Mª Jesús Caurcel

• PhD
• University of Granada

Family diversity is a reality in Spanish Early Childhood Education schools. However, there is little research on the perspective of teachers and families on this type of diversity, and even fewer studies on the viewpoint of children in Early Childhood Education. This study analyzed the perception of family diversity among 156 Early Childhood Educat...

The creation of apps with good parameters of applicability and functionality is a complex and highly researched task nowadays, especially if the latest contributions of Neuroeducation and educational technology are taken into account. However, this task will require more attention when apps are created and designed for people with autism, where usa...

Las TIC se volvieron protagonistas principales e incontestables del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Docentes y estudiantes asumieron ese reto. Las investigaciones sobre las TIC en el currículo educativo se han centrado principalmente en el dominio de herramientas digitales de los estudiantes de educación secundaria. No obstante, no solo basta con...

The digital divide excludes more people every day, becoming a new form of social exclusion, impeding the development of countries and progress towards a more equitable society. This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention program that allows the development of digital skills in students at High School Basic Education. A quasi...

Objective Cognitive, motor and sensory deficits associated with aging, and with some neurological conditions such as acquired brain injury, may lead to severe driving performance impairment. While rehabilitation and driver assistance technologies may improve driving performance, the assessment of the actual fitness-to-drive of these people is chall...

RESUMEN Una porción importante de la investigación se desarrolla en la Universidad. Aporta, además de a la Ciencia y al progreso, al reconocimiento e impacto institucional y acreditación y promoción profesional. Y a la docencia, al contemplarla como referente; por tanto, también al estudiantado, como discente y futuros investigadores. Se estudia es...

Background: Innovative methodologies based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are a tested and motivating option for working with people with autism. Their use, however, should not be indiscriminatory and arbitrary, but didactic and appropriate. Objective: We aimed to discover the training in ICT they had, its frequency of use, an...

Designing and implementing inclusive practices is considered one of the basic actions for the construction of inclusive education. Actions depend largely on teachers’ attitudes, which can be modified by the training they receive. This study analyzes 73 future mathematics teachers’ perceptions of the diversity training received in the Master in Comp...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is a means of learning for people with functional diversity (FD), in the context of both formal and non-formal education. These digital options favor their inclusion, participation and motivation, so having competent professionals in the field of educational technology is crucial for the full developme...

Training in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has become very valuable in the current educational panorama, given the proliferation of digital resources available in the formal and non-formal education context. Fortunately, the field of attention to diversity has also benefited from it. For this reason, it is essential that the prof...

This article undertakes a systematic review of the current literature on the subject of family diversity in the school context. Its aims are to provide answers to questions such as the difficulties faced by non-traditional nuclear families in the educational context and how teachers, families, and students perceive family diversity. To do so, paper...

Most driver monitoring systems (DMS) rely on cameras facing the driver while detecting their gaze or head position. Both future automated driving (AD) in-vehicle interactions and AD vehicle interior designs (e.g., seating arrangement) might drastically reduce the effectiveness of such camera-based DMS solutions, however. Thus, alternative solutions...

We created a standardized assessment of fitness-to-drive in driving simulation environments through the adaptation of the Driving Observation Schedule (DOS; Vlahodimitrakou et al., 2013), which is a widely used instrument to assess “natural driving”. The Sim-DOS is an observational instrument that intends to overcome some of the practical limitatio...

Much research on the ethics of automated driving (AD) focusses on moral decision making processes in extreme traffic situations. However, more likely scenarios involving daily trade-offs among different values in the design and implementation of AD are also worth considering. Our main goal was to provide an in-depth analysis of how diverse experts...

Education in the 21st century faces the challenge of digitalization; therefore, the acquisition and development of digital skills in students is indispensable, not only for their learning processes but also for their lives. This study aims to validate the test “ECODIES”, which was used to assess the level of development of digital competence in stu...

Education in the 21st century faces the challenge of digitalization; therefore, the acquisition and development of digital skills in students is indispensable, not only for their learning processes but also for their lives. This study aims to validate the test “ECODIES”, which was used to assess the level of development of digital competence in stu...

