QURRICULUM - Revista de Teoría, Investigación y Práctica Educativa

Inhibitors of change in educational innovation: A case study.

Pedro David Yedra Contreras, Juan Carlos Torrego Seijo — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

This article presents the results of a case study carried out in a private school in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. It is a centre located in a very disadvantaged neighbourhood with serious social and economic deficiencies that are reflected in the functioning of the school. Concerned about the serious problems of coexistence, absenteeism and school failure, the internal research team focuses on a change in the structure of the classrooms that improves academic performance and coexistence. In this way, an option is made for cooperative learning. However, a year after the start of the project, this was paralyzed after a conflict. The object of this case study is to understand in depth what inhibitors have intervened in the paralysis of this research oriented to an educational innovation project. Corporatism caused by an apparent lack of commitment is the factor that most appears as an inhibitor of the innovation process in our case, however, there is never a single cause. They usually appear a map of inhibitors related to each other. Discovering them in time is important for the survival of the innovation project.

Young Homosexuals. Study on stereotypes and mental health.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

In the stage of adolescence, physical and mental changes occur in young people. These changes can be affected in some way by the social stereotypes that surround them, these stereotypes sometimes act in a negative way and can damage the mental and physical well-being of minority groups, as it is on this occasion, young homosexuals. The objective of this research was aimed at analyzing the level of acceptance of homosexual stereotypes within the homosexual group and determining how being a homosexual person can affect mental health (correlation between stereotypes and mental health). Through a study of a quantitative nature, data collection is carried out with an instrument based on previous research with an adequate reliability study and answered by a sample of 96 people between the ages of 15 and 26, belonging to the Andalusian autonomous community.

The results showed that stereotypes are still present in the lives of young homosexuals, and continue to negatively affect their state of mental well-being. The findings indicate that young homosexuals are afraid to show themselves as they really are in society due to the insecurities and fears caused by socially accepted stereotypes.

El Perfomance as a didactic resource in Social Education

Rocio Pérez Solís — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

In this paper we present an innovation proposal for the use of performance as a didactic resource in the initial training of the Social Education Degree. Social Education involves a multidimensional practice, and its purpose is to contribute to the integral development of people, so we reflect on the figure of the educator and its possibilities of professionalization in the line of Education through Art. The core activity of this work are some didactic guidelines on how to work the components and elements that constitute the creation of a performance for the use of a social intervention by future social educators, focusing on this artistic practice as an active methodology. The objective is to approach the creative process and its didactic orientations to carry out the phases of interdisciplinary learning, to know the components of performance and the use of the multilanguage characteristic of contemporary art. Among the conclusions we highlight that the practice of performance as an intervention tool for the field of Social Education can generate new narratives in contemporary society and urges an initial training in these artistic practices.

Anti-Fascist Pedagogy: a radical pedagogy in the face of rising fascism and xenophobia

Enrique Javier Díez Gutiérrez — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

This article is an essay that describes how the ideology underpinning neo-fascism is penetrating education, analyses its profoundly reactionary and radically neo-liberal agenda, as well as its main mechanisms of infiltration into classrooms and the education system. But it also considers how to combat the rise of neo-fascism and its progressive "normalisation" by part of society from the school, before this plague spreads even further, as Camus would say, this disease that has the capacity to destroy democracy in the name of democracy itself.

Critical comparative curriculum research beyond globalized neoliberal policy

Michael Uljens — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Transnational issues have challenged traditional ideas of citizenship and identity formation in democratic societies for the past 30 years. This includes cultural nationalism, populism, economic protectionism, social media identity construction, performative behavior, religious fundamentalism, mistrust in democratic political participation, and a decrease in respect for knowledge institutions and established media. The rise of new social media and the neoliberal market-state ideology have contributed to these trends. Non-Affirmative Educa- tion Theory (NAT) can address these challenges by providing a framework for analyzing educational aims, contents, methods, and governance, and can serve as a starting point for comparative curriculum research.

Interview with Javier Marrero, Professor of Didactics and Educational Research, on 13 October 2022.

Juan José Sosa Alonso — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100