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Édubref n°19 - La direction d'école : quels héritages ?

ÉduBref propose dans un format court et abordable de revenir sur des travaux et études universitaires sur les pratiques éducatives. Ce numéro est dédié à la direction scolaire dans le primaire en France. On y retrouve une histoire de la fonction de directeur.rice du XIXème siècle à nos jours, l’évolution des lois et décrets encadrant la profession. L’autrice y présente également certains défis et enjeux actuels.

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  • 2019

Research Methods: Developing your research design

This MESHGuide is designed to provide teachers with practical strategies to develop interesting and relevant research questions and to formulate a research design to engage in research-informed practice in their school or setting.

This MESHGuide draws on a range of key literature in the field of social science research, and it has been informed by lessons learned from the author's research. The guide aims to help teachers to:

  • understand the purpose of a research design
  • understand the significance of formulating a research question
  • develop the initial focus of your research by exploring different potential starting points for this
  • understand different ways of categorising research questions
  • identify the characteristics of good research questions and apply these in practice
  • develop and evaluate your own research questions
  • operationalize your research aim so that you can develop appropriate research tools to answer your research questions by developing question-method connections in your own research
  • improve your research data through understanding the nature of validity and reliability and exploration factors that could impact on these 
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  • 2019

Research Methods: Doing a literature review

This guide is designed to help teachers to:

  • understand how to use other people’s writing to inform their own research;
  • develop a strategy for carrying out a search of the literature;
  • organise the themes logically;
  • evaluate the research they read;
  • think about the features of a reflective literature review and explore how to achieve this in practice

This MESHGuide draws on a range of key literature in the field of social science research. Also its design has been informed by lessons learned from the author's research, which has focused on the following areas:

  • developing effective collaborative learning in science
  • factors influencing learning through play in the early years
  • student teachers’ engagement with research and its impact on their developing practice
  • constructivist informed practice in science within initial teacher education
  • creativity in learning and teaching.
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  • 2019

Research Methods- Considering Ethics in your research

This MESHGuide draws on a range of key literature in the field of social science research ethics. It is designed to help teachers to:

  • Understand the significance of ethical concerns in the research process
  • Identify the nature of the ethical issues that may be of significance in the design and implementation of their research
  • Develop their research design in a way that takes into account ethical considerations, so that their research is as ethical as possible
  • Understand the complexity of the process of gaining informed consent and enable them to achieve this
  • Reflect on the complexity of research ethics
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Desempeños de educación para la paz

Este documento es una propuesta de diseños curriculares y desempeños de actividades a destinación de los docentes en el marco de la Cátedra de la Paz en Colombia. Propone actividades para alumnos desde el principio de la educación primaria, que se enfocan en el manejo de emociones y las interacciones con los demás, hasta el principio de la educación secundaria, con actividades enfocadas en competencias ciudadanas, y análisis sociohistórico. Está diseñado para ser apropiado y adaptado por los docentes. 

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Secuencias didácticas de educación para la paz

Este documento comisionado por el Ministerio de Educación y elaborado por universitarios propone secuencias pedagógicas en el marco de la Cátedra de La Paz en los establecimientos educativos preescolar, básica y media. Tiene como fin garantizar el fortalecimiento de una cultura de paz a través de los espacios de aprendizaje desarrollando competencias emocionales y cognitivas. Se proponen aquí algunas secuencias didácticas a disposición de los docentes para reproducir o adaptar en sus aulas.

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