Environmental Education has become over recent decades an emerging area of knowledge; its evolution has been conditioned not only by different regional dynamics, but also by international guidelines and trends. Therefore, the literature reports multiple and diverse pedagogical, curricular and transdisciplinary approaches to this topic. Likewise, studies on the dynamics and trends in the generation and production of knowledge are relevant to both teachers and researchers in every field of knowledge. In this sense, it is presented a bibliometric study that aims to analyse the international scientific production on Environmental Education on the Web of Science (WoS) within the categories Education and Educational Research and Education, Scientific Disciplines for the last two decades (2000-2019). The information obtained was analysed using different bibliometric techniques, like descriptive statistics, degree of collaboration and co-occurrence maps generated by VOSviewer (version 1.6.15) software. The results show the accelerated increase in the production of knowledge in this area, they present the main research contexts, as well as some educational and research perspectives. Also, the collaboration between authors and universities was identified. Keywords: bibliometrics analysis, environmental education, scientific education, scientific production
7 December 2017 in Biblios: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Objetivo. El auge de la producción científica en los últimos años ha motivado la realización de diversos estudios bibliométricos. En esta línea, este trabajo analiza las revistas brasileñas presentes en el índice de impacto de la base de datos SCOPUS, el SCImago Journal Rank, en la categoría de Educación entre los años 2000 y 2015.Método. Para llevar a cabo este estudio, se descargaron de la base de datos SCOPUS los datos relativos a los documentos publicados en estas revistas en dicho período y, a partir del recuento de frecuencias, se han identificado los patrones de producción de documentos por revista y por año, las instituciones más productivas, los países más productivos y se ha determinado el grado de colaboración en la autoría, así como, el patrón de citación recibida.Resultados. Los resultados muestran un aumento significativo de la producción de estas revistas, aunque de carácter muy local en esta comunidad científica y con un pequeño número de citas por documento.
1 December 2017 in Bolema: Boletim de Educação Matemática
Este trabajo presenta un estudio sobre algunos libros de matemáticas publicados en castellano durante el siglo XVI. A lo largo de él, se han identificado y categorizado los ejemplos utilizados en estos manuales y su relación con las situaciones cotidianas de la época. Para ello se ha realizado un análisis histórico-matemático apoyado en la técnica de investigación del análisis de contenido de libros de texto, ampliamente utilizado por diversos autores en investigaciones relativas a la Historia de las Matemáticas y la Educación Matemática. Todas las obras analizadas presentan, en general, bastantes similitudes. En ellas se incluyen un elevado número de ejemplos aunque la gran mayoría de ellos están relacionados con asuntos comerciales y otras situaciones cotidianas de mercaderes y contadores.
1 December 2017 in Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries
The paper presents a bibliometric study on the fit of Lotka’s law on Information Science & Library Science journals indexed in Social Science Citation Index of Journal Citation Report from the period 1956 to 2014. The parameters of the Lotka's law model, C and α, were found using the linear least squares method and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was applied to estimate the kindness of adjustment of the results to the Lotka’s distribution. It was found that the pattern of publication of the LIS category articles fits to Lotka’s law.
Over the last decades researchers in the History of Mathematics and Mathematics Education have developed a growing interest in analyzing mathematics textbooks which have influenced the teaching of this subject. This increase has been mediated by the relevance of the authors of the manuals or by the widespread use of those manuals. This study presents the analysis of the Spanish textbook Tratado de Algebra Elemental (Elementary treatise on algebra) written by the 19th century author, Juan Cortazar, one of the first mathematics professors in Spain, whose books were approved for secondary education in 1848 and continued being reprinted until the 20th century. We designed a descriptive and qualitative study using the content analysis technique. The results show that the book included several didactic strategies. Representation systems and the phenomena which Cortazar used to model numerous situations through the mathematical contents included in the books were also categorized.