Education and the Collective Construction of Knowledge

It compiles a series of theoretical and empirical studies on the main issues in educational research. Specifically, it addresses topics of particular interest for teacher training and educational improvement in higher education, such as sustainability, arts education, the use of active learning methodologies or the quality management.

This book compiles a superb body of research in the field of Educational Sciences. The eleven chapters that comprise it offer an overview of the main issues and debates that currently exist around the educational process. Among other aspects, it addresses education for sustainable development, the use of technology in teaching and the training of future teachers, and crucial issues for the improvement of educational quality.

Autorentext

Santiago Mengual Andrés is the Director of the Comparative Education and History of Education Department of the University of Valencia, Spain. He has a Master's degree in Educational Psychology and a PhD from the University of Alicante, Spain. He was the Vice-dean of Research, Innovation and Quality of the School of Philosophy and Education, University of Valencia. His research areas are mainly focused on the role of ICT in Education with more than 95 contributions (articles, book chapters, books, proceedings, etc.). He is currently the Executive Editor of the Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research and a reviewer of several scientific journals indexed in JCR and Scopus.

Mayra Urrea Solano is a Lecturer at the Department of General Didactics and Specific Didactics of the Faculty of Education of the University of Alicante (Spain). She has graduated in Social Education and in Educational Psychology, and a PhD in Educational Research. Her lines of research focus on education for sustainable development, gender equality, and educational technology.

Inhalt

Education and the Collective Construction of Knowledge. An Overview -Teaching Modality: A corpus analysis of the use of must by university Spanish learners of English -Motivation and Anxiety towards Mathematical Learning in Primary Education-Criteria for the sequencing of contemporary music in education -Sustainability training evaluation of Spanish university students -Art as a means of fostering peace, communication and freedom of expression from childhood -Culturemes vs. humoremes as translation problems in practice exemplified in the German Cabaret of Marc-Uwe Kling and his Kangaroo stories -Is there homogeneity among business students regarding the level of concern towards the Sustainable Development Goals? A cluster analysis -Use Trends and methodological pertinence of Delphi within educational research in Ibero-America: a systematic review in Scopus -Gamification in the improvement of speaking competences in the English as a Foreign Language classroom: a case study -Quality management in the Spanish university: an analysis of the success and performance rates in communication degree programs -Teacher stories from the future: technology for the language and literature classroom