Juanjo Mena

• Doctor of Education
• Professor (Associate) at University of Salamanca

For decades a substantial body of research on teacher reflection and action has been conducted. This research contains a wealth of information on teachers’ thinking about their daily work in classrooms. But what do these studies tell us about the linkage between thought and action in actual teaching? How do they contribute to our understanding, or...

This interaction is a fragment taken from a mentoring conversation that took place in a Primary school in Salamanca (Spain). The Student Teacher was giving a lesson about the states of matter to 5th graders (11 years old). After the explanation, when classroom pupils were working in pairs, Sara, a student, asked aloud for clarification of the term...

The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards the use of ICT in the classroom. One hundred and seventy in-service teachers from kindergarten to high school participated in the study. A 154-item survey was elaborated (Cronbach α =. 89) containing three main sections: (1) general information; (2) attitudes towards ICT and us...

In this study we introduce a guided reflection procedure that aims to support student teachers in developing knowledge based on their practical experiences and by linking this with theoretical knowledge. Student teachers (n=22) with varying prior teaching experiences carried out the guided reflection procedure at a university in Estonia. In an empi...

Currently the professional work of musicians tends to shift from the traditional classroom to the Internet environment. Two decades ago Shulman pointed out the need to reexamine the fundamental signatures due to the development of Web-based technologies that redesign the professions. While he suggests the method of critique as a signature pedagogy...

Introduction In Spain and other European countries, patients coming to the emergency room (ER) are usually classified as “organic” or “psychiatric” on arrival, but this may be complicated when psychiatric history is present as the focus can be misplaced (Leeman. IJPM 1975;6(4):544-40; Alam et al. Psychiatr. Clin. North Am. 2017;40(3):425–33). Obje...

Introduction Chemsex refers to the use of drugs, typically stimulants and/or psychoactive substances, in a sexual context, often in the context of casual or group sex encounters. Currently, the practice of chemsex focuses on men who have sex with men (MSM). On the other hand, Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a biomedical method that has proven ef...

Introduction The Acute Organic Change of Character (AOCC) is an organic mental disorder subtype in which perception, thought, mood and personality impairment predominate. It consists in a change in the individual’s general behaviour or attitude, which is shown to be closely associated with or caused by an underlying organic process, and which is ra...

No records of systematic reviews focused on deep learning in open learning have been found, although there has been some focus on other areas of machine learning. Through a systematic review, this study aimed to determine the trends, applied computational techniques, and areas of educational use of deep learning in open learning. The PRISMA protoco...

The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is a problem that affects higher education institutions across the globe. Although some exceptions exist, such as Algeria, Benin, Oman or Myanmar (according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2022), women represent around 15% of STEM programs. The low number of women in these areas imp...

In this chapter, we first establish the orientation that we take toward faculty forging, sustaining, and studying their online practice and digital identity. Second, we sketch a general portrait of higher education online teaching in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Third, we operationalize what faculty’s digital identity includes as it relates t...

El empleo de antipsicóticos inyectables de liberación prolongada en la población infantojuvenil ha emergido como un enfoque terapéutico de creciente importancia en el tratamiento de trastornos psicóticos y del comportamiento en niños y adolescentes en los últimos años. No obstante, debido a las particularidades de esta población, que restringen la...

Critical incidents are unanticipated events (either positive or negative) that teachers may encounter during a lesson or other situation causing them to reflect on their approach and change accordingly. .Critical incidents have great potential for learning as they are vividly remembered and set the conditions for systematic reflection. However, des...

Psychiatric comorbidity is common in cancer patients, emphasizing the need for comprehensive care. While depressive symptoms in pancreatic cancer have been studied, there is limited attention given to manic symptoms. This case report aims to contribute to the knowledge of pancreatic cancer psychiatric comorbidities by describing a case of a patient...

Introduction The emergency crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused noticeable changes that stimulated the transition to the new normal based on the digitalization of our systems. In this regard, the revision of learning tools in higher education exposes new challenges and requires the development and implementation of digital technologies. Foste...

Background This study evaluated the incidence of incidental gall bladder cancer in patients undergoing cholecystectomy using the selective histological examination of the gallbladder following cholecystectomy operation (S-GALLOP). In return, the study assessed the value of S-GALLOP in patients undergoing cholecystectomy and the factors that can pro...

