J Mena
Biographic Data
| ID | 1749761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Mena |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mena |
| SIGNATURE | MENA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Salamanca |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6925-889X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Microteaching on pre-service teachers' education
Teaching is a complex profession that requires a balance of knowledge, pedagogical skills, and classroom management. As educators work to create engaging and inclusive learning environments, innovative approaches are needed to enhance teaching skills and support continuous professional development. Microteaching is a widely used training method that enables teachers to refine techniques, test strategies, and receive feedback in a controlled envir…
Artificial intelligence in the context of teacher education
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into teacher education (TE) is said to change, or at least challenge, traditional pedagogical approaches and ways of preparing teachers to teach in an increasingly technological world. This paper identifies emerging themes and critical issues arising from a cross-analysis of the papers in this special issue. It offers insights that should be considered by both teacher educators and TE institutions. …
From an intercultural approach to environmental education to 2030 Agenda
The Use of Deep Learning in Open Learning
No records of systematic reviews focused on deep learning in open learning have been found, although there has been some focus on other areas of machine learning. Through a systematic review, this study aimed to determine the trends, applied computational techniques, and areas of educational use of deep learning in open learning. The PRISMA protocol was used, and the Web of Science Core Collection (2019–2023) was searched. VOSviewer was used for …
A ética na pesquisa em Educação
O artigo questiona a centralidade da ética na prática de professores e pesquisadores em Educação, indagando sobre sua presença ou ausência em pesquisas e na orientação de estudantes. O objetivo principal é o de compreender os diferentes significados de "ética" na pesquisa educacional, analisando a literatura recente (desde 2020) e utilizando a técnica de análise de conteúdo de Laurence Bardin. Dividido em três seções, o estudo aborda a definição …
Fostering future music teachers' professional skills
Introduction The emergency crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused noticeable changes that stimulated the transition to the new normal based on the digitalization of our systems. In this regard, the revision of learning tools in higher education exposes new challenges and requires the development and implementation of digital technologies. Fostering future music teachers' professional skills needs designing of online resources that provide clo…
Teachers’ Professional Training through Augmented Reality
Practicum is regarded as a fundamental aspect of the training of prospective teachers. In addition, digital tools are increasingly used to enrich a traditional face-to-face experience. However, the technological exploitation of Augmented Reality (AR) by undergraduate students studying early childhood and primary education is low. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the use of Augmented Reality (AR) in teacher training was conducted. Based on …
The complexity thinking approach
Schools are learning spaces determined by the singularities of their students, their teachers and particular contexts. The ‘complexity thinking’ approach implies understanding that schools are complex systems determined by multiple factors and unpredictable circumstances. Teacher Resilience (TR) has been often linked to self-efficacy in dealing with such challenging scenarios, as it intercedes between the complexities of the contexts of practice …
Gamification as a Teaching Method to Improve Performance and Motivation in Tertiary Education during Covid-19
Gamification is usually understood as a pedagogical strategy that favors student engagement and motivation. Traditionally it is composed of dynamics, mechanics, and components. The purpose of this study was to compare Engineering and Economics and Social Sciences undergraduate students in their performance (grades), motivation, quality of assignments, participation, and emotion when their teachers used gamification as an innovative teaching metho…
El Prácticum en el Grado de Maestro/a de Educación Infantil
INTRODUCCIÓN Desde el Plan Bolonia de formación de maestros se aboga por ampliar la tradicional función docente del profesorado, confiándole además una función investigadora. Al mismo tiempo se reta al profesorado universitario para cumplir con las nuevas demandas que exigen dotar a los maestros y maestras de recursos suficientes para responder, con la mayor calidad posible, a las necesidades de las sociedades modernas. El Prácticum ofrece al fut…
Chinese student teachers’ teaching practicum experiences
‘I did not feel any passion for my teaching’
This study conceptualises teacher attrition as a dynamic process of identity construction and interpretation in shifting professional knowledge landscapes, which attunes to both individual and contextual milieus. From this perspective, this narrative inquiry describes the attrition experiences of two Chinese beginning teachers after two years of employment in two middle schools after being prepared in the Free Teacher Education (FTE) Program. Spe…
Faculty readiness for online crisis teaching
[EN] This mixed-methods study was designed to measure and elaborate constructs of faculty online readiness from pre- COVID-19 pandemic literature. Bringing together the validation of a scale to measure these constructs and insights from a focus group, findings suggest that the negative connotations of risk-taking and making mistakes while learning to teach online seem to have been mitigated by a combination of affective factors such as humility, …
An international comparative study of practicum mentors
The use of gamification in xMoocs about energy
Open access education has significantly grown in strength as a new way of fostering innovation in schools. Such is the case of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which have the added benefit of encouraging the democratisation of learning. In this sense, the Bi-National Laboratory on Smart Sustainable Energy Management and Technology Training between Mexico and the United States of America was launched with the purpose of trying MOOC technology …
Developing pre-service teachers' professional knowledge of teaching
Articulating choice and deliberation in conducting research – researchers ‘working in the interpretive zone’
For researchers, committed to a research problem, finding meaningful answers is a process of careful weighting and interpreting what is actually found as an outcome of their mode of inquiry in reference to initial intentions and research goals. Particularly in doing qualitative research in/on teaching researchers have recognised the need to acknowledge the ways in which one's intentions interact with the process of study, and how they serve to sh…
