Innovar la educación en ciencias a través de enseñar y aprender acerca de la naturaleza de Ciencia y Tecnología

Esta comunicación contribuye a lema del congreso tratando de mejorar la enseñanza de la ciencia a través de una propuesta innovadora parapromover la comprensión del funcionamiento actual de la ciencia y tecnología en la sociedad (CTS),transformando las propuestas de la investigación didácticaen instrumentos útiles para los profesores en el aula. Describe las líneas básicas de un proyecto de investigación (EANCYT, Enseñanza y aprendizaje de naturaleza de la ciencia y la tecnología, NdCyT) que afronta el problema educativo de enseñar NdCyT con calidad y eficacia en países latinos.Elpropósito central es presentar los aspectos comunesdel proyecto y del simposio, es decir, los fundamentos teóricos y didácticos para enseñarcontenidos de NdCyT, que se apoyan en tres ejes básicos: la investigación sobre NdCyT, sobre secuencias de enseñanza-aprendizaje y las teorías del aprendizaje de la ciencia.Los aspectos innovadores de la comunicación se centran en el diseño de las secuencias de enseñanza aprendizaje (SEA) a aplicar en el aula, los instrumentos de evaluación de la mejora del aprendizaje de los estudiantes y el diseño empírico de la investigación para la verificación de la eficacia de las SEAs

Disability as a job resource: The role of job crafting and organizational citizenship behaviours. Towards an approach to value diversity in organizations

The number of employment opportunities afforded to people with disabilities in Italy is still not entirely satisfactory. Managerial policies should build a more favourable context, full of stimuli, support and backing for the promotion of good disability management practices within both private and public organizations. The aim of this study was to investigate how disability understood as a resource can positively influence the organizational climate and, consequently, the enactment of supportive and proactive behaviors, using the Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R) as a starting paradigm. Analyses were performed on 129 school educators in May 2021, who answered a structured questionnaire comprising several constructs, such as the perception of disability as a resource (2 items), job crafting (9 items) and extra-role behaviours (4 items). The mean age of the respondents was 51.6 years; most of them were female, married or cohabiting, and had a university degree. The study was performed through a non-parametric approach (PLS-SEM) and validated through bootstrap. Analyses showed that the relationship between disability as a resource and extra-role behaviors was partially mediated by the effect of job crafting. Results highlighted that workers with a predisposition to consider their colleagues with disabilities as a tool for growth are more likely to implement those behaviors that can improve the quality of organizational life and individual well-being, such as those oriented to proactivity and those aimed at expressing support, voluntary actions, and professional development even when this is not immediately required by the role

Análisis de materiales para la enseñanza de la naturaleza del conocimiento científico y tecnológico

La naturaleza del conocimiento científico y tecnológico constituye un componente esencial de la alfabetización en ciencias o de la competencia científica, y por eso sus contenidos innovadores se están incorporando en los currículos de ciencias actuales. La enseñanza de esos contenidos afronta importantes dificultades, siendo el más notorio la carencia de materiales apropiados para el aprendizaje de los estudiantes. Este artículo investiga la existencia de materiales didácticos actuales diseñados para la enseñanza de la naturaleza del conocimiento científico en las aulas y presenta como resultados de la búsqueda un abundante inventario de materiales hallados. Los materiales son sistematizados en grupos, con sus directrices generales, la lista de materiales, las orientaciones acerca de los temas abordados y un resumen de un material ejemplar. Además, se ofrece un modelo de clasificación de estos materiales para ayudar a los profesores a seleccionar y ordenar los potenciales materiales que puedan construir o encontrar. Finalmente, se reflexiona sobre la eficacia de los materiales para la enseñanza de la naturaleza del conocimiento científico, a partir de las recomendaciones de la investigación didáctica y los tradicionales factores que se oponen a las innovaciones

Supportive Climate and Its Protective Role in the Emotion Rule Dissonance – Emotional Exhaustion Relationship:A Multilevel Analysis

Abstract. Emotion work, or the requirement to display certain emotions during service interactions, may produce burnout when these emotions are not truly felt – emotion rule dissonance. Building on the support-buffering model we hypothesized that a supportive climate should provide emotional resources to employees protecting them against strain from emotion work. We tested this multilevel prediction in a sample of 317 front-line employees nested in 99 work units at large Spanish hotels and restaurants. Our results showed that supportive climate protects employees against experiencing emotional exhaustion (main effect) and attenuates the negative effects of emotion rule dissonance on emotional exhaustion (moderating effects). These results provide empirical evidence for the important role of supportive climate as a buffer between emotion work and well-being. </jats:p

