis of data content, it is found on the one hand, the presence of the indicators of creativity in these data and on the other the location of those in the creative process in motion expressive, allowing the construction of this process in all the research data. We checked and the relationship between corporal expression and creativity, bringing this investigation to assess whether two tools in a work corporal expression, in the expressive movement, creativity is present through the verification of the existence of such work indicators the creativity and the creative process. KEYWORDS: Creativity, Physical Education, Expression Corporal Indicator of Creativity, Creative Process.

Author: BOLAÑOS MUÑOZ LUCY MAR.
Year: 2004.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN. SEDE CAMILO JOSÉ CELA.

Summary: This research proposes a program of Teacher gender, which has been dealt with taking into account the socio-cultural theory, the ecology of human development, feminist theory and research action. The program poses a double concern at the social and educational fields. Thus, at the societal level it is important to highlight the need to promote in the context Colombian policy responses to the social demands that deny the integration of the gender studies as a priority in plans d equal opportunities and initiate a process of awareness of the relationship and participation of women in power; level education is incorporated as part of studies on the beliefs and stereotypes about gender with a special emphasis on teacher training as a key element in the transformation of gender identities. Under the program is important to consider that the identification of trends crisis also part of the structural analysis model proposed and can be captured at both macro and micro structural as a way because the system of gender relations involves both to the economy, state forces dela globalization as established relationships in homes and interpersonal relationships (Del Valle, 2002:35). Moreover, the program opens up new dimensions in training and research on the gender sensitivity and awareness. Thus, we understand that for gender training, management theory, the interaction with children in school settings and their own experiences of teachers in training about the reality of género-poder may open slopes for educational training gender Identity and alternatives for the promotion of a society with a more plural, diverse and non-discriminatory on the basis of gender. The explicit recognition of gender identities delas faculty and the students' experience possible, subjectivities, views enriching who break the tightness of the single thought that only reflects the reality of a few "(Fuentes-Guerra, 2001:42). Based on these considerations wayside, the Training Program is based on theoretical principles and epistemological who advocate a cultural perspective in the study of gender. Thus, culture becomes a frame of reference values, and standard meanings that guide, identify and support the construction of gender identities - power. Under this approach, it has to consider that "every culture has to articulate a vision of the genre that contains ideas, prejudices, values, interpretations, rules, responsibilities, mandates and prohibitions on the lives of women and men" ( Flecha, 2002:25). In this sense, the personal identities of the subjects raised. From this perspective, it is urgent to substantiate teacher training in action research to enable the transformation of teaching practices. This research aims to central design, implementation and evaluation of genetic effects of a teaching program in teacher education from a gender perspective. For the assessment of the effects of teaching program uses qualitative and quantitative analysis of data from the contexts Macroestructural, Mesoestructural and Miocroestructural from the dependent variables worldview cultural género-poder, discursive processes and projections educational realize the processes capture privilegiación and reintegration respectively. Research exploring the different contexts of gender training allows results to expose replantean mechanisms theoretical, methodological and applied in the training of teachers in gender. The techniques employed, specifically the concept maps (macroestructural level), the case analysis (level mesoestructural), the stories vine 8 to (level 418 microstructural) and the draft (impact assessment) offer material in which ideas are expressed and meanings of a culture in general, in particular contexts and their impact on the internalization makes teachers on the relationship gender-power through cultural interactions, contextual and personal. The idiosincrasi of this research requires the conjugation of research designs from different methodological approaches. What leads to the development of a complex design in which articulates studies from the positivist approach, interpretive and critical.

Author: SEPULVEDA GARCIA MARIA AMELIA.
Year: 2004.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA.

Summary: The investigation relates to a case study conducted in five schools in a commune in poverty in the region of La Araucania, in Chile. It addresses the issue of curriculum, referred specifically to the relationship between the levels of pre-school and basic education, to foster the transition of students, so as to enhance the construction of learning. It is presented objectively and socio-cultural realities of each of the schools surveyed, as well as the dimensions worked in the classroom as learning objectives and content, climate and interactions, education, use of time and space, manpower and materials . It describes the teaching practices found and the analysis is done in the light of the theory. It lifted the findings and suggests alternatives for action against what found that is not conducive to the development of students.

