Ethnography inquiry and teacher education. The use of diaries for the comprehension of educational practice

We present in this communication a work of inquiry carried our using the diaries of students participating an educational experience in a primary school. Along a semester, a group of 10 students was workomg with a community learning project. These students were engaged with a teacher training experience which is being developed in the Education College at the University of Málaga. In this experience some teacher students attended two subjects of his education as collaborators in this school. His experience was collected systematically in field diaries in which they reflected their everyday experience in the school, as well as his insights, assessments, feelings, etc. These diaries become into the working material to study the school functioning and their experience. For that reason, working meetings were held with teachers of their subjects at the university. Collaboratively, diaries were analyzed, categorized and interpreted in an attempt to understand the school practice, and thus, progress their training process.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Experiences from the academic training. Study about the identity of the novice teacher, second part.

We present some progresses of the current research project we are developing called "The professional identity of teacher studies”. It aims to analyse the training received by students in the faculties of education in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, especially in the degrees of pre-school education and primary education. To that effect we enquiry about the influence of the experience as school student in their training and what kind of professional identity they are generating along the formation period and after five years of activity as teachers. We present some results from the second phase of the research project: The analysis of the teacher students experience accounts in the collegeUniversidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Ethnography, visual narratives and learning ecologies. The 'Universidad Rural Paulo Freire' case.

In this paper, we present some of the results of the R&D Project called "Ecologies of learning in multiple contexts: analysis of expanded education projects and citizenship configurations" funded by Minister of Economy and Competitiveness (Spain). The interest of this project arises after considering that much of the individual and organizational learnings have been turning invisible in different educational spaces. Therefore, our purpose is to study the different socio-educational mechanisms that individuals and organizations put into play in different scenarios: schools, asociations, virtual academical contexts, etc. On this ocassion, we present some of the methodological issues and results of a specific case: "La Universidad Rural Paulo Freire de la Serranía de Ronda" (onwards URPF), a rural socio-educative organization. The ethnography is being developed in Benalauría (Ronda mountain range). This organization is focused in the recovery of traditional learnings that people used to have around the rural world. It is settled in a critical perspective that connects their educational actions under the approaches of sustainability, dignity, feminism, etc. The general objectives we consider for this project are the following: - To know life style of people in Benalauría context. - To understand the configuration of URPF group and its impact in the territory. - To promote learning communities of practice with other organizations. As specific objectives, we emphasize: - To review the conceptual frameworks those allow us to understand the practices of invisible learning in this experience. - To generate visual narratives those evidence the work and identity features of the URPF. - To analyse the life stories of the people who are part of this experience (as well as the collective story), for the understanding of socio-educational action in rural contexts through dialogue of knowledge, generation of democratic practices and collaborative participation. - To generate spaces for dialogue with other organizations, groups and people for the creation of networks and learning communities.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Work, Professional Development And Teaching Commitment: Deconstructing Meanings

The paper we present is part of the research project "The professional identity of teacher studies", that we are development for last 3 years. The third phase of this research put the focus on the experience of job placement of novel teachers, graduated no more than 5 years. We work with focal groups and professional experience and teacher education accounts of teachers implied in this research. Also, for any teachers, we do biographical interviews to deepen on processes of construction of professional identity. In this paper we present the Ana Belen History, a female teacher of pre-school education with an experience of 4 years in school, working in a urban school with students in risk of exclusion. This school have a educative project, commitment with the neighbourhood, joint with the community and other social groups. Ana Belen story, from professional perspective, is linked with the social politic and educational commitment of this school. Our interest is focused in the comprehension of professional identity that Ana Belen has gone forging along her personal story and how her education and job placement has contributed for it. Also we are interested in knowing how early professional experiences have influenced in her professional development as teacher. Specifically we ask ourselves about what influence have for her professional identity, that her career starts in this particular school. In consequence, this paper leads us to question the current teacher education model. In particular we are interested on the kind of professional experience that have place and, so, the kinds of commitments that enables. We understand that frameworks in which professional education and experience have place are relevant to enable more or less transformer understandings about teaching. From conceptual perspective this paper adopts a socio-critical point of view (Gergen, 1985; Kincheloe, 2001; Wenger, 1988, etc.). We understand that teaching has to be analysing according work contexts and personal stories of teachers, because we face processes historical and collective building. Teaching is the result of action of their actors, over time, and in specific stage. So, with this research we intend to break with the old gap between pre and in-service education. We think that both of them are part of the same process and are formed according similar logical; although scenes change. We understand that they are part of a continuous process in which is giving sense to different and complex settings where teaching profession is built, but they are not differenced and independent stages. The teacher work, so, is subject to particular conditions, generated from such different fields as institutional, corporative, cultural, social, political, moral, etc. It displays a kaleidoscopic view on space, time, context, ... These are the axis in which the teaching is formed, from the complexity and heterogeneity. How this complexity is articulated results in different ways to face the teacher work, according different personal and professional stories. The teacher acts with subjects in instituted contexts from relationships he has with them, which gives a situated and contingent character. But, these contexts are strongly structured and ruled according centralized and generalized positions; which is, at the very least, paradoxical. Possibly, from our point of view, same of the crisis of teaching have to explain from this paradoxical perspective and the conflict, which characterize this job (Rivas, Leite y Cortés, 2011)Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Teacher education by volunteering in learning communities

