Para un currículum de educación en valores

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17227/01234870.41folios7.22Education on values looks for a certain and secure foundation from which to guide, explain and justify the intervention of educators. The critique of modernity questions the superiority that has been given to the theory about educational practice, and poses a new scenario for thinking about education. The article defends the desirability of abandoning securities and absolute truths for the benefit of an education in values starting with the questions of reality, an education that is concerned about helping people to learn how to live. In order to achieve these objectives, we propose a curriculum that is away from fixed contents. Instead, we propose a curriculum that offers a set of moral practices that allow young people to face reality and decide what aspects should be kept and which one will be their contribution to the current situation of society.La educación en valores suele buscar fundamentos ciertos y seguros a partir de los cuales orientar, explicar y justificar la intervención de los educadores. La crítica a la modernidad cuestiona la posición de superioridad que se le ha otorgado a la teoría respecto a la práctica educativa y plantea un nuevo escenario desde el que pensar la educación. En este artículo se defiende la conveniencia de abandonar las seguridades y verdades absolutas en beneficio de una educación en valores que parta de los interrogantes de la realidad, una educación preocupada por ayudar a las personas a aprender a vivir. Para ello se propone un currículo de educación en valores que se aleje de los contenidos acabados y, en su lugar, ofrezca un conjunto de prácticas morales que permitan a los jóvenes enfrentarse a la realidad y decidir qué aspectos deben mantenerse y cuál va a ser su aportación al momento actual que vive la sociedad

Recognition and talent in social education

El artículo que presentamos se acerca a la pedagogía desde la idea de altruismo y ayuda mutua en contextos de vulnerabilidad. Una propuesta que, más allá de la lógica clásica de asistencia y acompañamiento a las personas en situación de exclusión, les reconoce su capacidad de ayudar a otros. Desde la óptica del don, la pedagogía no se conforma con la compensación y la restitución de derechos vulnerados, sino que apunta al reconocimiento de la capacidad de contribuir como dinamismo formativo y cívico. La antropología clásica describe el don como la lógica dar, recibir y devolver de los intercambios sociales. La sociología contemporánea como fenómeno de humanización y reconocimiento, capaz de contrarrestar los efectos de la lógica instrumental, la racionalidad calculadora y la mercantilización en las sociedades modernas. El artículo describe cómo una pedagogía que apunta al reconocimiento se construye por medio de un dinamismo de doble don: la relación y las prácticas de altruismo. La pedagogía requiere relaciones de confianza y exigencia que empoderen a las personas, así como prácticas que promuevan la colaboración y permitan contribuir a la comunidad, como el aprendizaje servicio.The article approaches pedagogy from the idea of altruism and mutual help in contexts of vulnerability. A proposal which goes beyond the classical logic of assistance and support to the people who are socially excluded, and which recognises their ability to help others. Seen from the gift perspective, this type of pedagogy is not limited to compensating and restoring rights that have been violated but also recognises the capacity to contribute as a formative and civic dynamic. Classical anthropology describes the gift as a logic based on the dynamic of giving, receiving and reciprocating in social relationships. In contemporary sociology it is seen as a phenomenon of humanization and recognition, which is able to counteract the effects of instrumental logic, calculating rationality and commodification in modern societies. The article describes how a pedagogy aimed at recognition is built through a double-gift dynamism: the relationships and the practices of altruism. It requires trusting and demanding relationships that empower people, and practices that promote collaboration and enable contributions to the community, such as service learning.Educació

Enhancing the quality of service-learning practices

The article presents a tool –a rubric– intended to assess and enhance the educational quality of service-learning (sl) experiences. It starts out from the basic principle that optimum design of pedagogical practice has a direct effect on student learning. Hence the importance of creating methodologies which, like service learning, promote the acquisition of values, skills and knowledge students will find useful in life. The article then suggests a service-learning methodology that responds to these purposes and goes on to show the most significant contributions towards its definition. Some of the most representative proposals for the assessment of service-learning activities that precede the rubric are also included and a description is made of the rubric’s construction process through the creation of a research team working on the basis of rational reconstruction methodology. The core of the text is dedicated to presenting the research results: the rubric for self-evaluation of service-learning projects. To do this, the 12 dimensions that comprise the rubric are defined, structured into three categories –basic, pedagogical and organisational– and the levels of complexity that correspond to each dimension described. The article concludes with a brief section containing the results that application of the rubric offers teaching teams and including a spider chart as a graphic expression to enable almost immediate visualisation of the level of development of a service learning activity.</p

