Zona Próxima

<font color="#000080">ZONA PROXIMA is a scholarly journal in the field of education, set up as organ of the Institute of Studies of Education of the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. Our aim is the dissemination of trends, experiences, research findings and theoretical reflection in divers aspects of the field of education.<br></font><br>

List of Papers (Total 425)

Free games, strategy to improve language learning in basic secondary education

This article presents the research results on free games, an educational intervention used as a strategy to improve language learning; in which students' perception of evaluation was researched, evaluation strategies were designed and implemented, and the impact of free-game evaluation in basic secondary was analyzed at a public high school institution in the municipality of...

Approaching the application of dramatic tecniques in the education with gender perspective. Practical examples for teaching English

This article aims to propose a practical contribution to the teaching of English by presenting activities framed in education with a gender perspective (EGP), in which dramatic techniques are used in university education. The goal is that students deepen on the need to advance in gender equality, while working on different social skills and improving oral skills in the teaching...

Quantitative Reasoning, Language and Mathematics

The transfer of knowledge to everyday situations containing information of a quantitative nature, called generic situations, is an indicator of what it is to be competent in the area of mathematics; therefore, obstacles that may arise in the observation and communication of such situations interfere with the full understanding of them and their subsequent translation into...

Emotional Intelligence in university classrooms: teaching practices that promote its development

The aim of this paper is to analyze the teaching practices that help the development of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in university students, through a mixed approach with a sequential exploratory derivative design. In the research's first phase, five focus groups were formed, with the participation of 25 students whose results were examined using the technique of content analysis...

Organization of Children's Classroom Space and Associated Beliefs

This article derives from a qualitative research, with a Biographical-Narrative methodology, carried out in order to know and analyze the conceptions around the spatial organization of a children classroom of twenty (20) teachers in the province of Alicante, Spain, through semi-structured interviews. Although the physical transformations that the classroom has undergone have not...

Inclusive school leadership: a review of empírica! Studies

The objective of this work is to contribute to the understanding of inclusive school leadership, by reviewing empirical studies on good leadership practices for inclusion. 22 empirical articles, from the last decade, were reviewed with special attention to: (1) the concept of inclusive leadership; (2) the main competencies and practices they reported; (3) the changes that occur...

Progressions in teachers

This article reports the progressions in the understandings about the graphic organizers for the representation of knowledge, which occurred in a group of 23 primary and secondary basic education teachers from a public educational institution in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. In the field work, framed in the methodological design of the pedagogical action research, the...

Systems thinking; a path to leadership and educational change

This article critically reviews Haim Shaked y Chen Schechter's book, Systems Thinking for School Leaders. Holistic Leadership for Excellence in Education. This work, published in 2017, introduces a novel overview of school leadership inspired by the paradigm of Systems Thinking. Rather than presenting a prescriptive type of analysis, the authors invite readers to rethink school...

A reflection for the transformation and culture of peace in socially violent and vulnerable school contexts

In Venezuela, new socio-cultural realities affect the lives of students and teachers. Complex scenario when education takes place in vulnerable and violent contexts, given that education is meant to help students adopt strategies to live in vulnerability, without diluting it, but without succumbing to it. This article invites reflection for a transformation and culture of peace...

Learning Potentialization Empowerment of Natural Sciences Using Augmented Reality as a Didactic Strategy

Augmented reality is a technological tool capable of permeating different social fields, and in education occupies an important place, developing applications with fundamental information on topics of study in the classroom and ones intended to motivate students to learn. This leads to the proposal of implementing RA resources in the classroom. In some educational institutions...

The Song of Cumulative Content (CCA) as a strategy for the improvement of attention processes in early childhood

The objective of this study was to strengthen the attention processes of a group of children belonging to the Antonio Narino Educational Institution in the city of Villavicencio (Colombia). The research, at a methodological level, was developed from a qualitative perspective, based on the analysis of field journals and some interviews. As a result, the concept of Cumulative...