Purpose Although the importance of teacher induction is widely acknowledged, how teachers experience inductions, particularly those conducted in under-resourced areas, remains underexplored. Design/methodology/approach This study narrates a novice teacher's induction experience in a Chinese high school, from the perspectives of professional capita...

Introduction Brunner syndrome is a recessive X-linked disorder characterized by impulsive aggressiveness and mild mental retardation associated with Monoamine Oxidase – A (MAOA) deficiency (Brunner et al. Science 1993; 262 578-580). Objectives To present a REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) case in a patient with Brunner syndrome. Methods The pres...

Practicum is regarded as a fundamental aspect of the training of prospective teachers. In addition, digital tools are increasingly used to enrich a traditional face-to-face experience. However, the technological exploitation of Augmented Reality (AR) by undergraduate students studying early childhood and primary education is low. A Systematic Liter...

Field studies show multiple challenges for teachers during digital teaching, confirming that working conditions for organizational development and job well-being are needed. In the same way, the following objectives were set: to evaluate digital competence (DC), institutional conditions to promote Educational Innovation with ICT (ICEIICT); and burn...

This work presents the first phase of a descriptive study, realized at the University of Bergamo, which involved 102 student teachers participating in the “Educational Technology Workshop” of the degree course in Primary Education Sciences. The research objectives were: a. to describe student teachers’ perception of the training experience gained i...

Teachers’ self-efficacy is typically understood as the inner beliefs on their capabilities to perform teaching tasks. Student teachers (STs) typically built it on academic achievement as they have little professional experience. The teaching practicum provides student teachers with authentic, hands-on experience teaching in classrooms, and thus, it...

The Practicum is regarded as a fundamental aspect of the training of prospective teachers. In addition, digital tools are increasingly used to enrich a traditional face-to-face experience. However, the technological exploitation of augmented reality (AR) by undergraduate students studying early childhood and primary education is low. A Systematic L...

Introduction . In recent decades, one of the significant global trends in the field of higher education is the expansion of its links with the world of work. This implies not only a new design of the results of training students in the form of a system of universal, general professional and professional competencies, but also the introduction of mo...

This study sets out to conduct a systematic review of the emergence and evolution of gamification in the social environment, its main components, and its application as a learning tool through the motivation and engagement it generates in people. The results were obtained by consulting two major scientific databases, namely, Scopus and the Web of S...

The article aims to analyze methodological and philosophical aspects of scientific novelty in a doctoral thesis, as a singularity of the semiotic dimension of the researcher's epistemic competence. To this end, the role of the researchers' subjectivity and the active role of the philosophy of science for the understanding of these categories are va...

This paper focuses on teacher education in Brazil, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. Taking a comparative perspective, we look at key turning points and the influence of transnational agencies in shaping the landscape of policy development. While the four countries differ in many respects, they face common challenges, such as the status of the teaching p...

Living Labs are spaces and laboratories created in natural areas aimed at social innovation. The basic principle of these labs is improving people's quality of life and the improvement of regions, the functioning of compa-nies, etc. One of the areas in which Living Labs interventions are applied is the elderly. Seniorlabs are initiatives aimed at i...

Gamification is usually understood as a pedagogical strategy that favors student engagement and motivation. Traditionally it is composed of dynamics, mechanics, and components. The purpose of this study was to compare Engineering and Economics and Social Sciences undergraduate students in their performance (grades), motivation, quality of assignmen...

Learning Analytics (LA) is increasingly used in Education to set prediction models from artificial intelligence to determine learning profiles. This study aims to determine to what extent K-nearest neighbor and random forest algorithms could become a useful tool for improving the teaching-learning process and reducing academic failure in two Physic...

El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar aspectos metodológicos y filosóficos de la novedad científica en una tesis doctoral, como singularidad de la dimensión semiótica de la competencia epistémica del investigador. Para tal fin, se valora el papel de la subjetividad de los investigadores y el rol activo de la filosofía de la ciencia para la com...

INTRODUCCIÓN Desde el Plan Bolonia de formación de maestros se aboga por ampliar la tradicional función docente del profesorado, confiándole además una función investigadora. Al mismo tiempo se reta al profesorado universitario para cumplir con las nuevas demandas que exigen dotar a los maestros y maestras de recursos suficientes para responder, co...

