Publicación educativa de trabajos estudiantiles de investigación

Résumé

Projects concerning teaching innovation support and promote renewal and improvement both of the teacher�s labour and of the teaching/learning process. This project has been conducted with fourth-year students of Geography and Territorial Planning at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain) during the academic year 2014-15. Among its goals was to consolidate students� self-esteem and skills through the publication of papers written in a cooperative manner. If the material published does not meet the standards of actual scientific articles, it certainly satisfies the requirements of an undergraduate academic publication. For one year the students worked in both small-group and plenary sessions during which debates were held and all decisions related to the project were made using the methodology of cooperative learning. The main outcome of this project has been the publication of a digital book containing four essays which address issues from the international arena, the research thereon having been conducted as part of the subject of Geopolitics. This project has successfully contributed not only to the consolidation of skills and knowledge acquired during the studies but also to the enhancement of the students� capacity for teamwork, autonomy and self-esteem, reaching far beyond the limited scope of an academic publication.