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)

When Reading and Writing Conspire with the Senses and the Words Are Immersed in the Music, the Written Text Comes to Life

The initial stage of human development, the main concern in the early years of school life is the process of reading and writing. While it is true that reading and writing are two skills that go hand in hand in the student's learning process, it is essential to focus on the special pedagogical interest exercises can enhance the performance of the communication process in...

The Construction of Intertextuality in the Graduation Project Genre: Challenges for Teaching Academic Writing in the University

Given the challenge of writing from sources and positioning one's own voice, this article presents the results of a study focused on the modes and difficulties presented by writers in training against the construction of intertextuality in the graduation project genre. A corpus of 33 referential frames written during the course of the graduation Seminar at a public university is...

Academic Performance in Students of Management Sciences: How do Attitudinal, Pedagogical and Demographic Factors Influence?

This research analyzes the influence of attitudinal, pedagogical and demographic factors on the academic performance of university students of management sciences. The data was collected through a survey applied to 156 students of a Chilean regional public university and analyzed by means of a binary logistic regression. The results revealed that the attitudinal and pedagogical...

"In the Democratic Confidence of Asking": Analysis of a Collective Participation in a Research Event

Educational inclusion invites us to think over the epistemologies to build bridges of meaning between researcher's actions and actions of the school communities. Especially when Chilean public schools have been vulnerated by policies based on neoliberal logics. This qualitative study focuses on a research dialogue after an ethnographic stage, designed in two stages: a...

Reliability and Validity of Scale of Studies of the Perception of Internet Use

The objective of this work was to establish the reliability and validity of an instrument that measured the perception of Internet use. A non-experimental work was carried out with a non-probabilistic selection of 340 students from a public university in central Mexico. The results show a total percentage of variance explained by two perceptual dimensions that allude to the...

Conceptions of University Students About Multitasking in Digital Environments

This research aimed to characterize the conceptions of multitasking in university students and describe the practices associated with it. An online questionnaire was applied to 331 participants from different areas, enrolled in a first-year reading and writing course at a private university in the city of Cali (Colombia).. The questionnaire mostly included closed-ended multiple...

Decolonizing investigative praxis. Towards other ways of reasoning and stir emotions

This article aims to be an exercise in critical self-reflexivity, understood not as an exercise in personal reflection but as an action that is carried out collectively - in this case, with the members of the research team of which it was its director -, where, together we question our Research praxis from recognizing ourselves as social and singular subjects. In this sense...

Literacy for democracy

The article is part of the philosophical discussion about the mechanisms of understanding and solving social problems, framed in the processes of teaching and learning written language. It is interesting to review, in the first instance, the concept of literacy, as a starting point that transcends phonographic correspondence; later it reflects on the idea of democracy, as one of...

Approaching education based on human rights and education for peace in higher education. Practical activities for the teaching of english

This article offers an approach to the educational approaches proposed education based on human rights (EBHR) and education for peace (PE) in order to reflect on the benefits of both approaches as well as offering real proposals practical activities that can be put into practice in higher education. The activities have been carried out in a course of English at the University of...

Emotions builders of peace from children of the transition grade: representations from his own experience

This article aims to give an account of the progress of a Masters research which aims understand the representations about the emotions that make possible peace, since children five years-old, in three Colombian regions (Antioquia, Caldas and Valle). Is a qualitative study of comprehensive scope that seeks to understand the senses and meanings of the subjects in their own...

Didactic unit and ludio to explain the water pollution phenomenon

Conceptual appropriation of environmental problems at a scientific level faces difficulties derived from teaching methods and the lack of didactic tools, affecting the development of critical thinking and scientific competences in the area of natural sciences and environmental education. The objective was to carry out a didactic unit for the explanation of environmental phenomena...

Créate your strategy, video game to enhance creativity in children at an early age

The research project in the strict sense was carried out at the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga (UNAB). The problem in the school makes it possible to highlight the need to assume that technology has modified the way of dealing with many disciplines, but there has not been a radical change in teaching methods and programs. The purpose was to design a video game as a didactic...

Academic tutoring in strengthening algebra in eighth grade students in a district school in Barranquilla

This research work aimed to characterize the impact of academic tutoring on the academic performance of eighth grade students in learning algebra in a district school in Barranquilla. For this, a qualitative approach methodology was used with descriptive and interpretive design. The information was collected through interviews with the following actors: algebra teacher, parents...