Author: UCAR VENTURA MARIA PILAR.
Year: 2004.
University: PONTIFICIA COMILLAS [www.upcomillas.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.

Summary: The author believes that the reading of contemporary dramatic works full class of Spanish language and culture for foreign students, helps to increase self-confidence and positive attitude of students as active agents and responsible for the teaching-learning processes; after making a journey time by the major methodological approaches, the emphasis is on the communicative, and working with special emphasis competition lexical and socio-cultural competition since it is considered Language and Culture form a unity inextricable; references lexical shed Culture in the that is going to practice the new language and avoid ethnocentrism and ambigà ¼ age, while reading plays âcomo fact serves as a cultural link and a vehicle for increasing the capacity of Communicative learners. We analyze and review the polysemy of Culture concept to avoid âla miniaturizaciónâ of that term. They are given the progressive results in the acquisition of new communities frasales, expressions and idioms, as well as to provide interesting examples of programs, syllabus, tables, maps and conceptual jercicios made in class: sequenced activities and cultural projects.

Author: Olivares Álvarez Andrea.
Year: 2004.
University: VALLADOLID [www.uva.es].
Place of defense: Facultad de Educación y Trabajo Social.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Educación y Trabajo Social. Universidad de Valladolid.

Summary: Summary Doctoral Thesis title: Strategies teaching of the educator and cognitive skills of the nursery. Rationale: In response to the low results in the cognitive development of toddlers in the second cycle and the statement "In large part due to inadequate teaching strategies of the educator Párvulos", a study attempted to reply with the following overall objective . To determine whether there is a relationship between the teaching strategies used by the educator nursery and the development of cognitive skills in the nursery attending the last level of preschool system in schools municipalizadas central sector of the city of Curico, Region VII, Chile . Specific objectives are working this problem and systematizing covariates considered, in turn, the research hypotheses. This descriptive research, quantitative, sectional and correlational Ex post with a design review available knowledge on the subject and then define conceptual and operational variables and general covariates. The study population is made up of educators nursery, which works with the elements available, and the nursery they serve educationally. This group extracted a representative sample, stratified and probabilistic. It was constructed and validated two instruments, one to evaluate cognitive skills in nursery second cycle and the second, to assess the methodological strategies for the educators of children. They apply the tools, analyzes the data and contrasting scenarios for some results generalize to the population study. It identifies the teaching strategies most commonly used by educators nursery considered to be most active in their educational practices. Similarly develadas mentioned deficiencies in teaching practices of the same. We suggest methodological refinements and mentioned the difficulties encountered in the development of the study. There is a proposal for intervention, suggests projections whenever mentioned the contributions made by the thesis. It is classified research in the lines: education and teaching and educational research.

Author: VALLÈS VILLANUEVA JOAN.
Year: 2004.
University: GIRONA [www.udg.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAT D'EDUCACIÓ I PSICOLOGIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT D'EDUCACIÓ I PSICOLOGIA.

Summary: We understand that from the area of arts education can work the art of hundreds of cultures and at any moment in history, a point that allows us to educate students to understand the various demonstrations that acquires one aspect of culture, the arts, as universal phenomenon. We focused the main objective of our research in the exploration of the ways and possibilities that offers arts education in relation to diversity (cultural, class, disability, age, race, gender, etc..). Partíamos the perception that in the field of arts education and culture in general, there is a tendency to describe the facts artistic and aesthetic practices from some categories unique and universally valid. These often cause forgetfulness of some specific values and especially the lack of recognition of other equally interesting artistic proposals (arts, the art / os girls / os, folk art, crafts, and so on. We have sought ways that will lead us to assume an overview of contemporary art and made an inclusive art (design, costumes, decor, functional art, folk art, art of women, net art, food, etc..). understand that education is the place where avnazar toward another way of looking at and understanding the world. Vision that since the art, provide elements for the meeting and social relations, where the difference itself and conservation "critical" one's own cultural identities are held since the conviction of true cultural enrichment. these considerations and the lack of a theoretical framework, enabling us to analyze prior to develop and evaluate the prospect multicultural arts education were the cause and circumstances to direct this work toward what we might call "art educator culturally competent" (Andrus, 2001). In this perspective comptencia is where we placed our work as well as the training needs of teachers and teachers, in the belief that any improvement in the educational phase where they operate, will all the educational process.

