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Keynote at EUCEET 2018

Dr. Buxarrais was invited as a keynote speaker at the 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering Education:Challenges for the Third Millennium, organised by the Escola de Camins (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), and EUCEET (European Civil Engineering Education and Training) Association from the 5th to the 8th of September.

Conferencia inaugural

The conference was entitled “Ethical competencies in Higher Education” and the abstract can be read next:

Higher Education encompasses three interconnected dimensions:

  • A dimension related with the construction and transmission of the scientific, technical, cultural and humanistic knowledge.
  • A political and social dimension linked to the implication in the society and in the democratic principles development.
  • An ethical dimension bound together with and activity compromised with the justice, the people’s and communities’ dignity and human rights.

Since Higher Education must train competent professionals who are to analyse their own practises, we will consider the third dimension. Furthermore, they must be able to evaluate their actions, their perceptions, their beliefs and their thoughts, not only as professionals in their field of knowledge but as compromised citizens as well. Thus, the training of the ethical competence is necessary to develop ability of reflection, analysing and the taking of a post. Here we are going to ask ourselves questions related to the teacher practises and the ethical learning in the higher education.

Participation in the 9th International Conference on Psychology and Education (CIPE18)

Last month of June (21st to 23rd), Dr. Buxarrais intervened in the CIPE18 in Logroño presenting the paper “Families approach towards their children homework: an exploratory study“, authored jointly with Francisco Esteban (UB), Teodor Mellen (ESADE) & Guillem Pérez (UB).

Abstract:

“Una de las tareas familiares que mayor atención reclama, y que mayor protagonismo adquiere en las diferentes dinámicas familiares, es la que se refiere a la ayuda de padres a los hijos en sus tareas escolares: los deberes. Dicha ayuda puede adoptar diferentes formas y/o estructuras, adquirir diversos sentidos y, por lo tanto, presentar distintas incidencias en la educación familiar. El artículo que se presenta trata de dichas formas, sentidos y su incidencia educativa en el ámbito familiar, concretamente, sobre la repartición, el compartir y la conciliación de dicha tarea. Con el objetivo de desvelar qué formas predominan en la actuación por parte de las familias en torno a las tareas escolares de sus hijos e hijas, se han entrevistado a 471 personas. Asimismo, sacamos a la luz algunos de los resultados obtenidos de este estudio nacional sobre la conciliación familiar y concluimos con las ideas extraídas de lo expuesto, dejando en evidencia la necesidad de proponer intervenciones motoras de un cambio”.

Dr. Buxarrais on Radio 4 talking on “Una mirada femenina de la educación moral”

Maria Rosa Buxarrais spoke yesterday in the radio program “Llibres, píxels i valors“, on Channel Radio 4, about the book she recently edited with Isabel Vilafranca: “Una mirada femenina de la educación moral”. This book compiles the thoughts of 13 women who were psichologysts, writers and educationalist, all pioneers in approaching pedagogy from a woman’s point of view.

New publication: “Una mirada femenina de la educación moral”

Portada del libroThe book “Una mirada femenina de la educación moral” has just been published by Desclée De Brouwer and edited by Dr Maria Rosa Buxarrais and Dr Isabel Vilafranca, both lecturers at the University of Barcelona.

Abstract:

El siglo XX ha sido el siglo de las mujeres, no solo por la masiva incorporación de la mujer al mercado laboral sino, también, por su visibilidad en la esfera pública. La mujer ha dado un paso adelante, dejando de centrarse exclusivamente en la vida privada –el cuidado de los menores, las personas dependientes y el hogar– y tomando cada vez mayor protagonismo en el escenario social, cívico, intelectual, en definitiva, público. Este fenómeno ha permitido gestar un nuevo paradigma pedagógico mundial que, avalado por instituciones educativas internacionales, reclama una educación para la igualdad.

Esta obra viene a cubrir varios vacíos: por una parte, la necesidad de una antología pedagógica de mujeres desde una sensibilidad femenina y, por otra, un homenaje a todas aquellas autoras que desde diferentes discursos, tiempos y espacios, han aportado cuestiones relevantes al ámbito de la Educación Moral. Un libro que pretende hacer visible que los discursos sobre educación moral no deben abordar únicamente una perspectiva de virtudes androcéntricas o universalistas, sino incorporar nuevas formas de argumentación moral que han quedado tradicionalmente desvalorizadas.

The table of contents cover these topics, analysed by the following authors:

– Foreword, by Marina Subirats.
– Introduction, by Isabel Vilafranca y Maria Rosa Buxarrais.
– 01. Edith Stein, by María Azevedo.
– 02. María Zambrano, by Antonieta Carreño.
– 03. Hannah Arendt, by Ingrid Agud y Ana Novella.
– 04. Astrid Lindgren, by Núria Obiols.
– 05. Simone Weil, by Marta Burguet Arfelis.
– 06. Nel Noddings, by María Rosa Buxarrais y Melania Muñoz.
– 07. Virginia Held, by Yolanda Montero y Maria Rosa Buxarrais.
– 08. Carol Gilligan, by Montserrat Payà Sánchez y Laura Rubio Serrano.
– 09. Victoria Camps, by Isabel Vilafranca.
– 10. Martha Nussbaum, by Amèlia Tey y Elena Noguera.
– 11. Amy Gutmann, by Ana Ayuste y Mariona Graell.
– 12. Seyla Benhabib, by Mónica Gijón y Xus Martín.
– 13. Judith Butler, by Raquel Cercós y Karina Rivas.

The table of contents, the prologue and the introduction can be freely downloaded in pdf here.

The book can be purchased in the editor’s website.

New article in Estudios sobre Educación

Last month, the article “Profile, Motivation and Academic Satisfaction of the Master Students: the Case of Social and Legal Sciences” was published in the journal Estudios sobre Educación. The authors of this article (written in Spanish) are Pilar Figuera, Maria Rosa Buxarrais, Juan Llanes and Marta Venceslao.

Abstract

This article presents the results of a research aimed at analysing the motivations and academic satisfaction in the transition to master’s studies in Social and Legal Sciences. A total of 453 students from 8 master’s degrees from the University of Barcelona and Autonomous University of Barcelona have participated. The results show differences between the typology of master and reasons for choice and satisfaction with studies and the relationship between academic satisfaction and the motives of choice. The specificity of the transition processes to these studies and the importance of establishing guiding actions are confirmed.

The article is available to download in the article section.