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Spanish adolescents and fake news: level of awareness and credibility of information (Los adolescentes españoles frente a las fake news: nivel de conciencia y credibilidad de la información) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Paula Herrero-Diz, Jesús Conde-Jiménez, Salvador Reyes-de-Cózar
ABSTRACT Young people’s exposure to fake news is a growing concern in terms of the risks that are beginning to emerge related to health (anxiety and stress), democracy (loss of trust in the media and institutions) and post-truth (permanent questioning of the facts). To ascertain Spanish adolescents’ exposure to false news, their level of awareness and how they value the credibility of digital information
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‘Step-by-step’ method to conduct applied research in organizational engineering and business management (Método ‘paso a paso’ para la investigación aplicada en el ámbito de la ingeniería organizacional y la gestión empresarial) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Manuela Escobar-Sierra, Luis-Augusto Lara-Valencia, Pilar ValenciaDeLara
ABSTRACT The management field needs to develop creative and problem-solving capabilities among students and practitioners. In this context, and after recognizing the research methods as a cognitive process part of decision-making, we propose a step-by-step method to conduct applied research in organizational engineering and business management. With this goal, we first conduct a literature review about
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First steps towards intercultural education in Vietnam: exploring primary education teachers’ level of intercultural competence (Primeros pasos hacia una educación intercultural en Vietnam: explorando la competencia intercultural de los maestros de primaria) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2021-02-15 María-Elena Gómez-Parra, Tú-Anh Hà
ABSTRACT Improving teachers’ intercultural competence is one of the keys for successful implementation of intercultural education. This paper explores Vietnamese primary education teachers’ level of intercultural competence as one of the first steps towards intercultural education in this country. The ISS-15 questionnaire was used to collect data from 70 teachers working in different schools and English
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Comparison of the level of authenticity of arithmetic word problems in Spanish and Singaporean textbooks (Comparación del nivel de autenticidad de los problemas aritméticos verbales de los libros de texto españoles y singapurenses) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Santiago Vicente, Lieven Verschaffel, David Múñez
ABSTRACT The nature of the arithmetic word problems found in maths textbooks influences the way students develop their ability to solve them, as teachers use the books in their classes quite frequently. Given that students are better able to reason through and solve authentic problems that are contextualized in situations familiar to them, and that different international assessments have shown the
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The repercussion of severe mental disorder at school: early school dropout (Las repercusiones del trastorno mental grave en la escuela: abandono escolar temprano) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Francisco Crespo-Molero, Cristina Sánchez-Romero
ABSTRACT This article shows the data obtained in the research conducted by a model ex-post-facto. We have constructed a questionnaire ad hoc in which we analyse the relationship between Severe Mental Disorder (SMD) and early school dropout. We select those 67 graduates, from a day care hospital specialized in severe mental disorder, who have a disengagement with the centre of at least five years. The
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Secondary school music education students’ perception of technology-assisted cooperative learning (Percepción del alumnado de música de educación secundaria sobre el aprendizaje cooperativo asistido por tecnología) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2021-03-03 José Palazón-Herrera
ABSTRACT Cooperative learning has been one of the burgeoning methodological approaches in recent decades due to its empirically demonstrated benefits. The use of technologies to support this methodology plays a fundamental role in better implementing it. This paper presents a study conducted with music students in the third year of ESO (Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria, or Compulsory Secondary Education)
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The role of traditional folk songs and dances in the development of intercultural communication among elementary school children (El papel de las canciones y danzas folclóricas tradicionales en el desarrollo de la comunicación intercultural entre los alumnos de la educación primaria) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Biljana Pavlović, Dragana Cicović-Sarajlić, Anđelka Kovač
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the role of traditional folk songs and dances in the development of intercultural communication among elementary school children. Since we live in a multicultural society, it is necessary to develop the awareness of young people regarding the need to nurture harmonious relations among nations. The paper outlines the results of the empirical research aimed at determining
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Reviewers for 2020 (Evaluadores del año 2020) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2021-03-03
(2021). Reviewers for 2020 (Evaluadores del año 2020) Culture and Education: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 213-215.
