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This paper is aimed at examining the implications of historical-cultural school conceptions main theses on educational research process, going from the overall comprehension of the object of research to the methods to be applied and the procedures proposed for its transformation. The notion of instrumental mediation, anatomic physiological mediation and especially social mediation is taken into consideration. The psychic development is revealed as a result of the educational process, which is considered as an interactive and interpersonal process that should favor both the orientation and internalization processes. Examples of educational research completed by the main author are given to argue the influence of this perspective on research related to intellectual stimulated development on slight mental retarded children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper shows the results of an on-going pedagogical research project at Calixto García Medical School. It aimed at designing and applying a pedagogical strategy in this school to improve the scientific skills of medical students and residents. The project was based on the need to improve the quality of students' papers presented at their Scientific Conferences. To test the students' scientific skills, a pilot study was done by means of reviewing some students' papers and giving questionnaires. These instruments revealed the students' strengths and weaknesses in doing research. The study took into consideration the importance of research skills since the undergraduate level, so that future doctors can write better dissertation reports for specialization, master's programmes or PhD theses. The results of the study indicated that there is a need to improve students' scientific activity and to perform pedagogical interventions for a better training of both students and tutors. Consequently, a supplementary course on research methodology and paper writing was designed and taught at Calixto García School. Benefits were obviously obtained since students and residents from this school won the first place in the Havana Higher Institute of Medical Sciences (ISCM-H) Scientific Conference in the years 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The future of any country greatly depends on the quality of its educational system, and on what professors are able to do in function of the formation of the future generations. That is why systematic efforts are carried out at present to achieve graduations representative in terms of quantity and quality of education professionals. Cuban universities continually look for mechanisms allowing improving the formation of education professionals; a reflection of it is the aspirations expressed by the formation models. In spite of it, in the formation of Mathematics and Physics professors, there are difficulties that impact on the non-fulfillment of the demands expressed in the model of the professional and on the inappropriate levels of preparation of the newly graduate. In their study plan at the curricular level, several disciplines converge, among which Mathematical Analysis sometimes becomes an impassable barrier for the students entering this specialty. The present paper exposes the main aspects with difficulties in the topic Functions and proposes an own curriculum program to elevate the students' level of knowledge in the contents related with the topic, as starting point for the subjects of the discipline mentioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drinking the cultural heritage in our time is to defend the identity and closer to the pedagogical practice is crucial especially for law students, lawgivers, who inspire the approach of this paper. It is intention to expose the essential aspects relate to the Island of Cuba with one of the most important events in Spain in XIX century, marking the Spanish liberalism and its influence on the overseas provinces, that is why it pretend give a point of view about the contents of Spanish Constitution of 1812, over two hundred years of its proclamation, in terms of education. Also it talks about the projection of Felix Varela as a precursor of liberating thought, his participation in the Spanish Court during the period between 1821 and 1823 valuations development of higher education in the nineteenth century are included because of their importance in publiceducation and politics of the time.This groundhelps to understandthe roots of liberating thought and their needs for the transformation of higher education on a scientific basis. Methodology used was based on the documental review and the analysis of content such as technique of qualitative nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most important aspects that should be considered in the initial training process of the different careers in engineering is related to the formation and development of professional skills, in particular, the integration between the treatment of content and the skills professionals. The initial training of professional skills has a space in the preparation of Industrial Engineers and must be performed from the different disciplines of the curriculum in students of Industrial Engineering. The paper makes an analysis of the criteria of different authors on the subject of the professional skills training, the authors offer a concept of professional skill and is proposes an integration between actions and operations for the treatment of the concepts of calculus integral in the discipline General Mathematics and of the professional skill: draw solutions and determine strategies with scientific rigor in the first year of Industrial Engineering. They also present the stages for the formation of the professional skill. The use of theoretical methods enabled an analysis of how occur the process of formation professional skills, using of treatment of the content in the disciplines and subjects for students of Industrial Engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teaching learning process has gone a long way through the history of education in which the curriculum has been transformed within the traditional education models. This paper aims at proposing an alternative about the way of teaching, taking into account the integration of two subjects: Sociology of Culture and Social Psychology, which are taught in the Socio-cultural Studies career. By means of the syllabuses of both subjects t it is expressed the importance of teaching them through the extension, the participation and developmental elements considering the main objective of this career: to investigate the community and the bettering of their settlers. It is not possible to continue teaching these subjects separately, because they both have the same system of content. Some workshops are proposed under the principle of interdisciplinary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study carried out in relation to the development of the sociocultural competence in pre-service Foreign Language teachers at "Félix Varela" Pedagogical University. First of all, the study presents both the conceptual and operational definitions of the term, assuming a notion of competence as a complex psychological configuration. Then, it presents the essential features of a didactic model, specifically designed by the authoress for the development process of such competence in the particular context of a curricular discipline named Integrated English Practice. The implementation of the model was carried out through a pedagogical pre-experiment. Different methods belonging to both the theoretical and the empirical levels of knowledge were used for the experiment. Within the empirical level the most important ones were the pedagogical test, the survey, the scientific observation, and the analysis of documents. The results of the study were