Prácticas educativas basadas en evidencias

Evidence-Based Educational Practices

Reflections, strategies and good practices

Promoting and encouraging change and improvement in education is a permanent task that does not always get the expected success. There are numerous factors and circumstances that influence this, and there are different intervention options that do not facilitate, but rather hinder, a common and constant vision of change.

In this sense, the Evidence-Based Educational Practice (EBP) can be considered as an educational approach that teachers share when designing and developing their teaching practice, while contributing their experience and sustaining it in reflection and in a greater foundation of his practice. Its approaches and developments include intervention strategies and procedures linked to reflective practice and that try to overcome it, by supporting it with internal or external research data, and achieving sustainability of the most successful educational actions.

This book is particularly aimed at scholars and researchers; it gathers the existing knowledge on this improvement proposal which grounds educational practices on evidence. It collects some of the results of international and national research projects and theoretical contributions, which support the reflections of this book. Likewise, it wants to promote this approach –that is little known and developed in Spain–, and so it proposes strategies and instruments to implement it, as well as good practices, which can be observed in the educational centers that have put it into practice; it tries to encourage its implementation and development in other educational institutions.

Joaquín GAIRÍN is Professor of Didactics and Educational Organization at the Autonomous University of Barcelona; Georgeta ION has a PhD in Educational Sciences and is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Pedagogy of the same University. They both are the authors of this book and have coordinated the work of the other authors. They are all members of different Spanish universities (UAB, UCM, ULE) and the University of Durham (UD). For years they have shared the “EBP Tools Project: Evidence-Based Educational Practices: designing and assessing strategies for the improvement of educational centers”. They also participate in international networks on the subject.

BASIS

• Evidence-Based Educational Practice. Conceptual and operational approach

• Research-based innovations through professional learning networks

• Exploring the role of distributed leadership

• Spanish research on EBP

• EBP and improvement plans in educational centers

II. STRATEGIES AND INSTRUMENTS

Strategies and tools for the development of EBP

EBP Training 

III. GOOD PRACTICES

Map of innovations in educational centers

Lesson learned from the “EBP Tools Project”

IV. THE INTERVENTION CONTEXT

Reflective practice: concepts and developments

Leadership centered on learning

Cooperation between teachers

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