Gloria Nogueiras
Marbella international university, Psychology, Faculty Member
- Developmental Psychology, Education, Educational Psychology, Teacher Education, Technology, New Media, and 35 moreHigher Education, Educational Technology, Adult Education, Emotion, Teacher Training, Teaching and Learning, Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Adolescent Development, Adult Development, Dynamical Systems, Epistemology, Individual Differences, Educational Assessment, Andragogy in Teacher Education, Change detection, Experiential Education, Experiential Learning, Developmental Transitions, Phase Transitions, Research and Development, Developmental Trajectory, Transformational Change, Qualitative Research (Education), Nvivo Based Qualitative Research, Qualitative methodology, Qualitative Methods, Qualitative Research Methods, Qualitative Methodologies, Marcia Baxter Magolda, Bradford Keeney, Robert Kegan, Jack Mezirow, Nel Noddings, and Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiryedit
- I´m interested in exploring learning and developmental processes from a process-oriented approach. In doing so, I tru... moreI´m interested in exploring learning and developmental processes from a process-oriented approach. In doing so, I trust on Dynamic Systems methods as well as qualitative methods. In my PhD Thesis I investigated the emotional experience over time of higher education students immersed in experiential and collaborative learning contexts as a way to understand the epistemological changes that these students undergo throughout such learning experiences, as well as how constructivist methodology can enhance such processes and outcomes.edit
Este informe identifica prácticas educativas innovadoras cuando los videojuegos comerciales, combinados con otras tecnologías nuevas o consolidadas, están presentes en las aulas de enseñanza secundaria. Se presentan los resultados de una... more
Este informe identifica prácticas educativas innovadoras cuando los videojuegos comerciales, combinados con otras tecnologías nuevas o consolidadas, están presentes en las aulas de enseñanza secundaria. Se presentan los resultados de una investigación desarrollada durante el curso 2008- 2009. Su objetivo general es generar nuevos conocimientos desde los que diseñar escenarios que, tomando a los videojuegos como punto de partida, contribuyan a formar una ciudadanía responsable y crítica ante los nuevos medios de comunicación. Objetivos y contexto del proyecto Sus objetivos específicos han sido los siguientes 1. Determinar las creencias y prácticas de los estudiantes hacia los videojuegos comerciales, considerados como instrumentos de aprendizaje. 2. Identificar qué enseñan algunos videojuegos comerciales y cómo aprender desde su currículum oculto. 3. Conocer en qué medida contribuyen a transformar las aulas para facilitar la integración de minorías culturales, resolver problemas de aprendizaje entre los estudiantes y favorecer la colaboración. 4. Diseñar estrategias que apoyen al profesorado en sus enseñanzas relacionadas con los contenidos del currículum. 5. Explicar por qué pueden combinarse con otros medios de comunicación y otras tecnologías de la información para desarrollar en los estudiantes nuevas formas de alfabetización. La investigación se ha realizado desde un enfoque etnográfico durante el curso escolar 2008-2009 en un centro educativo público de la Comunidad de Madrid. Un equipo de 10 investigadoras e investigadores de la Universidad de Alcalá y la UNED han participado junto a todo el profesorado del centro y los estudiantes. Electronic Arts, desde su proyecto de Responsabilidad Social Corporativa apoyó la iniciativa. El total de alumnado del centro es de 952 estudiantes, que se distribuyen en ciclos formativos de Grado Medio (ESO, 324 alumnos/as) y Superior. Un porcentaje muy elevado de alumnos (alrededor de 300 alumnos) y de profesorado (17) han participado directamente y de forma continuada en el proyecto. El resto de alumnado y profesorado intervino en sesiones concretas de formación o de puesta en común de las experiencias. Los videojuegos comerciales se utilizaron en asignaturas muy diversas: Lengua castellana, Biología, Ámbito sociolingüístico, Inglés, Francés, Filosofía, Medidas de atención al estudio, Administración/Gestión, E. Física, Música. Los videojuegos, junto a otras tecnologías digitales y medios de comunicación, se introdujeron en las aulas en el marco de talleres específicos de aproximadamente 8 sesiones, dentro del horario escolar habitual. Las actividades se organizaron en forma de talleres, coordinados por el profesor/a de la asignatura, que delimitaba los objetivos, compartidos con el equipo investigador y el alumnado. Durante las sesiones de clase las actividades se organizaban a través de cuatro fases: Dialogar, jugar con videojuegos en pequeños grupos, reflexionar en gran grupo, elaborar diferentes productos audiovisuales que sintetizaban la experiencia en el taller o los análisis del videojuego. El profesorado junto al equipo investigador, escuchando también las opiniones de los estudiantes, decidió los videojuegos utilizados. Estuvieron presentes juegos de estrategia (Spore y Boom Blox), simulación(Los Sims 2 Naufragos y SimCity Creator), de aventuras (Harry Potter y la orden del Fenix), deportes(NBA09, FIFA 09, FIFA10) y música (Rock Band).
