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Social skills are crucial to the personal development and academic success of elementary school students. Through competencies such as empathy, conflict resolution, leadership, and self-esteem, students learn to interact effectively and adapt to diverse social situations. However, the manifestation of these skills can be conditioned by factors such...
Introduction: The aim of this study is to detect whether there are significant differences in the Social Skills necessary for Teamwork and between the Labor Skills of the MENA based on gender, whether they work or not, study they are studying and time in Spain. In addition to checking the existing correlations between the aforementioned dimensions;...
Intercultural competence is essential in schools attended by students of different ethnicities, cultures, and religions. A number of studies have suggested that music facilitates the transmission of values and emotions inherent in intercultural competence. The role of teachers is considered essential as well. Thus, it is important to consider music...
This research aims to determine the magnitude to which aspects of the sociodemographic profile of students (gender, age, religion, ethnicity and race) influence both the acts of harassment received as a cybervictim and those carried out as a cyberaggressor. Additionally, aiming to discover which of these acts suffered as cybervictim or carried out...
In recent decades, large migratory movements have been taking place, which has turned Spain into a culturally diverse country. For this reason, the present research focuses on social skills, which are considered of utmost importance in different educational contexts. To this end, the aim was to adapt and validate a scale to diagnose social skills i...
This article aims to analyse the relationship between the bullying aggressor and bullying victim profile related to practising or not practising sport in adolescents living in southern Spain. The research includes male and female participants aged between 12 and 16 years in different secondary schools in the provinces of Andalusia, Ceuta and Melill...
This article analyzes the relationship between cyberbullying profile by racist reasons and social abilities in a group of intercultural teenagers living in Spain (N = 1478). The study includes participants aged between 12 and 16 years old (M = 13.99; SD = 1.352). Of these, 738 were male (49.9%) and 740 were female (50.1%). A correlational study was...
This study aims to expand the existing scientific, theoretical and empirical knowledge about the influence of the variables age, gender, nationality and place of residence on the probability of developing social skills that generate social wellbeing, and, in addition, to identify the relationship between the most influential variable and the academ...
Spain is one of the countries with the greatest number of unaccompanied foreign minors (UFM) whose educational and social inclusion is a challenge and a priority. The present research considers the use of tools and strategies as fundamental for the inclusion of minors and improvement of their personal learning environment (PLE): self-concept of the...
This study addresses the need to analyse the personal learning environments and self-efficacy of unaccompanied foreign minors. In addition, it seeks to identify existing relationships between these two parameters and establish an explanatory model which can help to understand the present situation of this collective regarding their inclusion in the...
The goal of this study is to analyze how religion, ethnic group, and race influence the likelihood of becoming either a cybervictim or cyberbully in intercultural educational environments. In the research, 755 students in secondary education were analyzed in the south of Spain through the Cyberbullying Scale for students with Cultural and Religious...
The integration of young immigrants in the societies that host them highlights the need for the intervention of social workers to facilitate their adaptation and inclusion from an individualized diagnosis of their needs. The development of social skills in the immigrants is one of the main ways to make that integration happen, and therefore its dia...
The aim of the present study was to predict the variables that facilitate integration of unaccompanied foreign minors (UFM) and to develop personal learning environment (PLE) questionnaire dimensions with respect to social integration of UFM. Methods: A social study that was descriptive in nature was conducted with a quantitative empirical-analytic...
This paper presents the results of the analysis of the personal learning environments (PLE) used individually and in groups by fifth grade primary education students. The main objective was to determine if the use of mobile technologies in the students’ PLEs encouraged their school integration and learning in intercultural communities. For this, a...
Spain is one of the countries with the greatest influx of immigrants and, specifically, of unaccompanied foreign minors (UFMs). The educational and social inclusion of unaccompanied foreign minors poses both a challenge and a threat to current policy. Nonetheless, studies linking educational aspects to the phenomenon of the integration of these chi...
The objective of this research is to adapt and validate a useful instrument to diagnose cyberbullying, provoked by intolerance towards cultural and religious diversity, identifying the profile of the aggressor and the victim. The study was carried out using the Delphi technique, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and confirmatory factor analysis (C...