Enseñar, aprender y evaluar sobre Ciencia y Tecnología y Sociedad desde el Proyecto EANCYT

Esta propuesta describe una investigación que afronta el problema educativo de enseñar con calidad CTS o la naturaleza de la ciencia y la tecnología, es decir, las cuestiones acerca de como la ciencia y la tecnología (CyT) validan su conocimiento y como funcionan en el mundo actual. El proyecto integra un equipo internacional iberoamericano amplio y multidisciplinar, formado por varios grupos de investigación pertenecientes a países e instituciones de lenguas ibéricas (español y portugués), que diseñan y realizan cooperativamente el plan de investigación. Se presentan ejemplos del diseño y la documentación de la investigación: unidades didácticas, cuestionarios de evaluación (pre y post test), cuestionarios de entrevistas a alumnos, actividades, informes y planificación general de aplicaciones de unidades didácticas por profesores en el aula

Work-life balance satisfaction in crisis times: from luxury to necessity - The role of organization's responses during COVID-19 lockdown

[eng] This study examines how satisfaction with work-life balance (WLB) in combination with satisfaction with organization's COVID-19 responses (SOCV19R) helps to enhance subjective well-being and performance during the lockdown due to COVID-19.The data of this time-lagged study were gathered through an online survey with three-waves between March and May 2020 in Spain (N = 167). Hierarchical multiple regression and PROCESS were used to test the hypotheses. Direct relationships between SOCV19R and subjective well-being and performance were not significant. Instead, SOCV19R increased employees' well-being and performance through a higher satisfaction with WLB (full mediation). The novelty of this study is the evaluation of SOCV19R as a form of organizational support in times of crisis. This study suggests that a good organizational reaction to face a crisis such as the pandemic, encourages employees' WLB and helps them to boost their well-being and performance. It may be concluded that work-life balance (WLB) in Spain was seen as a luxury in good times and turned out to be a necessity in bad times. The present study recommends practical implications and provides lessons for human resource management for future crises or similar work conditions

Telework satisfaction, wellbeing and performance in the digital era. Lessons learned during COVID-19 lockdown in Spain

[eng] This study used a prospective design to examine the effects of telework satisfaction (time 1) on subjective wellbeing and self-reported performance (time 2) during the COVID-19 lockdown. Data were collected from 111 teleworkers through an online survey the first weeks of strict lockdown in Spain. Telework satisfaction showed positive direct effects on both subjective wellbeing and self-reported performance. Further, subjective wellbeing partially mediated the relationship between telework satisfaction and self-reported performance. Interestingly, employees with children felt less telework satisfaction but higher subjective wellbeing. The novelty of this study is that we evaluate the level of satisfaction with telework using a specific set of items that assess the employees' contentment with diverse telework facets. Given the spreading of telework and the increasing competitiveness of organizations, we discuss practical implications in times of crisis, both present and future

Happy-Productive Teams and Work Units: A Systematic Review of the 'Happy-Productive Worker Thesis'

The happy-productive worker thesis (HPWT) assumes that happy employees perform better. Given the relevance of teams and work-units in organizations, our aim is to analyze the state of the art on happy-productive work-units (HPWU) through a systematic review and integrate existing research on different collective well-being constructs and collective performance. Research on HPWU (30 studies, 2001-2018) has developed through different constructs of well-being (hedonic: team satisfaction, group affect; and eudaimonic: team engagement) and diverse operationalizations of performance (self-rated team performance, leader-rated team performance, customers' satisfaction, and objective indicators), thus creating a disintegrated body of knowledge about HPWU. The theoretical frameworks to explain the HPWU relationship are attitude-behavior models, broaden-and-build theory, and the job-demands-resources model. Research models include a variety of antecedents, mediators, and moderating third variables. Most studies are cross-sectional, all propose a causal happy-productive relationship (not the reverse), and generally find positive significant relationships. Scarce but interesting time-lagged evidence supports a causal chain in which collective well-being leads to team performance (organizational citizenship behavior or team creativity), which then leads to objective work-unit performance. To conclude, we identify common issues and challenges across the studies on HPWU, and set out an agenda for future research.status: publishe