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Este artículo se enmarca en un estudio que investiga el proceso de aprendizaje de tres estudiantes en una asignatura de Habilidades de Counselling que pretendía favorecer la exploración personal mediante metodología experiencial. Un... more
Este artículo se enmarca en un estudio que investiga el proceso de aprendizaje de tres estudiantes en una asignatura de Habilidades de Counselling que pretendía favorecer la exploración personal mediante metodología experiencial. Un análisis preliminar de los textos de los estudiantes-incluidos en sus blogs, y en una actividad final de evaluación, y de las medidas de datos repetidos recogidos en cuestionarios de seguimiento a lo largo de la asignatura-midiendo la intensidad de las emociones y el grado de seguridad y desafío experimentados-nos ha permitido identificar unas fases comunes en los procesos de aprendizaje de estos estudiantes: 1. Estabilidad inicial; 2. Desestabilización en respuesta a las nuevas demandas; 3. Transición relacionada con cambios en la percepción de las nuevas demandas; 4. reasentamiento. Estas fases se ilustran utilizando como ejemplo el proceso de una de las tres estudian-tes. Finalmente, se discuten brevemente los resultados en el contexto del aprendizaje transformacional, y se identifican futuras líneas en el análisis de datos. palabras clave: Aprendizaje Transformacional, Aprendizaje Experiencial, Exploración Personal, Metodología Cualitativa, Medidas repetidas de datos // Abstract: This study investigates the learning process of three students in a subject on Counselling skills that was intended to promote personal exploration through expe-riential learning methodology. A preliminary analysis of the students' texts included in their blogs, and in a final evaluation activity-and of data collected in follow-up questionnaires throughout the course-measuring the intensity of the emotions and the degree of security and challenge experienced-enabled us to identify some common phases in the students' learning process: 1. initial stability; 2. Desestabilization as a response to the new demands; 3. Transition related to changes in the perception of the new demands; 4. reorganization. These phases are illustrated using as an example one of the students' process. Finally, results are discussed briefly in the context of trans-formational learning and future lines in data analysis are identified.
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Este capítulo pretende hacer una revisión, por un lado, de los espacios de participación propuestos en el VIII encuentro de innovación en docencia universitaria (EIDU) de la Universidad de Alcalá, y, por otro lado, de la selección de... more
Este capítulo pretende hacer una revisión, por un lado, de los espacios de participación propuestos en el VIII encuentro de innovación en docencia universitaria (EIDU) de la Universidad de Alcalá, y, por otro lado, de la selección de experiencias de innovación docente presentadas en este encuentro que forman parte del presente
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This study investigates how the transition toward self-direction is experienced and facilitated in 2 semester-long courses in teacher education degree programs and the differences in such a transition for freshman and master’s students.... more
This study investigates how the transition toward self-direction is experienced and facilitated in 2 semester-long courses in teacher education degree programs and the differences in such a transition for freshman and master’s students. The thematic analysis of the written self-assessments of 8 illustrative examples enabled the detection of (a) students’ initial upset in the face of demands for internal authority; (b) the support of the teacher and peers in managing that upset; and (c) the students’ shift toward more complex conceptions of learning and teaching, including evidence of increasing self-direction. These findings shed light on the potential of intentionally designed learning contexts for promoting students’ epistemological development. The similarities found between freshman and master’s students’ experiences when managing the demands of internal authority emphasize the underutilization of the most extended teaching practices in higher education.
