Environmental Education toward Sustainable Development: Training Early-Ages Pre-Service Teachers to Design Their Own Scientific Didactic Proposals

This study was implemented with 540 early-ages pre-service teachers during three academic courses in Spain. Students designed their own didactic proposals with environmental education aim toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Countless initiatives are being implemented at all educational levels around the world to include these SDGs in didactic programs. However, traditional teaching methods are sometimes insufficient to achieve a “proactive attitude” toward environmental problems by pupils. Certain characteristics of teaching and learning in the early-ages are exploration, motivation, curiosity, questioning, dialogue, collaboration, and reasoning to establish connections between scientific concepts and their environment. Therefore, the study was induced by the interest of introducing scientific methodology to achieve environmental education aims. The design of scientific didactic proposals was helpful for early-years prospective teachers to acquire environmental education skills toward SDGs. They increased their knowledge regarding environmental issues and their feeling of moral obligation to protect the environment and self-reported pro-environmental behavior, being aware of their role as educators. However, future experiences will be specially intended to enhance the importance of met a cognitive and emotive learning in pupils, including observation, identification, argumentation, and discussion

Patrimonio hidráulico histórico en el entorno de la ciudad de Teruel

Tener presente la historia de los regadíos del entorno de cualquier ciudad, comarca o territorio, así como la de su industria asociada tiene que ser como dice Julián Ortega “un instrumento de reflexión colectiva”. El entorno de la ciudad de Teruel, zona agrícola antes que ciudad, tiene todavía suficientes vestigios de su patrimonio industrial asociado al agua que bien merece un reconocimiento y una conservación en los términos y medios que sea posible. En estas páginas se lleva a cabo lo que se podría denominar un inventario para apoyar a esa reflexión

Valoración del Prácticum de los Grados de Magisterio de Teruel (España) ante una experiencia de gestión coordinada entre la universidad y la administración educativa

El Prácticum es considerado como un proceso esencial en la formación del futuro docente. En este trabajo se muestra la valoración ejercida por los tres agentes participantes, maestros/as, estudiantes y profesorado universitario, tras un acuerdo de mejora organizativa entre la administración educativa y la universidad. Los estudiantes valoran mejor la labor realizada por su maestro/a tutor/a que la ejercida por su profesor/a tutor/a universitario/a. Los/as maestros/as tutores/as y el profesorado universitario solicitan un mayor reconocimiento (incentivos) por parte de las instituciones responsables, administración educativa y universidad, que deben proporcionar más medios si realmente desean mejorar la formación de nuestro profesorado

Alumnado de 4-5 años y su profesorado indagan sobre la flotación a través del Programa “Hipatia”

Varios estudios revelan que algunos de los factores que más influyen en la elección de alimentos de los niños son la publicidad y las estrategias de marketing. La literatura sobre el tema y los documentos oficiales destacan la importancia de la ciencia, por su capacidad de lectura crítica del mundo, para la educación de hábitos alimentarios saludables. Esta investigación es un estudio de caso exploratorio, realizado con un grupo de niños de 5 años de una guardería de una Institución Privada de Solidaridad Social, en el norte de Portugal. Responde a la pregunta "¿Qué prácticas educativas, en un contexto de educación preescolar, pueden promover la creación de hábitos alimentarios saludables y minimizar los efectos de la publicidad en las elecciones de los niños? Para responder a esta pregunta-problema se definieron dos objetivos: (I) Poner en práctica estrategias educativas que puedan promover una alimentación sana mediante la intervención con los niños; (II) Apoyar a los niños en la construcción de una visión más realista sobre la publicidad de alimentos y la alimentación sana. El estudio demostró la importancia de la ciencia, más concretamente de las actividades prácticas, para la construcción de una visión crítica del mundo, más concretamente sobre la publicidad de bebidas

Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potential in astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology. CTA is an international initiative to build the next generation instrument, with a factor of 5-10 improvement in sensitivity in the 100 GeV-10 TeV range and the extension to energies well below 100 GeV and above 100 TeV. CTA will consist of two arrays (one in the north, one in the south) for full sky coverage and will be operated as open observatory. The design of CTA is based on currently available technology. This document reports on the status and presents the major design concepts of CTA

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Comparative Analysis of Laparoscopic Gastrectomy Versus Laparoscopic-Assisted Gastrectomy : Postoperative Complications