Impacts of Use and Abuse of Nature in Catalonia with Proposals for Sustainable Management

This paper provides an overview of the last 40 years of use, and in many cases abuse, of the natural resources in Catalonia, a country that is representative of European countries in general, and especially those in the Mediterranean region. It analyses the use of natural resources made by mining, agriculture, livestock, logging, fishing, nature tourism, and energy production and consumption. This use results in an ecological footprint, i.e., the productive land and sea surface required to generate the consumed resources and absorb the resulting waste, which is about seven times the amount available, a very high number but very similar to other European countries. This overexploitation of natural resources has a huge impact on land and its different forms of cover, air, and water. For the last 25 years, forests and urban areas have each gained almost 3% more of the territory at the expense of agricultural land; those municipalities bordering the sea have increased their number of inhabitants and activity, and although they only occupy 6.7% of the total surface area, they account for 43.3% of the population; air quality has stabilized since the turn of the century, and there has been some improvement in the state of aquatic ecosystems, but still only 36% are in good condition, while the remainder have suffered morphological changes and different forms of nonpoint source pollution; meanwhile the biodiversity of flora and fauna remains still under threat. Environmental policies do not go far enough so there is a need for revision of the legislation related to environmental impact and the protection of natural areas, flora, and fauna. The promotion of environmental research must be accompanied by environmental education to foster a society which is Land 2021, 10, 144 3 of 53 more knowledgeable, has more control and influence over the decisions that deeply affect it. Indeed, nature conservation goes hand in hand with other social and economic challenges that require a more sustainable vision. Today’s problems with nature derive from the current economic model, which is environmentally unsustainable in that it does not take into account environmental impacts. Lastly, we propose a series of reasonable and feasible priority measures and actions related to each use made of the country’s natural resources, to the impacts they have had, and to their management, in the hope that these can contribute to improving the conservation and management of the environment and biodiversity and move towards sustainability.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Compartir ideas, la universidad va al instituto. Análisis de la primera edición de un proyecto de aprendizaje servicio transversal a la Universidad de Barcelona

Esta comunicación presenta las principales claves de análisis y evaluación de la 1a edición del proyecto Compartir Ideas. La Universidad va al instituto. Este es un proyecto de aprendizaje servicio transversal que consiste en un ciclo de conferencias-taller impartidas por estudiantes de la UB sobre temes de interés general relacionados con sus estudios. El objetivo es compartir conocimientos y conversar sobre un tema que la universidad trabaja y que será relevante para la formación del alumnado de secundaria.El proyecto cuenta con el apoyo del Vicerectorado de Política Docente y Lingüística de la Universitat de Barcelona

Pensamiento, contemplación y acción en pedagogía

This article attempts, in the first place, to draw a map of the different cognitive processes in the production of Pedagogical knowledge. To do this, distinctions are made between thinking, contemplation and action and then the different strategies of production of knowledge, characteristic of each of these cognitive activities, are analysed: myth, philosophy, science and dialect with respect to contemplation; seeing, looking, observing, experimenting and simulating with respect to contemplation; and spontaneous, reflexive, technological and comunicative action with respect to practical action. Finally, it is intended, in addition to deepening the essential interrelation between the different cognitive processes, to not exclude any of the aforementioned strategies and their use in function of the singular necessities in the process of the production of Pedagogical knowledge

Construcción dialógica de la personalidad moral

En este artículo nos proponemos desarrollar dos cuestiones: primero, la presentación crítica de los paradigmas más representativos de educación moral1 -la educación moral como socialización, como clarificación de valores, como desarrollo y como formación de hábitos virtuosos- y, en segundo lugar, dedicamos una parte de este trabajo a fundamentar una concepción de la educación moral, que la entiende como construcción de la personalidad moral. Aquí nos aproximaremos a la educación moral en tanto que proceso de construcción o reconstrucción de conocimientos, de valores y de destrezas morales. Intentaremos mostrar también que la educación moral es un proceso mediante el cual cada sujeto se implica en la construcción sociocultural de su personalidad moral