Teresa Morlà Folch

Universitat Rovira i Virgili | URV

Scientific literature has clarified that the contexts of more intense power relations favor sexual harassment and impunity. This article presents the results of a research that has analyzed a legislation aimed at combating sexual harassment that preceded six months earlier the selection and evaluation of faculty. The communicative research methodol...

Successful Educational Actions (SEAs) are school-based initiatives oriented to provide high-quality education for all students. Identified by the INCLUD-ED research project, SEAs have been implemented in schools in different countries and researchers have studied their implementation and the impacts achieved. We undertook a review and synthesis of...

The emerging scientific literature examines masculinity and gender roles as risk factors for suicide ideation or suicide in young adults and adolescents. In this vein, recent studies show that certain traditional masculine norms are related to poorer mental health-related outcomes, which influences suicide and suicide ideation. This study contribut...

Mondragon Cooperative (MC) is one of the most outstanding examples of worker cooperatives in history. It has maintained its cooperative values along its trajectory, being competitive in the international market since 1956, under the motto: ‘Humanity at work’. Recently, scientific research has focused on impact, which has led to the emergence of the...

Research shows that family involvement in learning activities at school improves students’ academic performance and social cohesion. This study analyses the impact of involving families through interactive groups, dialogic literary gatherings and tutored library in a Mexican primary school in a highly underprivileged urban area, within the framewor...

Increases in housing prices, property speculation and the inability of many residents to pay their mortgage or rent have made housing a key issue of concern for Spaniards. In view of this situation, several grassroots initiatives have emerged in the last decade demanding the right to decent housing. Among them is La Borda, the first Grant of Use ho...

WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) is a global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. The members of this network are individual researchers, individual development practitioners, and organizations of informal workers, which total more th...

Background: Interaction, participation and collaboration are thought to be important factors for supporting successful second or foreign language learning. The use of Interactive Groups (IGs) is regarded as helpful in creating the conditions in which interaction, participation and collaboration are increased to create effective dialogic learning. H...

The atmosphere of political confrontation in Catalonia has recently had a considerable impact in WhatsApp groups analyzed within the framework of the IMPACT-EV (Evaluating the impact and outcomes of EU SSH research) project (FP7). We developed a classification of four impacts. (a) In most cases where pro-independence supporters and Spanish national...

Recent advancements in the social impact assessment of science have shown the diverse methodologies being developed to monitor and evaluate the improvements for society as a result of research. These assessment methods include indicators to gather both quantitative and qualitative evidence of the social impact of science achieved in the short, medi...

Housing became a social problem in Spain after the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, affecting not only adults but also children, and as we discuss here, their learning process due to their difficult situation. Thus, in this article we analyse the case of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages in Tarragona, which chose to organise a...

The niqab provokes a heated debate in European societies and generates intolerance towards women who wear it. Some of the explanations used to criticize this Muslim garment refer to the idea that women wear the niqab as a form of patriarchal oppression. Furthermore—especially after the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Islamic extremists—the niqab i...

Previous research has examined organizational factors that could facilitate or limit creativity also indicating that although cooperatives can be seen as innovative business formats, they are also considered slow growth models because of their organizational characteristics. In this study we aim to explore the processes, practices, and other organi...

Although the creative process has been the subject of many studies, there is no consensus on its stages or its facilitating and inhibiting factors because the research has been carried out in very different disciplinary fields. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to research the creative process in architecture students and professionals...

Los objetivos del presente artículo son exponer las referencias históricas de las que emerge el concepto de ciudades creativas, describir el impacto de estas ciudades en el fortalecimiento del elemento financiero en la denominada economía posfordista y situar el papel que tienen en el capitalismo global corporativo. De tal modo que el artículo expo...

The participation of men in the feminist movement and the solidarity struggle with victims has been repeatedly questioned by both sexes, as well as their contributions and their solidarity with women. Despite this questioning, throughout history there was men who have positioned themselves against sexism and gender violence, in favor of affective o...

A nivel internacional hay diferentes experiencias de cooperativas de vi- vienda. Mientras que en España es una iniciativa reciente. Ante esta realidad, la investigación se centra en el rol del liderazgo en las cooperativas de vivienda en Ca- taluña, así como en la capacidad democrática e innovadora dentro de las mismas. Concretamente, el estudio se...

El objetivo del estudio es analizar los obstáculos que afronta el profesorado universitario para la enseñanza de la creatividad, y concretar actuaciones educativas que superan estos obstáculos. Se presenta un estudio de caso en dos licenciaturas: Arquitectura y Biotecnología, en una universidad pública mexicana. El conjunto de datos analizados se o...

Through Learning Communities, schools and their communities may play a key role in overcoming inequalities suffered by vulnerable populations. Learning Communities implement Successful Educational Actions (SEAs), one of which is Family Education. This action focuses on promoting basic education among community members, in addition to other adult ed...

Learning Communities began over 35 years ago. In this article, the history of this movement is analyzed with the goal of understanding its evolution, the keys to its growth and success from a historical perspective, focusing on the overcoming of difficulties that this movement have found. To prepare this study, the existing literature on the subjec...

In this paper, we present the violence prevention programs implemented in Schools as Learning Communities. These schools have been analyzed under the INCLUD-ED project (FP6 of the European Commission) and are outstanding for the great results in very diverse social areas going beyond positive academic results. Research on violence against women (VA...