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Narration, argumentation and explanation: a study of the discourse units in spontaneous conversations at mealtimes (Narración, argumentación y explicación: un estudio de las unidades de discurso en conversaciones espontáneas durante situaciones de comida) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Alejandra Stein, Maia-Julieta Migdalek, Celia-Renata Rosemberg
ABSTRACT The goal of this article is to contribute to our knowledge of the discursive environment of four-year-old children in which narration, argumentation and explanation occur. Mastery of these discursive forms is a requirement for participating in classroom practices. Even though these discourse units are intertwined in everyday interactions, previous studies prioritized studying them in isolation
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The classroom as a space of welcome: exploration of the current challenges of teaching Spanish for refugees (El aula como espacio de acogida: exploración de los desafíos actuales sobre la enseñanza de español para personas refugiadas) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Dulcinea Tomás-Cámara
ABSTRACT The scant examination and dearth of academic and didactic contributions in Spain of teaching–learning Spanish for refugees is a clear shortcoming which should begin to be rectified within the next few years given the increasing presence of applicants and beneficiaries of international protection (henceforth ABIP) in our country. Given this dearth, and based on our experience as teachers with
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Effects of critical incident tasks on students’ awareness of intercultural communication (Efectos de un programa de actividades basadas en incidentes críticos en la competencia de los estudiantes sobre comunicación intercultural) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Tran-Thien-Quynh Tran, Wilfried Admiraal, Nadira Saab
ABSTRACT Due to the internationalization and globalization of businesses in Vietnam, the new-generation students need to develop skills in intercultural communication. The current study aims to develop English non-majors’ awareness of intercultural communication by using critical incident open-ended tasks. Critical incidents in intercultural communication training are descriptions of situations in
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X-ray of Spanish universities: management, structure, educational programmes and budgets (Radiografía de las universidades españolas: gestión, estructura, programas formativos y presupuestos) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Javier Sierra-Sánchez, Joaquín Sotelo-González, Hipólito Vivar-Zurita
ABSTRACT This empirical study analyses the current status of Spanish universities from three vantage points: legal, economic and academic management. We use the content analysis technique to analyse all the universities that belong to CRUE (Conferencia de Rectors de las Universidades Españolas / Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities) from these three vantage points in order to inquire into
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Bilingualism and interculture: what are teachers doing? (Bilingüismo e intercultura: ¿qué están haciendo los docentes?) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Elisa Pérez-Gracia, Rocío Serrano-Rodríguez, Antonio J. Carpio
ABSTRACT One of the main aims of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is to develop intercultural awareness and understanding among students. The objective of this study is to analyse whether CLIL primary education teachers implement the intercultural axis of CLIL in the strategies and resources they plan and use in their daily lessons, and which factors may influence this. An open-question
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Perspectives on Africa and African immigrants: evaluation of a sample of education students (Perspectivas sobre África y los inmigrantes africanos: evaluación en una muestra de estudiantes de magisterio) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Alina Martínez-Sánchez, Tamara Benito-Ambrona
ABSTRACT As educational institutions, Spanish universities today involve a diversity of subjects inhabiting them, which supports the imperative of turning schools into more inclusive communities. This study attempts a preliminary determination of the existence of racial and cultural prejudices and stereotyped beliefs about African immigrants in a sample of education students at the Autonomous University
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Forum Theatre as a democratic space of citizenship in secondary school: an educational experience in the Basque Country (Teatro Foro como espacio democrático de ciudadanía en Secundaria: una experiencia educativa en el País Vasco) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Esther Uria-Iriarte, Javier Galarreta
ABSTRACT This article seeks to explore the potential implications of using the Forum Theatre technique in secondary school settings. To do so, we describe the intervention programme undertaken in four secondary schools in the Basque Country (Spain) in which the Forum Theatre technique was one of the core methodological strategies. Based on this experience, we can draw conclusions related to the relevance
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Investigation of possible item bias on PISA 2015 science items across Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico (Estudio de los posibles sesgos entre los ítems de ciencias de la prueba PISA 2015 de Chile, Costa Rica y México) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Cozby Dzul-Garcia, Burcu Atar