El trabajo presentado forma parte del proyecto I+D+I “Ecologías del aprendizaje en contextos múltiples: análisis de proyectos de educación expandida y conformación de ciudadanía” financiado por MIMECO, España.El artículo presenta parte de los resultados de investigación sobre el trabajo del voluntariado en centros educativos que son comunidades de aprendizaje como una forma de avanzar en procesos de formación docente diferentes a los vigentes.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de la Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

An agent-based Internet of Things platform for distributed real time machine control

[EN] The way in which the Internet of Things and the Web of Things improve everyday objects may seem obvious; elements that make up our daily life are increasingly interconnected and it is becoming more common for us to be surrounded by them. However, the possibilities these technologies offer are not only limited to routinely used objects. By adapting these still emerging technologies, any kind of an object can achieve better performance. They can, for example be applied to research tools, to obtain faster search results and improve the user's experience. The presented work follows these lines; we present a Web-operated machine for the study of the behaviour of certain animals. In addition, the proposed architecture favours the addition of cognitive abilities, due to the inclusion of a Multi-Agent System

Ecologías del aprendizaje en contextos rurales. El caso de la Universidad Rural Paulo Freire de la Serranía de Ronda

Ecologías del aprendizaje en contextos rurales. El caso de la Universidad Rural Paulo Freire de la Serranía de Ronda. Línea Estratégica de trabajo: Metodologías multimodales y participativas. 1. Introducción y objetivos El trabajo que presentamos forma parte del proyecto I+D+I “Ecologías del aprendizaje en contextos múltiples: análisis de proyectos de educación expandida y conformación de ciudadanía” financiado por MIMECO, España. El interés de este proyecto surge al considerar que buena parte de los procesos de aprendizaje relevante que activan un sentido de comunidad y ciudadanía, han venido resultando invisibles en los distintos espacios educativos y de formación del profesorado. En esta comunicación presentamos los planteamientos metodológicos que nos hacemos en uno de los contextos de esta investigación, que es el grupo que conforma la Asociación ‘Montaña y Desarrollo’ que entre sus iniciativas está la gestión y dinamización de la Universidad Rural Paulo Freire de la Serranía de Ronda. Nuestro propósito general es estudiar los mecanismos educativos que las personas y organizaciones ponen en juego a la hora de constituirse en sus grupos de interacción próxima: trabajo, familia, etc. Así mismo, como objetivos específicos para trabajar en en el mencionado contexto, destacamos - Revisar los marcos conceptuales que permitan comprender las prácticas de aprendizaje invisible y educación expandida representativas de alternativas ecologías del aprendizaje. - Generar narrativas visuales que evidencien el trabajo y los rasgos identitarios de la Asociación ‘Montaña y Desarrollo’. - Analizar los relatos de vida de las personas integrantes de esta experiencia (así como el relato colectivo), para la comprensión de la acción socio educativa en contextos rurales a través del diálogo de saberes, generación de prácticas democráticas y la participación colaborativa. - Generar espacios de diálogo con otras organizaciones, colectivos, personas… para la creación de redes y comunidades de aprendizaje. 2. Metodología. La metodología se sitúa en el paradigma cualitativo y se aborda desde el enfoque biográfico–narrativo (Rivas, 2009). Entender los fenómenos sociales desde la voz de los/as protagonistas, se sitúa como estrategia principal e indispensable en este proyecto. Para ello, tras previo acuerdo con el colectivo participante, recurrimos a la construcción de relatos de vidas y narrativas visuales como enfoque metodológico de base hacia la re-significación de cómo aprende y se aprende en el mencionado escenario de investigación. Para ello, acudimos a distintas estrategias tales como la entrevista, los grupos focales y de reflexión (que serán grabados en soportes audiovisuales), así como grupos mixtos para el desarrollo de interpretaciones, la co-contrucción de significados y el trabajo sobre los resultados parciales y finales. 3. Conclusiones. El entramado del aprendizaje ecológico y los procesos de construcción de ciudadanía son percibidos hoy como un aprendizaje invisible, informal, generativo o rizomático, fuera de los contextos educativos formales. Sin embargo, las posibilidades casi ilimitadas de comunicación abren el universo de otras formas de aprendizaje que pensamos contribuyen a los procesos de transformación personal y colectiva. Sobre esto, consideramos que la investigación educativa debe tener presente desde un enfoque metodológico, la incorporación de los sujetos como agentes clave en la toma de decisiones del proceso indagatorio y considerar la ampliación de las formas de aprendizaje hacia la participación, el componente emocional y corporal, la colaboración y la interconexión.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Historias de vida silenciadas, relatos desde la calle. De la marginación al cambio.

