The springing up of research on the educational area (also referred to as pedagogic or educational research, aside from certain coloring of the denotational meaning) was originallybeen influenced by a positivistic approach to research prevailing at that time on the field of natural sciences research. However, in later periods several approaches have been dominant at one or another period following the philosophical and sociological ideas of the academic leaders and producing a theoretical framework that is alien to the nature of the context under study. Thus, the author examines documents and references sources following a historical approach together with the analysis of current educational practice. The article aims at devising the actual meaning of the concept of educational research and describing a set of principle as a central issue to warranty the permanence of research activity at schools and the recognition of its importance in fostering socio-educative conditions, and systemic developmental professional performance.

This article is aimed at characterizing the historical background of students of Ballet education from the perspective of the process of emotional competencies. The study was carried out by examining written documentary about the few memories found. The prevailing trend that favors technical and physical elements at the expense of the emotional ones in educating ball et students justifies the need of the study and gives novelty to the findings herein described. The main finding is the description of characteristic features of antecedents of balletstudent’s formative process and the approach to emotional competencies development. .

This article aims at describing the findings of a study that prove the potentials of the suggested techniques and procedures to contribute to cognitive and memorizing development. The study relies on the application of research methods such as observation, Leontiev´s long-term retention methodology, retrieving-pairs-of-related-words technique, text processing, metacognitive questionnaire and pedagogical pre-experiment. The latter allows the assessment of a strategy designed to encourage the acquisition of knowledge about memory and strategies and their application in different tasks. The suggested techniques proved that children are capable of planning and using comprehensive memorizing strategies to improve the learning process under the teacher tuition and guiding workshops.

Educating mentally retarded students is a priority task in the Cuban educational system. Communication and labor training are essential components of such a formative process for their key function in personal development and social and labor insertion. Consequently, the study herein described aims at explaining the role of communication in labor education. Theoretical methods, such as analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, were used, as well as the empirical method of documents analysis. The main finding is precisely the theoretical framework that highlights the education of mentally retarded.

The springing up of research on the educational area (also referred to as Pedagogic or educational research, aside from certain coloring of the denotational meaning) was originally been influenced by a positivistic approach to research prevailing at that time on the field of natural sciences research. However, in later periods several approaches have been dominant at one or another period following the philosophical and sociological ideas of the academic leaders and producing a theoretical framework that is alien to the nature of the context under study. Thus, the author examines documents and references sources following a historical approach together with the analysis of current educational practice. The article aims at devising the actual meaning of the concept of educational research and describing a set of principle as a central issue to warranty the permanence of research activity at schools and the recognition of its importance in fostering socio-educative conditions, and systemic developmental professional performance.

This paper describes the mental representation of Mathematics shared byengineering students in propaedeutic courses. From the theoretical point of view, the social representationsare assumed as a particular form of knowledge that is expressed in the behaviors and communication among individuals. It has been studied as a process and content, leading to the recognition of stereotypes, opinions, beliefs, values and norms. It is a study of exploratory, quantitative and qualitative type, with an inductive logic, where the structure and content of social representations present in the study are analyzed. The findings listed metaphors used in the symbolic setting of individual explanation of mathematics, assessed the impact of subjectivity in learning, and recorded engineering student expectations in relation to studying mathematics

This article approaches the preparation of the teachers of the primary level to face the negative attitudes of the pupils towards mathematics, as a component of the affective domain. Prior studies in the area of affective domain of mathematics and his influence in pupils’ learning were documented, as well as the role of the teachers to attend to consider affective problems associated to learning. Dominican Republic is one of the countries with the lowest scores in mathematics at the primary level in Latin America and the Caribbean. To find out whether the initial training of teachers at the primary level of the Dominican Republic is considering mathematics teacher education, with an emphasis in mathematics affective education, a diagnosis was made at "Salomé+ ¡Ureña" College of Education of Santo Domingo. Several indicators and instruments were used for data collection. The main techniques used in the diagnosis were document reviewing, text commenting, written test, questionnaire, interviews and supervising teachers’ performance. The initial finding was compared to the indicators to conclude that teachers needs some training to solve the contradiction between the demands on teachers in the field of affective education mathematics and current college of education curriculum limitations.

Today in Ecuador, there are several factors disturbing children and young people affective behavior, among themchild abuse, split couples, and multiple-caused abandonment—including migration—. Children care is passed to people that are not prepared to meet the challenge or simply take them out of obligation rather than conviction. The role of emotion in the individual development has been studied by different researchers; accordingly, this study aims at constructing an educational model that clarify the relation and synergy between prevention, family development and family education oriented affective behavior. The study was completed by doing surveys, observation, andreference reviewing. The objective is to back up the family education model proposed to face affective behavior problems in schools and other educational environments.