ABSTRACT Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) provides valuable information to participating countries by allowing them to compare the performance of their students with the performances of students in other countries. When making such comparisons, the construct being measured should be the same across groups at the item and test levels. The purpose of this study was to examine the
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Models of didactic integration with ICT mediation: some innovation challenges in teaching practices (Modelos de integración didáctica con mediación TIC: algunos retos de innovación en las prácticas de enseñanza) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Isabel Jiménez-Becerra, Yasbley-de-María Segovia-Cifuentes
ABSTRACT The twenty-first-century school is undergoing major transformations that involve analysing how to deal with the challenge of the new information society. Currently, their job is to strengthen the individual’s competences so they can meet the needs of their context, in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play an important role. Given this backdrop, this research is based
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Attitudes towards mathematics in secondary school students. Personal and family factors (Las actitudes hacia las matemáticas del alumnado de secundaria. Factores personales y familiares) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-09-06 Nuria Galende, Ana-Rosa Arrivillaga, Jose-María Madariaga
ABSTRACT The importance of the affective domain in maths learning has been analysed since the 1980s. Among the explanatory variables of this domain, this study focuses on attitude towards mathematics and its relationship with important personal and family variables. Specifically, it analyses relationships with the family environment, family communication, self-concept and resilience in a sample of
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Border crossing. A service-learning approach based on transformative learning and cultural-historical psychology (Cruzando la frontera. Una aproximación al aprendizaje servicio desde el aprendizaje transformativo y la psicología histórico-cultural) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-09-06 José-Luis Lalueza, Beatriz Macías-Gómez-Estern
ABSTRACT This article presents an empirical study on the notion of border crossing within participation in university service learning (SL) programmes. Taking transformative learning and the cultural-historical approach as the conceptual referents, we analyse the field notes of students in their SL projects in Barcelona and Seville, geared at educational interventions with children from settings at
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Digital game for the development of classroom verbal interaction strategies: enhanced pre-service teacher training model with technology (Juego digital para el desarrollo de estrategias de interacción verbal en aula: modelo de formación inicial de profesores mejorado con tecnología) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Leonardo López-Neira, Christian Labbé, Marco Villalta
ABSTRACT This article presents the results of the implementation of a training model to develop classroom verbal interaction strategies for student teachers, combining traditional lessons (face-to-face) with a digital game. The research design was pre-experimental with a pre- and post-test which evaluated improvements in the participants’ ability to recognize, analyse and design classroom verbal interaction
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Sports monoculture and vehicular jargon in the educational value of school football in Spain (Monocultura deportiva y jerga vehicular en el valor educativo del fútbol escolar en España) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Abel Merino-Orozco, Alfredo Berbegal-Vázquez, Ana Arraiz-Pérez, Fernando Sabirón-Sierra
ABSTRACT The importance and social availability of sport in Spain is presented as a cultural space in which pleasures and dreams are placed. Football occupies a privileged place in the media in a meaningful way, which converges with the consolidation of extracurricular activities and involves elementary schools in a specific way of understanding competition, the management of free time and endemic
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What school social climate factors affect mathematics performance in secondary school students? A multilevel análisis (¿Qué factores de Clima Social Escolar afectan el desempeño de Matemática en estudiantes secundarios? Un análisis multinivel) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-08-07 Mónica Bravo-Sanzana, Sonia Salvo-Garrido, Horacio Miranda-Vargas, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala
ABSTRACT The international literature and public policy actions in education have positioned the school environment as a significant component of academic performance and the well-being of the entire educational community. The objective of this study is to identify the school social climate factors that affect secondary school students’ academic performance in mathematics via a multilevel analysis
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Critical digital literacy of future teachers in the Twitter Age (La alfabetización crítica digital del futuro profesorado en tiempos de Twitter) (La alfabetización crítica digital del futuro profesorado en tiempos de Twitter) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Antoni Santisteban, María-Consuelo Díez-Bedmar, Jordi Castellví
ABSTRACT The transformations caused by the proliferation of social media in the Digital Age are having a huge impact on the field of education. Teacher training programmes are faced with the challenge of preparing future teachers to interpret digital media critically. Creating an informed, reflective citizenry depends on this training. This leads to the question: Are future teachers critical thinkers
