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The first section of this paper focuses on the importance of negotiation processes related to research and evaluation. This importance is based on five issues: ethics in production processes, knowledge scope, rigorous inquiry, efficiency of development- oriented findings and strategy to maintain contexts in which research and participant learning can take place. The different phases of the negotiation process are also presented: initial, processing and reporting, the last one of special importance. The requirements, types, characteristics and operation processes of the reporting phase are discussed. The second section of this paper provides in the form of an example a specific case of negotiation from a qualitative investigation about immigrant familie's participation at school. Its different phases, demands and virtualities are discussed. The paper finished with some final considerations and references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In future society, a great deal will be demanded of people in general, with acquiring knowledge and applying it to different fields being considered to be the major factors influencing development. Nowadays, the new role played by teachers includes adopting different approaches to competence acquisition and assessment, active engagement in managing educational institutions, and collaborative working. Changes to education have been more focused on competence-based education and training in Latin America, especially Chile, which is why this paper is aimed at reflecting on it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Centered on oral communication in the Academy, the paper sets a dialogue between two voices: on the one hand, the practises and concerns of the students of a workshop on communicational abilities offered in the National University of Cordoba in 2018; and, on the other hand, contributions from language sciences (Barthes, 2003; Todorov, 2008; Van Dijk, 1983) and philosophy (Foucault, 1996; Skliar, 2015). Which are the challenges on oral academic communication for those who teach and learn? How do students learn when teachers give their lessons and how do they take the word in order to say their knowledge? From those starting points and in a flexible essay, the papertext unfolds reflections on philosophical, psychological, and socio-anthropological concepts --social control, power and self-care - as well as representations of technical concepts --conceptual precision, the adjustment to the communication situation, the discipline lexical realm, and the macro-structure --in order to consider some social and didactic implications of oral communication in the university environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neurosciences are a set of disciplines which aims to research the nervous system, focusing on brain functioning in relation with our behaviors. Neurosciences not only address the neurobiological issues of behavior but also rely on cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology and artificial intelligence. Neuroeducation, also called educational neuroscience, is an expanding discipline that aims to study brain development and its neurobiological foundations by optimizing teaching and learning process. Through analyzing some classic and current contributions of the neurosciences to the educational area, this paper proposes to review neurosciences' contribution to the educational field, establishing at the same time critical and future ways to get even closer relations between them. Then, we conclude that although the neuroeducation contributions are varied and we expect advances in this area derived from new technologies, we must be cautious and critical when analyzing or putting them into practice, since research must be generated with greater ecological validity, in educational environments with human beings with analysis at different levels, without ignoring the interdiscipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education, neurosciences, and educative practices, are concepts whit very important interrelations. The demands of actual society for humans, implies that people need to be educated for affront this demands. In this review are presented some considerations about two points. First, the place of neurosciences in the develop of education; second, the varied forms in that education and neurosciences could be complement, for to do that educative practices, can to responses the demands of a very complex and fluctuating society. The review was elaborate from the analysis of different scientific papers and books. Was obtained as conclusion, that neuroscience is one of the most important areas for to develop educative practices with levels of adequacy for the actuals social demands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: In 2006, the Nursing School of the University of Chile began changing the teaching plan from a learning objective syllabus to one based on competencies; this implementation began in 2013. Objective: This paper aims to present a summary of a research carried out from 2010 to 2013 by the syllabus innovation commission of the Nursing School from the University of Chile in order to implement a syllabus based on competencies Methodology: It presents the different phases that require the integration of different actors, per se; the academic school staff, external teachers to it, employers, graduates and students from the nursing program as well. Conclusions: This experience allowed thinking about some of the paradigm changes required in this process, such as the student at the learning center, with dynamic and proactive participation of them, the agreement on using a different language, with innovative methodologies that aim to a meaningful learning. [Silva-Galleguillos A. Training by Competencies in Nursing. An Experience from the University of Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the influence of the use of ICT and the importance of teamwork for marketing subjects in business studies. The central theme of this paper is to identify whether the use of ICT in groups enhances the learning of the marketing discipline, as well as students' social skills. At the University of Granada, we conducted a questionnaire to 784 students over three academic years (2006-2009) with the aim of evaluating the influence of using the Markops Online simulator on the student's learning process. The results show how students perceive that the use of these tools, although requiring greater effort than conventional case studies, provides them greater satisfaction, increases their interest in the learning process and helps developing social skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the concept of inclusion as a characteristic of education from a human development perspective. In this light, it discusses the social state, citizenship rights, and economic hegemony in the context of globalization as forces that promote mechanisms of exclusion, including poverty, elitist policy measures, ethnic discrimination, cultural segregation, and the participation of international organizations in national political and economic decisions, among others. Thus, the paper places administration of the welfare state within a social structure. Also, the paper considers school as an area of interaction between individuals that promotes a humanistic system of education for all people. Moreover, it aims to create a sense of unease in the reader by outlining different theories of inclusion versus exclusion and shedding light on the substantial differences in commitment to education administration at the national level as reflected in different economic, political, cultural, and social strata. The paper emphasizes the purpose of an inclusive approach to education as part of the effort to achieve quality in education administration. It then defends inclusive education centers, where students' individual learning needs are considered through holistic curriculum development and where ever-changing human interactions are taken into account in order to seek more effective administrative strategies and projects that decisively address changes in education. In this way, problems are solved in an altruistic and holistic manner that implies a dynamic, democratic, and multi-faceted role for the reader, as well as commitment on the part of administrators of educational organizations, and leads to proactive administration. [TRANSLATION]

