Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Given the enormous influence of school architecture in educational processes, impels to develop awareness in the uses of the space -and their implications- for students and teachers. This article highlights: school architecture, architectural education and critical competence, the latest as a key factor of innovative experiences. We present two educational projects developed in Elementary School that share the goals of training theoretically about architecture and develop critical transformations in the school context. We conclude with a discussion of the valorization of interdisciplinary projects that embrace critically the architectural education, his inclusion in the initial training of teachers and the updating of school design regulations.

This article, the second of a series of two, completes the study of the innovative discourse of the IRES Project (Research and Renewal of the School). In the previous one, its origin and foundations were analyzed, especially in the field of science education, and in this the evolution is investigated throughout its 30 years of existence. The interviews with the founders and several reference documents have been taken as sources of information. The method of analysis has been based on the Discourse Analysis (AD) and the results show that the project, at this time, has not achieved the expected generalization. Its alternative ideology, highlighted in the first article, clashes with the neoliberal discourse, which has led its members to actively intervene in the social and political debate on the school model.

This paper is focused on the intercultural approach in the teaching of foreign languages in Pre-Primary Education by virtual mobility. This essay presents the implementation of an eTwinning project carried out in the Foreign Language area (English) in a 3rd Pre-Primary class in collaboration with a French school. Besides, the assessment of the impact of the project in the involved students with their teachers of each country is established. The results offer a positive view of the impact of this kind of projects in the students, teachers and schools involved. Therefore, this eTwinning proyect has been carried out satisfactorily improving the students’ motivation.

The preschool classroom is a space where children may put into practice social skills such as negotiation that will help them in socializing with others. Costa Rica places emphasis in the importance of such processes, therefore inside the classrooms there is a designated time that provides such spaces, one called work-play. The following research looked at eight different preschool classrooms (transition stage) in which a certain time is given to the children to divide and play on different spaces. The main result is a full description of a classroom dynamic where we find high levels of individual play among the children, as well as interest in group projects, where they interact with children from their own areas as well as from other areas.

This article presents a work with Research-Action methodology in which a training program for the improvement of saccades movements is designed The purpose of which is to significantly increase the reading speed of Primary Education students who score below the average range in this area. An analysis of descriptive statistics of the three dependent variables (words read per minute, reading time and errors made), a study of the General Linear Model with repeated measures (September, December and March) and the partial square eta to determine the size of the effect caused by the intervention, using the King-Devick test to apply the measurements. Statistically significant improvements were obtained (p <.01) in the results of the three variables when comparing the measurements made in September and December, while they are very significant (p <.001) when comparing the results of the first and third variables in the months of September and March. Finally, it is verified that the size of the effect produced by the program is large. With the application of this training program an improvement in all the dependent variables is determined, favoring the reading fluency processes, essential for the comprehension of texts.

Methodological approaches and curricular projects linked to the teaching of history will depend on the political and educational contexts, the teachers, the currents of thought that have influenced didactics, the educational purpose and the social value attributed. Therefore, to reflect on the teaching of history and its didactic innovation, bringing all these levels together, would be of interest in order to improve the practice, the practice of today and the one to come, and to record its innovative future. This has been the main purpose of the work presented, in which teachers and innovation groups have been studied and supported proposals for change as opposed to a teaching of history based on the transmission and memorization of contents mainly political, organized chronologically and centered in the area of Western Europe.