The objective of this comparative study devoted to the theoretical and practical training of future teachers (as e.g. French as a foreign language) in the context of Covid-19 is conditioned by the challenge that the pandemic represents for social institutions, by the global trends of the evolution of teacher training, by national priorities in the...

Grandparents who have grandchildren with disabilities are an underrepresented group in existing research related to the field. This qualitative phenomenological study’s general purpose is to analyze, from a personal perspective, the situations and needs of grandparents who have grandchildren with Down syndrome. The participants’ ages range from 65...

Education 4.0 promotes visualizing how teachers’ traditional digital competencies adopt innovative practices. The present research analyzes the relationship between the perceived digital information competencies (DICs) of university teachers and the implementation of evidence-based, innovative actions (EBEI) in a model that supports innovative prac...

This paper examines Chinese (n = 11) and Spanish (n = 11) student teachers’ learning-to-teach experiences during the teaching practicum or placement period through the lenses of transformative learning theory and third space construct. We traced student teachers’ transformative learning experiences through observation, interviews, reflective journa...

Schools are learning spaces determined by the singularities of their students, their teachers and particular contexts. The ‘complexity thinking’ approach implies understanding that schools are complex systems determined by multiple factors and unpredictable circumstances. Teacher Resilience (TR) has been often linked to self-efficacy in dealing wit...

The paper introduces the possibilities of online musical education based on signature pedagogy as a main trend of research work. Facing COVID19 Emergency in Higher Education stated the challenge that required to design new methods in teaching and learning specially in musical education include the process of training performance skills. The methodo...

Research has highlighted the importance of the first years of teaching as they have a great impact on teachers’ career longevity. Therefore, inspired by the BRITE project, we developed the Professional Assessment and Development (PAD) Induction Program with the objective of helping novice teachers develop resilience strategies for successfully navi...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are often rendered as key tools in the promotion of teachers' collaborative learning. Their use enables teachers to complete assignments, solve problems, or create products together. The content of this chapter is based on the information published in a previous research study by the authors. In that...

This book draws together various theoretical and research-based perspectives to examine the institutionalization of mentoring processes for beginning teachers. Teacher induction, defined as the guidance provided to new teachers, is increasingly gaining traction as a key stage in promoting quality education. Major efforts have been put into reducing...

Induction programmes are designed to facilitate beginning teachers’ incorporation into schools during the first years of their careers in order to pave the way for their professional and personal development. The increasing complexity of this transition into employment makes resilience a key capability that all teachers need to develop, especially...

Gamification is an innovative educational strategy that uses elements of games for educational purposes, including the completion of appealing challenges to increase student levels of engagement and learning. The objective of this research is to assess the effects of gamification as a teaching method used in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) abou...

This mixed-methods study was designed to measure and elaborate constructs of faculty online readiness from pre- COVID-19 pandemic literature. Bringing together the validation of a scale to measure these constructs and insights from a focus group, findings suggest that the negative connotations of risk-taking and making mistakes while learning to te...

The Teaching practicum is probably the most genuine period of professional training at the teaching degree. The use of tools such as the teacher’s professional journal helps to reflect and systematize the experience of the teacher in training. This chapter includes the design of a mobile application to facilitate the use of the teacher’s profession...

Online courses are mainstream throughout higher education. This pattern has been accelerated, temporarily or permanently, due to the coronavirus pandemic (Allen & Seaman, 2016; Arum & Stevens, 2020; Garrison, 2011). Tenure-track and contingent faculty’s willingness to teach online serves students, but little research critiques the forces that produ...

This study sets out to conduct a systematic review of the emergence and evolution of gamification in the social environment, its main components, and its application as a learning tool through the motivation and engagement it generates in people. The results were obtained by consulting two major scientific databases, namely, Scopus and the Web of S...

This study conceptualizes teacher attrition as a dynamic process of identity construction and interpretation in shifting professional knowledge landscapes, which attunes to both individual and contextual milieus. From this perspective, this narrative inquiry describes the attrition experiences of two Chinese beginning teachers after two years of em...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been implemented regularly in faculty classes in the last two decades. ICT—mediated learning environments have the potential to transform educational practices as well as students’ learning experiences. Online discussion forums are useful to share graduate students’ opinions and the social c...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo principal analizar la organicidad entre la crisis de la universidad pública y la de sus profesores, para entender su efecto sobre la función social de ambos. A partir del referencial teórico materialista histórico-dialéctico, los autores enfatizam que la opción epistemológica puede ser teóricamente asociada al mant...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to better understand the work of mentors or cooperating teachers (CTs) in Spain and Thailand, by comparing how mentors in both contexts conceive of their work in teacher education. Design/methodology/approach A comparative study based on a crossnational research (CNR) approach was used. An internationally vali...