The paper aims at describing a methodology on the basis of multidimensional independent study of Ecological Genetics contents as a component of the formative process of Biology teachers and its corresponding phases. It starts by presenting a framework that, together with empirical methods, makes it possible to systematize and conceptualize the terms of multidimensional learning tasks and poly-perspective self-management of independent learning; additionally, it argues the importance of viewing education and instruction in Ecological Genetics as a complex system. The methodology is currently being used with senior students of careers related to biology. It was previously assessed by field specialist and graded with high ranks. The main finding is the proposed methodology, characterized by the multidimensional approach of independent work, that comprises several dimensions of the educational process: students’ prior knowledge, individual metacognitive strategies, personal objectives and commitment. To achieve such purposes, the authors are proposing a methodology of their own based on the multidimensional adductive progression method.

This article aims to describe results of introducing simulation practice, using Super Pro Designer program, in laboratory practices of Water and Waste Water Treatment in Chemical Engineering career of the “Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz” University and designed teaching strategy for that purpose. The subject was studied to set its system of contents, frontier and environment, the relation to other subjects and the system, subsystem and learning dynamics as a whole. A system of laboratory practices and a teaching strategy to use the simulator SuperPro Designer were design. Learning and skills development were assessed through self-preparation control, performance in doing tasks, findings registered in the corresponding reports and application in other homework tasks. The set of activities designed favored students’ independent work of students by presenting problematic situations in a nice graphical environment and under the teacher leadership continue varying operating conditions to evaluate results. The strategy fostered the horizontal and vertical connection of subjects of and the fulfillment of language, economy and ICT curricular strategies.

This paper deals with the improvement of the didactic management of Applied Mathematics in Civil Engineering major, in the interaction of teaching and learning mathematics. The study, by means of applying methods and procedures of research-in-action, attempts to provide an active and professional approach to mathematics in a practical context of civil engineering that contributes to develop a reflexive learning and leads the students to fulfill the objective of integral education. The authors highlight the didactic management of the subject Mathematics I, based on human and professional values as a component of learning content and not only merely learning mathematics. This is expressed in the approach followed, characterized by moving from social to individual issues to achieve a level of command of mathematics satisfying the demands of society.

The paper refers the impact of psychological counseling on improving nursery school management. By studying the actual practices of these professionals and institutions, constructing a theoretical framework, and exchanging with specialists, the authors attain to rethink, improve and update educational practice. The researchers make extensive use of theoretical methods for constructing a framework, observe psychologist performance at nursery schools, and conduct interviews and survey on related issues. The effectiveness of the proposal was assessed on the basis of experts’ criteria (nursery school professionals and psychologists). The findings include a description of psychological counseling in nursery schools viewing the process as a dynamic interchange of ideas and mutual professional support. Likewise, the highlights of the process of articulating psychologists and principal performances are given.

The research aims at assessing a strategy devised to enhance "e-competent" team managers’ training for introducing virtual learning environments techniques into the process of professional education at the faculties of Sports and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Camagüey. The use of empirical methods reveals managers and professors’ viewpoints on ICT-supported learning strategies, together with a study of the state of the art. The devised strategy includes three stage and five areas (technological, pedagogical, organizational, teacher developmental and student developmental). The strategy yields positive outcomes at the Faculty of Sport but fails at the other faculty. This paper describes such outcomes in each faculty. The study confirms that the successful outcomes of ICT-supported learning are directly related to team managers’ pedagogical, organizational, and technological competence. Likewise, the university staff pedagogical, technological, and organizational shortcomings in integrating ICT into the substantive process might significantly be reduced by developing managers’ pedagogical, organizational and technological leadership.

The paper describes the competency-based education of students of economics in new technologies assisted information management. After identifying students’ difficulties in information management and the shortcomings of the teaching-learning process, the authors designed a model for info-technology assisted information management competency-based training. The model is described as a system of relations explaining the interactive dynamics of the processes of assessing orientation, instrumental appropriation, informational and information technology knowledge in appraising performance. This theoretical framework provides the foundations of a didactic strategy fostering students’ performance at academic, professional and social environment. The findings derive from the application of methods of scientific research. The potentials of the cultural, economic and professional developmental strategy were experimentally tested.