This paper shows the results of a research, which assessed the impact of Digital Citizen Program in incorporating ICT in an institution from Piedecuesta, Santander (Colombia). The research used a qualitative methodology with data collected from teachers, ICFES, academic system and institution’s area plans, compared with the curriculum of the course ICT competent official teachers...
Language documentation and revival have gained impetus within the last century. In this context, the recovery process of Andwa is of special importance as it deals with an extinct language. The particular methodology required for its reclamation represents new challenges in the fields of research and education. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the history...
The present article is intended to report on a study carried out with students of level three at Cursos Libres. The research focused mainly on describing how the materials and the methodology implemented by the teacher contributed to the development of the students’ Communicative Competence. To reach that research objective, an ethnographic case study design was used...
This paper deals with reading and writing as practices that are part of university culture regarding the learning in all knowledge areas. There is a difficulty in the education system in relation to conceive reading and writing as a central process in students’ learning process, in which teachers and students of the Engineering and Technology programs can participate, sharing...
This article, derived from the research Formación inicial en lectura y escritura: de la educación media al desempeño académico en la educación superior, provides an account of digital reading practices present at the university. First, the skills with which secondary school students arrive are presented, including the relationship they establish with reading, writing, and the use...
All Foreign Language manuals attempt to integrate the cultural element for the language classrooms but it is critical to analyze how effectively this cultural element is incorporated in the books. In many instances the objectives related to linguistic and cultural diversity are poorly presented and contextualized. This paper analyzes texts and images extracted from a particular...
This topic is related to upbringing practices of family and adult caregivers who have to take care of children under the age of 6. This field of study has generated many differences and has been investigated by many self-controlled individuals; we want to show that the culture is transversal to its process. This article refers to Colombia in learning that what has occurred in...
Despite increasing interest in phraseological studies and important advances achieved in this field during the last decades, significant gaps continue to affect the didactics of phraseology when teaching Spanish and Italian as foreign languages. It is particularly evident in the peripheral area of the phraseological repertoire, especially concerning Phraseological-Pragmatic Units...
The objective of this study is to determine the effect of estimation on the conceptualization of the area. Applying a quasi-experimental design, with a group before and after, with non-equivalent control group. The subjects were students of third semester of Business Administration and International Business, aged between 17 and 22 years, of both genders. The methodology is...
The following article describes the results on the use of Facebook as an educational tool in the teaching-learning process in high school, applied to students in the second half of the year in Mexico and Colombia. Mixed paradigm was used for the study of four cases of teachers who used this social tool in their educational settings. To collect the information two surveys , an...
This article is a product of the research named "Pedagogical Knowledge that Childhood Education Teachers Have in Terms of "Knowing and Doing", and the Coherence with the new pedagogical practices in early childhood of "Fundación FAN", which was written to resignify the professional profile and the occupation of the graduates from the "Funlam". It is important to point out that in...
This research article allows pondering about the conception of childhood participation which has some educational agents, citizens or meaningful people. The methodology was accomplished through focus groups and depth interviews with 12 mothers and 3 educational agents who are linked to a children's center from Robledo's neighborhood, commune seven of Medellín city. Basically, the...
This paper presents the results of a study that sought to understand the discourses related to the critical and democratic participation of educational actors aimed at promoting participatory impact on public-political matters. The methodological approach to research is part of the qualitative - hermeneutical paradigm and focus groups were used as data collection techniques and...
This article is a report of an applied and cuasiexperiental research with a mixed paradigm. The research purpose was to make that the students of the first semester belonging to the Programme of Mathematics at the Universidad de Sucre (Colombia), applied cognitive and metacognitive strategies before, during and after reading to enhance information processing. Data was collected...
This paper presents the results of a research aimed at proposing a digitized program of metacognitive education for the development of expansion written ideas skills in students of the Reading Comprehension subject in Agronomy Program of Universidad Centro-occidental Lisandro Alvarado UCLA, Lara State, Venezuela. The digitized program was applied to 35 students, in blended...
This article describes the results found in the doctoral research entitled: Social practices and representations of university academic writing. The overall objective of the work aimed to identify and analyze the social representations that show teachers and students about academic writing and its relation to the practices of student writing. The specific objectives aimed at...
The EDUTIC research group belongs to the Vicerrectoría de Educación Virtual of the Universidad de Boyacá. This group Is responsible of the "Comparative study between open source virtual platforms and the property virtual platform of the Universidad de Boyacá". Its target is to identify the open source platform that adjusts to the virtual pedagogic model of Universidad de Boyacá...