Teachers who mentor student teachers on practicum play a critical role in teacher education. However, it is widely reported that these teachers are poorly prepared and lack sufficient knowledge for mentoring. And what is known about mentoring is largely drawn from idiosyncratic single-context studies. In an attempt to extend the scope of this knowl...

According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, most of the countries have achieved gender parity in educational attainment. Furthermore, Latin America and Europe have more women than men enrolled in tertiary education. The problem arises when those numbers are analysed by degree studies. There is a gender gap in science, technology, engineering an...

Teacher reflection is widely considered as an important process that provides in-depth learning experiences to preservice teachers. Portfolios and teachers' diaries are commonly used teaching tools to funnel one's own critical thoughts about practice. It is also common to analyse the teaching practice in the practicum through the guidance of expert...

En esta investigación se emplea la escala CD-REA para medir la competencia digital de información y uso de REA y determinar cuáles son los factores asociados a ésta por parte de una muestra de 271 docentes universitarios bimodales (que imparten docencia presencial y a distancia). Un estudio psicométrico previo mostró una excelente consistencia inte...

Open access education has significantly grown in strength as a new way of fostering innovation in schools. Such is the case of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which have the added benefit of encouraging the democratisation of learning. In this sense, the Bi-National Laboratory on Smart Sustainable Energy Management and Technology Training betw...

The study is relevant due to the need for the preservation of cultural traditions that include different peoples’ identities. An important way is the use of ethnic vocal traditions which include the experience earlier generations in art, moral and aesthetic knowledge. Learning of the vocal basis in the traditional face-to-face and online format all...

Contemporary development of informational technologies conditions necessity to change the ways of learning activity in education. Renovated informational and educational environment has new possibilities for effective teaching of children. At the same time pedagogical community is concerned by problem of quality decrease in learners' mathematical t...

While gamification has a strong position in business and marketing, it is just emerging in the education field. This is especially true in the environment of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). This paper describes the trend of gamification for education in MOOC within literature. For this purpose, a systematic mapping was conducted with thirty res...

The article approached the use of the Kahoot tool in the higher education with the objective of evaluating the opinion, perception, positioning, preferences and satisfaction of the students about the practical utility of Kahoot as an instrument for learning of concepts. An empirical-analytical methodology was used and a mixed final questionnaire wa...

This year's TEEM 2019 conference track 10: Teacher Education for ICT integration in classroom, intends to delve into the actual use of technologies in the classroom from an international perspective. The erruption of ICT in the schools are transforming teaching worldwide and expanding new ways for learning. However, there are also difficulties to b...

Learning Analytics (LA) is an analysis toolset that enables collection of students' data and context data, for the purpose of visualizing indicators of performance that allow for improvements for learning and academic success. In this study, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms like K-Nearest Neighbor and Random Forest were used. These algorithm...

Resumen-La brecha de género es uno de los principales problemas presentes en la sociedad actual. La igualdad, no solo de la mujer, sino de las diferentes identidades de género, forma parte de las prioridades de la Unión Europea, así como de gran parte de los países desarrollados. En particular, en las áreas de ciencias, tecnología, ingeniería y mat...

En este trabajo se presenta parte de los resultados del Proyecto Europeo K1 ACTTEA (2012-2015) en el cual participaron España, Estonia, Finlandia y Holanda. El objetivo fue valorar qué tipos de conocimiento pedagógico asimilan los profesores durante el prácticum. En los datos recogidos en España se llevó a cabo un estudio empírico siguiendo tres fa...

The gender gap is one of the main problems present in today's society. The equality, not only of women but of different gender identities, is part of the priorities of the European Union, as well as of a large part of the developed countries. In particular, in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), the gender gap is...

This study investigated student teachers’ (N = 82) learning of action-oriented knowledge (AOK), triggering incidents in teaching practice, and the relationships between these two. Student teacher’s action-oriented knowledge is understood as core capability for the practice of teaching, and learning of action-oriented knowledge needs to be facilitat...