Research Interests: Epistemology, Teacher Education, Academic Development, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, and 10 moreQualitative Research (Education), Self-Directed Learning (Education), Qualitative Research Methods, Thematic Analysis, Epistemological Development, Self Assessment, Conceptions of Teaching and Learning, Developmental Transitions, Freshman Students, and master's students
Our research takes into consideration the premise that learning and development are intertwined processes (King & Baxter Magolda, 1996; Baxter Magolda, 2000, 2004) and is located theoretically and practically within a constructivist... more
Our research takes into consideration the premise that learning and development are intertwined processes (King & Baxter Magolda, 1996; Baxter Magolda, 2000, 2004) and is located theoretically and practically within a constructivist epistemology (Bruner, 1990; Piaget, 1975; Vygotsky, 1979), coherent with the role that the nowadays educational model gives the student. In this context, we provided collaborative and experiential learning settings that were aimed to foster students´ development and promote a self-directed learning in the field of Developmental Psychology in higher education.
To monitor and encourage the process of exploration and reflection of the students we suggested the creation of a personal blog and the elaboration of a final self-assessment task. Both type of narratives, those included in the blogs and in the self-assessment task, were analyzed through a categorical content analysis with the software Atlas.ti in order to follow the students´ trajectory during the subject.
The emerged model reveals that the generation of little structured situations that entailed a conflict for the students and the suggestion of qualitatively different ways of approaching reality, as exploration, doubt, formulation of questions, adoption of different perspectives or reasoned decision making (Perry, 1970; Rapaport, 2006) sought to facilitate the transition of the students towards a qualitatively more complex order of consciousness (Kegan, 1994) and the emergence of self-directed learners (Grow, 1991). In line with recent publications (Baxter Magolda, 2000, 2004; Drago-Severson & Pinto 2004; Iborra et al., 2009; Kegan, 1994, 2000) we consider that providing learning contexts as those we describe can contribute to develop competences that help people to navigate autonomously in an increasingly complex and changing reality.
To monitor and encourage the process of exploration and reflection of the students we suggested the creation of a personal blog and the elaboration of a final self-assessment task. Both type of narratives, those included in the blogs and in the self-assessment task, were analyzed through a categorical content analysis with the software Atlas.ti in order to follow the students´ trajectory during the subject.
The emerged model reveals that the generation of little structured situations that entailed a conflict for the students and the suggestion of qualitatively different ways of approaching reality, as exploration, doubt, formulation of questions, adoption of different perspectives or reasoned decision making (Perry, 1970; Rapaport, 2006) sought to facilitate the transition of the students towards a qualitatively more complex order of consciousness (Kegan, 1994) and the emergence of self-directed learners (Grow, 1991). In line with recent publications (Baxter Magolda, 2000, 2004; Drago-Severson & Pinto 2004; Iborra et al., 2009; Kegan, 1994, 2000) we consider that providing learning contexts as those we describe can contribute to develop competences that help people to navigate autonomously in an increasingly complex and changing reality.
Research Interests: Blogs, Teacher Education, Academic Development, Higher Education, Emerging Adulthood, and 16 moreAtlas.ti, Developmental Education, Self-Directed Learning (Education), Qualitative Research Methods, Constructivism (Education), Narratives, Collaborative Learning, Experiential Learning, Developmental Trajectory, Qualitative Analysis, Self Assessment, Emerging Adults, Categorical Content Analysis, Freshman, master's students, and freshmen students
Con el propósito de mostrar el mosaico de estrategias vinculadas a la participación que se dieron cita en el VII Encuentro de Innovación en Docencia Universitaria, dedicamos el presente capítulo a recoger las dinámicas que fueron... more
Con el propósito de mostrar el mosaico de estrategias vinculadas a la participación que se dieron cita en el VII Encuentro de Innovación en Docencia Universitaria, dedicamos el presente capítulo a recoger las dinámicas que fueron diseñadas y desarrolladas en él. Con la colaboración de Miguel Ángel Santos Guerra, quien nos ayudó a comenzar a construir un marco de comprensión en torno a la participación, se inició el encuentro. De la puesta en práctica de las propuestas que siguieron a esta inauguración, basadas fundamentalmente en el diálogo, evocamos la riqueza emergida a modo de recapitulación. Abstract This chapter covers the different activities developed at the VII Meeting in «Innovation in University Teaching», linked with participation, in order to show the mosaic of strategies gathered. The meeting opened with the participation of Miguel Ángel Santos Guerra, who helped us to build a frame of understanding about participation. We then recall the richness emerged in the dialogu...