The practice of qualitative research goes beyond procedures and techniques. In health care it is acknowledged as a specialized area bearing ethical and emotional components. Training in qualitative research implies both intellectual work and the task of molding a character; in other words: a way of being. In this kind of research, the question involves both being and doing. This paper invites to reflect on the training of qualitative researchers. Learning qualitative research is a situated and reflexive social practice in which tacit and formal knowledge must be gathered. There are at least four conditions promoting its learning: 1) time -its study must be constant-2) failure, 3) relationships with others in a collaborative environment and 4) a master acting as a mediator between tacit and explicit knowledge. These conditions occur within the execution of a research project. However, there are three difficulties that educators and students of qualitative research commonly face: 1). the context of training, 2). pre-conceived ideas and 3). the need to sustain the desire to know over time. Who you are when learning the craft is critical in the training process; methods are what we make (out) of them. Research is an embodied practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the most relevant results of a study in which opinions of the teachers in the area of Fresno (Central California, USA) about the effects of the integration of mobile devices into the teaching-learning process. Among other objectives, this study has tried to analyze the influence of mobile learning over three very important learning factors: affective-emotional (motivation), ethic-social (social skills) and the cognitive one (cognitive skills). In order to carry out this study, a descriptive methodological approach was adopted, using the survey technique as the most adequate method to collect teachers' opinions in a relatively fast and precise way. Obtained results show a widespread agreement among teachers about the pedagogical potential of mobile devices as a tool to improve learning quality. In general terms, conclusions suggest an improvement in the students' interest on educational tasks, an increase during study activities, a better collaborative work, as well as an improvement of creativity and information acquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to show the advantages, disadvantages and characteristics of electronic education through the implementation of LCMS (Learning Content Management System). It also illustrate the architecture and components of a learning content integration system through Web 2.0, which can manage learning contents, e-learning contents, learning objects and individual actives such as images, animations and videos. It includes a repository where these components are stored, authoring tools or integration with them, a tool to publish courses, communication and collaboration tools for the task force that developed the course content and the ability to integrate with an LMS. This will seek to integrate CMS and LCMS functionality, Web services, navigation, content, updating and retrieval of information, improving end-user experience in elearning approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper has two purposes: a) To describe the demographic features, family history, social affective factors and academic performance in fourth-semester students enrolled in day and night courses in the department of Psychology at the university, in order to define the Psychology students' profiles and b) To understand students' relationships between demographic and social affective aspects compared with their academic performance. This research aims to establish the relationship between academic performance and students' affective factors. There is no evidence of prior studies of these affective factors. A questionnaire about associated factors is designed and given to 122 fourth-semester students. The answers, factors, and indices are designed using statistical Winsteps and Rasch models in order to establish the relationship between factors and academic performance. AMOS, which allows the analysis of the relationship between factors and academic performance, is used as a tool to understand the impact of such relationships. The questionnaire given to the psychology students in this study supplied useful information using indices and factors to create psychology students' profiles. The explanation of these factors about student performance is useful when the information is analyzed and takes into account sex and socio-economical levels, and not the whole group in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the current relationship between Peruvian teenagers and television. The information accessed from various sources concluded that adolescents are consuming television extensively, especially the poorer within the country. Teens appreciate the cable television as a source of learning, and its variety and ability to relate it with the world. The interest in cartoons, movies and series -fiction genre in general- affirms the value of this media in society as well as the possibility to make them more familiar with their environment. Information about what happens beyond their localities is a source of reference in their perception of the country. Beyond the cultural conflict from which is generally assessed from the effects that television may have on the rural world, television has a positive sign for the visual deterritorialization, which dissolves the natural relationship between culture and territory. In rural areas, parents and teenagers evaluate television positively because it offers more than just the school itself. In the midst of academic and professional criticism on television, adolescents do not distinguish between traditional media and new media, they are all integrated into their daily lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we reflect on the relationship of games, cognitive development and educational processes during a time of profound technological change. Specifically, we consider the role of videogames in knowledge construction and in children's education. By studying both the logic of video games and how players understand them, we can develop interesting ideas for re-thinking theories on knowledge and education. Primarily, this text analyzes the role of video games in the world of play in order to delve into its unique narrative models. Finally, we evaluate their virtual features for learning and education in general, then focusing on the risks entailed. We conclude with a cognitive-pedagogical evaluation of the connective thought that videogames can develop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The introduction of video games in education has raised a number of possibilities, but also problems and doubts about the true potential. This built-in progressive scan the classroom process has put on the table a number of problematizations about how and why you can use video games to teach. The purpose of this paper is to make a small mapping on the subject, where we board the notion of serious games and some educational experiences that have used these tools in educational contexts. Finally, we put some basic notions about the possibilities of teaching with video games and raising some reviews and thoughts on the way forward in the coming years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]