Mathematical talent program in basic education

A study on the identification and development of mathematical talent in elementary and secondary school students is presented and based on the Renzulli's School Enrichment Model. The methodology used was mixed type with concurrent embedded design of dominant model. The two stages of the study consisted of: (a) detecting students with mathematical talent in basic and secondary...

Musical stimulation in the first year of life

Communication is essential in the first year of child development because the emotional bond with an attachment figure starts for the baby in the social world through direct emotional communication and situational-practical communication. This essay aims to discuss diverse socio-cognitive matters of babies since a perspective centred on musical practice. The research responds to...

Historical thinking in school contexts. Towards a complex definition of the teaching of Clio

The article analyzes from a theoretical perspective the formative potentialities that derive from the disciplinary and pedagogical principles that define the structuring of historical thinking in the school. For that, three axes of discussion are defined: the first axis, establishes a balance of the main disciplinary and pedagogical difficulties that have limited in school the...

Reflexive portfolio: a proposal for teaching Qualitative Methods

This article presents a proposal for teaching Qualitative Methods in Higher Education. We propose a teaching design that combines theory and research practice, using a digital portfolio. We argue this design allows students to better integrate what they learnt in this domain, which undergraduate students often find difficult. The proposed teaching design was implemented in the...

Theoretical innovation to analyze the process of student inclusion from pedagogical practice

The article contains a theoretical approach that evolves to strengthen the scientific trajectory in the area of study of inclusive education specifically in the analysis of the process of student inclusion within the framework of pedagogical practice and the teaching competences that influence it. In the specific context of the Juana Arias de Benavides Departmental Technical...

The expectation of the impossible

PonenciaLA EXPECTATIVA DE LO IMPOSIBLEThe expectation of the impossible1Sociólogo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ph.D. en Sociología y Comunicaciones en la Universidad de Cornell. Profesor visitante y conferencista en varias universidades de Estados Unidos, Brezmen en Alemania y de la Hebrea de Jerusalén. Siendo columnista de El Espectador recibió el Premio Nacional de...

Estimulación musical en el primer año de vida

Communication is essential in the first year of child development because the emotional bond with an attachment figure starts for the baby in the social world through direct emotional communication and situational-practical communication. This essay aims to discuss diverse socio-cognitive matters of babies since a perspective centred on musical practice. The research responds to...

El pensamiento histórico en contextos escolares. Hacia una definición compleja de la enseñanza de Clío

The article analyzes from a theoretical perspective the formative potentialities that derive from the disciplinary and pedagogical principles that define the structuring of historical thinking in the school. For that, three axes of discussion are defined: the first axis, establishes a balance of the main disciplinary and pedagogical difficulties that have limited in school the...

Portafolio reflexivo: una propuesta para la enseñanza de la Metodología Cualitativa

This article presents a proposal for teaching Qualitative Methods in Higher Education. We propose a teaching design that combines theory and research practice, using a digital portfolio. We argue this design allows students to better integrate what they learnt in this domain, which undergraduate students often find difficult. The proposed teaching design was implemented in the...

Innovación teórica para analizar el proceso de inclusión estudiantil desde la práctica pedagógica

The article contains a theoretical approach that evolves to strengthen the scientific trajectory in the area of study of inclusive education specifically in the analysis of the process of student inclusion within the framework of pedagogical practice and the teaching competences that influence it. In the specific context of the Juana Arias de Benavides Departmental Technical...

¿Qué textos académicos escriben los estudiantes universitarios de Educación?

This article shows a section of a research about the production of written texts in the university environment. Specifically we present the results about the academic genres written by the students of the Education degree, Basic Integral Mention, in the University of Los Andes, secondary seat of Táchira (Venezuela). The study is based on the notion of academic literacy (Carlino...

Método de Pólya como estrategia pedagógica para fortalecer la competencia resolución de problemas matemáticos con operaciones básicas

The investigation was based on the Pólya method used as a strategy to improve the problem solving skills in basic mathematical operations within third and fourth grades elementary school students at Colegio Municipal Aeropuerto; using a qualitative design in an action research approach. The results show the students understand the problems header, however it is necessary to be...