We present a quantitative and qualitative pilot study aimed to study the emotional processes and individual trajectories of the participants in a methodological experiential challenging learning experience aimed to promote... more
We present a quantitative and qualitative pilot study aimed to study the emotional processes and individual trajectories of the participants in a methodological experiential challenging learning experience aimed to promote studentsáutonomy. This experience was conducted in the subject of " Social Skills " for students of the degree of Psychopedagogy in the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) during the second semester of academic year 2010/2011.The subject took place along thirty one sessions and was attended by around fifty students between twenty-three and fifty-three. At the beginning of the course, and as an optional activity, the students were asked to register what they were feeling throughout the sessions in order to facilitate their personal reflection. On the one hand they had to track, by means of scale weekly reports, the occurrence and intensity of thirteen different emotional states. On the other hand, they were invited to record, through weekly reports, the most significant events experienced during the sessions. By the end of the course we had gathered a total of ninety-five records from eleven students, nine women and two men. Although in a first moment we selected four cases to be analysed, as they were not homogeneous in the number or timing of registers we considered as more interesting to focus on one of the cases and make a preliminary analysis, as an approach to future and more systematized research projects. Our proposal to analyse the data collected in the kind of experience we are presenting would consist of a categorical content analysis of the narratives made with the program Atlas.ti (Iborra, 2007 b) [1] and on analysis of variability, continuities, discontinuities and changes in trajectories (Kunnen et al., 2011). [2] This work tries to contribute with some ideas to the reflection about the teaching and learning processes, emphasizing on the importance of studentsíndividual trajectories and suggesting some ways to measure and analyse them. We consider that this is particularly relevant in the case of people who will work as professionals in the field of education.
Research Interests: Emotion, Dynamical Systems, Teacher Education, Learner Autonomy, Atlas.ti, and 14 moreAutonomy, Qualitative Research Methods, Narratives, Experiential Learning, Social Skills, Undergraduate Education, Developmental Trajectory, Qualitative Analysis, Categorical Content Analysis, Optionality, Individual trajectories, emotional processes, challenging learning experience, and intra-individual variability
Nuestro trabajo analiza la utilización de los blogs cómo herramienta para facilitar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de primer curso del Grado de Magisterio en la Universidad de Alcalá. A lo largo del curso, como una de las actividades... more
Nuestro trabajo analiza la utilización de los blogs cómo herramienta para facilitar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de primer curso del Grado de Magisterio en la Universidad de Alcalá. A lo largo del curso, como una de las actividades fundamentales para la evaluación continua, pedimos a los alumnos que trabajaran en pequeño grupo creando sus blogs y publicando sus conclusiones de cada tema para la asignatura Psicología del Desarrollo. Para ello, les planteamos temas de debate a partir del contenido teórico que ellos tenían que debatir primero en su pequeño grupo, y después justificar en gran grupo. Las conclusiones de cada uno eran después publicadas en sus blogs y todos los compañeros tenían acceso a ellas para poder ir construyendo su conocimiento de forma compartida (Dawes, L. et al, 2004). Para analizar esta experiencia contamos con los blogs creados por cada grupo y los comentarios que surgieron entre ellos, así como con una evaluación sobre el uso de esta metodología que realizamos al finalizar la asignatura. A través del trabajo en clase y los blogs tratamos de construir una comunidad de aprendices (Barton & Tusting, 2005) en la que analizar los conceptos fundamentales de la asignatura promoviendo actitudes reflexivas. Con este trabajo pretendemos aportar algunas ideas para la reflexión sobre el cambio en las metodologías de enseñanza universitaria. Destacamos el papel activo de nuestros alumnos de forma que se hagan responsables de su propio aprendizaje basándonos en la adquisición de competencias (Coll, 2008). Pensamos que esto tiene especial relevancia al tratarse de estudiantes que en un futuro trabajarán como profesionales de la educación.
