NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY AND DISTANCE - UNAD

SCHOOL SCIENCE OF EDUCATION

COURSE: RESEARCH PROJECT

TASK 1 IDENTIFYING A PROBLEM

PARTICIPANT:
MARÍA FERNANDA MEZA BONILLA

CODE: 1090409822

GROUP: 551028_10

TUTOR:
EDNER SUAREZ

AUGUST 2021
CÚCUTA, NORTE DE SANTANDER
 TASK 1

Step 1. Choosing your topic

The inclusion of students with special educational needs SEN, through the teaching of a
second language.

Step 2. Specify
After having cleared your research problem, specify it in one paragraph, and justify
it in two paragraphs.
All people have different abilities, skills and learning needs. Some learn through
movement, they are intuitive and learn from mistakes; others learn by listening and sharing;
there are autistic children who have a prodigious mind for mental calculations and others
who rely on common sense, i.e. sensory.
It is for this reason that within society there are people with special educational
needs and because of this, it is necessary to take the initiative to sensitize the current
society about the differences and the reality that students face when they have to live day to
day with people with different educational needs. For this, it is necessary to work on
respect from the basic school ages and thus strengthen the academic and personal
environment of students, who through interculturality learn to know, respect and value the
differences of their peers, to be autonomous and have their own ideas and opinions. In this
way, they learn to eliminate prejudices about those around them, to work as a team and to
solve problems for the common benefit.
This is what Leiva (2007) points out when quoting Bartolomé: "Interculturality is a
set of cultures where there are values and attitudes that must be acquired because they are
important and, in this way, avoid discrimination and prejudice towards people who are
opposites. Focusing on exchanging the knowledge of the students in the school who are
different from us". (p.20)

Step 3. Q&A
Based on your professional field as student or as a teacher answer the following questions:

a. What is educational research?

Educational research refers to a variety of methods, in which individuals evaluate

different aspects of education including: “student learning, teaching methods, teacher
training, and classroom dynamics.
b. What is the relation between Research Project and Education Research?

Research project is the study that what we do to know the context on a subject that
is the object of study. Its objective is to find all the evidence related to the phenomenon
of which there is no knowledge and increase the possibility of conducting a full
investigation while educational research is systematic there are basic steps to plan
conduct a study. These include: Identifying a Research Problem.
These subjects have a lot of relation on the subject of research because both are in
charge of primordial in the same cases.

c. How can educational research and the course Research Project help you in your
professional field?

The learning of these courses is based on research and offer students a step-by-step
guide on the basic aspects of the planning, realization and evaluation of the investigation. A
series of characteristics that guide students through the steps and research procedures to
provide a perspective of the research process and selection of specific research designs.

With some features like:

 Advice on planning and conducting educational research.

 Checklists that summarize key points such as the evaluation criteria used to
evaluate the quality of an educational research.
 Educational research in the context of real and hypothetical studies that illustrate
the correct and incorrect ways to inform the investigation.
 Follow-up activities in "Understanding of concepts and evaluation of research
studies" for help students apply the concepts they have just learned.

d. Which are the ECEDU research lines?

ECEDU Research lines are the following:

1. Argumentación pedagogía y aprendizaje.

 2. Educación y desarrollo humano.
3. Etnoeducación, cultura y comunicación.
4. Bilingüismo en la educación a distancia mediada por tecnologías.
5. Infancias, educación y diversidad.
6. Visibilidad, gestión del conocimiento y educación:
7. Línea filosofía y educación.
8. Historia y prospectiva de la educación abierta y a distancia.
9. Educación intercultural e inclusiva.
10. Factores asociados a la calidad de la educación a distancia.
11. Línea pedagogía, didáctica y currículo.
12. Pedagogías mediadas.

e. Why do you need to know the ECEDU research lines?

The research lines can be conceived as spaces of convergence multidisciplinary as

soon as possible an integration of the various disciplines that share a research theme.

f. What are other grade alternatives the university offers you besides the research project?

Within the degree work options are:

Applied project

This alternative of degree allows the student to design projects for a social transfer of
knowledge that contributes in an innovative way to the solution of focused problems. The
modalities are:

 Business Entrepreneurship Project.

 Technological Development Project.
 Social Development Project.
 Diagnostics.
Internship

Degree option that the student performs in their field of knowledge or profession, in
order to implement, update and strengthen their skills, establish national and international
inter-institutional cooperation networks and strengthen their comprehensive training. As a
result of the internship, the student must produce a report according to the guidelines and
protocols established by their program of origin.

Monograph

It is a research of a bibliographic nature to which testimonial quotations can be

added, in case the subject requires it, based on a critical investigation of the state of the art.
Systematizes solutions or approaches to address environmental problems or border thematic
areas in the curriculum of a formal program.

Postgraduate credits at the level of specialization or Masters

Option of degree that allows the student of a degree training program, the option to
take and pass, at least ten (10) academic credits of a graduate program of the UNAD,
without this giving the quality of student of postgraduate. If the student continues the
training chain, the academic credits will be recognized once they enroll in the postgraduate
program, after meeting the established entrance requirements.

Deepening Diploma

The student of a vocational training program will have the option of taking and passing
a high-level deepening diploma with the assignment of ten (10) academic credits, designed
in a special way by the respective School, as an alternative to degree work. This option of
degree that allows the student to update, complement, appropriate or deepen new learning
in a specific field of knowledge, typical of their subject of study or academic program.

g. Which degree alternative would you choose and why?

I will choose Postgraduate credits at the level of specialization or Masters, because

I wish to continue learning about my field.
References

Bartolomé, M. (2007). (p.20) Identidad y ciudadanía: un reto a la educación intercultural.

Madrid, España: Narcea.