Background: Studies on the potential of smartphone apps for people with autism are currently increasing in number, given the large digital supply available and the benefits they offer. We analyzed the opinion of educators from Florence (Italy) and Granada (Spain) regarding the benefits and applicability of apps, frequency of their use, and the type...

Mobile apps represent a resource with great potential for encouraging the development of many skills, given the high number of apps available and the quick access to them. Many professionals and families include these resources in the education and therapy of children with autism. For a group with such particular needs, a review of the apps is grea...

El ciberacoso en el contexto universitario constituye una realidad menos estudiada en comparación con su investigación en etapas educativas no universitarias. El objetivo del estudio es analizar el ciberacoso en estudiantes universitarios antes y durante el confinamiento por la Covid-19 estableciendo los roles del ciberacoso, los afectos experiment...

El ciberacoso en el contexto universitario constituye una realidad menos estudiada en comparación con su investigación en etapas educativas no universitarias. El objetivo del estudio es analizar el ciberacoso en estudiantes universitarios antes y durante el confinamiento por la Covid-19 estableciendo los roles del ciberacoso, los afectos experiment...

Background: In education, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has gone from being a convenient option to a permanent necessity. For students and people with functional diversity, it is of seminal importance. It is therefore worth learning how professionals perceive digital tools and apps for people and students with functional diversity...

Objetivo: Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) aportan a las personas con trastorno del espectro autista (TEA) un abanico de posibilidades de desarrollo. A su vez, son numerosas las aplicaciones (apps) destinadas a personas menores con autismo, por lo que esta propuesta pretende ofrecer un listado de indicadores validados que a...

Inclusive education is a challenge that requires appropriate attitudes in trainee and working teachers. If the influential factors for these attitudes are known, it is possible to enhance them to achieve a training programme focused on quality professional activity. In this sense, the current study revealed and corroborated the attitudinal characte...

Research on teachers’ perceptions about diversity is key to understanding the different approaches to be implemented to build inclusive education. Within this framework, the perceptions and attitudes of 73 students in the Mathematics specialization of the University Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Secondary Education, Bachillerato, Vocation...

It is crucial for families and professionals to promote basic instrumental skills in children with autism, as these skills can help with comprehensive growth and development, and are a starting point in acquiring the essential tools needed for one to live an independent and successful life. These skills include oral language, reading, writing, and...

Teniendo en cuenta que la presencia de la familia es fundamental para el desarrollo integral del menor, y que el docente de Educación Infantil tendrá que cooperar con ella para optimizarlo, se ha decidido indagar sobre qué formación se ofrece desde el Grado de Educación Infantil sobre Diversidad Familiar, así como conocer cómo perciben la familia l...

Teaching attitudes are core elements for professional activity in the current inclusive education system. In this sense, a study was carried out in the cities were the campuses of the University of Granada (Spain) are located to measure the attitudinal components towards that educational model in the teaching community composed by trainee and pract...

The teaching of physical education today still incorporates innovative methodologies in order to create quality physical education. This article sets out to describe which pedagogical model is used in the initial training of physical education teachers at the University of Granada, from the perspective of the students. The study adopted an explorat...

The utilization of apps in mobile devices offers autism professionals a complementary medium with which to strengthen deficient skills. Through a system of previously validated indicators, we have thoroughly assessed 155 apps that are available on the Play Store. To select the apps aimed at people with autism, we used the search term “autism” in En...

The Bologna Process involved the introduction of competencies in university degrees, which determine what skills the students have to achieve in relation to their professional profile. A quantitative approach has been followed, with a non-experimental, descriptive and cross-sectional design in order to assess the degree of development, mastery and...

The goal of this study is both to determine the opinion that professors and students at the university have of active methodologies and to describe the perception and opinion of the modes of organization, methodological focuses, and evaluation systems that define the teaching-learning process. On surveying the professors and the students in their c...

El Trastorno del Espectro Autista (TEA) se caracteriza por presentar deficiencias en la comprensión de aspectos vinculados a la comunicación, el lenguaje, las emociones o alteraciones en la conducta, debido a la incomprensión del entorno. Partiendo de las dificultades que muestran las personas con esta condición, las historias sociales se presentan...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Programme for 2030 has established the principles of sustainable action for today’s society, one of which is to achieve quality and more inclusive education. Our society has reached the stage where quality education is no longer a privilege of a few, but a fundamental right. Therefore, not achieving qualit...