The authors searched for picture books that are useful for intercultural education and for discovering students’ perceptions about the values and intercultural experiences conveyed through the books. To do so, the authors selected two books by following established criteria and analyzed students’ responses through semistructured interviews. The dat...
Throughout the history of education, the role of academic guidance has been steadily present in institutions and mainly considered as a continuous supportive approach from a professional to a person faced with enduring an adaptation process over time. The aim of this investigation is to build a valid and reliable instrument to evaluate academic ori...
This work focuses on the evaluation of quality through the satisfaction of training of the education students of Melilla, the method to be used will be the content analysis by procedures systematic and objective description of the content of the messages, allowing the inference of knowledge related to production / reception conditions (social conte...
RESUMENActualmente las escuelas rurales están siendo modelos alternativos de enseñanza en muchos puntos de España. Estas escuelas presentan ventajas educativas que no tienen las escuelas urbanas. ¿Pero qué opinan los alumnos de estas escuelas sobre su futuro académico y profesional? A pesar de que las investigaciones en este tema son escasas, en es...
This research pretend to know what intercultural values are transmitted in the European and Latin American basic education laws. The aim of this paper is evaluating if the inclusive and intercultural education are encouraged from the educative legislation. For this reason, a qualitative analysis has been done, through an intercultural values system...
Within the European Higher Education Area, European universities have changed the way they teach and transfer knowledge to students. Education Degrees have been transformed as well, and for the first time Inclusive Education is taught to prospective teachers. This survey aims to establish the opinions and attitudes to Inclusive Education of several...
Actualmente las escuelas rurales están siendo modelos alternativos de enseñanza en muchos puntos de España. Estas escuelas presentan ventajas educativas que no tienen las escuelas urbanas. ¿Pero qué opinan los alumnos de estas escuelas sobre su futuro académico y profesional? A pesar de que las investigaciones en este tema son escasas, en este estu...
En la actualidad las escuelas rurales al igual que el resto de los centros educativos pasan por un momento de renovación pedagógica en sus metodologías docentes.
Si a esto le unimos la actual casuística intercultural, en donde cada vez más los centros rurales se están convirtiendo en una representación de la sociedad multicultural del momentos. No...
Las necesidades educativas actuales llevan a las mayoría de los docentes a utilizar la investigación educativa como una herramienta eficaz para responder a las problemáticas que en cada momento surjan en el aula. Este libro intenta ejemplificar diferentes modelos de investigación educativas, desde diferentes ámbitos de aprendizajes resolviendo a su...
Resumen. Uno de los fenómenos que más preocupa a las políticas educativas, por ser el origen de nuevas necesidades educativas, es la inmigración. Las respuestas a estas necesidades la ofrece el actual concepto de Educación Inclusiva. En esta investigación se pretende conocer cómo se trata este tema en las legislaciones educativas latinoamericanas....
Inclusive education is fundamental to ensuring educational quality and equality. The teacher’s role in this type of education is essential as without their optimal participation it would not be possible to fulfil the objectives of inclusive education. Thus, in this study we wish to determine the understanding teachers have of inclusive education to...
En la actualidad las escuelas rurales al igual que el resto de los centros educativos pasan por un momento de renovación pedagógica en sus metodologías docentes. Si a esto le unimos la actual casuística intercultural, en donde cada vez más los centros rurales se están convirtiendo en una representación de la sociedad multicultural del momentos. Nos...
One of the phenomena that is of most concern to educational policy in Europe is immigration due to the fact that this is the source of new educational needs. This research looks at how European educational legislation deals with this topic. For this intercultural values that make inclusive education will be evaluated, we will analyze intercultural...
This research aims to know the intercultural values that are transmitted in the different laws of European Basic Education. With this goal, it tries to assess if the inclusive intercultural education is encouraged from the first legislative ladder. For this reason, a qualitative analysis was made through a system of categories intercultural values,...
One of the phenomena that is of most concern to educational policy in Europe is immigration due to the fact that this is the source of new educational needs. This research looks at how European educational legislation deals with this topic. For this intercultural values that make inclusive education will be evaluated, we will analyze intercultural...
En una sociedad cambiante, en donde las aulas se están convirtiendo en el reflejo de la sociedad cada vez más intercultural y diversa, se necesita la formación del profesorado en Educación Inclusiva, un profesorado que esté capacitado para apoyar las necesidades y cualidades de todos sus alumnos. Es por ello por lo que en este estudio se describe e...