Lo que se presenta en este trabajo, es la reflexión compartida de parte del proyecto de investigación de la tesis doctoral denominada ‘El guiño del poder, la sonrisa del cambio. Estudio pedagógico sobre identidad resiliente en contextos de desventaja social, cultural y jurídica’. Se ha procedido a analizar desde un enfoque narrativo los procesos resilientes de personas sumergidas en situaciones altamente conflictivas.Se han abordado cuatro ejes conceptuales y experienciales, que además de ser transversales, centran la discusión y los hallazgos de la mencionada investigación. A continuación se expresan: - Justicia. ¿Cómo se interpreta, vive e interactúa con la justicia en contextos desfavorecidos?, ¿Cómo influye en procesos resilientes? - Muerte y prisión. Son dos fenómenos que se encuentran de manera reiterada en las viviencias de los protagonistas del estudio, repercutiendo estrechamente en la configuración de la identidad de los mismos, y por tanto, del proceso resiliente. - Adicciones. Tanto la venta como el consumo de droga en barrios marginados fue desde los años 80, uno de los fenómenos que atentó con mayor claridad contra la dignidad humana. - Transformación y dignidad. ¿Cómo las personas, a pesar de las adversidades, aprenden a relacionarse de otra manera?, ¿qué elementos de transformación aparecen en procesos resilientes? En definitiva, lo que se leerá en las próximas páginas es una reconceptualización de la resiliencia en contextos marginados, entretejiendo las voces de las personas participantes en la investigación desde una visión crítica y atendiendo en primer plano a la dimensión política que esta acarrea

Creando puentes escuela universidad. Una experiencia de formación docente desde la colaboración y el diálogo

El trabajo presenta una experiencia de trabajo docente con estudiantes del Grado de Primaria de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Málaga. La experiencia se asienta en una concepción socio-constructivista crítica de los procesos de aprendizaje, donde el diálogo, la colaboración y el compromiso social y político con el contexto constituyen las líneas directrices del trabajo. Por otro lado, nos planteamos desarrollar una línea de trabajo en el sentido del Aprendizaje – servicio, según la cual, un grupo de 10 estudiantes cursa las asignaturas en un centro educativo constituida en comunidad de aprendizaje en un contexto de marginación social, económica y cultural. Este alumnado colabora con los proyectos educativos del centro junto a un profesor/a. De este modo, se presta un servicio al centro, prestando nuestra ayuda y colaboración con el desarrollo del proyecto, al mismo tiempo que nuestro alumnado aprende dichas asignaturas.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Relationship recommender system in a business and employment-oriented social network

[EN] In the last ten years, social networks have had a great influence on people’s lifestyles and have changed, above all, the way users communicate and relate. This is why, one of the main lines of research in the field of social networks focuses on finding and analyzing possible connections between users. These developments allow users to expand on their network of contacts without having to search among the total set of users. However, there are many types of social networks which attract users with specific needs, these needs influence on the type of contacts users are looking for. Our article proposes a relationship recommender system for a business and employment-oriented social network. The presented system functions by extracting relevant information from the social network which it then uses to adequately recommend new contacts and job offers to users. The recommender system uses information gathered from job offer descriptions, user profiles and users’ actions. Then, different metrics are applied in order to discover new ties that are likely to convert into relationships