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This article derives from an interinstitutional research project built, which took a qualitative approach and was conducted in eight major cities of Colombia using narrative methods. It aimed to inquire into the nature and pedagogical practices of Religious Education teachers, which is a fundamental and mandatory class under the General Education Act. Accounts of participating teachers showed different outlooks as to the identity and praxis of Religious Education in School (RES) but, within them, researchers' interest focused on an emerging perspective that regards this subject as a search for the cultivation of human spirituality. Therefore, this paper intends to present some contributions that RES can make to cultivate human spirituality because, when built from this perspective, it favors religious pluralism --preventing any exclusion arising from the dynamics of majority religious systems-- and enriches comprehensive education by providing educational opportunities for the search, construction and cultivation of the meaning of human life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This reflection paper evaluates three methodological options in the field of arts education that can be implemented in contexts in which artistic training programs in artistic social cartography, action research and creation research are offered. It provides an overview of the advantages and possible complexities of these methodological approaches to art research. Finally, it explains the need to multiply and expand the range of research opportunities, thus helping to guide knowledge creation in arts education, from the ideal of qualitative methodology pluralization, and exploring the future possibility that art builds its own research method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Curricula continue to be a matter of research and problematization in higher education programs, particularly those that train teachers. Although the tendency is to consider them from an instrumental and technical perspective, this paper adopts critical and comprehensive perspectives. Then, this qualitative case study carried out in a School of Education at a public university intends to inquire into the curriculum conceptions present in teacher training programs and their characteristics. The research focuses on the different ways of conceiving the curriculum in the programs, even when they are part of the same academic unit; on flexibility and curricular integration as central concerns; and on the shaping/structuring of programs, which is not homogeneous but determines some paths in the training of those participating in the proposals. From the discussion, it is concluded that a key implication is the need to reach agreements both on curriculum conceptions that guide teaching action and practice and on the particular ways in which proposals are structured/shaped, following those "common minimums" that enable dialogue and collective construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the paper is to identify the current trends in competency-based evaluation in the field of health, based on review of scientific literature. A review of primary, secondary and tertiary sources in Spanish and English from 2005 to date was conducted in search engines such as PubMed, Redalyc, Scielo, Lilacs and Virtual Health Library. Current trends show competency-based evaluation brings students, teachers, HEIs and the community together to train new professionals as part of the transformation in education. It is essential that students, teachers, administrators and universities are part of the teaching, learning and evaluation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the contributions of the praxeological approach to the development of civic competences and civic education, based on an incipient and incident mechanism on pedagogical practice, shaped in higher education and developed in children's classrooms. This pedagogical strategy is highly linked to the recognition of social needs in a non-conventional way that encourages the inclusion, innovation and the development of social competences. The methodology of this investigation is to involve different sectors of society for the reconstruction of democratized and inclusion-oriented spaces, based on the reflection and discussion of a civic education thought from and for the child population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interaction between contextual characteristics, the way students learn and the way teachers teach opens up a range of issues and obliges teachers to be aware of the factors that influence what constitutes effective teaching. Identifying teaching styles requires adequate tools for evaluation that consider not only the didactic elements that shape the way teachers teach, but also the theoretical aspects. This paper is an attempt to identify the teaching styles typically used by college professors in different disciplines. The Questionnaire on the Teaching Orientation of the University Professor (Feixas, 2006) was used to evaluate teaching styles in a sample of 188 teachers from private universities in the Argentine educational system. No differences, from a descriptive point of view, were observed in the styles adopted by teachers in the disciplines that were analyzed. The authors found teachers in the various fields of knowledge who adopt both the teacher-centered style and the student-centered style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]