En la actualidad la sociedad está formada por individuos de diferentes religiones, etnias o culturas. Ante esta situación, la utilización de valores comunes puede ser la garantía del éxito de la convivencia. A estos valores los denominamos democráticos, porque garantizarán la eficacia en la convivencia pluralista, y en su transmisión toma un papel...
This research advocated the values that are transmitted in different European educational policy. In response to our research problem, we analyze the basic educational laws in 32 European countries. To do this, we use a system of categories which were previously validated. The analysis of the data was carried out using the qualitative analysis soft...
En los últimos años las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación e Internet se han convertido en elementos clave en la transformación sociocultural, en tanto en cuanto han modificado las formas de comunicación e interacción social existentes en la sociedad que las creó; y al mismo tiempo han conllevado la transformación educacional, al traer...
A diverse cultural world involves divergences and conflicts, which could be solutions more than problems (Cascon, 2000) if addressed properly. This study analyzes pseudo-conflicts in intercultural classrooms, using two questionnaires to study teachers' and students' points of view (Olmedo et. al., 2012). A descriptive and correlational data analysi...
The various educational systems in Europe address the teaching of intercultural values in different ways. While in Spain, until recently, schooling in this area was conducted through Education for Citizenship and Human Rights, in Nordic countries the teaching of values is a cross-curricular affair. The aim of this study was to compare Norwegian stu...
La existencia en nuestra sociedad de una realidad multicultural produce nuevos escenarios, contextos y necesidades en las aulas educativas. La coexistencia de diferentes modos de percibir el mundo genera el conflicto y acercarse a conocer el modo en que se gestiona realmente ese conflicto es uno de los objetivos a conseguir en este estudio. A travé...
In this work, we have built an instrument, and the application and corresponding data allows us to take objective decisions on the phenomenon studied. The purpose of this study is to know what are the strategies, relationships, and situations that - due to ignorance or mismanagement by staff and students - became problematic situations generating a...
La globalización ha hecho que actualmente nos encontramos con un mundo
exento de fronteras, al menos a nivel socio-económico y científico-cultural. Lo cual
ha propiciado el resurgimiento de sociedades interculturales. Esta situación
demanda entre otras cosas una respuesta educativa adecuada y acorde a los
cambios surgidos. Para tal fin es fundament...
En este trabajo hemos construido un instrumento, que responda a las exigencias técnicas y cuya aplicación y correspondiente obtención de datos nos permita la toma de decisiones objetivas sobre el fenómeno estudiado. Esto es, cono-cer cuáles son aquellas estrategias, relaciones, situaciones, entre otras, que por desconocimiento o mala gestión del pr...
Este estudio tiene como objetivo conocer los valores sociales que comparten los adolescentes de la ciudad autónoma de Melilla. Para ello, se ha seleccionado una muestra de 208 estudiantes, de distintos orígenes culturales, pertenecientes a diferentes centros escolares de la ciudad. Tras evaluarlos, utilizando los valores sociales representados en e...
Nowadays, society is shaped by individuals of different religions, ethnics or cultures. In this situation, the usage of common values may be the guarantee of a successful coexistence. We call these values “democratic values” due to the guarantee efficacy of pluralist coexistence and intercultural education has a prior role in their transmission. We...
En la actualidad la sociedad está formada por individuos de diferentes religiones, etnias o culturas. Ante esta situación, la utilización de valores comunes puede ser la garantía del éxito de la convivencia. A estos valores los denominamos democráticos, porque garantizarán la eficacia en la convivencia pluralista, y en su transmisión toma un papel...
En este trabajo hemos construido un instrumento, que responda a las exigencias técnicas y cuya aplicación y
correspondiente obtención de datos nos permita la toma de decisiones objetivas sobre el fenómeno estudiado. Esto es, conocer cuáles son aquellas estrategias, relaciones, situaciones, entre otras, que por desconocimiento o mala gestión del pro...
This paper describes the value that students gave to the importance of general and specific skills within generic and specific modules in the Master's degree for Teachers of Compulsory Secondary Education, Secondary School Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching. The objective of this study is to contribute to the evaluation of the imp...