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Alliances, oppositions and the nature of ephemeral identities in ethnically diversified Basque education (Alianzas, oposiciones y la naturaleza de las identidades efímeras en el sistema educativo vasco étnicamente diverso) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Elizabeth Pérez-Izaguirre, Gorka Roman
ABSTRACT This study is part of a broader ethnographically based research project analysing interethnic student interactions in the Basque education system. It focuses on the nature of interethnic student alliances and oppositions within Basque education, which act as identity producers. The research methods include documentary analysis, participant observation, 36 semi-structured interviews and four
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Dialogic construction of a culture of lawfulness in basic education institutions in Mexico (Construcción dialógica de una cultura de la legalidad en instituciones de educación básica en México) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Sergio Reyes-Angona, Juan-Manuel Fernández-Cárdenas, Yolanda Heredia, Adriana Castro
ABSTRACT Culture of Lawfulness at my School (CLS) is a programme to build a culture of respect for and appreciation of lawfulness implemented in primary and secondary schools, with a total of 3,234 students at 76 schools in Monterrey and five community centres in Tijuana, two regions in northern Mexico which have particularly been affected by the violence associated with drug trafficking. The programme
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Is explicit instruction effective? The learning of English noun-noun and adjective-noun structures by L1 Spanish school children (¿Es efectiva la instrucción explícita? El aprendizaje de las estructuras nombre-nombre y adjetivo-nombre del inglés por escolares de L1 español) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Eduardo Gómez-Garzarán, Raquel Fernández-Fuertes
ABSTRACT The relative order of constituents within determiner phrases (DP) in which the noun is modified by an adjective (AN) has traditionally been taught in English as an L2 subject in the Spanish context. This is not the case for the same type of phrase in which the N-head is modified by another N (NN). This study aims to assess the impact of direct instruction in English NNs as part of the school
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Meanings of pedagogical authority in future teachers in Spain and Latin America. Understandings in education students from Chile, Colombia, Venezuela and Spain (Significados de la autoridad pedagógica en futuros profesores y profesoras de Iberoamérica. Comprensiones en estudiantes de pedagogía de Chile, Colombia, Venezuela y España) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Guillermo Zamora-Poblete, Pedro Gil-Madrona, Luz-Marina Méndez-Hinojosa, Pedro Galvis-Leal, José Tadeo-Morales
espanolLa educacion escolar requiere de la guia, orientacion y conduccion de un profesorado que se responsabilice por el desarrollo de sus estudiantes. Es asi como educar implica asimetrias, jerarquias; es decir, autoridad pedagogica. Sin embargo, las sociedades actuales son cada vez menos jerarquicas y los sujetos son mas criticos de la autoridad. En un contexto sociocultural de debilitamiento de
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Promoting academic literacy skills among seven graders in Arabic as L1 in Israel (El fomento del lenguaje académico de los estudiantes de lengua árabe en el primer curso de secundaria en Israel) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Bahaa Makhoul, Thuraia Copti-Mshael
ABSTRACT The current study presents findings from an academic literacy intervention programme targeting Arabic-native-speaking seventh-graders. Ninety-two pupils were assigned to either print (36 pupils) or computerized (30 pupils) learning platforms, whereas the remaining pupils (26) were in a control group. Three academic vocabulary knowledge tests (receptive, productive and application in context)
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Digital storytelling in the ecology of learning (Relatos digitales personales en la ecología del aprendizaje) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-04-02 José-Luis Rodríguez-Illera, Elena Barberà-Gregori, Anna Martínez-Fernàndez
ABSTRACT Digital storytelling in the ecology of learning is a project which strives to understand digital storytelling in which youths capture an important aspect or event of their lives, give it meaning and share this meaning on social media. To do so, the goal is to better understand these new practices of posting content (posts, selfies, etc.) via a survey of more than 850 students aged 12 to 22
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Teachers’ digital competence in using and analytically managing information in flipped learning (Competencia digital docente para el uso y gestión analítica informacional del aprendizaje invertido) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Santiago Pozo-Sánchez, Jesús López-Belmonte, Antonio-Manuel Rodríguez-García, Juan-Antonio López-Núñez
ABSTRACT The use of flipped learning as a methodological approach entails the constant use of content management platforms. The interactions generated on these platforms yield big data, and managing and analysing these data facilitates the teachers’ decision-making to improve their educational actions. The objective of this study is to ascertain the influence of the teachers’ level of digital competence
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Online instruction. A system for educational inclusion in the university setting (La enseñanza en línea. Un sistema para la inclusión educativa en el entorno) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Elena Vilaverde
