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Nuria Castells and Mercè Garcia-Milà, members of the Institute of Research in Education and of the Research Group Critical Use of Information in High School Students (UCRES), are the Principal Investigators of this project,with reference RTI2018-097289-B-I00, granted in the call “Research Challenges” of the state R & D program oriented to the challenges of society. The objectives are: Analyze some factors

Our colleagues and members of the Institute of Research in Education Ruth Vilà and Mª José Rubio have recently published this article.   Abstract: Education professionals, and especially those in secondary education, are key players in enabling intercultural and interreligious dialogue. However, it is worth asking whether educational actors are in fact adequately trained to address the serious responsibilities and

The 1st International Conference on Research in Education is approaching and over the next few weeks we will be announcing the participants of the round tables that will take place throughout. On this occasion we introduce you to Dr. Zvi Bekerman, rapporteur of the table, and to the speakers Dr. José Luís Medina, Dr. Miguel Zapata-Ros and Dr. Àlex Egea.

Núria Castells, member of the Institute of Research in Education, participates in this recently published work.     What are the characteristics of reading comprehension processes linked to learning curricular content? What do we know about the most frequent texts and tasks when it comes to reading to learn? What happens specifically when reading to learn has more than one

The professor Henry Giroux, one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy, has recently published the book “The terror of the unforeseen”, a work that provides food for thought on some of the aspects that he observes as more worrying about today’s society: the tyranny of capitalism and the culture of cruelty and reification, as well as the resurgence of

The Institutes of Research in Education enhance the activity of research in the field of education and establish synergies between researchers and research groups in their own knowledge areas. In April 2019, a meeting was held between directors of Educational Research Institutes of different State universities to develop a first roadmap for the creation of a State Network of Educational

On Monday, September 23, the submission and presentation of the Higher Education Integrating Model of Emotions and Values ​ oriented to Learning Outcomes was carried out, a model created and validated by several professors of the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona, ​​along with the Cordillera Superior Technological Institute (ITSCO) in Quito, Ecuador. The member of the Institute

From June 1 to 3 2020, the 17th National and 9th Ibero-American Congress of Pedagogy and the World Education Research Association Focal Meeting in Santiago de Compostela will be held simultaneously under the slogan and thematic reference Network Education: Diverse Realities, Common Horizons. The thematic lines are: The action and socio-educational processes in the network society Education in the face

Between October 2nd and 4th, the 9th International Symposium on Didactics of Social Sciences in the Ibero-American Context will take place at the Palau de les Heures (Mundet Campus, University of Barcelona). The DHiGeCS research group (Didactics of History, Geography and other Social Sciences), together with the Professional Development Institute, organize this event following a work path started in 2001. The

On September 13, Marina Garcés, philosopher, professor of Arts and Humanities Studies and director of the master’s degree in Philosophy for Contemporary Challenges of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), was interviewed in the Retina magazine of the newspaper El País. Throughout the interview, aspects related to technology, social media, the information society – not necessarily leading to understanding –