Research Interests: Developmental Psychology, Blogs, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Critical Thinking, and 16 moreOnline Learning, Reflection, Online Teaching and Learning, Pensamiento Crítico, Psicologia Del Desarrollo, Evaluación Continua, Educación superior, Educational Innovation, Community of Learners, Online Teaching, FORMACION DE PROFESORES, Continuous Assessment, Innovacion Educativa, Comunidades de Aprendizaje, Reflexión, and Enseñanza Virtual
El artículo aborda los conceptos de cultura popular y fenómeno transmedia a través de dos experiencias prácticas. En la primera, el alumnado de segundo de Primaria analiza las diferencias existentes entre la segunda película de Harry... more
El artículo aborda los conceptos de cultura popular y fenómeno transmedia a través de dos experiencias prácticas. En la primera, el alumnado de segundo de Primaria analiza las diferencias existentes entre la segunda película de Harry Potter y su correspondiente videojuego. En la segunda práctica, el alumnado de primero de ESO compara el mundo real y el mundo virtual y establece conexiones mediante, por ejemplo, una entrevista al mismísimo Harry Potter.
This contribution focuses on an innovative educational experience developed in a Public High School in Madrid, where a group of youngsters and their music teacher created their own music bands to interpret popular songs of their favourite... more
This contribution focuses on an innovative educational experience developed in a Public High School in Madrid, where a group of youngsters and their music teacher created their own music bands to interpret popular songs of their favourite groups and produced their own video clips. The research group collaborated in the design of the educational experience from a research-action perspective, playing the researchers the role of participant observers. Throughout the class sessions, the students approached topics directly related to the course content, such as “rhythm”, “tempo”, “chords”, and “melodies”, at the same time that they created participative and collaborative spaces while playing music. This innovative school context provided the opportunity to generate multimedia productions and favoured the students’ acquisition of new forms of literacy. This activity enabled also the students to develop their creativity through the elaboration of multimedia products where, the same as famous musical groups, they played some themes that they later showed to their “fans” in YouTube. The analysis of the experience focused on the dimensions of the educational design that contributed to generate innovative educational contexts, namely: 1) the design of the social and physical space of the classroom, 2) the new role of the adults in the learning context, specially the teacher and the members of the research group, 3) the digital literacies and multimedia discourses present in the students’ productions.
Research Interests: Music Education, Participatory Action Research, Action Research, New Literacies, Digital Media And New Literacies, and 15 moreVirtual Worlds, Secondary Education, Classroom Action Research, Videogames, Collaborative Learning, Youtube, Multimedia in Education, Adolescents, Participant Observation, School Action Research, High School Students, Videoclip, Higher Secondary School Students, Educational Action Research, and Educational Videogames
Este estudio investiga, desde un enfoque cualitativo, el proceso de transformación de tres estudiantes en una asignatura de Habilidades de Counselling que pretendía favorecer la exploración personal mediante metodología experiencial. Un... more
Este estudio investiga, desde un enfoque cualitativo, el proceso de transformación de tres estudiantes en una asignatura de Habilidades de Counselling que pretendía favorecer la exploración personal mediante metodología experiencial. Un análisis de los textos de los estudiantes -incluidos en sus blogs, autoevaluaciones y la transcripción de una entrevista-, y de los datos recogidos en cuestionarios de seguimiento –midiendo las emociones y el grado de seguridad y desafío experimentados- nos condujo a dos resultados: por un lado, la existencia de unas fases comunes en el proceso de transformación (1. Estabilidad inicial; 2. Desestabilización en respuesta a la complejidad metodológica; 3. Transición relacionada con cambios en la percepción de las nuevas demandas, 4. Reestructuración); por otro lado, la presencia de asuntos personales que fueron relevantes en dicho proceso para cada estudiante.
During the academic year 2011-2012 the authors performed an activity consisting in making a drawing with the instruction “draw yourself as a teacher” in order to explore how the participants (in the different courses in which it was... more
During the academic year 2011-2012 the authors performed an activity consisting in making a drawing with the instruction “draw yourself as a teacher” in order to explore how the participants (in the different courses in which it was performed), could represent their implicit knowledge about their identity as teachers. This activity took place in different formal university courses for students who wanted to become Primary, Secondary and Higher Education Teachers. These courses were implemented in three different cultural frameworks: Spanish culture (University of Alcalá, Madrid), Guinea Ecuatorial culture, (University of Guinea Ecuatorial, Malabo) and North Sahara culture (Institute of Pedagogical Training, 9th of June Saharan Camp, Tindouf). In the paper we analyze and reflect on these drawings on the basis of the following exploration guidelines: is the identity of being a teacher maintained through different educational levels and cultures?; what are the main traits of this professional identity?; what are the main differences in relation to the educational level and the different culture?; how is the identity of being a teacher mostly represented and what kind of narratives are sustaining it? The narratives which could lie underneath this kind of representations of the self as a teacher are then discussed and connected with current literature on this topic.
