Diego Corrochano

• PhD
• Associate Professor at University of Salamanca

It is well known that the relationship between humans and nature conditions people’s pro-environmental behaviours, as well as being one of the keys to developing sustainability. The focus of this research is whether the use of learning gardens in initial teacher training has an impact on students’ connectedness to nature. The study follows a quasi-...

El empleo de analogías es un excelente recurso para ayudar a los estudiantes a comprender conceptos abstractos en clase de ciencias, como es el tiempo geológico. Con el objetivo de determinar qué analogías son las más adecuadas para trabajar este concepto en el aula, este trabajo trata de identificar cuáles son más efectivas, si aquellas que se fun...

Augmented Reality (AR) as a resource in all areas of education is now a reality. Since the widespread use of smartphones, the number of AR applications has not stopped growing, and it has potential use in education. In this publication, we analyse the suitability of AR-based apps to teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) conc...

RESUMEN: Se presenta el proyecto EduC3, Educación para el Cambio Climático y la Sostenibilidad, un estudio longitudinal de aprendizaje intergeneracional (PID2020-114358RB-I00), correspondiente a la Convocatoria 2020 de Proyectos de I+D+i del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación español, cuyo objetivo general es identificar barreras y oportunidades pa...

Education needs to be at the forefront of the efforts to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change (CC) effects. We have introduced the Climate Change Competence (C3) to provide a comprehensive route to include the topics of sustainability and CC into the curriculum. This paper analyses how different primary and secondary teachers can improve this compe...

Pre-service teachers’ mental models of the nature of soil were investigated in a sample of 181 students from four different Spanish universities, using three different methodological approaches: a phenomenographic analysis of definitions, a categorisation of labelled-drawings and the analysis of answers to a questionnaire consisting of both open- a...

Teachers should not only be regarded as professionals with a large amount of knowledge that they must transmit but are also expected to fulfil other functions and possess other qualities to overcome the teaching challenge. This paper is aimed at designing and validating an instrument to identify preservice teachers’ perceptions about the competenci...

Se analizan las concepciones de estudiantes de 4º de la ESO y del 1er y 2º curso de universidad sobre el tiempo geológico. Se utilizaron como instrumentos de análisis una línea temporal de la historia de la Tierra y un cuestionario de preguntas cerradas sobre la frecuencia y duración de procesos del modelado del relieve. Los resultados indicaron qu...

The paper analyzes the impact of interdisciplinary instruction on the perception, awareness, and knowledge about climate change of 102 Spanish pre-service primary teachers using a pre- and post-test design. Our findings demonstrate that pre- to post-test scores significantly increased in all the studied categorizations and that students’ academic b...

Para lograr una mejora en la formación de los estudiantes en la enseñanza obligatoria es necesario contar con buenos maestros, implicados, comprometidos y motivados con su trabajo. En este artículo se presenta un análisis sobre los principales motivos que llevan a los universitarios a elegir la carrera docente para su futuro profesional, prestando...

Climate Change is one of the greatest challenges for humanity and education plays a fundamental role in raising awareness in society about the importance and need to take adaptation and mitigation measures. Climate Change can be treated from the point of view of education as a competence formed by three dimensions: knowledge, skills and attitudes....

El Cambio Climático es la amenaza más seria que afecta a la supervivencia de la humanidad y de los seres vivos de la Tierra. Es un fenómeno complejo cuyo afrontamiento requiere de la activación de conocimientos, habilidades y actitudes. La Educación es una herramienta fundamental para afrontar este desafío y mejorar las estrategias de mitigación y...

This work presents an assessment of pre-service teachers’ argumentative practice, after implementing a novel teaching-learning sequence on soil health including a citizen science programme, which was applied outdoors at the university garden. The sequence was implemented at five Spanish universities with 351 undergraduates studying Early Childhood...

Educational gardens are powerful outdoor learning environments to address the subject of climate change and foster climate action. Using an online questionnaire, this study examines the influence of the main sociodemographic and academic factors, and the role of connectedness to nature, on the perception of educational gardens as contexts of climat...

