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Introduction. This article presents a review of research and authors who approached the concepts of competence, creative thinking, and learning environments from different perspectives as axes in the development of research competencies. These concepts describe the factors that incur in the educational dynamics of the child population. Objective. To identify the existing relationship between skills, emotions, and learning environments as axes for developing creative and critical thinking in boys and girls. Analysis. For the study, a qualitative paradigm was used from a hermeneutical perspective, favoring the documentary study as a research strategy. Results. It is essential to start in early childhood the strengthening of scientific skills in coordination with the education of emotions. This dyad is essential for developing skills and competencies, not only cognitive and academic but also social. Learning environments must, on the one hand, promote direct contact with the objects of knowledge and, on the other, generate links; both elements potentiate being, knowing, and doing materialized in the development of scientific skills. Conclusions. The basic devices are activated while educational possibilities are generated, in which boys and girls can feel, touch, see, and smell. Likewise, this leads to the development of creative, scientific, and critical thinking.

Objective. This article presents the results of a study, whose objective was to analyze the teacher professional development approach in its articulation with practical training, from the appropriation of teacher trainers and graduates, in four majors of a Chilean state university, located in the Valparaiso region. Methodology. Using a hermeneutic methodology of the interpretive paradigm of qualitative research, the study conducted a field work implying the content analysis of 37 documents –ministerial and institutional– and 16 semi-structured interviews with heads of degree departments, teachers of practice training and graduates. Results. Based on the methodological approach of grounded theory, the study analyzed the information collected and showed, as results, that the inicial training space presents guidelines in its institutional document system. These guidelines address the normatively established framework on teachers’ professional development, which do not materialize in the practical space of the majors, since, from the unified analysis of the discourse of interviewees, it can be argued that there is a curricular disarticulation that replicates a traditional training model from which knowledge is fragmented through the instrumentalization of pedagogical formation.

Objective. Our aim was to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence, negative emotions, and job performance, and the level of these variables in university teaching staff. Method. It is a basic, descriptive, simple correlational transactional research; the complete Baron ICE:NA emotional intelligence test, the inventory of emotional regulation skills and the job performance questionnaire were used with a sample of 75 teachers, average age 45 years, in two universities in Peru. Frequencies and Pearson’s correlation were used in the analysis. Conclusions. The results show a positive association between emotional intelligence and job performance; on the other hand, emotional intelligence and job performance are negatively associated with negative emotions. In addition, the level found in emotional intelligence is balanced, regular in negative emotions and good for job performance. The study determines that, if negative emotions are regulated, it would improve the emotional intelligence and job performance of teachers.

Objetivo. Este artículo tiene el objetivo de describir los procesos de alfabetización inicial impulsados en un centro educativo preescolar indígena ubicado en Baja California, México, al que asisten niños y niñas indígenas. Metodología. Se llevó a cabo un estudio cualitativo de diseño etnográfico. Se realizó observación participante en el aula y una entrevista semiestructurada a una docente para profundizar sobre sus decisiones de enseñanza de la lengua escrita. Una vez transcritos los datos recabados se analizaron mediante la técnica de análisis cualitativo de contenido (Mayring, 2000). Resultados. Los principales hallazgos indican que la participante priorizó actividades de enseñanza de la escritura del nombre propio. De ahí que concedió insuficientes espacios de lectura y breves situaciones para el uso del lenguaje oral. Además, prevaleció el uso del español en la enseñanza y la comunicación y la lengua indígena mixteca se utilizó con fines rituales y culturales. En general, las actividades para la enseñanza de la lengua escrita implementadas por la participante se basaron en su interpretación del Programa de Estudios oficial. Conclusiones. Se observó una inclinación de la docente por la enseñanza de convenciones de la lectura y escritura de palabras. Las actividades de enseñanza provocaron, de manera desigual, el aprendizaje de la lengua escrita entre el alumnado. Además, empleó el español como lengua de instrucción y no incorporó la lengua indígena regularmente. Las decisiones de enseñanza de la docente se relacionan con la matrícula de su grupo, el desempeño académico detectado, la diversidad lingüística presente y las demandas del currículo.

Aims. This study aimed to identify the activities teachers from a Brazilian public higher education institution developed to analyze how these activities influenced undergraduate students’ entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics (EBCs). Method. The study applied a mixed method; the quantitative approach used the EBCs measurement instrument (Mansfield et al., 1987), analyzed with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), prioritizing the most important EBCs in the perception of 792 students. The qualitative approach implemented a semi-structured interview script and content analysis. This approach identified the activities teachers developed and characterized as distinct according to students’ perception and their relationship with the EBCs. Discussion. Thus, it was possible to identify that practical activities and those aimed at student autonomy, directed towards reality, with correlations between disciplines, and with interactive participation, dialogue, favorable environment and learning through experience, converge to developing the entrepreneurial characteristics of the students and are being carried out in the classroom. It was also found that commitment was the most evident characteristic. Conclusions. It can be concluded that the institution presents a promising scenario to develop entrepreneurial education. However, the activities currently carried out in the establishment are not efficient or sufficient since, at the same time, as the existence of entrepreneurial activities was proved, the students presented some unsatisfactory EBCs. Therefore, a longitudinal cut is suggested to analyze the EBCs and better understand the students’ evolution with the insertion of these practices in the classroom.