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Our research takes into consideration the premise that learning and development are intertwined processes (King & Baxter Magolda, 1996; Baxter Magolda, 2000, 2004) and is located theoretically and practically within a constructivist... more
Our research takes into consideration the premise that learning and development are intertwined processes (King & Baxter Magolda, 1996; Baxter Magolda, 2000, 2004) and is located theoretically and practically within a constructivist epistemology (Bruner, 1990; Piaget, 1975; Rogoff, 1997; Vygotsky, 1979), coherent with the role that the nowadays educational model gives the student.
In this context, we provided collaborative and experiential learning settings that were aimed to foster students´ development and promote a self-directed learning in the field of Developmental Psychology in higher education.
To monitor and encourage the process of exploration and reflection of the students we suggested the creation of a personal blog and the elaboration of a final self-assessment task. Both narratives, those included in the blogs and in the self-assessment task, were analyzed through a categorical content analysis with Atlas.ti in order to follow the students´ trajectory during the subject.
The emerged model reveals that the generation of little structured situations that entailed a conflict for the students and the suggestion of qualitatively different ways of approaching reality, as exploration, doubt, formulation of questions, adoption of different perspectives or reasoned decision making (Perry, 1970; Rapaport, 2006) sought to facilitate the transition of the students towards a qualitatively more complex orders of consciousness (Kegan, 1994) and the emergence of self-directed learners (Grow, 1991). In line with recent publications (Baxter Magolda, 2000, 2004; Drago-Severson & Pinto 2004; Iborra et al., 2009; Kegan, 1994, 2000; Kroger, 2004) we consider that providing learning contexts as those we describe can contribute to develop competences that help people to navigate autonomously in an increasingly complex and changing reality.
In this context, we provided collaborative and experiential learning settings that were aimed to foster students´ development and promote a self-directed learning in the field of Developmental Psychology in higher education.
To monitor and encourage the process of exploration and reflection of the students we suggested the creation of a personal blog and the elaboration of a final self-assessment task. Both narratives, those included in the blogs and in the self-assessment task, were analyzed through a categorical content analysis with Atlas.ti in order to follow the students´ trajectory during the subject.
The emerged model reveals that the generation of little structured situations that entailed a conflict for the students and the suggestion of qualitatively different ways of approaching reality, as exploration, doubt, formulation of questions, adoption of different perspectives or reasoned decision making (Perry, 1970; Rapaport, 2006) sought to facilitate the transition of the students towards a qualitatively more complex orders of consciousness (Kegan, 1994) and the emergence of self-directed learners (Grow, 1991). In line with recent publications (Baxter Magolda, 2000, 2004; Drago-Severson & Pinto 2004; Iborra et al., 2009; Kegan, 1994, 2000; Kroger, 2004) we consider that providing learning contexts as those we describe can contribute to develop competences that help people to navigate autonomously in an increasingly complex and changing reality.
Research Interests: Developmental Psychology, Epistemology, Blogs, Higher Education, Conflict, and 15 moreEmerging Adulthood, Atlas.ti, Developmental Education, Self-Directed Learning (Education), Qualitative Research Methods, Constructivism (Education), Reflection, Collaborative Learning, Phase Transitions, Experiential Learning, Cognitive Conflict, Epistemological Development, Qualitative Analysis, Self Assessment, and Categorical Content Analysis
Our interest focuses on the study of the trajectories and change processes throughout the time in learning environments. As the emphasis of our project is on the phenomenon of learning processes, we collected data from four different... more
Our interest focuses on the study of the trajectories and change processes throughout the time in learning environments. As the emphasis of our project is on the phenomenon of learning processes, we collected data from four different methodological experiential challenging learning experiences aimed to promote the autonomy of adolescents and emerging adults university students.