essentially positive, which stimulated the development of further research on the matter pursuing improvement and efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to identify the problems that are impacting the dedication to the study of the diurnal course students in higher education institutions (CES) subscribed to the Ministry of Higher Education (MES). This research was conducted using the standard expert criterion method, applying to collected information a methodology based on the "Structural Analysis" Technique, developed by specialists of the Center for the Improvement of Higher Education who has developed a Structural Automated Analysis System (ESAF), which served as sustenance for the processing and analysis of the results of this study. The results obtained allowed experts to identify 16 problems that are related to students study dedication. The paper also identifies the key issues which need and urgent response related with the students study and study dedication, and also the main problems that most influence the study dedication. The results of this study suggest that when designing a strategy to increase the students study dedication should include actions that give priority to those problems that are most relevant among those featured in this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Preparing professionals for pursuing a Ph.D. is a current and constant concern of postgraduate education in Cuba. A lot a work is been done to help advisers, critiques and participants in examination boards improve their performances while advising or evaluating thesis. This paper is intended to contribute to such preparation by putting the qualitative and the quantitative approaches and their usage in the center of PhD's reflections and by giving opinions and suggestions that help doctors and doctors-to-be improve what they are doing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The design, development and results of a semipresential course of the optional subject "The Chemical Reaction" is presented in the present paper. The subject, given in the Faculty of Chemistry of Havana University, is taught using the multimedia "General Chemistry. Integrated Assignments". The students' opinions, obtained by applying polls, denote a high degree of satisfaction for the organization and development of the course and for the use of the multimedia, employed as main textbook. The good qualities of the final works presented show a high assimilation of the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of curricular strategies is present in the perfection of Cuban Superior Education in the general aspects of each profession that are not possible to take shape from a discipline in particular, which have not been able to be formed within any particular discipline and require the presence of the remainder, in order to have a coherent integration with the study plan of each career, as part of its design and with a real balance between the whole and each one of its parts. In this case, the curricular strategy of computing contributes to the guarantee of an aspect of a professional profile, which responds to the demands of technical scientific development. In order to measure the results of this strategy obtained in the different careers under the Ministry of Superior Education, a diagnosis is made in each academic course of the computing skills acquired from a sample of students in advanced years of these careers. The results of this diagnosis show that the majority of the skills related to the use of the means provided for tools of the Office program package's have the highest results, as well as communication by e-mail. The required levels have not yet been obtained with database systems and bibliographic gestors. In the case of use of software for self-learning, the percent of students approved is not the best, due to the incident that the development of this skill has in the professional formation. For careers groups, Technical Sciences careers show the best results. The group of careers with best results was Social Sciences and Humanities. This paper also analyzed results obtained during the five academic courses in which the diagnosis of computing has been developed, and an increase in the percent of students approved for this skill has been achieved. Likewise, the percent of students who have achieved the superior level has increased during the last five academic courses, which demonstrates the validity of this strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The search of the excellence in the superior education is a current demand that one manifests in the will of a continuous improvement of the university teaching on scientific bases what impels the development of the pedagogic investigation, where it has a fundamental paper the improvement of the administration, of the educational process and of the methodological activity to perfect and to optimize this process. Was the scientific problem identified how to contribute to solve inadequacies that are presented in the formation of the professionals and those they stay in the time? A road is the development of a methodological work of quality and to know its state they developed interviews to educational chief and careers chief of five academic areas of the University of Ciego de Ávila and the SUM of Majagua, analysis to five serial plans of methodological work of an academic area and educational department. It was demonstrated that most of the causes that originate the problem are due to inadequacies in the administration, of here that the objective of the present investigation was the elaboration of a methodology to design the plan of work methodological group like system that it contains the most significant elements in the administration to contribute to elevate the quality of the methodological work and the excellence of the educational process. The methodology was designed, it was corroborated by experts' approaches and professors and it was used for the elaboration of a plan of methodological work that them evaluated the elements of the methodology among very appropriate and quite appropriate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the results reached in an investigation guided to determine a pedagogic model, sustained on contemporary theoretical and scientific bases scientists that it contributes from the academic to the development of the value professional responsibility, creativity and environmental care in university students of Technical Sciences. This model has been applied successfully in subjects and disciplines that are imparted in the Polytechnic Superior Institute José Antonio Echeverría from Cuba and for its generalize character it is possible to apply it in other university specialties, provided it is adapted to the peculiar characteristics of the different areas of the knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper approaches the most outstanding aspects in a didactic model on the dynamics of the Educational Learning Process in the Superior Education, sustained in the Information and the Communications Technologies (TIC). In the model that is presented, the definition of configurations, dimensions, links and regularities, constitute theoretical aspects that allow to reveal the essence of this dynamics with the employment of these technologies, those that constitute tools mediators in the multiple relationships that in this they take place. With the presented model it puts on in evidence that the use of the Information and the Communications Technologies in the Educational Learning Process facilitate a different dynamics, characterized by a bigger participation of the students in their learning, also facilitating that new fellows can participate in this process collaborating with the same one, helping to their continuous improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]