Ensino, pesquisa e extensão em ginástica na região sul do Brasil: desenvolvimento e potencial crescimento / Teaching, research and extension in gymnastics at southern region of Brazil: development and potential growth / Enseñanza, investigación y extensión in gimnasia em la región sur de Brasil: desenvolvimiento y potencial crecimiento

Essa pesquisa estudou o perfil e a atuação acadêmica de 31 docentes que atuam com o ensino da Ginástica em 20 Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) públicas da região Sul do Brasil, por meio de pesquisa documental. Foi constatada atuação majoritária de não-especialistas, que tematizam principalmente as ginásticas competitivas em suas disciplinas. As ações extensionistas e as publicações e orientações de pesquisas específicas sobre a Ginástica são incipientes e concentradas nos docentes especialistas. Destaca-se uma IES, com resultado do esforço pessoal de uma docente. O estudo sugere uma contraditória fragilidade dessa área na região que deu origem ao desenvolvimento desses saberes e práticas no Brasil, em comparação com outras regiões do Brasil (AU).

This research studied the profile and academic performance of 31 professors who work with Gymnastics teaching in 20 public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the South region of Brazil through documentary research. Most non-specialists were found to be working, who mainly focused on competitive gymnastics in their disciplines. Extensionist actions and publications and specific research guidelines on Gymnastics are incipient and concentrated on specialist teachers. One HEI stands out because of the personal effort of a professor. The study suggests a contradictory fragility of this area in the region that gave rise to the development of this knowledge and practices in Brazil compared to other areas of Brazil (AU).

Esta investigación estudió el perfil y el desempeño académico de 31 profesores que actúan en la enseñanza de la Gimnasia en 20 Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES) públicas de la región Sur de Brasil a través de una investigación documental. Se encontró que la mayoría de los profesores son no especialistas y enfocaban principalmente en la gimnasia competitiva en sus disciplinas. Las acciones y publicaciones extensionistas y lineamientos de investigación específicos sobre Gimnasia soni ncipientes y concentrados en docentes especialistas. Una IES destaca como resultado del esfuerzo personal de una docente. El estudio sugiere una fragilidad contradictoria de esta área en la región que dio lugar al desarrollo de estas prácticas en Brasil (AU).

Know the game: Insights to help early career researchers successfully navigate academia.

Career trajectories in science are often unpredictable, with many early and mid-career researchers working multiple successive fixed-term contracts, and physically relocating to take up employment opportunities. Whilst this can provide exciting opportunities to change research direction, acquire new skills, and see the world, the precarity of this scenario is also a significant cause of anxiety for many, and can have a negative impact on their ability to maintain career momentum and trajectory, access institutional financial benefits, or make long term career or financial plans. Here, we build on a pair of workshops held at the 2021 International Federation of Placenta Associations annual conference to discuss two key areas important to help early career researchers navigate their careers - building an academic profile, and the financial ramifications of academic careers.

Perfil sociodemográfico y académico en estudiantes universitarios respecto a su autoeficacia académica percibida / Profile socio-demographic and academic in university students regarding their perceived academic self-efficacy

Resumen Objetivo: Identificar el nivel de autoeficacia académica percibida en los estudiantes de una ins titución de educación superior del Estado de Durango, México y determinar el perfil sociode mográfico y académico de los estudiantes, en relación a su autoeficacia académica percibida. Método: El estudio se desarrolló bajo el enfoque cuantitativo de investigación, de diseño no experimental y transeccional, participando el total de la población estudiantil que cursa planes de estudio bajo el modelo de competencias profesionales, siendo 182 estudiantes, 46 % hombres y 54 % mujeres, todos en edades de los 21 a los 23 años. El instrumento aplicado consistió en un cuestionario con escalamiento Likert (a=.91) más un apartado con información social, académica y demográfica. Resultados: De manera global, la autoeficacia académica percibida se ubica en un nivel medio; y variables como la seguridad de contar con algún tipo de beca, el gusto por la carrera que se estudia, el no tener dificultades económicas, el deseo por estudiar algún posgrado, la cantidad de asignaturas no aprobadas en el semestre antecesor, el promedio de bachillerato que se haya obtenido y el promedio del semestre anterior son variables que inciden directamente en la autoeficacia académica percibida. Conclusiones: El perfil socioacadémico definido, proporciona información útil que puede ser utilizada como diagnóstico de poblaciones con características si milares a la que se estudió, y con ello, la institución podrá diseñar políticas y estrategias tendientes al aumento de su autoeficacia, y por ende al mejoramiento de su desempeño académico.

Abstract Objective: To identify the level of perceived academic self-efficacy in students of an institution of higher education in the State of Durango, Mexico and to determine the sociodemographic and academic profile of the students, in relation to their perceived academic self-efficacy. Method: The study was developed under the quantitative approach of research, of non-experimental and transeccional design, involving the total of the student population that study curricula under the model of professional competences, being 182 students, 46 % men and 54 % women, and all aged 21 to 23 years. The instrument used consisted of a questionnaire with Likert scaling (a = .91) plus a section with social, academic and demographic information. Results: Overall, perceived academic self-efficacy is at an intermediate level; and variables such as the security of having some kind of scholarship, the pleased by the university career, not having economic difficulties, the desire to study a postgraduate course, the amount of subjects not approved in the previous semes ter, the average of high school and the average of the semester previous are variables that affect directly in the perceived academic self-efficacy. Conclusions: The defined socio-academic profile provides useful information that can be used as a diagnosis of populations with characteristics similar to the one studied, and with this, the institution can design policies and strategies tending to increase its self-efficacy, and therefore improvement of academic performance.