Líneas de investigación

Regional Studies in Education

It includes research studies on educational policies, regional and intercultural educational practices and strategies.

Proyectos vinculados

Good practices in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the teaching and learning of English in the Western Region 836-B9-006

This project aims to investigate the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that have been implemented in the teaching and learning of the English language at the Western Campus and how these affect motivation and learning...

Teaching-learning practices in Graphic Design courses and Graphic Workshop 836-B3-008

The project consisted of the registration and retrieval of documents of teaching and learning experiences generated by the students of the Graphic Design major at the Western Campus of the University of Costa Rica, for...

Literature and Mathematics: dialogic implications in the teaching processes 836-B3-023

The project referred to two main aspects, to determine: 1. Detection of learning comprehension problems of some mathematical and language concepts in high school and university students, with the goal of determining the utility of...

Intercultural learning in the didactic process of oral communication: analysis of the Global Classroom platform 836-B5-020

The purpose of the study was to analyze the didactic process of oral communication in the Global Classroom (belonging to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln), which has been used since 2010 in the Oral Communication III...

The Costa Rican Public University in the 21st Century. The case of the University of Costa Rica 836-B5-022

This research has as its subject the study of the Costa Rican public university in the twenty-first century, which implies placing it in the national and international context, emphasizing the socioeconomic, political and educational transformations...

Towards a decolonial and intercultural proposal for the Social Work major at the Western Campus 836-B6-032

The construction of equitable societies that are respectful of cultural, social or human diversity in general is a subject that should motivate research, sustained reflection and rigorous debate by social workers, and other professionals in...

Diagnosis on the needs of formal education in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Central and Western Region of Costa Rica 836-B6-245

The project is expected to carry out a diagnosis of the real needs of the current market in the area of ​​Information and Communication Technologies, accompanied by an analysis of the curricula of public universities...

Virtual reality as a museum tool to reconstruct the local history of San Ramón 836-C0-120

It is through new technological tools that this project aims to recreate virtual and interactive anthropological aspects and sites of cultural interest related to the evolution and development of the head of the canton of...

Cataloging of agro-landscapes and proposal of landscape management units in Buenos Aires, Brunca Region, Costa Rica 836-C0-612

It is proposed to carry out the classification and characterization of agrarian landscapes of the canton of Buenos Aires, Puntarenas, based on the delimitation of hydrographic basins and in the broader biophysical and sociocultural context...

Cultural hybridization and formation of ethical awareness in students who attend schools in Guanacaste and San José 836-C0-329

This project addresses the problem of inquiry: Is there a relation between the cultural hybridization that some communities where schools are inserted experience and the formation of the ethical conscience in the students that attend...

Practices and speeches on Good Living present in the worldview of Afro-limonense communities 836-C0-309

By means of this project, we pretend to analyze the characteristics of Good Living present in the socio-cultural practices of the Afro-limonense population regarding the daily experiences of people in two communities of Limon: Limon...

Designing and implementing the application FUNREAD: A tool for pedagogical mediation for teaching English to sixth grade students of the Jesús de Nazareth school in Liberia. 836-C2-330

This research project’s main objective is to design the application FUNREAD for its implementation as a pedagogical mediation tool of dual modality (in-class and distance education) with the goal of improving the English linguistic competence...