Author: ROMERA DIEZ PEDRO L..
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: SALA DE REUN. FAC. DE NAUT. DE BARCELONA.
Place of preparation: ETSEIB, EDIFICI H Campus SUD.

Summary: This dissertation is devoted to know the status of UPC respect to the use of information technology and communications technology (ICT) in the teaching-learning process (E / A). Our work part precisely the remarkable acceleration historic place since late twentieth century and has shaping a new scenario with regard to process I / A in a university environment (the subject of our study). Its essential elements are: Â Our environment is, therefore, society as a university. Â The instruments that make up what are information technology and communication. Â The result of the performance of the technologies on the environment is the ubiquity of the information, and hence of the training process. All this gives rise to a paradigm shift that will affect the three basic planks: Role of teacher: -acompañante-mentor-organizador-animador-formador-evaluador formativo-empatía-actualización permanent Role of student: -protagonista-and how -colabora - autoevalúa -construye knowledge Process E / A: -activo -colaborativo -formativo -sincrónico -asincrónico -flexible -bipolar -interactivo From here, our investigative process takes body to raise the initial question and the problem being investigated : Â In what way ICT affect the process of E / A, generally in university education and particularly in UPC? The next step is the review of literature for situating the state of the art. This addresses both from a general point of view, particularly as the UPC and even in the author's own work in this field methodology followed to achieve the proposed goals has been essentially positivist, and therefore empirical analytical but this is an essentially qualitative information, to be treated through the process of scaling the best and the main components categorical variables were transformed into quantitative. The next step are the objectives of the research (talking about goals rather than assumptions, and that our purpose is to define a reality check whether or not it met some assumptions). The overall objectives (which in turn were divided into other specific) are the following four: R-New architectures E / A permit generates instructional sequences with greater impact on student learning. II - The use of architectures supported by EA ICT requires changes in attitudes and behaviors of teachers and students. III - The process of E / A varies with the use of ICT. IV - The process of E / A varies with the use of ICT. The development of research has been conducted by sending a questionnaire via the web to all teachers of UPC (2,500) of whom have responded to the questionnaire everything exactly 10% Analysis of the results we can say that goals have been achieved mostly through analysis and multivariate have established certain correlations between the different variables. Once at this point we have drawn the appropriate conclusions and made suggestions to the corresponding UPC. Similarly, since this is an investigation process that does not end with the doctoral thesis, just showing a number of proposals and new lines of work to be carried out by the author and the team formed by dir 8 ectores 38d - the thesis partner and an expert in statistical analysis section A noteworthy addition to the literature and related annexes, is the âglosario específicoâ that collects a wide range of concepts related to the subject of the thesis.

Author: CASAJÚS LACOSTA ÁNGEL MARIA.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAT DE FORMACIÓ DEL PROFESSORAT.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FORMACIÓN DEL PROFESORADO.

Summary: The thesis attempts to describe the difficulties and errors that a student with disorder féficit care Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the environment for problem solving aritmético-verbales. After presenting a theoretical framework with an approximation to the deficit and research in the field of problem-solving (mainly type additive and multiplicative) is a pilot study conducted in two phases: the first consists of a cross-sectional study of the differences between completion and achievement among students with ADHD and their peers without deficit, with a large input of both qualitative and quantitative analysis, and the second shows a case study "on the spot" on the resolution of problems aritmético-verbales and implementation a program implementation in these students consisting of rewriting the wording of the problems. Finally proposed guidelines in this area for teachers and families.

