Child care in Spain after 1975: The educational rationale, the Catholic Church, and women in civil society

This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript. The definitive version of this piece may be found in "Childcare and Preschool Development in Europe", edited by Kirsten Scheiwe and Harry Willekens, which can be purchased from www.palgrave.co

Central state child care policies in postauthoritarian Spain: Implications for gender and carework arrangements

In Spain, public preschool programs have continuously expanded in the past three decades. However, this education policy has done little to support increases in the proportion of women in the paid workforce. Preschool is not child care because the former does not address the care needed by children younger than three years old and offers programs with short hours and long holidays.Publicad

Los MOOC en la plataforma educativa MiriadaX

Actualmente los procesos formativos en la educación superior se están dirigiendo hacia un novedoso formato que integra tres principios básicos que son gratuidad, masividad y ubicuidad. Estos principios son la matriz de los denominados, con sigla inglesa, MOOC (Cursos Online Masivos en Abierto). Esta innovación disruptiva ha incitado una revolución en la formación universitaria, removiendo la estructura organizativa tradicional de las universidades. Por ello, el presente trabajo describe el entorno MOOC de la plataforma MiriadaX (https://www.miriadax.net/). Asimismo, desarrolla, desde una perspectiva descriptiva, la génesis y fundamentación paradigmática en la que se sustenta esta plataforma y los elementos que la integran. Por último, se muestra los elementos que componen un MOOC y a modo de ejemplificación, la implementación didáctica del workspace del curso https://www.miriadax.net/web/estadistica-investigadores.Nowadays the formative processes in the higher education are going towards a new format that integrates three basic beginning: gratuitousness, massive and ubiquity. This beginning is the matrix of named, with english abbreviation, MOOC (Courses Online Massive Open). This disruptive innovation has incited a revolution in the universitary education, removing the organizational traditional structure of the universities. For it, this paper describes the environment MOOC of the platform MiriadaX (https://www.miriadax.net/). In addition, this study develops, from a descriptive perspective, the genesis and paradigmatic foundation in which there is sustained the platform MiriadaX and the elements that integrate it. Finally, it shows the elements that compose a MOOC and, as an example, the didactic implementation of the course workspace https://www.miriadax.net/web/estadistica-investigadores

Reflexiones sobre la enseñanza experimental de la estadística

Este trabajo presenta algunas ideas sobre la organización de un curso experimental de estadística dirigida a científicos sociales o naturales para los que la estadística tiene un importante papel instrumental. Se resalta la necesidad de un método activo de aprendizaje y de un sistema continuo de seguimiento y control de los conocimientos adquiridos por los estudiantes. La estadística debe considerarse un asignatura experimental y enseñarse con un fuerte apoyo de un aula o laboratorio informático. Es tan importante el contenido de lo que enseñanmos como el método utilizado, y debemos adecuar ambos aspectos a los objetivos explícitos de la enseñanza

The Influence of Conflict on the Demand for Education in the Basque Region

It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have, however, always focused strongly on the supply-side effects, whereas this paper examines the influence of conflict on the demand for education. It is theoretically shown that, under relatively general conditions, individuals living in a conflict area have an incentive to increase their level of education and that this effect depends on the individual's skill level. This hypothesis is then tested using the conflict in the Basque Region as a case study, which is an example of a conflict in which one would not expect strong supply-side effects. Using the other Spanish regions, an artificial region is created in which the population has a similar educational distribution as in the Basque Region. When comparing the true and artificial regions, it can clearly be seen that for individuals with a medium level of education, there is a strong incentive to increase their education level, which is in concordance with the theoretical model.Conflict, Education, Matching, Spain

La ansiedad matemática en alumnos de grados en estadística

En este trabajo se realiza un estudio sobre los niveles de ansiedad matemática que presentan alumnos universitarios de primer curso matriculados en Grados en Estadística. Analizamos la relación entre este constructo y otros factores como son el género, el perfil del Grado (empresa, matemáticas ó general) y la asignatura de matemáticas cursada en Bachillerato. Los resultados muestran que las alumnas tienen mayor nivel de ansiedad matemática que los alumnos sobre todo en los grupos, determinados por los dos factores anteriores, que presentan mayor nivel de ansiedad. Estos grupos corresponden al perfil Empresa y a alumnos que cursaron en Bachillerato la asignatura “Matemáticas aplicadas a las CCSS”