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This article focuses on the theoretical justification for an indirect method for character education inspired by Aristotle. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle discusses a dianoethical virtue he calls synesis that can be developed without the need to expose learners to real moral situations that compromise them, as it is not a mandatory or imperative virtue like prudence, but merely a discriminatory one. Accordingly, the method we propose here is indirect as it does not try to increase ethical virtues by planning opportunities for moral action

New advances in the field of education have led to the appearance of new methodological resources that make it possible to carry out teaching and learning processes in line with the educational demands of the information and knowledge society. One of the most successful approaches in the field of education is flipped learning. In order to implement this, it is vital that teachers be digitally competent, especially with certain skills in the area relating to the creation of digital resources, so that they can integrate a techno-pedagogical element

Interest in entrepreneurship education has become an international trend with a major impact in the field of education. It is promoted in all educational stages from early years to higher education. This piece uses a theoretical research methodology that focusses on interpretation based on academic literature. Its aim is to reflect on and encourage improvements in educational practice. The proposal offers a critical perspective on the inclusion of entrepreneurship education in the curriculum. It aims to look more closely at the keys to strengthening

In this study, we compared teacher-student interactions in traditional lessons and in lessons implementing a one-to-one computing program, where all students and the teacher have an Internet-connected tablet to be used in the classroom. Taking a within-subject approach, we used quantitative field observations to investigate deviance from traditional lessons (with no use of computers). The study population included three 5th- and 6th grade English teachers. Findings show that the teachers change their teaching when tablets are used in the classroom,

Dynamic study of iterative methods has become more common in recent decades thanks to the development of computers, something that illustrates the importance of including these methods in curricula. There are several types of software whose didactic application in the classroom is very useful, but they have not been designed in response to students’ difficulties related to learning of the dynamics of iterative methods. It should also be noted that there is no software exclusively designed for teaching iterative methods, and th with the difficulties

In this article we reflect, from a theoretical and critical perspective, on how public opinion is currently shaped by social networks, focusing on the case of Twitter. Going beyond a purely sociological or factual concept of public opinion, we will offer arguments for expanding its meaning while proposing a model of deliberative democracy. In order to do so, we use some well-known constructs from the field of social communication, such as the spiral of silence or digital niches, which provide a referent for interpreting the phenomenon of

This paper focuses on the negative or opposite of entropic disintegration as understood in physical sciences and applies this, metaphorically, to the online enterprise. Negentropic behaviours are those that bring re-integration, renewal, and eventual positive states to the institution. Online learning, which has now been a staple in most college and university strategic plans, has the potential for significant negentropic impact on the enterprise of higher education within individual institutions. Here we focus on how to apply negentropic theoretical

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have undoubtedly changed our world and the ways we live in it. Nowadays, we are more and better informed as well as having multiple channels for making immediate contact with others. However, this ability to be informed and communicate means there are constant demands on our attention to the extent it becomes distracted or overloaded. By using a document analysis methodology based on critical analysis of texts, this paper aims to provide pedagogical solutions for a capacity for attention at risk