Resumen: Este estudio se centra en analizar las creencias que tienen profesores de España y Latinoamérica sobre el cambio climático, prestando especial atención a la percepción general que tienen del fenómeno, la concienciación, las preocupaciones y al conocimiento de determinados fundamentos científicos. Para recoger la información, se utilizó un...

Urban green spaces (UGS) are patches of nature that, when located in the vicinity of schools, can be used to encourage active learning. But when educators plan on using these spaces in their daily routine, they have to face numerous difficulties. This paper analyses the uses of UGS by primary education teachers and the influence that the distance b...

Analizaremos el papel de la Universidad como formador de docentes, sus herramientas educativas y su papel como motor de cambio en un tema de urgencia social, en el que no puede mantenerse al margen. El Cambio Climático es actualmente el mayor desafío para la humanidad y la Educación se va a convertir en clave para enfrentarse a este problema. Con e...

La concepción que el ser humano tiene del espacio urbano es decisiva en la estructuración de su pensamiento. Este hecho tiene una gran importancia para la población infantil al condicionar el desarrollo de experiencias que asientan destrezas y capacidades, favoreciendo el aprendizaje significativo. Sin embargo, la progresiva deshumanización de las...

A detailed lithostratigraphic and sedimentologic study was performed in the southern Andes of Ecuador along the Malacatos-Vilcabamba intermontane basin, a thrust-controlled inverted basin developed during the middle Miocene. We defined twenty-three sedimentological facies grouped into seven facies associations and three different depositional syste...

Climate Change is the most important threat to our species and all living creatures on Earth. The rapid increase in average temperatures throughout the planet, rising sea level and most frequent climate extremes are developing in a planetary crisis that must be addressed. Among the several strategies that need to be implemented to deal with this is...

El uso de los Cursos abiertos masivos en línea (MOOCs) de ciencia básica como una forma de mejorar la representación social sobre el Cambio Climático. RESUMEN El Cambio Climático es la mayor amenaza a la vida en el planeta como la conocemos. Aunque la ciencia describe con precisión las consecuencias, las personas no actúan en consecuencia y no cons...

This paper analyses the conceptions of a group of students about geological time and its relation to physical landscape formation, focusing on the frequency and rate of a number of geological processes that have shaped our planet over time and that are involved in the formation of the current relief. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire...

In order to increase scientific competence within the general population, it is important that teachers and educators have a realistic image of science and scientists, leaving aside superstitions and pseudoscientific claims that could be transmitted to their students. A starting point in this strategy is to make a good diagnosis of the future teach...

En las aulas de la Escuela Universitaria de Magisterio de Zamora se ha puesto en marcha una metodología de trabajo que permite articular la docencia de dos asignaturas de campos de conocimiento diferentes en torno a un hilo conductor común como es el estudio de los cambios climáticos. El nivel de aceptación entre el alumnado participante ha sido mo...

This study uses a one-group pre-test and post-test design to describe the mental models of geologic time held by a group of Spanish pre-service primary teachers, before and after an instructional intervention that introduced the work with different timescales. The questionnaire was given before instruction and five weeks after it. It consists of a...

Climate Change is the most important threat to our planet. The Paris Agreement of 2015 provides a strategy to reduce its impacts through decarbonization, but this pathway requires a deep change in the society. Education has been identified as a major tool for adaptation and mitigation in many international treaties, but a general framework or strat...

Climate Change is the most important threat to our planet. The Paris Agreement of 2015 provides a strategy to reduce its impacts through decarbonization, but this pathway requires a deep change in the society. Education has been identified as a major tool for adaptation and mitigation in many international treaties, but a general framework or strat...

Esta investigación analiza la utilización que se hace de los espacios verdes urbanos como recursos didácticos en contextos educativos reales. Para ello se ha empleado una metodología basada en la utilización de alumnos observadores durante sus prácticas de magisterio en centros escolares, a quienes se les ha preguntado sobre la labor desarrollada p...