"Parenting guidelines and vulnerability: generational and institutional narratives" children's home Neighborhoods Norte de Marsella - Risaralda

This article presents the main results of a research that seeks to understand the parenting practices in the generational narratives of family agents of boys and girls linked to the Hogar Infantil Barrios del Norte of Marsella - Risaralda, Colombia, which starts from the question how are parenting practices exhibited in the narratives of family agents, the relationships between...

Mirror class, a pedagogical internationalization strategy to strengthen research competence in students of Latin American universities

The objective of this research was to implement the mirror class, which allows for a better development of research competence in undergraduate students in Latin American universities, to be applied as a daily pedagogical strategy. The research is qualitative, with inductive process, with action research design, whose perspectives are technical - scientific, practical, and...

Reflective practice, pending task in the normalist student practicum

This work presents the analysis of the normalist student's reflection processes carried out from the theoretical perspective postulated by Schön (1992) through three phases: knowledge in action, reflection in and during action, and reflection on action. The space in which the research practice was carried out was the practicum, which is conceived as a curricular space where the...

Apdes's "Project Innovate": a new process of institutional collaborative innovation through the practice of reflective practice

This article details the documented experience which was implemented in 21 of Apdes's centers in Argentina, and was based on an institution-wide collaborative approach to innovation. By assigning principals a leadership role in the practice of critical reflection carried out by groups of teachers, they became empowered as agents for change and were able to observe the complete...

Reflective Practice at the Iberoamericana University: Formative Routes and University Reflection Area (ARU)

Reflection has been central theme within the educational project of Mexico City's Iberoamericana University. The University is well known for the integral humanist formation of it's student body.A professor can't guide effectively his or her students towards reflection, if he or she have not had the previous experience required to do so. Which is why, there's an Institutional...

Evaluative Research on a Project to Promote Reflection Levels in Teacher Training

Training a reflective teacher, who in turn will help his students to achieve reflective learning, is a task beginning on the first moment a student arrives in class, but actually peaking in the last years of their Education, when these students are doing their internship. The reason for this is that the dialectics between "thinking and doing" and "theory and practice", which are...

Self-evaluation of clinical learning in nursing students. Rubric validation

Introduction.Self-evaluation is how a person makes an evaluation of himself. This modality is very important for personal and professional development, it involves key aspects for the development of human maturity such as self-criticism, self-knowledge, self-concept, self-objectivity and the ability to constantly think over action, which generates knowledge from the practice. The...

Autobiography as an activating strategy for teacher reflection: challenges and opportunities

Reflection is one of the most important competences in the life of a teacher, because regardless of the stage that it goes through, it emerges as the engine of its empowerment, growth and improvement. In this line, the present research focuses on the study of autobiography as a trigger for relection in primary school teachers. For this, future teachers were asked to graph their...

Mediated reflective practice for English teachers in preschool and elementary education

The research described in the following pages refers to the application of the mediated reflective practice model with English teachers at the Pierre Faure and The Little Prince Institutes in the city of Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Its purpose was to verify the feasibility of using this model by English teachers of infant and elementary education from their training in the use of...

La Práctica Reflexiva: un modelo transformador de la praxis docente

PonenciaLa Práctica Reflexiva: un modelo transformador de la praxis docenteReflective Practice: a transformative model of teaching praxisDra. Angels Domingo1 1Doctora en Educación por la Universidad Internacional de Cataluña (España), Pedagoga por la Universitat de Barcelona (España), Especialista en Didáctica y Práctica Reflexiva y experta en modelos innovadores de formación...

Some Similarities between Social Dynamic: Primitive Horde and Bullying

In the primitive human horde described by Freud, the simplest form of social formation, the father and chief; strong; despot, tyrant and absolute owner of power. As an act of rebelliousness his descendants murder him, felt guilt and through guilt, the father earns control over them. Worshiped and secretly hated, through the figure of Totem: a paternal substitute. Despite of human...

The Level of Digital Competence in Education Professionals: The Case of Spanish Physical Education Teachers

The advances made in society in technology have caused the education sector to be in a process of digitalization. That is why teachers who practice the profession today require digital skills to carry out teaching and learning processes in innovative environments, appropriate to the reality and demands of the students. This study aims to know the degree of digital competence of...