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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]

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]