La idoneidad de un modelo de jornada escolar (continua/partida) es un debate aún candente en la comunidad educativa. Este trabajo presenta el análisis que 250 maestros jubilados realizaron sobre la jornada más idónea para el rendimiento de los alumnos, la organización familiar y la repercusión en el descanso y la formación de profesorado y estudian...

De acuerdo con los últimos informes del Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (IPCC, 2014), el cambio climático es inequívoco y supone el mayor riesgo medioambiental, económico y político al que se enfrenta la sociedad actual. Los efectos negativos del calentamiento global sobre los sistemas naturales y humanos hacen necesario movilizar a...

Climate Change is the most important threat to our society and all species on Earth. Large alterations in the climate are affecting every aspect of our society and in order to limit this impact we must decarbonize the economy before 2050. Although science presents solid evidence on the magnitude of the problem and outlines precisely the consequence...

Climate Change is the most important challenge that humanity faces today. The rapid increase in global temperatures during the last century due to an exponential increase of greenhouse gas concentrations is altering the climate beyond our capacity of adaptation. In order to mobilize the society towards bold, informed, coherent responses, public ins...

RESUMEN. El cambio climático constituye uno de los retos más importantes a los que se enfrenta la humanidad en la actualidad. La educación debe de jugar un papel fundamental para comprender la magnitud y la importancia del problema, así como para articular una respuesta justa, coherente y coordinada. Ante este reto educativo, surge la necesidad de...

This paper describes the use of Natural and Social Sciences teaching resources in Spanish primary schools during the second half of the 20 th century, based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of 250 recollections of retired teachers. Differences were identified between groups of teachers determined by gender, previous teaching context (urban...

This paper analyzes the impact of fieldwork on the development of students’ mental models concerning glaciers and their effects on the landscape. Data were collected by means of an open-ended questionnaire that was administered to 279 pre-service teachers before and after an educational field trip, which analyzed its impact on short-term and long-t...

El proyecto europeo surgido de la posguerra de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se orientó, en sus inicios, a conseguir una unidad política y económica que favoreciera la cohesión entre los diferentes pueblos. El objetivo último era evitar conflictos como el que había asolado el continente entre 1939 y 1945 (Schuman, 2006). No obstante, la unión económica...

La realización de deberes, como herramienta para la mejora de los hábitos de estudio del alumnado, es uno de los temas más controvertidos en el sector educativo. Son varios los estudios que relacionan las tareas para casa con aspectos como el rendimiento académico o la motivación (Pan, et al; 2013; Regueiro, et al., 2015). El objetivo de este estud...

Climate Change is one of the most challenging problems that humanity faces today. To understand the magnitude and significance of the problem, society should use education as a way to create a fair, coherent and coordinated response. In this paper we describe the motivations, the design principles and the contents of a course that has been created...

El objetivo de esta investigación es conocer qué tipo de recursos didácticos se empleaban en las escuelas de educación primaria para la enseñanza del entorno, prestando especial atención al ámbito de las Ciencias Sociales. Para ello se ha trabajado con testimonios de docentes jubilados que mayoritariamente ejercieron su labor entre 1968 y 2006. Los...

El presente trabajo se enfoca en la descripción de los dominios morfoestructurales, la interacción tectono-es-tructural y la deformación sinsedimentaria del segmento norte de la cuenca Malacatos-Vilcabamba (sur de Ecuador), por medio de la caracterización de las unidades de relieve, sus relaciones con las formas superficiales del terreno y con la a...

En el presente estudio se describe un itinerario didáctico por el noroeste de la provincia de Zamora orientado a estudiantes de los últimos cursos de Educación Primaria. Se incluyen también las claves para la interpretación del paisaje, así como un análisis de los distintos elementos relativos al relieve y a la vegetación que se pueden trabajar en...

El Máster de Formación del Profesorado de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (MFPES), un máster profesionalizante, tiene una importancia destacada para la formación de futuros profesores de enseñanza obligatoria. Este trabajo, parte de un estudio más amplio que analiza la identidad profesional de estudiantes para profesor de matemáticas de secundaria...