Diseñar e implementar prácticas inclusivas se considera como una de las líneas de actuación básicas para la construcción de una educación inclusiva; acciones que dependen en gran parte de las actitudes del profesorado, pudiendo estas verse modificadas por la formación que reciben. En este marco, esta investigación analizó las percepciones de 76 est...

The purpose of the research is to determine the influence of self-regulation of learning in bioethics on university nursing students, understood as self-control abilities, those thoughts, feelings and actions that allow the acquisition of principles that lead to an understanding of the discipline that regulates rationally and practically the attitu...

La asunción de políticas globalizadas garantes de la democratización de enseñanzas materializadas en el modelo de escuela inclusiva para todos no es todavía una realidad palpable. Sus políticas formativas afanadas en tal empresa tampoco consiguen contribuir a su causa. De tal problema surge el propósito del estudio de tales políticas de formación d...

According to Contact Theory, direct experience between people with and without disabilities seems to be the basis for building and changing beliefs and, therefore, behaviours. The present study enquires into Educational Science university students’ attitudes towards people with disabilities analysing the differences that occur on the basis of the f...

Este artículo sigue un enfoque cualitativo y está centrado en el método científico denominado “sistematización de experiencias”. Tuvo como objetivo analizar la influencia de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en la sociedad actual y cómo estas herramientas digitales influyen en el ámbito educativo. Se ha indagado en los efect...

La investigación tiene como objetivo determinar la dimensión predominante del cociente emocional de los estudiantes de Administración y Gestión Comercial de una universidad peruana privada. La investigación es de tipo sustantiva y de diseño no experimental, de nivel descriptivo-explicativo y de corte transversal. El instrumento utilizado para evalu...

La investigación tiene como objetivo determinar la dimensión predominante del cociente emocional de los estudiantes de Administración y Gestión Comercial de una universidad peruana privada. La investigación es de tipo sustantiva y de diseño no experimental, de nivel descriptivo-explicativo y de corte transversal. El instrumento utilizado para evalu...

Sexting is a globalized social phenomenon that increases with age in adolescents, although there are few researches focused in its practice in university students, goal of the present study, which involved 899 students of the University of Granada (Spain) with ages between 18 and 24 years. The objectives were to know (through analysis of frequencie...

It was difficult for the interpretive opposing approach to fight the previous exclusive current with its ideographic approach to the study of a now subjective reality, which was consolidated and applied to practice with the transformative intention of the complementary socio-critical approach2, and through some of the qualitative methods: a) in the...

La investigación tiene como objetivo determinar la dimensión predominante del cociente emocional de los estudiantes de Administración y Gestión Comercial de una universidad peruana privada. La investigación es de tipo sustantiva y de diseño no experimental, de nivel descriptivo-explicativo y de corte transversal. El instrumento utilizado para evalu...

p>El presente estudio tiene por objetivo identificar, describir y explicar las actitudes hacia el plagio de los estudiantes de la carrera de Administración de Empresas de dos universidades privadas en Arequipa. Se emplea una metodología cualitativa y la técnica de análisis de contenido. Los datos se han obtenido a partir de la información provenien...

Esta investigación presenta el diseño, aplicación y evaluación de un programa de intervención para la mejora y potenciación de la creatividad en Educación Infantil. Objetivo: determinar la eficacia del programa “¿Te atreves a crear?”. Método: participaron 27 alumnos de un aula de 4 años. Para evaluar al alumnado y determinar el impacto del programa...

El aumento de la preocupación social en nuestro país por los fenómenos relacionados con el mal uso de la conectividad móvil por parte de los adolescentes, ha incremento el interés por conocer de forma más exhaustiva este tipo de manifestaciones. En el caso del sexting, no contamos con instrumentos de medida estandarizados en castellano que permitan...

El objetivo de este estudio ha sido la construcción y validación de la Escala de Conductas sobre Sexting (ECS) (ante la ausencia de procedimientos estandarizados que permitan evaluar conductas relacionadas con el envío y recepción de sexts -mensajes de texto o imágenes con contenido provocativo o sexual- a través del teléfono móvil y de las redes s...

