Associate Lecturer in Educational Psychology, Departament of Psychology, Universitat de Girona.

Doctor by the Universitat de Lleida (2012).

E-mails:
eargelagos@pip.udl.cat
esther.argelagos@udg.edu

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BIOGRAPHY

Bachelor in Special Education (1998) and Bacherol of Arts in Psychopedagogy (2007) by the Universitat de Lleida. Master in Educational Psychology (2009) by the Universitat de Barcelona.

She worked as a teacher in Primary and Secondary Education (1999-2001) in Spain. She also has worked as a university teacher at the Faculdade de Educação e Comunicação at Universidade Católica de Moçambique (UCM) during 5 academic years (2001-2006), teaching subjects related with Psychology, Education, Communication and University Guidance. During this stage, she coordinated the implementation and development of PBL (Problem Based Learning) method at the Department of Education in UCM and in collaboration with the Maastricht Universiteit (the Netherlands).

She has been working as research assistant at the COnTIC group, Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education (July 2008 - December 2011). Among her research activities, it can been highlighted her pre-doctoral stage at Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC), Open Universiteit Nederland (September - December 2010.

Recently, she has carried out the defence of her doctoral thesis Information-problem solving in Secondary Education: analyses of cognitive processes using Web information and their improvement through embedded instruction, supervised by Manoli Pifarré, at the Universitat de Lleida.

"In today's bustle society, the really important thing is how information becomes valuable knowledge. However, knowledge itself means little if it cannot generate wisdom, so that oneself may realise the main things in life."