Author: BUSCA DONET FRANCESC.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAT DE FORMACIÓN DEL PROFESORADO.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT EN CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.

Summary: The research focuses on the analysis of driving tasks designed to address the contents of the cross-cutting theme Health Education, in a rural school. Its purpose is to identify the criteria used by the specialist teacher of Physical Education, in the design of the driving tasks; establish procedures for employees learning students during their resolution, and assess how well the tasks driving incite strategic use of procedures learning, and therefore to learning meaningful content cross. The theoretical foundations that arropan subject of the investigation has been materialized on the educational dimension of mobility, specifically how it can be treated as an end and as a means of education, to the characterization and definition of curricular content and transverse processes of teaching and learning treaties from the perspective constructivist theories of learning and significant. The design of the research is done along the lines of a case study. The methodology used to address the subject of study is highly qualitative. Used instruments such as field notes of the investigator participant, anecdotal records of outside observers and semistructured interview with the teacher specialist FE. In addition to these techniques also conducts a systematic analysis (checklist) of the tasks previously designed by the teacher.

Author: PUJOL MAURA M. ANTÒNIA.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGIA.

Summary: This research focuses on the tenets of Carr and Kemmis and other theorists who have provided knowledge about the importance of research-action. We start from the statement which says that "There are two essential objectives of any investigation: improvement and interest. Regarding the improvement, the research points to three sectors: first, to improve the practice, secondly, the improvement the understanding of the practice by quines realized; third, to improve the situation where the practice is carried out. The purpose of interest, is coupled with the improvement. involved in the practice have to intervene at all the process ". It is obvious that those involved in our research are the direct agents of the education act, students and teachers. Since this type of research requires a commitment to all the people involved, has been carried out with the same computer teacher at a school in Barcelona. This work has identified a way of organizing work identified from finding a methodology to enhance self-employment. The investigation has thus three parts: The first part is a reflection on the theoretical concepts that allow us to think about the concept of school as an educational institution and specificity that requires a learning methodology appropriate to these early ages. In the second part raises two important aspects, which are the proper design of the research and tools for collecting observations, analysis and findings. We also tried to describe why, and to this investigation, and justify the reasons for its implementation in order to implement an innovative methodology, active and responsive to the diversity in the classroom today. In the third part we focused on the analysis of the conclusions and the development of a proposal to pose a methodology for independent learning in early childhood education and which responds to the diversity in the classroom today. In the third part we focused on the analysis of the conclusions and the development of a proposal to pose a methodology for independent learning in early childhood education from the organization of operational nuclei of Labor. These nuclei Operating Working offer the chance to work individually and independently from the use of manipulatives created some new materials to achieve the objectives originally proposed. The thesis provides a study on how to learn and innovative proposals for intervention in the classroom.

Author: RINS SALAZAR SILVIA.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.

Summary: This dissertation is an innovative research proposal, as it explores the possibilities offered an unusually poetic used in classrooms as educational materials: the prose poem. Of all literary genres, poetry is still the lowest representation within the school environment. This investigation, a full framed in the area of Teaching of Literature, but participates in various fields of knowledge, such as the history of literature, literary criticism, lingüstica text or poetic style, is structured. 1, A Theoretical Framework, which reviews the history of literature poem in prose, elaborates the peculiarities of teaching poetry and presents an anthology of texts for teaching. 2, A Projection practice, which develops an experiment conducted at the high school, entitled "The Dream of Peace", whose purpose would be threefold:-To demonstrate the possibilities of the prose poem as a teaching tool, providing a corpus text representative for formal schooling. B-Implement a proposal didactic Baccalaureate in the period that falls in a group of students who are weak in the course of Spanish language and literature. C-To underscore that the prose poem may be suggestive as teaching materials in this educational level, and can help educate students not only as students, academics and future citizens of the world, but as adolescents in the process of maturation staff. The findings of this study corroborate some of the virtues of using the poetic text in general, and the prose poem in particular, in the classroom, taking into account the interests of priority development activities responsive and productive, ie the relevant to an understanding of the literary text, and the production and creation of the student.