More specifically our aims are to detect different patterns in the emotional and learning trajectories, to analyze the qualitative narratives expressed by the participants and to determine the intra-individual variability in developmental trajectories.
We consider this project as a methodological challenge in two levels. At one level, and as researchers with a psychological background, we wish to implement a kind of inquiry loyal to the new approaches in psychology (Smith and Sparkes 2005, Valsiner 2009, Kunnen et al.2011) which pay attention to the complexity and multiplicity of the individual and avoid the research that tries to uniform the phenomena and the subjects. In another level, and as teachers, we are committed to the need to provide the students a context where the qualitatively different ways to approach the learning allowed them to explore, to doubt, to question, to see things from different perspectives or to make reasoned decisions (Perry 1970, Kegan 1994, Rapaport 2006, Baxter-Magolda, 2000).
To sum up, this work tries to contribute with some ideas to the reflection about the teaching and learning processes, emphasizing on the importance of students´ individual trajectories and suggesting some ways to measure and analyse them.
More specifically our aims are to detect different patterns in the emotional and learning trajectories, to analyze the qualitative narratives expressed by the participants and to determine the intra-individual variability in developmental trajectories.
We consider this project as a methodological challenge in two levels. At one level, and as researchers with a psychological background, we wish to implement a kind of inquiry loyal to the new approaches in psychology (Smith and Sparkes 2005, Valsiner 2009, Kunnen et al.2011) which pay attention to the complexity and multiplicity of the individual and avoid the research that tries to uniform the phenomena and the subjects. In another level, and as teachers, we are committed to the need to provide the students a context where the qualitatively different ways to approach the learning allowed them to explore, to doubt, to question, to see things from different perspectives or to make reasoned decisions (Perry 1970, Kegan 1994, Rapaport 2006, Baxter-Magolda, 2000).
To sum up, this work tries to contribute with some ideas to the reflection about the teaching and learning processes, emphasizing on the importance of students´ individual trajectories and suggesting some ways to measure and analyse them.
Research Interests: Emotion, Higher Education, Emerging Adulthood, Qualitative Research Methods, Narratives, and 11 moreExperiential Learning, Patterns, Adolescents, Undergraduate Education, Developmental Trajectory, Qualitative Analysis, Process Oriented Psychology, Emerging Adults, Individual trajectories, emotional processes, and challenging learning experience
We present a quantitative and qualitative pilot study aimed to study the emotional processes and individual trajectories of the participants in a methodological experiential challenging learning experience aimed to promote students´... more
We present a quantitative and qualitative pilot study aimed to study the emotional processes and individual trajectories of the participants in a methodological experiential challenging learning experience aimed to promote students´ autonomy.
This experience was conducted in the subject of “Social Skills” for students of the degree of Psychopedagogy in the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) during the second semester of academic year 2010/2011.The subject took place along thirty one sessions and was attended by around fifty students between twenty-three and fifty-three.
At the beginning of the course, and as an optional activity, the students were asked to register what they were feeling throughout the sessions in order to facilitate their personal reflection. On the one hand they had to track, by means of scale weekly reports, the occurrence and intensity of thirteen different emotional states. On the other hand, they were invited to record, through weekly reports, the most significant events experienced during the sessions.
By the end of the course we had gathered a total of ninety-five records from eleven students, nine women and two men. Although in a first moment we selected four cases to be analysed, as they were not homogeneous in the number or timing of registers we considered as more interesting to focus on one of the cases and make a preliminary analysis, as an approach to future and more systematized research projects.
Our proposal to analyse the data collected in the kind of experience we are presenting would consist of a categorical content analysis of the narratives made with the program Atlas.ti (Iborra, 2007 b) and on analysis of variability, continuities, discontinuities and changes in trajectories (Kunnen et al., 2011).
This work tries to contribute with some ideas to the reflection about the teaching and learning processes, emphasizing on the importance of students´ individual trajectories and suggesting some ways to measure and analyse them. We consider that this is particularly relevant in the case of people who will work as professionals in the field of education.
This experience was conducted in the subject of “Social Skills” for students of the degree of Psychopedagogy in the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) during the second semester of academic year 2010/2011.The subject took place along thirty one sessions and was attended by around fifty students between twenty-three and fifty-three.