Articulating choice and deliberation in conducting research – researchers ‘working in the interpretive zone’
For researchers, committed to a research problem, finding meaningful answers is a process of careful weighting and interpreting what is actually found as an outcome of their mode of inquiry in reference to initial intentions and research goals. Particularly in doing qualitative research in/on teaching researchers have recognised the need to acknowledge the ways in which one's intentions interact with the process of study, and how they serve to sh…
Developing pre-service teachers' professional knowledge of teaching
The use of gamification in xMoocs about energy
Open access education has significantly grown in strength as a new way of fostering innovation in schools. Such is the case of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which have the added benefit of encouraging the democratisation of learning. In this sense, the Bi-National Laboratory on Smart Sustainable Energy Management and Technology Training between Mexico and the United States of America was launched with the purpose of trying MOOC technology …
Chinese student teachers’ teaching practicum experiences
‘I did not feel any passion for my teaching’
This study conceptualises teacher attrition as a dynamic process of identity construction and interpretation in shifting professional knowledge landscapes, which attunes to both individual and contextual milieus. From this perspective, this narrative inquiry describes the attrition experiences of two Chinese beginning teachers after two years of employment in two middle schools after being prepared in the Free Teacher Education (FTE) Program. Spe…
Faculty readiness for online crisis teaching
[EN] This mixed-methods study was designed to measure and elaborate constructs of faculty online readiness from pre- COVID-19 pandemic literature. Bringing together the validation of a scale to measure these constructs and insights from a focus group, findings suggest that the negative connotations of risk-taking and making mistakes while learning to teach online seem to have been mitigated by a combination of affective factors such as humility, …
An international comparative study of practicum mentors
El Prácticum en el Grado de Maestro/a de Educación Infantil
INTRODUCCIÓN Desde el Plan Bolonia de formación de maestros se aboga por ampliar la tradicional función docente del profesorado, confiándole además una función investigadora. Al mismo tiempo se reta al profesorado universitario para cumplir con las nuevas demandas que exigen dotar a los maestros y maestras de recursos suficientes para responder, con la mayor calidad posible, a las necesidades de las sociedades modernas. El Prácticum ofrece al fut…
Gamification as a Teaching Method to Improve Performance and Motivation in Tertiary Education during Covid-19
Gamification is usually understood as a pedagogical strategy that favors student engagement and motivation. Traditionally it is composed of dynamics, mechanics, and components. The purpose of this study was to compare Engineering and Economics and Social Sciences undergraduate students in their performance (grades), motivation, quality of assignments, participation, and emotion when their teachers used gamification as an innovative teaching metho…
Fostering future music teachers' professional skills
Introduction The emergency crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused noticeable changes that stimulated the transition to the new normal based on the digitalization of our systems. In this regard, the revision of learning tools in higher education exposes new challenges and requires the development and implementation of digital technologies. Fostering future music teachers' professional skills needs designing of online resources that provide clo…
Teachers’ Professional Training through Augmented Reality
Practicum is regarded as a fundamental aspect of the training of prospective teachers. In addition, digital tools are increasingly used to enrich a traditional face-to-face experience. However, the technological exploitation of Augmented Reality (AR) by undergraduate students studying early childhood and primary education is low. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the use of Augmented Reality (AR) in teacher training was conducted. Based on …
The complexity thinking approach
Schools are learning spaces determined by the singularities of their students, their teachers and particular contexts. The ‘complexity thinking’ approach implies understanding that schools are complex systems determined by multiple factors and unpredictable circumstances. Teacher Resilience (TR) has been often linked to self-efficacy in dealing with such challenging scenarios, as it intercedes between the complexities of the contexts of practice …
The Use of Deep Learning in Open Learning
No records of systematic reviews focused on deep learning in open learning have been found, although there has been some focus on other areas of machine learning. Through a systematic review, this study aimed to determine the trends, applied computational techniques, and areas of educational use of deep learning in open learning. The PRISMA protocol was used, and the Web of Science Core Collection (2019–2023) was searched. VOSviewer was used for …
A ética na pesquisa em Educação
O artigo questiona a centralidade da ética na prática de professores e pesquisadores em Educação, indagando sobre sua presença ou ausência em pesquisas e na orientação de estudantes. O objetivo principal é o de compreender os diferentes significados de "ética" na pesquisa educacional, analisando a literatura recente (desde 2020) e utilizando a técnica de análise de conteúdo de Laurence Bardin. Dividido em três seções, o estudo aborda a definição …
Microteaching on pre-service teachers' education
Teaching is a complex profession that requires a balance of knowledge, pedagogical skills, and classroom management. As educators work to create engaging and inclusive learning environments, innovative approaches are needed to enhance teaching skills and support continuous professional development. Microteaching is a widely used training method that enables teachers to refine techniques, test strategies, and receive feedback in a controlled envir…
Artificial intelligence in the context of teacher education
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into teacher education (TE) is said to change, or at least challenge, traditional pedagogical approaches and ways of preparing teachers to teach in an increasingly technological world. This paper identifies emerging themes and critical issues arising from a cross-analysis of the papers in this special issue. It offers insights that should be considered by both teacher educators and TE institutions. …
From an intercultural approach to environmental education to 2030 Agenda
Psychology (14 works) · Mathematics education (10 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Teacher education (6 works) · Professional development (5 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (5 works) · Higher education (4 works)