Objective. The objective of this investigation was to verify the possibilities and potentialities of the use of active methodologies (AM), with a focus on rotation by stations, in Youth and Adult Education (YAE). The study also aimed to suggest AM as a proposal that collaborates with quality in teaching-learning and can contribute to students becoming autonomous subjects. Since it is an audience that needs more attention from researchers in the area of education, from this the practice in question was carried out in a six-class municipal school with 112 students in the center-west of Goiás. The class chosen for the practice has 28 students enrolled, and two are from Inclusive Education. Methodology. In the data collection, we used questionnaires, and the data collected were analyzed in a discursive way. For this research, we used a qualitative approach of the descriptive type and documental analysis of public policies. Conclusions. It is concluded that the applied practice must gradually be inserted into the education of young people and adults, collaborating with the student to facilitate learning and with the teacher, who is always looking for new ways to meet your student.

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to analyze, through a systematic review, the scientific production regarding the intersection of multiculturalism and leadership in school contexts. Method. Key studies exploring the intersection of both phenomena in public schools are identified, the objectives of the reviewed studies are classified, and the studies are categorized according to their main bibliometric attributes, conceptual approximations to multiculturalism, and positions associated with leadership roles. The review considered 104 documents published in the last 25 years (1994-2019), employing the PRISMA methodology. Results. Results allow the identification of tendencies and challenges for educational research in this field, among which it stands out that most studies focus both on the discourses of school communities facing their problems and on the decision-making processes or actions conducted in these contexts. Likewise, it is noticeable that scientific production is concentrated in anglophone countries (68%), predominantly reporting studies carried out in the US. Similarly, a large proportion of studies address multiculturalism from perspectives centered in indigenous-related topics and identify leadership roles associated with directive/management teams. Conclusions. These results show the need for more studies in scarcely addressed dimensions, particularly considering multiculturalism from the perspective of gender or socioeconomic diversity, as well as addressing school leadership more decisively regarding the role of teachers, considering increasingly more diverse educational scenarios.  

Introducción. El álbum sin palabras se caracteriza por una concepción artística y visual que tradicionalmente se ha asociado con la primera infancia. Sin embargo, la evolución y complejidad de los álbumes sin palabras reclaman un público lector de todas las edades que asuma un papel extraordinariamente activo. La necesaria implicación de las personas lectoras, su desarrollo editorial y su capacidad para trascender barreras lingüísticas han despertado el interés de la investigación. Objetivo. La finalidad de este artículo es presentar una revisión bibliográfica sobre el estudio y la utilización del álbum sin palabras como recurso educativo. Análisis. La revisión del estado de la cuestión que se presenta muestra su trayectoria desde los años 70 del siglo XX desde un criterio holístico. Así, se organiza y analiza la bibliografía académica y se incide en los trabajos recientes de intervención educativa más representativos. Resultados. La diversificación de las líneas de investigación actuales refleja la transversalidad del álbum sin palabras. Sus resultados revelan su idoneidad para integrar contenidos y competencias, entrelazar disciplinas, atender necesidades educativas especiales y desarrollar ejes curriculares transversales como la educación intercultural. Conclusiones. Las implicaciones del análisis evidencian también el problema de la excesiva instrumentalización del álbum cuando se prescinde de su naturaleza artística y la dificultad para transferir los resultados de la investigación a las aulas. Finalmente, se recomiendan otras líneas de investigación, como estudios que examinen las creencias y actitudes del personal docente y trabajos que contemplen las nuevas tendencias editoriales, como los álbumes de no ficción sin palabras.

This article argues that the analysis of books 22/23 of Ab Vrbe Condita reveals no solid eviden- ce to trace Livy's narrative about the First Macedonian War to the Histories, a series of books written by Polybius. Conversely, the analysis of book 24 reveals a chapter (24.40) that matches our knowledge about Livy's later adaptation of the Greek author’s style. However, this chapter also contains some important differences with what we know about later episodes in books 26-29 that also deal with the First Macedonian War. Moreover, the chapter in book 24 is isolated from other references to the war between books 23-25. For these reasons, is contended that, if Livy knew the Histories when writing thefirst pentad of the third decade, he used them very little when dealing with the initial movements of the First Macedonian War (216-212 BC). This situation, in turn, has important implications for the study of the relationship between both authors in the problematic third decade.

Claudius Claudianus —probably from Alexandria— settled in Milan towards the end of 395 AD at the imperial court of Honorius, seeking to develop his poetic skills. Among the authors of the Roman literary canon who enjoy linguistic biculturalism, Claudian is one of the few to have verses in both Latin and Greek. The Gigantomachia, written in both languages, exposes the contextual characteristics of production, since it exhibits rhetorical techniques typical of the Second Sophistic. During the expansion of this cultural phenomenon, the use of different stylistic devices such as ekphrasis, which can be seen in the panegyric epic of the Egyptian poet, intensified. In view of the above, this paper will focus on the analysis of ekphrasis in the Latin Gigantomachia, not as a mere ornament but as a rhetorical figure that structures the different moments of the story, contributing emotionally to the vivid representation of the images according to the principles of epictic rhetoric. The importance of the ekphrasis in the evolution of the late epic allows us to conceive of it as a genre in which the poetic voice suspends the narrative in order to divert attention from the whole to the brilliance of its parts, interweaving the different scenes of war through a variety of ekphrasis.