At the beginning of the course, and as an optional activity, the students were asked to register what they were feeling throughout the sessions in order to facilitate their personal reflection. On the one hand they had to track, by means of scale weekly reports, the occurrence and intensity of thirteen different emotional states. On the other hand, they were invited to record, through weekly reports, the most significant events experienced during the sessions.
By the end of the course we had gathered a total of ninety-five records from eleven students, nine women and two men. Although in a first moment we selected four cases to be analysed, as they were not homogeneous in the number or timing of registers we considered as more interesting to focus on one of the cases and make a preliminary analysis, as an approach to future and more systematized research projects.
Our proposal to analyse the data collected in the kind of experience we are presenting would consist of a categorical content analysis of the narratives made with the program Atlas.ti (Iborra, 2007 b) and on analysis of variability, continuities, discontinuities and changes in trajectories (Kunnen et al., 2011).
This work tries to contribute with some ideas to the reflection about the teaching and learning processes, emphasizing on the importance of students´ individual trajectories and suggesting some ways to measure and analyse them. We consider that this is particularly relevant in the case of people who will work as professionals in the field of education.
Research Interests: Emotion, Dynamical Systems, Teacher Education, Learner Autonomy, Atlas.ti, and 13 moreAutonomy, Qualitative Research Methods, Narratives, Experiential Learning, Social Skills, Undergraduate Education, Qualitative Analysis, Categorical Content Analysis, Optionality, Individual trajectories, emotional processes, challenging learning experience, and intra-individual variability
Nuestro trabajo analiza la utilización de los blogs cómo herramienta para facilitar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de primer curso del Grado de Magisterio en la Universidad de Alcalá. A lo largo del curso, como una de las actividades... more
Nuestro trabajo analiza la utilización de los blogs cómo herramienta para facilitar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de primer curso del Grado de Magisterio en la Universidad de Alcalá. A lo largo del curso, como una de las actividades fundamentales para la evaluación continua, pedimos a los alumnos que trabajaran en pequeño grupo creando sus blogs y publicando sus conclusiones de cada tema para la asignatura Psicología del Desarrollo. Para ello, les planteamos temas de debate a partir del contenido teórico que ellos tenían que debatir primero en su pequeño grupo, y después justificar en gran grupo. Las conclusiones de cada uno eran después publicadas en sus blogs y todos los compañeros tenían acceso a ellas para poder ir construyendo su conocimiento de forma compartida (Dawes, L. et al, 2004).
Para analizar esta experiencia contamos con los blogs creados por cada grupo y los comentarios que surgieron entre ellos, así como con una evaluación sobre el uso de esta metodología que realizamos al finalizar la asignatura.
A través del trabajo en clase y los blogs tratamos de construir una comunidad de aprendices (Barton & Tusting, 2005) en la que analizar los conceptos fundamentales de la asignatura promoviendo actitudes reflexivas.
Con este trabajo pretendemos aportar algunas ideas para la reflexión sobre el cambio en las metodologías de enseñanza universitaria. Destacamos el papel activo de nuestros alumnos de forma que se hagan responsables de su propio aprendizaje basándonos en la adquisición de competencias (Coll, 2008). Pensamos que esto tiene especial relevancia al tratarse de estudiantes que en un futuro trabajarán como profesionales de la educación.
Palabras clave: formación universitaria, pensamiento crítico, blog, enseñanza virtual, innovación.
Para analizar esta experiencia contamos con los blogs creados por cada grupo y los comentarios que surgieron entre ellos, así como con una evaluación sobre el uso de esta metodología que realizamos al finalizar la asignatura.
A través del trabajo en clase y los blogs tratamos de construir una comunidad de aprendices (Barton & Tusting, 2005) en la que analizar los conceptos fundamentales de la asignatura promoviendo actitudes reflexivas.
Con este trabajo pretendemos aportar algunas ideas para la reflexión sobre el cambio en las metodologías de enseñanza universitaria. Destacamos el papel activo de nuestros alumnos de forma que se hagan responsables de su propio aprendizaje basándonos en la adquisición de competencias (Coll, 2008). Pensamos que esto tiene especial relevancia al tratarse de estudiantes que en un futuro trabajarán como profesionales de la educación.
Palabras clave: formación universitaria, pensamiento crítico, blog, enseñanza virtual, innovación.
