Xosé Carlos Macía Arce

Approach to students’ social representations in the construction of academic European geography: A case study of Spanish university students

Abstract This article provides the results of classroom research involving university students training to be secondary school teachers of geography and history. The research is based on the analysis of a word association test on Europe and the European Union. The results constitute an approach to the geographical and historical representations these students have of their own European continent. This is a fundamental question considering that this collective group is training to teach the contents and values of European geography in secondary school education. From here on, our intention is no other than to carry out an exercise of synthesis and overall reflection on the test results and introduce issues which could generate some debate in the educational community.

Metodología de intervención para vencer la brecha digital. La experiencia de www.infrobrion.com

La difusion de las Nuevas Tecnologias de la Informacion y la Comunicacion (TIC) en regiones perifericas y espacios rurales pueden generar nuevas expectativas de desarrollo socioeconomico local. En nuestra comunicacion presentamos una metodologia de intervencion en un municipio rural de Galicia para difundir el uso de las TIC a traves de la promocion de un portal-web interactivo y multimedia que promueve la creacion de una comunidad virtual local a partir del diseno y creacion de una ciberescuela, un ciberinstituto de ensenanza media y, a traves de la recuperacion de la cultura, la geografia humana e historia local y su difusion en formato digital en internet. Es un proyecto piloto disenado para investigar los impactos de las TIC en comunidades desenganchadas de la Sociedad de la Informacion.