The aim of this paper was to construct and validate the Escala de Conductas sobre Sexting (ECS) (by the absence of standardized procedures for evaluating behaviors related to the sending and receiving sexts -text messages or images with provocative or sexual content- through the mobile phone and social networks) (Dir, Cyders y Coskunpinar, 2013), w...

The development of creative competence, through artistic expression is being forgotten in recent times. Moreover, new practices such as art therapy open the way from the field of psychotherapy to education to help fill these gaps by providing tools and strategies for both teachers and students for the integral development of individuals, promoting...

El presente estudio de tipo descriptivo, cuantitativo, no experimental, aborda el uso del teléfono móvil, la mensajería, la frecuencia con la que lo hacen, los mensajes que envían, las redes sociales a las que acceden, las más usadas, etc.; en el que participaron 335 estudiantes granadinos de E.S.O. (179 chicos y 156 chicas) de 12 a 16 años; con el...

En el presente artículo se da cuenta de los resultados de un Proyecto de Innovación Docente llevado a cabo en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Granada (España) durante el curso 2008/2009 en el que se utilizan los podcasts como propuesta didáctica encaminada a introducir varias de las propuestas del Espacio Europeo de Edu...

El artículo presenta los resultados de la evaluación de una metodología didáctica concreta así como del trabajo y aprendizaje de alumnos universitarios de distintas asignaturas, estudios y centros de la Universidad de Granada. La experiencia se realiza debido al trabajo conjunto y coordinado de un grupo de profesores de distintos departamentos y ce...

En el presente estudio, se exploran las atribuciones de emociones morales de los adolescentes, ante una historia de maltrato entre iguales en el contexto escolar. Con ese objetivo, les preguntamos a cerca de los sentimientos de culpa, vergüenza, orgullo e indiferencia de agresores, víctimas y espectadores y les pedimos que justificaran la atribució...

2 Universidade do Minho (Portugal) En el presente estudio, se exploran las atribuciones de emociones morales de los adolescentes, ante una historia de maltrato entre iguales en el contexto escolar. Con ese objetivo, les preguntamos a cerca de los sentimientos de culpa, vergüenza, orgullo e indiferencia de agresores, víctimas y espectadores y les pe...

En este estudio se exploran las explicaciones causales de adolescentes de 15 años portugueses y brasileños sobre las relaciones de maltrato entre iguales. A partir de una narrativa gráfica presentada en viñetas, acompañada de una entrevista semiestructurada se pretende crear el contexto narrativo que da margen para la interpretación, las atribucion...

The present study explores fifteen year-old adolescents' narratives and analyzes the causal explanations which underlie their mental representations on peer victimization. Through a scripted-cartoon narrative, which encompasses a semi-structured interview, is elicited the narrative process that stimulates the interpretation and inference of causes,...

This study investigates perceived characteristics of victims of peer bullying in a sample of 1237 adolescents (mean age is 13.3 years-old) in two southern European countries. Focusing upon perceived characteristics of victimized peers, the main goal was to inspect how descriptions of the victims varied according to country, age, gender, victimizati...

Este estudio investiga las características de las víctimas del maltrato entre iguales percibidas por 1237 adolescentes (media de edad es 13.3 años) de dos ciudades del sur de Europa. El principal objetivo fue inspeccionar cómo las descripciones de las víctimas varían en función del país, edad, sexo, estatus de victimización (agresor, víctima y espe...

The present study explores fifteen year-old adolescents' narratives and analy- zes the causal explanations which underlie their mental representations on peer victimization. In this study, we use a scripted-cartoon narrative which encom- passes a semi-structured interview (see Almeida et al., 2001). The set of carto- ons presents a prototypical sto...

The present study explores fifteen year-old adolescents� narratives and analyzes the causal explanations which underlie their mental representations on peer victimization. Through a scripted-cartoon narrative, which encompasses a semi-structured interview, is elicited the narrative process that stimulates the interpretation and inference of causes,...

Capítulo 5 escrito en inglés Tesis Univ. Granada. Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Leída el 9 de marzo de 2009