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Workshop on values education for mothers in the school Elisenda de Montcada, in the suburb “Ciudad Meridiana”

During the last month of May, Dr Buxarrais has taught a workshop on values education to the Association of Mothers and Fathers of students (AMPA in Spanish) in the school Elisenda de Montcada. This workshop was suggested by Dr Buxarrais to the centre in relation to the recent implementation in the school of an emotional education program for the students. The school is located in the suburb “Ciudad Meridiana”, which was born to accommodate immigrant population coming from very diverse places of the world. Everybody in the education community is making enormous efforts to achieve a good integration for students at all levels, both linguistically and culturally.

The aim of this workshop, divided in three sessions, was to provide an opportunity for parents to share topics and problems in their families, in the interaction with their children and in relation to the expression of values and feelings.

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“Education and Transcendence” Workshop

Last 28th of April, Dr. Buxarrais participated in the Education and Transparency Workshop, organised by the Research Group in Pedagogical and Social Thought (GREPPS) of the Faculty of Education at the University of Barcelona and by the Edith Stein Centre.

This workshop seeks, from a plural and universal view, to discuss the relationship between education and religions transcendence, taking into account the role of inwardness, which becomes again the key to guarantee a full humanization. More information in this brochure (pdf in Catalan, 1,2 MB)

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41st Association for Moral Education Conference

From the 5th to the 7th of last November, the 41st edition of the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education (AME) took place in Santos, Brazil. In this edition, Maria Rosa Buxarrais was voted by AME’s members to be part of AME’s Executive Board for the next three years (2015 – 2018), together with Matthew Hayden, Vishalache Balakrishnan and Larry Nucci.

In this meeting, Dr. Buxarrais presented the paper “Moral Education and Citizenship. The Construction Model of Moral Personality” (available in the conference website, as the rest of the papers presented there). She also coordinated the “Symposium on Moral Education and Citizenship”. The picture shows her with the other participants in the symposium.

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Seminar at the UNESP (Brazil)

In the picture, Maria Rosa Buxarrais is with a group of students and lecturers of the PhD in Education at the Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP), in Marília campus. Invited by the institution, Dr. Buxarrais gave a seminar on “Competencies and ethical learning in Higher Education” that took place on the 3rd of November.

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New publication in Comunicar journal

The article “ICT Use and Parental Mediation Perceived by Chilean Children” has been recently published in the journal Comunicar (E-ISSN: 1988-3293 / ISSN: 1134-3478) written by Llarela Berríos Valenzuela, Maria Rosa Buxarrais Estrada and María Soledad Garcés.

Abstract:

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has extended to all contexts of our lives in the last few years, modifying our communication, learning, entertainment and socialization habits. The aim of the present research is to investigate about primary-age children’s habits with these tools, as well as these children’s perception of parental mediation in this area. In this study we used an ex post facto descriptive methodology by survey. A questionnaire was applied for data recollection to 422 children of private schools in Santiago de Chile aged between 9 and 12 years old. The results point to an early access to electronic devices and the transversal and homogeneous use during childhood. There is no doubt that ICTs play an active role in daily life for most of these children. No significant differences in age or sex were detected in our study, but we encountered risky behaviours in how children use ICTs and in their perception of parental mediation. The complexity becomes more evident the more time they have with electronic devices connected to the Internet without adult supervision. This finding raises the need for the application of intervention programs on parental mediation of children’s use of ICTs in order to promote a safe, responsible and ethical use of these tools.

The full article can be downloaded from the journal’s website, in pdf, eput or html format.