La formación inicial del profesorado de secundaria y bachillerato, enmarcada en el Master de Formación de Profesorado, ha abierto un campo de posibilidades para investigar la mejora de esa formación. En concreto, hay que tener en cuenta que las decisiones que toma el profesorado referido a su docencia no se sustentan únicamente en su saber explícit...

The debate regarding a possible marine influence during the middle–late Miocene in the Loja, Malacatos-Vilcabamba and Catamayo-Gonzanamá Basins (southern Ecuador) continues. To shed light on this controversy, we present a detailed stratigraphic and micropaleontological (benthic foraminifers and ostracods) study of selected sections from these basin...

High school and university students' misconceptions about tides were analysed by means of an open drawing questionnaire. Although two thirds of students favoured the Moon's attraction as the main cause of tides, many students had difficulties to represent the phenomena on a global scale. Only 24 of them (7.5% of the whole sample) illustrated the tw...

The Pennsylvanian phylloid algal mounds exposed in the Cervatina Limestone of the Cantabrian Zone (NW Spain) developed during the highstands of high-frequency shallowing-upward cycles and lack evidence of subaerial exposure at their tops. Mound core facies are composed of massive bafflestones with variable amounts of calcite cements and anchicodiac...

The cortical structure of the green anchicodiacean alga Anchicodium in the Pennsylvanian Dueñas Formation of the Cantabrian Zone (northwestern Spain) is described and illustrated. Anchicodium is characterized by a broad phylloid or leaflike calcified thallus, consisting of a bilateral cortex and a poorly calcified central medulla. The organization...

Oroclines are the largest scale folds on Earth, and the process of oroclinal formation is a key topic in tectonics. However, most studies of oroclines have focused on the hinge areas, where the changes in strike, and therefore the orocline shape, are most obvious. In this paper, we investigate the deformation mechanisms, the timing, and the structu...

The new species Archaeolithophyllum asymmetricum nov. sp., from the Bachende Formation (Pennsylvanian, Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain), is described herein using cathodoluminescence microscopy. Under plane-polarized light, A. asymmetricum occurs as elongate and arcuate sheets preserved as calcitic mosaics of tiny anhedral to subhedral crystals. Cathodol...

A new hypercalcified chaetetid sponge, Loiscupula bachendensi gen. nov. sp. nov. (Demospongiae), has been recovered from the Bachende Formation (late Kashirian/early Myachkovian) in the Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain. Loiscupula has a circular, concentric, platy basal skeleton, some with cylindrical features and chimneys, which sometimes branch on the u...

By analysis of outcrop data, sequence stratigraphy was used to interpret the stratal architecture and evolution of a Moscovian (Pennsylvanian) carbonate platform (Bachende Formation) located in the Variscan foreland basin of the Cantabrian Zone (NW Spain). The Bachende Formation represents a delta-top carbonate platform developed in highly subsidin...

Six sequences, each with a distinct shape, stratal anatomy, bounding surfaces, lithofacies composition and stacking patterns, were identified in the Djebel Bou Dahar isolated carbonate platform which developed in a half-graben in the High Atlas marine rift basin during the Early Jurassic. Sequences are believed to have a complex, multi-process orig...

A well-preserved Pennsylvanian (early Moscovian) succession including Donezella mounds, which accumulated in a highly subsiding foreland basin (Cantabrian Zone, NW of Spain), is described and discussed. This succession has been interpreted as one 3rd-order sequence reaching a thickness up to 815 m and recording ~2.3-My duration. It consists of four...

Distribution of biotic communities in eustatic cyclothems can be used as an indicator of relative sea level changes. Photic zone and wave base are controlled by glacio-eustatic fluctuations and have direct implications in biota distribution. Our study consists of quantitative and qualitative analysis of skeletal and nonskeletal grains in cyclothems...

It has been studied the stratigraphy, sedimentology and isotopical geochemistry of the Podolskian-Myachkovian interval in the Lois-Ciguera sector (Central Coal Basin, Cantabrian Zone), formed by Bachende limestones (late Kashirian-late Podolskian /Myachkovian), Dueñas sandstones, shales and limestones (Myachkovian) and Ciguera limestones (Myachkovi...