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Redes de apoyo doctoral: características y relaciones con las condiciones de investigación e identidad

Este artículo describe el sistema Didascalia Virtual-Classroom, un entorno de realidad virtual inmersiva (ERVI) que permite a los docentes experimentar y reflexionar sobre cuestiones decisivas de la gestión eficaz de conflictos en el aula de secundaria. En el contexto del máster de formación del profesorado, en una universidad española, 162 docentes en formación (67.3% mujeres, Medad= 27.3) participaron en una experiencia de Investigación e Innovación Responsable, para evaluar la utilidad del ERVI para fomentar el aprendizaje de la competencia de gestión de clima del aula, al tiempo que reflexionaban sobre su autoeficacia percibida en esta competencia docente. Los datos se recopilaron mediante cuestionarios, entrevistas y grupos de discusión, y posteriormente se analizaron mediante pruebas estadísticas y análisis de contenido. Nuestros resultados confirman que los docentes en formación perciben limitaciones en su autoeficacia para la gestión del aula. Por otro lado, el análisis temático de los grupos de discusión permitió identificar oportunidades y ventajas que ofrece este escenario para fomentar el aprendizaje de la competencia para la gestión del clima del aula. En general, los participantes percibieron que el entorno Didascalia-VC podría ser muy útil en la formación inicial, destacaron la importancia de la inmersión del sistema y su realismo. Además, los participantes reconocieron que las experiencias proporcionadas por este ERVI pueden fomentar el aprendizaje reflexivo y crítico sobre la gestión eficaz del aula. Se sugieren algunas ideas para continuar la investigación, mejorar el desarrollo y extender el uso de esta herramienta en el máster de profesorado de secundaria, vigente en las universidades españolas.

This study aims to characterize the strategies researchers used to cope with Covid-19 impact and to explore the relationship between those strategies, researchers’ characteristics and the pandemic impact in their lives. 721 researchers, proportionally distributed among three Spanish regions, answered an online survey on the pandemic impact on their activity. Scales referred to social support, productivity, research tasks, working conditions, and work and personal life balance. An open-ended section was included to collect the strategies they used to cope with the pandemic consequences. 1528 strategies were content analysed and categorised based on their purposes and related to the rest of the impact variables. Results show the predominance of some strategies for the whole sample both at the work level, such as organizing work duties and plans, and at the personal level, such as maintaining life-work balance and improving personal well-being. Results stress to what extent a strategic approach contributed to minimize contextual issues or constraints even in an extreme situation as the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. A non-strategic approach, consisting of just reacting emotionally or dropping research, was the less effective way to maintain interest in research, sustained work and productivity and to warrant work-life balance. Developing a strategic approach was easier for those without caring responsibilities and for men. Women in our study, especially with caring responsibilities, had reduced opportunities to continue with their careers during the pandemic. No evidence of institutional strategies supporting researchers to cope with the situation was found.

Over the last decade, national and international agencies have repeatedly called for research practices aligned with the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), with varied effects on different disciplines and countries. The COVID-19 pandemic made this need even more critical. This study aimed to explore whether and how, from researchers’ point of view, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to changes in RRI-based research practices in the different disciplines and, more generally, society’s perception of science. 1499 researchers in the three Catalan-speaking regions of Spain responded to an online questionnaire in the first months of the pandemic. Results showed that while only half perceived an impact on RRI-based practices, this proportion was higher for Health Sciences and Social Sciences researchers in all the dimensions. Most researchers perceived a positive impact on societal actors’ views of science, although researchers in the Humanities were more sceptical than those in other disciplines. The analysis of open-ended questions revealed researchers from all disciplines were also concerned about fake news and claimed that researchers’ working conditions and research funding across all disciplines needed to be improved for future research to be capable of coping with current and future challenges. Received: 31 December 2021Accepted: 29 September 2022