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Building a Mosque. Reification and Situated Learning at the Core of an Immigrant Community of Practice
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Segarra Arnau, Tomàs; Traver Martí, Joan A.; Lozano Estivalis, María – Ethnography and Education, 2023
This paper presents partial results of a broader investigation and focuses on describing a process of reification that took place at the heart of an immigrant community in Sant Mateu (Castelló, Spain), and that crystallised through the construction and management of a mosque. The theoretical framework draws on social learning theories, with a…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Immigrants, Communities of Practice, Islam
A-CITEEC: A Strategic Research Consortium for R&D&I and Transfer of Results in Civil Engineering and Building
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Regueiro-Picallo, Manuel; Rojo-López, Gemma; Puertas, Jerónimo – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the Strategic Research Consortium Centre for Technological Innovation in Building and Civil Engineering (A-CITEEC) and its scientific strategy for the promotion of research and higher education in building and civil engineering. Design/methodology/approach: By means of an approach based on the…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Construction (Process), Research and Development, Innovation
Basic Learning of Form
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i Serrano, Magda Mària; Musquera Felip, Sílvia; Beriain Sanzol, Luis – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2018
"Form is 'what', Design is 'how'" (Kahn, 1960). Learning about the formal universe and the wide range of possibilities it offers should be one of the purposes of the early subjects in architectural studies. This article aims to explain the contents of a first course of architectural design and demonstrate how, using a methodology based…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Architecture, Design, Teaching Methods
Learning Based on the Project Entitled "Design and Construction of a Wooden Bridge"
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Barris, Cristina; Torres, Lluís; Simon, Enric – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2016
This article presents the results of a case involving the application of project-based learning carried out with students in the Mechanical Engineering degree program at the University of Girona. The project, entitled "Design and construction of a wooden bridge", was conducted at the Polytechnic School in the third-year Structures…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries