Posts Tagged ‘Architecture and building’

Sport at competitive level improves the academic performance of secondary education students

Academic performance is better if young people play sports competitively, as is clear from the findings of the thesis presented by Ana Capdevila Seder at the Universitat Jaume I entitled “El rendimiento académico de adolescentes de 2º ciclo de ESO: diferencias entre deportistas y no deportistas”. The thesis has been directed by the lecturer of [...]

Salvador Cabedo: ‘A society without music is unimaginable’

Salvador Cabedo, professor emeritus at the Universitat Jaume I and director of the Universitat per a Majors (University for Adults), has imparted the inaugural lecture of the summer course ‘Creativity and musical expression’ of the Universitat Jaume I. Cabedo entitled his intervention ‘The anthropological and intercultural dimension of music: the effect of the musical activity [...]

Amparo Carpi: ‘In order to prevent a mourning for too long a period, it is necessary to educate since elementary school’

Mourning is caused by a grief, and it is the natural response to the breaking-off of an affective bond. Therefore, in order to prevent a mourning for too long a period, it is necessary to give information and education since elementary school, to facilitate the emotional expression of people who are suffering from it, to [...]

Promotion of foreign and minority languages in early trilingual people improves the linguistic repertoire in all languages

Learning three languages from an early age is more than the sum of the knowledge of these three different languages. It also involves a different way of talking, a pragmatic development with unique and distinct characteristics, as demonstrated by the study by the Multilingual Education Unit of the Universitat Jaume I on the way children [...]

Expert reports in building

The recent housing boom and the chronic problems that the construction sector dragged in Spain has made clear that there is a lack of training and methodology among many experts in this field. This book is for professionals in architecture and engineering in general, as well as for experts and lawyers. It covers the aspects [...]