The evolution of laparoscopic surgery in gastric cancer has advanced significantly, with benefits over open surgery initially demonstrated in early gastric cancer and later in advanced stages. This study aims to evaluate postoperative complications, surgical outcomes, and anastomosis safety by comparing laparoscopic gastrectomy and laparoscopic-assisted gastrectomy. This retrospective, observational, analytical study included patients diagnosed with gastric cancer who underwent laparoscopic gastrectomy at a university hospital from January 2006 to February 2018. Patients were initially divided into two groups based on the type of anastomosis: laparoscopic gastrectomy (intracorporeal anastomosis) and laparoscopic-assisted gastrectomy (extracorporeal anastomosis). Further secondary analysis was done with subgroups based on the type of gastrectomy and anastomosis performed. A total of 139 patients were analyzed, showing significant differences in postoperative complications between the two surgical approaches. The laparoscopic-assisted group exhibited a higher rate of complications. The laparoscopic approach (with intracorporeal anastomosis) was found to have a lower risk of complications and morbidity/mortality compared to the laparoscopic-assisted approach. Laparoscopic gastrectomy with intracorporeal anastomosis resulted in lower morbidity and mortality than laparoscopic-assisted gastrectomy. The technique of partial gastrectomy with intracorporeal anastomosis was associated with the lowest rate of postoperative complications

Survival of male genital cancers (prostate, testis and penis) in Europe 1999-2007: Results from the EUROCARE-5 study

Background We provide updated estimates of survival and survival trends of male genital tumours (prostate, testicular and penis cancers), in Europe and across European areas. Methods The complete approach was used to obtain relative survival estimates for patients diagnosed in 2000-2007, and followed up through 2008 in 29 countries. Data came from 87 cancer registries (CRs) for prostate tumours and from 86 CRs for testis and penis tumours. Relative survival time trends in 1999-2007 were estimated by the period approach. Data came from 49 CRs in 25 countries. Results We analysed 1,021,275 male genital cancer cases. Five-year relative survival was high and decreased with increasing age for all tumours considered. We found limited variation in survival between European regions with Eastern Europe countries having lower survival than the others. Survival for penile cancer patients did not improve from 1999 to 2007. Survival for testicular cancer patients remained stable at high levels since 1999. Survival for prostate cancer patients increased over time. Conclusions Treatment standardisation and centralisation for very rare diseases such as penile cancers or advanced testicular tumours should be supported. The high survival of testicular cancer makes long-term monitoring of testicular cancer survivors necessary and CRs can be an important resource. Prostate cancer patients' survival must be interpreted considering incidence and mortality data. The follow-up of the European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer should continue to clarify the impact of screening on prostate cancer mortality together with population based studies including information on stage and treatments

Cancer survival in Europe 1999-2007 by country and age: results of EUROCARE--5-a population-based study

Cancer survival is a key measure of the effectiveness of health-care systems. EUROCARE-the largest cooperative study of population-based cancer survival in Europe-has shown persistent differences between countries for cancer survival, although in general, cancer survival is improving. Major changes in cancer diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation occurred in the early 2000s. EUROCARE-5 assesses their effect on cancer survival in 29 European countries

Age and case mix-standardised survival for all cancer patients in Europe 1999-2007: Results of EUROCARE-5, a population-based study

Background Overall survival after cancer is frequently used when assessing a health care service's performance as a whole. It is mainly used by the public, politicians and the media, and is often dismissed by clinicians because of the heterogeneous mix of different cancers, risk factors and treatment modalities. Here we give survival details for all cancers combined in Europe, correlating it with economic variables to suggest reasons for differences. Methods We computed age and cancer site case-mix standardised relative survival for all cancers combined (ACRS) for 29 countries participating in the EUROCARE-5 project with data on more than 7.5 million cancer cases from 87 population-based cancer registries, using complete and period approach. Results Denmark, United Kingdom (UK) and Eastern European countries had lower survival than neighbouring countries. Five-year ACRS has been increasing throughout Europe, and substantial increases, between 1999-2001 and 2005-2007, have been achieved in countries where survival was lower in the past. Five-year ACRS for men and women are positively correlated with macro-economic variables like the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Total National Expenditure on Health (TNEH) (R 2 about 70%). Countries with recent larger increases in GDP and TNEH had greater increases in cancer survival. Conclusions ACRS serves to compare all cancer survival in Europe taking account of the geographical variability in case-mixes. The EUROCARE-5 data on ACRS confirm previous EUROCARE findings. Survival appears to correlate with macro-economic determinants, particularly with investments in the health care system