ABSTRACT The goal of this article is to analyse online instruction’s potential to foster the development of inclusive educational systems within higher education. To do so, it explores knowledge of virtual instruction environments and establishes three strands fostered by virtual learning systems which promote the inclusion of all higher education students. These three strands are made up of: (1) pedagogical
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Training on inclusion in higher education: prepared to work within the inclusive model? (Formación sobre inclusión en la educación superior: ¿preparados para trabajar desde el modelo inclusivo?) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Aida Sanahuja, Alicia Benet Gil, Raquel Nieto
ABSTRACT It is important for education and psychology professionals, as well as students in these disciplines, to be trained in the inclusive model. The objective of this study is to inquire into the participants’ perception and training in a massive open online course (MOOC) in the inclusive classroom. The methodology employed is a descriptive design which uses the survey method and a questionnaire
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University academic personnel’s vision of inclusive education in Spanish universities (Visión del profesorado sobre la educación inclusiva en la universidad en España) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Vicente J. Llorent, Izabela Zych, Juan-Carlos Varo-Millán
ABSTRACT Inclusive education is a new pedagogical vision of the education system that fosters social cohesion and equality. There are numerous political initiatives to implement inclusive education in different educational stages, including university. However, the scope of these initiatives and the influence of the change agents, university faculty, are still not known. The objective of this study
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Tutoring students with disabilities at the university (La tutorización de los estudiantes con discapacidad en la universidad) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Josep-Maria Sanahuja-Gavaldà, José-Luís Muñoz-Moreno, Joaquín Gairín-Sallán
ABSTRACT University is a place of knowledge and education that is highly appropriate for easing the transition into society and the labour world in a highly technical, specialized society that needs the full involvement of everyone. Our objective is to explore the role that tutoring students with disabilities at university plays in the process towards an inclusive university. Tutoring during admission
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University research and practices in the field of special needs: an overview (Panorama de la investigación y prácticas universitarias en el ámbito de las necesidades especiales) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Mari-Carmen Campoy-Cubillo, Miguel-Angel Fortea-Bagán
Abstract Training and research in special educational needs (SENs) are crucial in order to properly implement strategies that foster inclusive education at university. Today more than ever, education is connected to new job opportunities, success and social and educational mobility. A university policy should meet the increasing demands from many groups of individuals with functional diversity, whom
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Measuring attitudes towards inclusion among university students pursuing education degrees: descriptive study (Medición de actitudes de estudiantes universitarios de magisterio hacia la inclusión: estudio descriptivo) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Diego Navarro-Mateu, Jacqueline Franco-Ochoa, Vicente-Javier Prado-Gascó
ABSTRACT The formation of inclusive attitudes in university students is essential because of the direct responsibility they have in the classroom. This descriptive study seeks to examine the levels of inclusive attitudes among future teachers towards students with special educational needs (SEN) or disabilities, as well as the relationship between these attitudes and sociodemographic variables. The
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Inclusive internships for students at Jaume I University: learning from the process and future challenges (ONCE Foundation–CRUE Spanish universities) (Prácticas inclusivas para el estudiantado de la Universitat Jaume I: aprendizaje de proceso y retos de futuro -Fundación ONCE–CRUE, universidades españolas-) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-01-02 María-Isabel Beas-Collado, Olga Carbó-Badal
ABSTRACT The objective is to show the coordination of the career service and attention to diversity services at Jaume I University to work in favour of the employability of students with special educational needs and/or a recognized disability. This article will analyse the experiment carried out in 2016–17 with a pioneering programme in external internships for students with disabilities financed
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Functional diversity or disability? Social and conceptual challenges of the new educational paradigms (¿Diversidad funcional o discapacidad? Retos sociales y conceptuales de los nuevos paradigmas educativos) Culture and Education Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Marta Senent-Ramos
ABSTRACT Before discussing what functional diversity is, it is important to know the terms that refer to it in our language, in this case Spanish, as well as the most appropriate ones and the ones we should eliminate from our vocabulary because they are pejorative. Why is the term with which we refer to people who belong to this group so important? There may be people who think that it does not matter
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